Monday 28 December 2015

CALL FOR SUBMISSION: LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD




THE   POETRY   COURT

 
   Valentine Special
 (CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF LOVE POEMS)

Theme: LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD

SUBMISSION GUILD LINES

– All poems should promote peace, love and harmony

– All contributors are entitled to a maximum of two poems

– Send poems to: Thepoetrycourt@gmail.com

– State VALENTINE POEM in the subject box


– Add short bio max 100 words.
-Include COUNTRY, MAIL ADDRESS and PHONE NUMBER(s)

Poems that are fresh and will blended will be published on


To promote love, peace and harmony, despite the challenges that this country plans in our everyday life. This is not to say that we are happy, but. It's to strengthen us, for a better tomorrow. Every poem should speak volume.

All the poems that were published 2015 as ThePoetryCourt Valentine Poems and the ones for 2016 will be published in a PDF file.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 7th February 2016. Mid night.

Publishing of the poems on the blog.


Commences on the 14th of February 2016 through to 21st of February 2016.

Its a week for love poems to be published on the blog. So be among the poets to promote LOVE, PEACE and HARMONY with your pen.

Visit the blog from Sunday 14th of February 2016 to see if your poem/a friends poem has been published on the blog, and then also try to comment and share
published poems on the blog as a way of
promoting the poet who wrote the poem.

Let poetry speak LOVE, PEACE and HARMONY!



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CONSCIOUSLY SWEET ENTRAPMENT

By: Adeniyi Kunnu

I walk into your life
On a  blue juncture
The time I know not and the date I can't recall
But I did walk into you and stare you in the face

Both legs... mine... walked into you and into you
The very recesses where your fear lurk and your cheer buried
But I walked in and permissibly rummaged through your emotions
Sieving to leave what is devoid of ill temperament

Now I bask in periphery and depth of your loving enrapturing

The tarsals and carpals of your luminescence lighten my essence
I am brightened never to be darkened no more

The rewards of my deliberate walk into you yield colourations
But of all one stands out... and that is the crimson defining the season
The one that transcends the date and time of this enrapturing
Of this affinity ...this accord of indescribable candour

I have walked into you and never ashamed to say
That i am both painted and perfectly sculpted
In this that i call 'The Consciously RED Sweet Entrapment.

Happy Valentine

For more info call: Osigwe Benjamin 08069257714

And request to join ThePoetryCourt what's app online poetry discussion platform 08176861035.

Let's Speak LITERATURE

Thursday 3 December 2015

TEN MINUTES AGO by - Oko Owi Ocho


Oko Owi Ocho














I lost you in tickles
Of six hundred seconds ago
My soul danced away from
Your music and lived in orchard
Of alien dance steps
Your drum can't beat to
If
We
Could
Have
Lovewalked
On the pavement with fingers
Stringed to each other's has become
Fascination of 'We could had'
But such imagination is lyric of
Six
Hundred
Seconds
Past
Ago
You could have been the heal
To my love's ill, the only
Cure that unshackles my heart from
The anguish fever of emotions... But
Those are distant imageries woven by
An amateur poet growing poetrylessly
Days and months worked with
Cutlasses and hoes to heap you
In my heart but how strong
Seconds could be in reaping out
Your yet-to-be
Ripe seeds
Flushed into
Echoes of----a
Distant past
Where my eyes would not blink to
Sleep nor my thought stops a second
To linger in thought of you
Ancient serene echoes of your laughter
All have been noosed in death den
Of
Yester
Minute
History
When thoughts of you dangles breathless
Six hundred seconds ago
The day walked away for
The noble accepted show
Of night
Now
There is a black out of you
In just ten minutes.

©2015.09.28
Oko Owi Ocho


Oko Owi Ocho is a poet, playwright, novelist, and a PanAfricanist. Also a member of Aj House Of Poetry.

CALL FOR ENTRY: #CHILDHERO Christmas Short Story Contest!

PEREGRINE READS ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONTEST PRESENTS……

 #CHILDHERO 2015 christmas Short Story Contest!1

It’s here! It’s another December of Joy, Laughter and Merriment! Happy New Month to you :D 




The bloom and sweetened scent of December slithering through our nostrils and causing our cheeks to swell reminds us that Christmas is here again with a lot of beautiful packages– Vacation, visits from family and friends, romance, mistletoes, Christmas gifts, Christmas lights, trees, wine and dines but most importantly, our ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONTEST!


Yes, here on PEREGRINE READS, for your support all through the year, every Christmas, we share the joys of yuletide together by entertaining ourselves with packages of passion and creativity.

How do we do this?


By exploring the season of Christmas to squeeze out the finest juice from the raw of our creativity.

By digging deeply into the season of Christmas to bring a re-birth to the lost, forgotten and neglected aspects of life through the inner world of our emotions….

By creatively and prolifically using our diverse individual style to convey our message, share our experiences and explore our artistic creativity using the season of Christmas…

This year, we are ON A MISSION to achieve that and even more!

