OKONKO

[caption id="attachment_3095" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Okonko][/caption]At the market place, And the fireside, under, The Udara tree, I have seen them mock you, And worship your death. You, *Okonko, Public shamer,...

SPURTING SPREE

[caption id="attachment_3080" align="aligncenter" width="365"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Spurting Spree][/caption]A blood-filled surge prompts a spew, but odd timings saw all down her fleshy drain and I resumed with banged efforts and permutations and...

I HAVE A DREAM

[caption id="attachment_3033" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Have Dream][/caption]Keep holding unto hope, Though it seems all is lost. Hopelessness is neither bought nor sold, Neither is hope. I had no shoes,...

ON AFRICA

[caption id="attachment_2996" align="aligncenter" width="434"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [On Africa][/caption]Mother Africa: Lynx deodorant, Star Wars set, Safari park, Quarter-finalist football team. Mother Africa: Boeing-avoiding Famine, flood, AIDS-infested Black pit on the face of...

MY SHOE

[caption id="attachment_2995" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [My Shoe][/caption]Too large for the world, fits yet my feet The way my toe strays, pauses and stays, As stagnant as lazy water in unthirsty...

IN LAGOS HOURS

[caption id="attachment_2970" align="aligncenter" width="420"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [In Lagos Hours][/caption] Gray scalpel, gray slaughterers Comb sideways of melding cow blood and brine, seriatim, Stroke gold-yellow kerosene swells, possessive of the streets. Burdened...
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