WE WILL STAND STILL
[caption id="attachment_5704" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [We Will Stand Still][/caption]No matter what, we will not relent. We will do all to show what we resent. We will try, each in his...
ALONG THIS ROUTE
[caption id="attachment_5700" align="aligncenter" width="368"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Along This Route][/caption]Seemingly steaming, Frightfully high, Drunken eyes, Smoking lips, Starving hands, Ridden legs, Controlling the wheels, Along this route! Prayer warriors, Praise singers, Spiritually...
I BOUGHT HIS THOUGHT
[caption id="attachment_5684" align="aligncenter" width="340"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Bought His Thought][/caption]Caught in the midlands of words in my head, Thoughts like a cry you hear at night, so clear, The knowledge of...
OUR DEAR POLITRICKIANS
[caption id="attachment_5685" align="aligncenter" width="330"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Our Dear Politrickians][/caption]I'll write you a poem inked with my blood and rhymed on this sad note of shame My dear ‘politrickians’ I'll birth your...
HUNGRY CHILD
[caption id="attachment_5683" align="aligncenter" width="330"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Hungry Child][/caption]He lies on the ground Scorched by the Sun Sucking at his dry tongue, Pinching the sores that had almost dried A swarm of...
THE HOLY SERENITY
[caption id="attachment_5676" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Holy Serenity][/caption]Upon the crimson-brick spire: Rooted, and to heaven; a cross Voices of singers raising higher Nonchalant hearts, sanctified cross. Purified waters set every...
THE GODS ARE NOT WISE
[caption id="attachment_5675" align="aligncenter" width="337"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The gods Are Not Wise][/caption]The gods are not wise: When men give the gods kola, They end up eating it themselves. None of the lobes...
THE SILENT VOICE
[caption id="attachment_5665" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Silent Voice][/caption]Calm, constant and compelling The voice beckons Sometimes confrontational Sometimes comforting It conveys the message Whether at dawn or dusk The voice compels...
I FEEL NO SHAME
[caption id="attachment_5589" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Feel No Shame][/caption]Why have you shut your eyes against your old culture? Does my iro and buba not do me well than your ‘mini-gown’?...
IBADAN MAN
[caption id="attachment_5590" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Ibadan Man][/caption]This town makes him, the people make him, his attitude, his real inheritance. Identity all over him, tribal marks all over him that’s his...