Tag: <span>Poetry</span>

POETRY

OUR EVERYTHING

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 24, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10691" align="aligncenter" width="424"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Our Everything][/caption]Our dreams painted around walls Our souls, in kingdom of darkness we fall Our fake smiles die Our lips re-painted with lies In an...

POETRY

NARROW STRAITS

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 23, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10550" align="aligncenter" width="401"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Narrow Straits][/caption]I have been to that place Where nothing else but grace Keeps the heart from going astray; Where the roads change even if you...

POETRY

SANS SERIF

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 23, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10551" align="aligncenter" width="360"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [San Serif][/caption]Why carve me thus - Sans-serif lettering, Unadorned? Now I receive the spittle Of mocking lips! Why was I made On a day of...

POETRY

MY MOTHER’S SEEDS

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 22, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10552" align="aligncenter" width="418"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [My Mother's Seeds][/caption]My sweet mother – a great one Begat just what she could nurture You wanna know my mother's kids? Painful gains of my...

POETRY

IMPAIRMENT

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 22, 2014July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10553" align="aligncenter" width="455"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Impairment][/caption]Understand the perpetual anti-graft preachers?Preaching publicly against the fee fraudstersSounding like they live the life of the heavenlyBut in hiding they loot a nation’s treasury...

POETRY

WORLD POETRY DAY: WHAT CAN WORDS DO?

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 21, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10666" align="aligncenter" width="439"] www.facebook.com/World Poetry Day: WHAT CAN WORDS DO?[/caption] (Title poem of my book 'What Can Words Do?') What can our inked words do? Come together, plot a...

POETRY

BROKEN TREE

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 21, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10555" align="aligncenter" width="412"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Broken Tree][/caption]She's mourning again this morning Shedding tears of blood Her soul, once stuffed with mirth Hunts now for even a grain of joy See...

POETRY

BETRAYED EAGLE

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 21, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10556" align="aligncenter" width="350"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Betrayed Eagle][/caption]My heart, like a balloon, you pierce With the fury of a baboon – so fierce In crushing ache I double in tears As...

POETRY

THE PASSENGER

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 21, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10557" align="aligncenter" width="391"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Passenger][/caption]Here I stroll in the midst of darkness In the veil of throbbing songs In the circles of faraway crows Sparking the rage of lonely...

NEWS

#EOPP2014: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 20, 2014August 28, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9928" align="aligncenter" width="428"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2014][/caption] Here is the shortlist of 10 poems that made it into the 2nd round of the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize...

Tag: Poetry

OUR EVERYTHING

NARROW STRAITS

SANS SERIF

MY MOTHER’S SEEDS

IMPAIRMENT

WORLD POETRY DAY: WHAT CAN WORDS DO?

BROKEN TREE

BETRAYED EAGLE

THE PASSENGER

#EOPP2014: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘BREATHE’ [ISSUE 5, VOL. 1 | JUN, 2025]

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