POLY-TICKS
Don't leave politics for liars and fools Don't leave to thieves the nation's purse Else we have to eat their smelly stools When they've looted us off-course! Use your thumb...
LIES
[caption id="attachment_11757" align="aligncenter" width="290"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [LIES][/caption]Today, we gather at the village square To witness the funeral Of our yet living throne-men. They have all kissed us With their turtle lips...
WE SOUGHT FOR A MAN
[caption id="attachment_11702" align="aligncenter" width="325"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [WE SOUGHT FOR A MAN][/caption]We lived uniformly in diversity, Listen to songs from political celebrity, Nearly sleep or slumber in this mission, But still, we...
OUR NATION
[caption id="attachment_11659" align="aligncenter" width="353"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [OUR NATION][/caption]Our nation In ages past Gave rise to wise sayings Broke Kola with the lowly Like a river, peace flowed Promising posterity pregnant fortunes...
…IF WE DONT FEED IT
[caption id="attachment_11664" align="aligncenter" width="337"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [...IF WE DONT FEED IT][/caption]Change they say is constant That word is an irony in our Nigeria today Things change, but only for the worst......
A ROLE FOR ME, ANOTHER FOR YOU
[caption id="attachment_11665" align="aligncenter" width="297"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A ROLE FOR ME, ANOTHER FOR YOU][/caption]Even amidst poverty and corruption I can smell hope Lurking around our future But there's a role for me...
SOUND THE TOCSIN
[caption id="attachment_11564" align="aligncenter" width="306"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [SOUND THE TOCSIN][/caption]Hear Our penitent past Plead in plangent pool of pity Politics betrayed and cast With pieces spread from city to city When elections...
ECHOES
[caption id="attachment_11491" align="aligncenter" width="303"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [ECHOES][/caption]Our silence is mocked By the agony of our lost hopes We are tortured in our trust Left to boil in their promise-pot Our days...
MOTHER(LAND)’S CANCER
[caption id="attachment_11418" align="aligncenter" width="303"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [MOTHER(LAND)'S CANCER][/caption]Mother(land) has cancer So deep it has eaten her Once a tall, robust woman Now a gaunt, frail frame Of her diseased breasts we...
EARTH SONG
[caption id="attachment_11409" align="aligncenter" width="323"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Earth Song][/caption]Each time the cloud cries Beyond broken borders Refusing mild back-consoles And endless earthen apologies, We pray in our closet- Heal our land…...