Tag: <span>Nigeria</span>

POETRY

OUR NATION

Staff WriterJuly 17, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11659" align="aligncenter" width="353"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [OUR NATION][/caption]Our nation In ages past Gave rise to wise sayings Broke Kola with the lowly Like a river, peace flowed Promising posterity pregnant fortunes...

POETRY

#BringBackOurGirls: ASYLUM I CALL

Staff WriterJuly 16, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11662" align="aligncenter" width="357"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [ASYLUM I CALL][/caption]Through the breeze that neglected all mighty sin To air her view She was silenced at gunpoint While those bastards merry with gin...

POETRY

A ROLE FOR ME, ANOTHER FOR YOU

Staff WriterJuly 15, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11665" align="aligncenter" width="297"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A ROLE FOR ME, ANOTHER FOR YOU][/caption]Even amidst poverty and corruption I can smell hope Lurking around our future But there's a role for me...

POETRY

HOW LONG SHALL WE WAIT…

Staff WriterJuly 14, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11643" align="aligncenter" width="342"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [HOW LONG SHALL WE WAIT...][/caption]How long should we hope for change Since days of yore all they preach is change Should I talk of the...

POETRY

NOT AGAIN

Staff WriterJuly 11, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11580" align="aligncenter" width="362"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [NOT AGAIN][/caption]not again! why delight in giving us pain? now it gets nearer next blast, who knows the area? like one whose neck is tied...

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HOPE LEFT US BEHIND

Staff WriterJuly 11, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11581" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [HOPE LEFT US BEHIND][/caption]Hope left the shores of the Niger When in me I saw you as another In same soil our fathers' blood had...

POETRY

ANTI-BOOK RAMS

Staff WriterJuly 8, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11563" align="aligncenter" width="309"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [ANTI-BOOK RAMS][/caption]They come in shady shadows With blind bombs and ghostly guns Leaving us to the mercy Of indelible, gory memories That paint red our...

POETRY

SOUND THE TOCSIN

Staff WriterJuly 8, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11564" align="aligncenter" width="306"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [SOUND THE TOCSIN][/caption]Hear Our penitent past Plead in plangent pool of pity Politics betrayed and cast With pieces spread from city to city When elections...

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#BringBackOurGirls: SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER

Staff WriterJuly 5, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11485" align="aligncenter" width="303"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER][/caption]Market women keep bargaining in my head every second, I breathe hate In death camp, no warmth Must my blood be propitiation? Am I...

POETRY

MESSENGERS OF DEATH

Staff WriterJuly 4, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11487" align="aligncenter" width="304"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [MESSENGERS OF DEATH][/caption]Demons in human form Death messengers in uniform Positioned in the deadliest forms Armed with heavy bombs and guns Unleashing terror on us...

Tag: Nigeria

OUR NATION

#BringBackOurGirls: ASYLUM I CALL

A ROLE FOR ME, ANOTHER FOR YOU

HOW LONG SHALL WE WAIT…

NOT AGAIN

HOPE LEFT US BEHIND

ANTI-BOOK RAMS

SOUND THE TOCSIN

#BringBackOurGirls: SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER

MESSENGERS OF DEATH

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