Month: <span>December 2013</span>

POETRY

WE DESERVE BETTER

Staff WriterDecember 28, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9431" align="aligncenter" width="410"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [We Deserve Better][/caption]Our feet sink in muddy lanes And trek bush paths As we walk daily to school They gave us under-trees as class-rooms Glorified...

POETRY

CONJUGAL RAPE

Staff WriterDecember 28, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9420" align="aligncenter" width="376"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Conjugal Rape][/caption]Get down to the bed And let me make you red After all I've paid the dowry It's time to pay yours Off with...

POETRY

ARISE FROM THE DUST

Staff WriterDecember 27, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9395" align="aligncenter" width="412"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Arise From The Dust][/caption]Arise from the dust, top national dogs Let every flower be what fair fate fears true Beyond vain valleys of cursed croaking...

POETRY

FORGIVE ME

Staff WriterDecember 27, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9397" align="aligncenter" width="374"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Forgive Me][/caption]I am to blame For being the Judas of the game I turn your days awful Turned your soul sorrowful In your heart and...

POETRY

CASUALTIES

Staff WriterDecember 27, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9396" align="aligncenter" width="412"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Casualties][/caption]We are casualties again. Placards displayed, songs chanted, Of marginalization and liberation. Wafting through the busy street, Our bodies are left with their injuries. Of...

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KIS ISLAND (a birthday poem for Kukogho Iruesiri Samson)

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonDecember 27, 2013October 15, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9398" align="aligncenter" width="345"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [KIS Island][/caption]Here I stand, beneath shadeless cover Of the wraith-like, bald trees Shooting wearied stares at my rain-barren clouds As I plead for words to...

POETRY

ODE TO GARRI

Staff WriterDecember 26, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9382" align="aligncenter" width="421"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Ode To Garri][/caption]How can I forget your laudable love for me And your readiness to calm my riotous tum? You that has proven to be...

POETRY

PROSE IN VERSE II

Staff WriterDecember 26, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9384" align="aligncenter" width="430"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Prose In Verse II][/caption]Many-tiaraed nymph - with sensations so wide - Now, calm, still waters, now, a raging tide! Wonderful One, so alluringly wild, Silently...

POETRY

O GOD, WHY THIS ‘CHRISTMAS PUNISHMENT’?

Staff WriterDecember 25, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9363" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Oh God, Why This Christmas Punishment][/caption]Dear God, you set out last week or thereabout to give us the feeling that Christmas is around the corner...

POETRY

THE GREATEST TREASURE

Staff WriterDecember 25, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9364" align="aligncenter" width="411"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Greatest Treasure][/caption]When the greatest gift was given To the worst offenders The best treasure offered unconditionally To the worst ingrates As diamond mingled with...

Month: December 2013

WE DESERVE BETTER

CONJUGAL RAPE

ARISE FROM THE DUST

FORGIVE ME

CASUALTIES

KIS ISLAND (a birthday poem for Kukogho Iruesiri Samson)

ODE TO GARRI

PROSE IN VERSE II

O GOD, WHY THIS ‘CHRISTMAS PUNISHMENT’?

THE GREATEST TREASURE

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