Joy Okwori's articles Poems Nigeria, Our Father’s Land (Poem) Hunger in the deepest parts of their stomach with a pain in their heart, did the people sing? One nation bound in freedom Peace and unity they sang more like a plea, it was Oh the national anthem To serve my father’s land, with love and strength and faith My strength, a weakness it becomes. […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Poems A Coal Among Diamonds (Poem) I will dine with my thoughts. I will find happiness in my imaginations. I will find peace in the quietness of my room. Among candles that are standing straight, I am just a candle, that is lying flat. Hear the voices around but I am one with my self alone. I am like a tree […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Poems Dear Mother (Poem) Once in a room, suffered you in pain. My time in your womb has come to an end. Oh the screams, as you cry out in pain unimaginable. In nine months, a part of you I was. Living both mother and child as one. What love you had, for the baby, your eyes had not […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Poems The Fallen Crown (Poem) What lies told he to you? your mind, he has played with and your dreams, to an end he he brings it. Dreams that the light of day, would have seen. The world promised him to you. The love he professed, calling you sweet names, the things you never had, he poured at your feet. […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Poems Broken (Poem) You never really know, what you did mean to me I close my eyes to the pain You made me feel, but it’s there, eating me up. I try not to blink or close my eyes tight enough, for a tear may drop and lead to the flow of continuous sob. I place my hand […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Poems Betrayal (Poem) Like a farmers seed in a bad soil, so my trust I placed in the wrong hands. We did walk together Yes, on lonely roads, we told sweet secrets and danced to the music we imagined. I smiled at you and you smiled back. A difference there was in this. For whilst I smiled from […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Poems Tiny Drops (Poem) Down It falls in tiny drops out of my eyes to the floor, as my head is bent. Knoweth thou what that tiny drop have in it? The pain I can’t express, the words I do not utter, they have formed themselves to become liquid. O yes! Let it drop from my eyes I need […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Poems The Little Member (Poem) Thou small member Look what evil, you have brought. Like a little flame, You set peace ablaze. Lacking restrain, you let out many words. My friend, you have made my enemy. See how you defile me making me transgress. How little and how evil you are. You cause me to slander. All that is covered, […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked TweetShareSharePin
Poems Nigeria, Our Father’s Land (Poem) Hunger in the deepest parts of their stomach with a pain in their heart, did the people sing? One nation bound in freedom Peace and unity they sang more like a plea, it was Oh the national anthem To serve my father’s land, with love and strength and faith My strength, a weakness it becomes. […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poems A Coal Among Diamonds (Poem) I will dine with my thoughts. I will find happiness in my imaginations. I will find peace in the quietness of my room. Among candles that are standing straight, I am just a candle, that is lying flat. Hear the voices around but I am one with my self alone. I am like a tree […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poems Dear Mother (Poem) Once in a room, suffered you in pain. My time in your womb has come to an end. Oh the screams, as you cry out in pain unimaginable. In nine months, a part of you I was. Living both mother and child as one. What love you had, for the baby, your eyes had not […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poems The Fallen Crown (Poem) What lies told he to you? your mind, he has played with and your dreams, to an end he he brings it. Dreams that the light of day, would have seen. The world promised him to you. The love he professed, calling you sweet names, the things you never had, he poured at your feet. […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poems Broken (Poem) You never really know, what you did mean to me I close my eyes to the pain You made me feel, but it’s there, eating me up. I try not to blink or close my eyes tight enough, for a tear may drop and lead to the flow of continuous sob. I place my hand […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poems Betrayal (Poem) Like a farmers seed in a bad soil, so my trust I placed in the wrong hands. We did walk together Yes, on lonely roads, we told sweet secrets and danced to the music we imagined. I smiled at you and you smiled back. A difference there was in this. For whilst I smiled from […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poems Tiny Drops (Poem) Down It falls in tiny drops out of my eyes to the floor, as my head is bent. Knoweth thou what that tiny drop have in it? The pain I can’t express, the words I do not utter, they have formed themselves to become liquid. O yes! Let it drop from my eyes I need […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poems The Little Member (Poem) Thou small member Look what evil, you have brought. Like a little flame, You set peace ablaze. Lacking restrain, you let out many words. My friend, you have made my enemy. See how you defile me making me transgress. How little and how evil you are. You cause me to slander. All that is covered, […] Written by Joy Okwori Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
