Tag: <span>poem</span>

POETRY

HO! YO!

Staff WriterDecember 25, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2742" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Ho! Yo!][/caption]All around me I see bright lights, Turning to day the darkened night. While sweet voices fill trembling air, Mixing with bangs that do...

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GOOD TIDINGS

Staff WriterDecember 25, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2741" align="aligncenter" width="442"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Good Tidings][/caption]Good tidings of the season I bring. Christ’s birth is the reason; The city is lit, singing fills the air, Children dance, up, down...

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LOST (IN MAD BLUES) (poem by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize Judge Su’eddie Vershima Agema)

Staff WriterDecember 24, 2012July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2734" align="aligncenter" width="414"] Lost (In Mad Blues) by Su'eddie Vershima Agema[/caption] He sighs... The dizzying crisscross of her steps no longer stir his passion much like her physical fashion...

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NO SENSE (poem by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize Judge Gabriel Agema)

Staff WriterDecember 24, 2012July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2723" align="aligncenter" width="262"] No Sense by Gabriel Agema[/caption] It is said… why do you need to dredge when you have no gredge Yes, I mean remove the sand, from...

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POVERTY

Staff WriterDecember 24, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2699" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Poverty][/caption]Poverty, You murdered my dream And now I am chasing nightmares Of hungry monsters! Poverty, You know thin flesh covers my belly I only know...

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PATHFINDER’S MUSE

Staff WriterDecember 24, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2705" align="aligncenter" width="419"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Pathfinders Muse][/caption]Walking with my poetry packed with forms, I tread alone on this road that leads to discoveries of treasures, along the streets of dampened...

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THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE RAINDROP

Staff WriterDecember 24, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2700" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Apotheosis Of The Raindrop][/caption]Did you leave the throne of the father? That Paradise lost by the sole dissenter; Whose foremost defiance and toss, Engendered...

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NWAKANMA CHIKA WINS ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2012

Staff WriterDecember 23, 2012January 16, 2022

WINNERS Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize After a compilation of all the judges' selections, and based on their choices, the following have emerged winners of the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2012....

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A PLEA FOR MY KINDRED

Staff WriterDecember 23, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2675" align="aligncenter" width="404"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A Plea For My Kindred][/caption] Tossing and turning from unsettled sleep, The dream mocked... drifting away With unnerving messages. Images linger like an ache. A...

POETRY

GRASS MUSIC

Staff WriterDecember 23, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2676" align="aligncenter" width="411"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Grass Music][/caption]‘Weed them all weed away,’ The headmaster commanded. And the mean butchering And cruel murdering In my cathedral began. It may be because I’m...

Tag: poem

HO! YO!

GOOD TIDINGS

LOST (IN MAD BLUES) (poem by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize Judge Su’eddie Vershima Agema)

NO SENSE (poem by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize Judge Gabriel Agema)

POVERTY

PATHFINDER’S MUSE

THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE RAINDROP

NWAKANMA CHIKA WINS ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2012

A PLEA FOR MY KINDRED

GRASS MUSIC

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘PARRHESIA’ [ISSUE 4, VOL. 1 | JUN, 2024]

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