LOVE SHOULD BE EASY by Ikenna Nwosu
Love should be easy I've read the tales I've heard the songs If love be easy If it be missing you with every stroke of the clock Then I love...
HOPE: Oladimeji Babafemi
As rain is not for the dry days So is Hope not for yesterdays. Shall we seek a better past, Swallow memories of full plates emptied fast? Should we murmur...
A FATHER’S DILEMMA
Son, what defines you? What defines you son? What causes a smile to be spread abroad thine cheek? What makes thine eyes to be filled with tears? What makes thine...
IM(P)OSSIBLE
IM(P)OSSIBLE Impossible: Imp Possible? Wimp! .. Failure: Fail Lure? Wail! .. Achievable: Achieve Able? Receive! .. Strive Thrive. STANZA 1: Impossible: Imp Possible? Wimp! *Here, I took a journey into...
WORLD POETRY DAY: WHAT CAN WORDS DO?
[caption id="attachment_10666" align="aligncenter" width="439"] www.facebook.com/World Poetry Day: WHAT CAN WORDS DO?[/caption] (Title poem of my book 'What Can Words Do?') What can our inked words do? Come together, plot a...
NO FEAR
[caption id="attachment_7629" align="alignnone" width="378"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [No Fear[[/caption]I do not fear the sky or the moon where am flying too The hills may seem high at sight Still I will climb...
ETERNITY (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 Judge Francis Attah Egu)
[caption id="attachment_7499" align="aligncenter" width="396"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [ETERNITY (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 Judge Francis Attah Egu)][/caption] Beyond this sight Above these words Farther than thoughts Outside of time For all...
OVERTAKEN (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 Judge Estrella Gada)
[caption id="attachment_7324" align="aligncenter" width="389"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [OVERTAKEN by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 Judge Estrella Gada][/caption]You creep up on me like a shadow Slouching sideways, color as dark as a starless...
THE ANXIETIES OF A WIDOW (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 Sponsor’s prize winner
[caption id="attachment_7269" align="aligncenter" width="351"] www.faceboook.com/WRRPoetry [THE ANXIETIES OF A WIDOW (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 Sponsor's prize winner][/caption]May stretched its legs into grave. The thunder heralds the rains. A...
LETTER TO MY UNBORN (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 2nd runner up Julius Bokoru
[caption id="attachment_7265" align="aligncenter" width="403"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [LETTER TO MY UNBORN (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 2nd runner up Julius Bokoru)][/caption]dear daughter/son, thank your stars my father's soles weared like a...