LIGHT UPON LIGHT: Olajide Taiwo Teniola
He is from the East City where the sun rises Man of Valor! That dwells in good deeds In the entourage of the best He is everything but the least...
SPARE THE VIRGINS: Benjamin Elemide
Let virgins be drunk With gins of truth; As lies intoxicate thousands In pairing with deflowered souls. Stab them in front With customized fonts That they may be saved From...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST
Dear esteemed Nigerian poets, Words Rhymes & Rhythm, Nigeria's largest poetry platform and newest publishing firm, brings you the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) organized in honor of Brigitte Poirson,...
SAND IN MY SHOES by Bamas Sinach VicToria
[caption id="attachment_6871" align="aligncenter" width="399"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Sand In My Shoes][/caption]I ran with a zealess zest from the point of my failures in a race that should have been victorious because of...
HOPE: Oladimeji Babafemi
As rain is not for the dry days So is Hope not for yesterdays. Shall we seek a better past, Swallow memories of full plates emptied fast? Should we murmur...
INSEPARABLE: Kay Ugwuzor
There were the moments That wove our hearts together In taut plaits Like tattoos etched on our light-skinned hearts We were one word Inseparable Time strutted away Like she had...
LOVE IS WORTH THE TROUBLE
CRAWL under, jump! Obstacles must yield RUN after the one for whom you long STAND, fight on love’s battlefield FALL in love while still young a wizened heart is too...
A WORD FOR THE FUTURE
In this our idle generation of whiners We have so many boastless doers Sheltering saplings in our forest Daily, their leaves they invest I see Olumide Olulu Holloway Lights word-candles...
POETRY (a double-acrostic)
POETRY (a double acrostic), was first Published HERE.
WHY MAMA, WHY?
Why mama, why? Shall we fail to speak With the talkative rod? Shall we cease to paint With our single-mouthed brush? Why mama, why? You drop your cheek On your...