UNDERSTANDING SYMBOLISM IN POETRY
Generally, symbolism is the representation of one thing by another. Such representations may concern persons, objects or ideas. Symbolism is another way of creating imagery through comparison. This is what...
ROMEO ORIOGUN: A POEM IS FIRST A STRING OF WORDS
When does a string of words become a poem? I see a lot of so-called poems online, of course I have to see them because I’m tagged to a lot of...
KANYINSOLA OLORUNNISOLA WINS ALBERT JUNGERS POETRY PRIZE (AJPP) 2016
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola is the winner of the 2016 edition of the Words Rhymes & Rhythm backed ALBERT JUNGERS POETRY PRIZE (AJPP). Kanyisola, a poet, short story writer, essayist, multiple-award-winning campus journalist,...
WE ARE BROTHERS by Saidu Mark Jatau
Why mock me in this state When i pray for you all day. We are not from same womb Yet our faith tag us brethren. Each night my knees fall...
FOR YOU, TASMANIA by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
(For the extinct human group: Tasmania Aborigenes) I heard the geckos sing - a fairy tale As they traverse the walls of forgotten memories: Love has forgotten you, O Tasmania...
DO NOT COME HOME by Micheal Ace
Son Do not come home Until the moon sees your shadows When the sun brings them in the day Do not come home Until the sun sees your tears When...
MUCUS OF REASON by Oluwatoyosi Agbaakin
He must have wiped the mucus of reason- a pus from his brain the night he saw her body swollen, ready to be poked by his fleshy pincers How couldn't...
#FEASTOFWORDS2016: GHANA’S OPPONG CLIFFORD BENJAMIN TO SPEAK AT WRR LITERARY FESTIVAL 2016
Ghanaian Civil Engineer and award-winning writer, OPPONG CLIFFORD BENJAMIN, will be presenting a paper entitled: WRITERS AND NOETIC SCIENCES- THE POWER OF OUR INTENTIONS at the annual Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR)...
#GRILLANDREAD: GRILL AND READ BOOK PARTY HOLDS IN ABUJA
The #GrillandRead Book party is making its next stop in Abuja on Saturday, December 3rd 2016 after successfully holding in Lagos and Port Harcourt. The one of a kind literary party will be...
FRANK EZE WINS ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2016
Nigerian poet, Frank Eze has won the fifth edition of Words Rhymes & Rhythm's Eriata Oribhbaor Poetry Prize (EOPP 2016) with his entry ‘Porcelain Plates’. Eze, a poet resident of Ibadan,...