Tag: <span>protests</span>

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REMINISCENCE (for Saro Wiwa)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 11, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1720" align="aligncenter" width="203"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] The rope dangled His lifeless-body danced The executioner laughed The heavens shut eyes! Outside, we opened hands Pleading for his life and his friends' We...

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IT’S NOVEMBER AGAIN (a poem for Ken Saro Wiwa)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 10, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1702" align="aligncenter" width="201"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] It's November again! Feel these winds blow, see these leaves falling, No, it's not Harmattan blowing. It’s Ken coffin calling from our coughing body frames....

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STUCK IN MUD (on a people’s plight)

Kingsley U. AyistarNovember 10, 2012September 2, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1696" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry (Stuck in The Mud)[/caption] The wind of disorder is blowing, Slowing us down! The dark clouds have eclipsed the sun, Rendering the future bleak! There...

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FELA’S VOICE

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 9, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1680" align="aligncenter" width="270"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] Fela, When sorrows, tears and blood flows Your angered sax would flow along, Dishing out lyrics of condemnation, Though the rulers never heeded your voice!...

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I KNOW A PLACE

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 9, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1673" align="aligncenter" width="259"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] I know a place- Where Camels prance and tumble through the eye Of blunt needles and none asks how or why. But all know. They...

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THE NOTE ‘MI’ (a political lament) by Oku-ola Abiola Paul

Oku-ola Abiola PaulNovember 6, 2012August 28, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1611" align="aligncenter" width="270"] The Note MI[/caption] The note mi Brought out the song in me: A song of freedom For the sons of the kingdom Who live as slaves...

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THIS WICKED FLOOD

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 3, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1580" align="aligncenter" width="300"] This Wicked Flood[/caption] Must we at the temple’s hill Hear the preacher’s talk “You must each other kill And even their children you must stalk!” Shan’t...

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PATRIOTS

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 3, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1577" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Patriots[/caption] National goals have become capital bores And the soul is captive that pursues its chores! Our goals are unset like keys uncut, Heavy, they...

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PRAYING PREYS

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 2, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1558" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Praying Prey[/caption] I. Some say, “As you pray for your own peace Remember your nation too, please.” And some mock, “Going Beatitude might soothe thee But...

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UNGODLY ANTHEM (by Jon Manuels Enekele)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 1, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1544" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Ungodly Anthem[/caption] And we found ourselves neck deep, buried in this hole, this enclave we dug by ourselves. Fanaticism took the wheel while we lost our...

Tag: protests

REMINISCENCE (for Saro Wiwa)

IT’S NOVEMBER AGAIN (a poem for Ken Saro Wiwa)

STUCK IN MUD (on a people’s plight)

FELA’S VOICE

I KNOW A PLACE

THE NOTE ‘MI’ (a political lament) by Oku-ola Abiola Paul

THIS WICKED FLOOD

PATRIOTS

PRAYING PREYS

UNGODLY ANTHEM (by Jon Manuels Enekele)

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