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...
DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL by Ijalusi Oluwatola Samuel
O Death, I salute you the pliable merciful herald who ushers one out and in, transiting between life and death. Seen as the end but negate breaking bodies down to...
WHAT IS LIFE by Ikirigo Sokari Jeremiah
What is life But a scary dream Full of troubles and strife That can make one scream to wake What is life But a moment of existence Dreaming while awake...
IT’S NOT OUR TIME, BUT WE ARE HERE ALREADY! by Kujembola Oluwaseun
We didn't beg to be conceived Neither did we beg mother to nourish her breast with milk for us We didn't beg to be conceived Yet we came, still weepin
SAND IN MY SHOES by Bamas Sinach VicToria
[caption id="attachment_6871" align="aligncenter" width="399"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Sand In My Shoes][/caption]I ran with a zealess zest from the point of my failures in a race that should have been victorious because of...
HERE I AM NOW: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
in due time, it will cum keep planting, it will come suck determination's nipple surely, it'll cum, with firm ripple i've crawled before eaten meals off the floor licked clean...
ECHOES FROM THE GRAVE: Olusegun Governor Lawal
Listen gently my lovely flower For I deem it fit to wither through the time. Silencing the voice of the voiceless Should you grow to a mighty tree The advice...
TABLET OF TRUTH: Benjamin Elemide
TABLET OF TRUTH (Letter to my sister) Oyinlola, Money can never worth the sweetness of honey Neither can volume of sweat determine income. Honey, indeed is honour, in truth, dignity;...
SIX FEET ABOVE
Will it rain soon? Did the trumpet sound? Will those flower bloom? Did the contract stand? From six feet below the ground Surely, those questions are not grand Days ago...