"The Burning City"
If everywhere is set ablaze, Peace running helter-skelter, And love happily travelled overseas, Like Nigerian youths, What is our own gain?.
If guns boom all day and night, If bombs blow our mansions to huts, And our exotic cars are wheelbarrows, Like the burnt Bayelsa. What is our own gain?.
If dark smoke is everywhere, With the voice of babies crying, And a black sun came shining, Like the burning dead, What is our own gain?.
If our biros are dangerous than guns, And if our papers are good coffins, To bury the country in our pockets, Like a man drowned in the sea, What is our own gain?.
If there is no love, there will be no peace. "A man without love can never be a poet" If we fail to have many more poets, Like those Afghanistan and Iran, What is our own gain?.
-WARRI STANLEY

wow!

FTC finally, where's my cake

very nice

So which rhyme scheme did you adopt

D poem depicts a troubled mind though....

Good

I fall for it.... It's nice

benedictnsi:
So which rhyme scheme did you adopt

D poem depicts a troubled mind though....

I think it's only an English sonnet that has a rhyme scheme. This is a free verse poem.

A man without love cannot be a poet, great line. It looks like a quote.

Money can buy costumes but not beauty Money can buy idols but not devotion Money can buy books but not wisdom and knowledge Money can buy bed but not rest and sleep Money can buy medicines but not health Money can buy wealth but not health Money can buy clothes but not shame Money can buy food but not hunger Money can buy flowers but not freshness and fragrance Money can buy land but not home (made of human hearts) Money can buy honey but not sweetness Money can buy somethings but not everything Money can buy luxuries but not happiness. by Green Peace

benedictnsi:
So which rhyme scheme did you adopt
D poem depicts a troubled mind though....

is poem all about rhyme scheme
Rules bottle a man spirit.

benedictnsi:
So which rhyme scheme did you adopt
D poem depicts a troubled mind though....

Is poem all about rhyme scheme?
Rules bottle a man's spirit. let him have his freedom.

Lovintus2:

I think it's only an English sonnet that has a rhyme scheme. This is a free verse poem.

Waiting to get rhyme scheme will make me forget all I have to write

Free verse works well for many

Not bad though...

Kindoo:


Waiting to get rhyme scheme will make me forget all I have to write

Free verse works well for many

Yea sonnet is very difficult. That's why Shakespeare is regarded as one of the greatest

warristanley99:
"The Burning City"
If everywhere is set ablaze, Peace running helter-skelter, And love happily travelled overseas, Like Nigerian youths, What is our own gain?.
If guns boom all day and night, If bombs blow our mansions to huts, And our exotic cars are wheelbarrows, Like the burnt Bayelsa. What is our own gain?.
If dark smoke is everywhere, With the voice of babies crying, And a black sun came shining, Like the burning dead, What is our own gain?.
If our biros are dangerous than guns, And if our papers are good coffins, To bury the country in our pockets, Like a man drowned in the sea, What is our own gain?.
If there is no love, there will be no peace. "A man without love can never be a poet" If we fail to have many more poets, Like those Afghanistan and Iran, What is our own gain?.
-WARRI STANLEY

I really do enjoyed reading that