ECHANTED by Michael Inioluwa Oladele
We heard the whispering song, Together with the beating gong. Its sound echoed through the reed The reed of an opening woodwind. In the greyness of isolated time The echo...
WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE: Prince Kuti Adetoye Olayinka
When dreams come true In this train of earth Where life is worn like a thorn And death is a plucked rose Where men are beasts And beasts are men...
A TWO-HILLS TALE
[caption id="attachment_11657" align="aligncenter" width="329"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A TWO-HILLS TALE][/caption]Two high hills be. Bridged by nothingness. Parted by sea, Of sheer weariness. One is radiant, Like the golden sun. One glows too...
AT MY SECOND BOOK LAUNCH
[caption id="attachment_11565" align="aligncenter" width="294"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [AT MY SECOND BOOK LAUNCH][/caption]A round of applause Standing ovation Cameras clicking The crowd cheering for me Award-winning author, all eyes on me Fashionably dressed...
DISJOINTED THOUGHTS
[caption id="attachment_11360" align="aligncenter" width="262"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Disjointed Thoughts][/caption]Disjointed lines Tick-tocking heart Middle finger at the median Only gods know what the clock is saying Each beats valued like gold dust Sinked...
OUR EVERYTHING
[caption id="attachment_10691" align="aligncenter" width="424"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Our Everything][/caption]Our dreams painted around walls Our souls, in kingdom of darkness we fall Our fake smiles die Our lips re-painted with lies In an...
TELL DEATH (a poem for Festus Iyayi and Mandela)
[caption id="attachment_9243" align="aligncenter" width="372"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Till Death][/caption]He will come. Sure he will Like a NEPA official with his ladder To collect remuneration for last months' NEPA bill, The bill for...
NO BEES IN THE MOON
[caption id="attachment_6475" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [No Bees In The Moon][/caption]Come here ripe and sweet child with the door of your heart ajar. Come sit by my feet, for in you...
MY DREAM, MY EXECUTIONER
[caption id="attachment_5830" align="aligncenter" width="331"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [My Dream, My Executioner][/caption]My dream, my executioner you came upon me as the night does the day. I am in the cubicle of a sunless...
DESIRES
[caption id="attachment_5184" align="aligncenter" width="381"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Desires][/caption]I wanted to kiss the clouds So up I went climbing Deferring the porcupine hugs of the mountain To shine like the North Star I...