LET’S MAKE A CHAPEL by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
I won’t make a party out of loving you – protest to social lot, so I don’t get drunk - drunk on love, in the highs of now, to query...
THE WORLD IS A NUMBER by El Sane Ken Silencer
The world is a number to me, I see nothing in the ground except sand, when i look up, I see only the cloud- The sky... When the young die...
FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
I toil night and day leaving no room for rest; For I thought to myself, ‘Rest is for those whom idleness have impressed’. So I turned an owl at night...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [JUNE] – ‘AS THE MUSE LEADS’
Entries are now being received for the June edition of the Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017. In this month’s edition, there will...
GOOD POETRY, AN ANALYSIS OF ‘REFUGEES’, BY MICHAEL INIOLUWA OLADELE
Poetry gets me excited and ‘good poetry’ get me intoxicated. That is why I just felt rapturous after reading Michael Inioluwa Oladele’s ‘REFUGEES’, a poem he submitted for publishing on...
POETRY ANALYSIS: DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCUS TASTES?
In this classwork, you are to analyze the poem: ‘DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCUS TASTES?' by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson: a soft fart slowly set free gives smelly bliss a tear drop on...
50 POEM TYPES EXPLAINED
Many of us have been writing poems without actually knowing the names of particular forms and styles of poetry. Some have also found certain kinds of poems appealing but do...
MEOP: POETRY IS NOT JOKE
Perhaps I can etirw you a meop, Or some esrev with or without semyhr, Extra sdrow with serugif and segami? May we still llac this yrteop? What do you call...
EUPHEMISM, UNDERSTATEMENT, LITOTES: KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?
Today we consider these three easily confused literary terms – euphemism, understatement and litotes. If you consider the fact that the translation for the English word “understatement” is “litote” in...
ART, EXPRESSION AND ENVIRONMENT
Subject matter does not concoct poetry — imaginably derisive to structure, it could evolve itself into a strange genre — the expression is what raises the subject to a poetic...