 From the concept of #12daysofchristmas, here’s bringing to you a brand new package entitled #CHILDHERO


  • #CHILDHERO, more than a short story contest, is a child campaign aimed at sharing the hopes and dreams of children who through circumstances have been deprived of the best things in life.
  • #CHILDHERO aims to connect the dots of the overlooked lives of lost and forgotten, less-privileged, malnourished, handicapped, maltreated children.
  • #CHILDHERO aims at creating a child awareness that will expose the terror and dangers faced by children in the society daily and its varying social causes.
  • #CHILDHERO aims to support in a unique way, the causes of children among us, with the spirit of Christmas by imprinting their dreams and hopes in our hearts and awakening the spirit of responsibility from us towards the children who are our hopes for a greater tomorrow.
 To achieve this, Peregrine Reads invites participation from everyone who is enthusiastic about fostering the initiative of contributing to a good cause for children through the expression of their art, to enter for the #CHILDHERO short story contest by submitting their short story to peregrine.reads@yahoo.com with the submission title “#CHILDHERO short story contest”.


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FEAST OF WORDS - FIST OF WORDS 12-12-15


THE POETRY COURT support creativity and we strongly believe that one day poetry will be rewarding...



The theme “FIST (FEAST) OF WORDS” was derived from the United Nations Human Rights Day which is observed every year on 10 December to commemorate the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We believe that the power of words, wielded by writers in all the literary genres, is very important in the entrenchment of human rights.
The festival will celebrate words, and the many forms in which humans have lumped them for meaning – poems, songs, stories, speeches, drama




If you want your picture designed for the WRR Festival (like that of (KIS) Kukogho Iruesiri Samson's profile picture on facebook) just inbox him...

@WRRPoetry # FistOfWords
12-12-15
FEAST OF WORDS
FIST OF WORDS
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Still on the #FISTofWORDS Literary Festival....
If you need a hotel room to spend the night, please contact Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom
Via Facebook or call him on 07034847164.
A room is N3,000 per night for 1 person or N1500 for shared rooms.




Please tweet about this on Twitter...
@WRRPoetry ‪#‎FistOfWords‬



 10AM - 7PM
12TH DEC, 2015

 Arts Theatre,
Department of Theatre Arts,
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

Wednesday 2 December 2015

THANK YOU ALWAYS



The maiden edition of ThePoetryCourt BEAUTY OF WORDS 0.1 has come and gone and we strongly believe that poets and lyricist who attended had their stories to tell.
28th NOVEMBER 2015
@Navy Sailing Club, Navy Town Ojo Lagos.

We are using this time to say thank you to all those who attended and even those who did not attend but supported our efforts in one way or the other.

In no particular order, we are saying thank you to Sir Enigmatic Olumide Bisiriyu, Sir Eriata Oribhabor, my very good friends Benneth Nwankwo and Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom, for being there.

We also thank all members and staffs of Navy Sailing Club, who supported us in their own way.

Commodore J M K Owonaro
The Club Commodore Citizen Tunde Giwa Daramola
Commodore T N K Okoro
B F Ajayi
Sir Francis
And all other senior officers, and members of Navy Sailing Club.

We cannot forget all the blogs, newspaper and website that also supported us with publicity. NewTelegraph Newspaper, BN BLOG, i WordUp, SolarSpeaks, and so many other blogs, which we might not remember, but we say THANK YOU.

These persons have been wonderful all the time, according to Osigwe Benjamin he said "I cannot forget my sister from another mother Kemi Bakare Kemistree, she has always been there for me" and Ifeoma Gerty Ndiolo-Enaholo

We also want to thank Ifeoma Ndiolo, Sir Eriata Oribhabor, Bob Ekat, and Iquo DianaAbasi Eke, for their support with their poetry collections/anthology.

Njoku Paul Chybkay Henry Fr33zinPaul and Sissy Dirisma, we are speechless, people keeps telling us that you guys are awesome.

We really appreciate all those who came from far and near to witness BEAUTY OF WORDS 0.1

Veekthur LyricPoet, DiAngelo Airick ARCHANGEL, Ify Obi, Adjarho Abten Anthony, Joy Nnebuogo Nwanokwai J Y C, Cherry Loo Michael, Pen-chant, BankHall, Samuel Leumas BlueAdonis, Adesewa Oyinkansola, Olayinka Samson Aremu PoeThick SAMURAI, Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun Usman Lawal Iyoma, Precious Okeke Kosie Precious, Davynovich Fidel, Chinedu Ananda Chinxzy, Vishal, Kemistree and so many others.

Special thanks to Vishal, an 11Years old Dancer who also rocked BEAUTY OF WORDS for this year 2015.

We cannot forget Prestige Ifeanyi Bernard for his efforts too.

Mare words might be unable to tell the love we have for those who honoured our invitations, but with BEAUTY in them, we believe that our message will be understood more better.

Have a nice time, we meet again next year for BEAUTY OF WORDS 0.2





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HAPPY NEW MONTH

Lets also anticipate for Thepoetry Court VALENTINE SUBMISSION 2016. SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES 0.2