Best Penner Poems

I was never born a poet
But a pauper standing on a pulpit
Penning words in spring tide dings
Ritzy scribbling like trundling rings

Talons of my feet
Seething grounds I scratch and leet
Feathers I preen and wag
Over my scruff I rip and gag

On rivers and wells I soak and...

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Presence of a plethora of patron poetesses and poets, Welcome!
Openhanded optimism is offered.
Exciting endeavors of extending enrolments blessed the multitudes.
Translate and transcribe text, and transpose them and be of good cheer.
Read and review others, and be blessed.
Yearning yesterday yields today,...

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What a World!


By Izunna Okafor

Tears roll down my cheeks
Beholding the palm tree I tapped 
From his knowledge of blue ink
With a bow, lofting off a huge gap

What a World !

Our intellectuals have all died
And the vase of wisdom dried up
The siege of our dear unbounded...

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By Izunna Okafor



Beyond the shrubs of Sahara 
Lifted a munt of brainy bond 
Over the Mississippi of Ethiopia
Lofted a penner with his hunky thoughts

Across the bridge of a foreign land
Hovered a book of beautiful pages
Tightly enclaved yet as an Ireland
In a skull rounded in the clime of...

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