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Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by Nobody: 8:13pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Wow! This is too good, almost un-nigerian. Nice to be amidst word creators. Owk, I like to think myself as a poet. I have written a couple of poems in the past (both in English and French languages). I even went ahead to submit them to some foreign websites but non ever got published. I'm not really sad about it. Neither am I discouraged. It was probably cause my poems were anti-occidental, lol. So, do I have a place here? I mean, as a self acclaimed poet, hehe... |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by efficiencie(m): 8:16pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
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Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by timpaker(m): 8:22pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
GozieDiora:Yes you have a place here. Just visit poem your poems at the Section and get a critic by poets |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by kr0ne(m): 8:22pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
This is a strange tradition! I'm so lost here I got me jaws on the floor. I don't know jack what all this ritual means but I still must confess.....it's awesome!!! 1 Like |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by yuzjet(m): 8:26pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
laykorn: Am for the club. Am still owing the whole house for missing the launching. It was my bad! |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by OMA4U(m): 8:33pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
timpaker: Don't mind my wrong expression. Big brother, you were here! |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by timpaker(m): 8:45pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
OMA4U:No mind me ooooo. I was joking. Each time someone says that, I am always tempted to ask that question. We finally made FP |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by Gladyys(f): 8:47pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
timpaker:Link please |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by destante(f): 8:51pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
timpaker:Thanks Mister. I am in then. 1 Like |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by timpaker(m): 8:53pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by princesa(f): 8:56pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Its official! I am glad *welcomes the newest poets in the house* 2 Likes |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by anonimi: 9:04pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Nice initiative. Hope the poets in the house will keep it up, alive & active! And we wey sabi appreciate poets go tanda one side dey jolly the rhythmic offerings |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by uchevin(m): 9:07pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
OMA4U: |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by OMA4U(m): 9:18pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
timpaker: I've been trying to comment ever since, but the network was denying me. No p. I didn't mind at all. Yes, we made frontpage! |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by OMA4U(m): 9:21pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
timpaker: I just realised this thread is created in a wrong place. It should be in the Poem for Review section. I will contact the mod to move it. |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by Gladyys(f): 9:33pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
timpaker:Thanx 1 Like |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by Nobody: 9:35pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
The first Thread FRom Poem after long years... Praise the lord for cleansing our tears. And making our tomorrow near.. Good evening friends 1 Like |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by timpaker(m): 9:41pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Divepen:It wasn't easy ooooo. But I thank Seun and Obinnau all the same. |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by cupidhero(m): 10:12pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
feels like home. |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by joseph1832(m): 10:32pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
It gladdens my heart this made front page. I would also like to see at least a poem on front page everyday, it will go a long way in encouraging the poets here. |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by Nobody: 10:55pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Divepen:Thanks Divepen. You forgot to honour our invitation. Ayamlaykorn |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by Nobody: 10:57pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
kr0ne:Lol. Last night you said boring and you left the thread. Why has the impression changed? Ayamlaykorn |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by cisse7575(m): 11:10pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
OMA4U: thanks, I'm opting to see my name tomorrow... |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by noble4d(m): 11:31pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Wow! We finally grace the FP |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by newacca: 11:35pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Well done guys. |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by LORDI(m): 11:56pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
How do I commence registrations?,,am not a what'sapp user,..I know little about poetry I need grooming,.how do I join? |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by LarrySun(m): 1:03am On Nov 24, 2014 |
I've always been coming late to events these days; I'm so sorry about that, some Laws generally fall on the side of Murphy. There are things beyond my control. But my heart has always been here; my heart beats for any literary creativity, even if my pens only scrawl lines for prose. It is gratifying to always append the truth to the end of a train of reasoning. I'm never a poet, I'm a total klutz when it comes to scribbling poetic lines or acting a troubadour. A close analysis may be able to explain to me how the colours of flowers of poetry are created and combined, but I may never understand how their odours are made. As much as I suffer an incurable dysentery of words, my poor symptoms are only diagnosed in the ward of prose. Even with prose, I never aim at creating literature, I only strive for intelligent entertainment. When my pen does have to become a sword, it would be more trenchant when its steel remains cold. Unfortunately, because of the mantle flung on my mantel, and because of my lack of poetic speech, I shall go ahead and wash my soiled linens in the daylight. I shall paste some of the migraine-inducing balderdash I once scribbled and called poems, until I saw the works on real poets. I sincerely hope the poor readers have enough aspirins in their cabinets. VANITY Some buy a minute's happiness to wail a year Some are kings in their dreams but wake up beggars They cut off the tree to gobble one sweet apple Then plant another seed to germinate in twenty years How could man be so vain? You taste your faeces to justify not stepping on it You look to the sky and cry for the sun at night Yet in the day you long for the moon over your banana Would you buy a rose just for its thorns? How could man be so vain? Would you behead yourself to ease that ache? Or your birthright you sell for a morsel of pottage? Most of us can lose our hands for a bagful of coins When chickens would not risk a feather for a fistfuls of corns. How could man be so vain? The stick beats the talking drum without compassion And the drum wails in pain at every stroke Yet humans dance to this cry in merry Until the stick eviscerates the poor drum How could man be so vain? Still, the drum cannot do without the stick And humans would still want to dance some more Does climbing the ladder make us taller? Or lying before a dwarf render us shorter? When shall man ever learn? Larry Sun November 3, 2013. My humble respect to the great poets in the arena: OMA4U, Texanomaly, Royver, Firestar, Timpaker, Laykorn, Jigsawkillah, Noble4d, Divepen, Princesa, D9ty7 and Obinnau. God bless you all. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by LarrySun(m): 1:41am On Nov 24, 2014 |
D9ty7:There are times when challenges have to be met head-on, and there are still times when it is base to sit still and let barbarians talk. God bless your wisdom. |
Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by leederrty1997: 7:01am On Nov 24, 2014 |
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Re: Nairaland Poetry Club (Launch Thread) by Nobody: 7:16am On Nov 24, 2014 |
LarrySun:We have a lot to learn from you sir. Can you please join us at the chatroom? Ayamlaykorn |
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