A HOUSE WITHOUT HOME (a poem by Ayeyemi Taofeek)
Where is the last path on this map? Where does it leads? The end or the beginning of endlessness? I'm exhausted cramming every escape route that leads out of this...
BACK IN THIS PLACE by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
I’m back in this place where the moon rejoices at the hearing of melodious lullabies sung into the cranium of crying babies who are stuck to mother’s backs at the...
TAKE ME HOME by Ifeanyi Alex
I like to feel it again When you will take me home And I will gaze thru the window as we wheel-on For as far as we journey forward Trees...
WE HAVE RETURNED
We have returned, From a no-named world where skinny brown trees of muse bore trite words to feed starved lungs The performance of golden sandstorms Roasted-looking leaves rise and fall...
HOME
[caption id="attachment_10824" align="aligncenter" width="361"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Home][/caption]In my imaginings of home, Place and identity, a door opens. And I see the old country, The one I left behind. The house at...
ÀBÍKÚ
[caption id="attachment_8743" align="aligncenter" width="381"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Abiku][/caption]I pay obeisance to all Málọmọ́ To all Kòkúmọ́, to all Kúdáyísí...... When the lion roars All animals keep calm When a cock crows Its...
A CHILD OF MANY FATHERS
[caption id="attachment_7409" align="aligncenter" width="312"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A Child Of Many Fathers][/caption]Daddy must not know Mama must not hear I've bitten more than I can chew! What will I tell mama? I...
MAMA’S BANGA SOUP
[caption id="attachment_7020" align="aligncenter" width="380"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Mama's Banga Soup][/caption]How joyful a boy I am When I eat Banga soup with pounded yam; When Mama appears from the market With her palm fruit-filled...
ONE SLAP TOO BLOODY
[caption id="attachment_6303" align="aligncenter" width="343"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [One Slap Too Bloody][/caption]Once upon a time... I remember something From when I was still young Yes, I think its a warm feeling I remember...
A FATHER INDEED
[caption id="attachment_6022" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A Father Indeed][/caption]A Father is a friend Who understands our weaknesses and weariness Yet promotes our strength and song He sticks closer than a brother....