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Re: Rhymes by BTT(m): 9:56am On Jan 30, 2008 |
@Diva_Naija Jew Who ban you? Come on board Dont try to hoard Your stuff. |
Re: Rhymes by divanaija1: 11:34am On Jan 30, 2008 |
@ BTT I do wan na mingle i[b]nboard[/b] in rhymin accord on yr board ![]() But eeeeeeemmm. , Tho bored I be n crave ta board the rhymin shipboard . . . ![]() I can’t afford ta be abhorred n cause discord within d ward where I be adored ![]() |
Re: Rhymes by princesa(f): 6:56pm On Feb 01, 2008 |
am back ![]() ![]() The Assassin He is masterfully dressed in black from head to toe And he been paid to take your soul He has a heart as strong as stone Strong, dried, emotion lacking and cold His heart is so shielded that he never feels any week To take a life in a second, minute, hour or week When he comes, death walks with him So close that it’s like a feel upon your chin Throw whatever you can on him He will stand firm and stiff The police, the ruler the king, Have tried all but he still stands here still But an irony that this people call him in Where there is an enemy to kill He is as sedate as a mummy With a gun, knife and mind for the money He kills, he robs, he murders and rape He is an assassin and the world has something coming her way So bloody and sinister that my mouth cant daring say. |
Re: Rhymes by angelempy(f): 10:55am On Feb 02, 2008 |
what a nice rhyme its so easy to mime but who are you pining about i'l like to know for any amount all you big deals on rhymes, happy wknd and see ya next week. pls be gud. |
Re: Rhymes by princesa(f): 11:42am On Feb 02, 2008 |
hi girl, i was actually talking about[b] an assasin[/b] since am contesting for mrs Nairaland this year ![]() some bad opponent sent him to me ![]() but i shall make him fall for me (in love that is) ![]() ![]() |
Re: Rhymes by cooljoe(m): 12:49pm On Feb 02, 2008 |
I met a nairalander one day, That meeting made my day, A day I thought will be so gay, because of the experince that came my way. |
Re: Rhymes by ACAN(m): 4:26pm On Feb 02, 2008 |
NAIJA ATMOSPHERE people huzzling everyday to make pay nothing is forth coming at the end of the day man's still struggling to survive anyway why will Nigerians abroad wants to come back to stay? when women,childrends hawking/selling on a single tray believe me when i say this country has gone astray life at 30 man is still looking for a way government counts millions on budget every year wealth a do or die affair if you can dare poor men still are suffering and they don't care been sober and watchfull has he beware hoping and believing God because he is there how long will people leave in fear developed country's citizens are living in cheer while politicians here embezzle moneys while on there chair man needs to fight back to clear the air cause our generations need a good atmosphere |
Re: Rhymes by colors(f): 5:37pm On Feb 02, 2008 |
ACAN: hey this is very impressive |
Re: Rhymes by ACAN(m): 7:27pm On Feb 02, 2008 |
thanks color. hope u are having a swell weekend for me and going outing with my friends |
Re: Rhymes by darf(m): 3:06pm On Feb 03, 2008 |
I wonder why with me He takes the pain, tonite a revelation from God again. his eyes are on me durin d day,even wen i go astray. ive considered the strenght in his name and never ever will i use it in vain. i call on him and He looses my chain what more can i say,but 2 praise his name. |
Re: Rhymes by lekana(m): 10:21am On Feb 04, 2008 |
wad up rhymers, am new here and will like to mingle with you people to have the best of fun |
Re: Rhymes by lekana(m): 10:35am On Feb 04, 2008 |
by Kristin Johnson In America, poets are held in such low esteem that even the most Honored Representative from Nigeria won’t bother scamming us. Society says to us what Dermot Mulroney says to Julia Roberts in “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” that we are “The pus that infects the mucus that cruds up the fungus that feeds on the pond scum.” Even being cheated by Mr. Honorable Minister, however, is preferable to the poetry scams that have proliferated. Wind Publications’ Literary Scam guide has this to say: Hidden among the many sponsors of legitimate literary contests advertised on the internet lurk those who care little about literature, its audience, or authors. These organizations and individuals exist solely for profit through their so-called writing or poetry contests. Often you'll find these "free" poetry contests lavishly advertised in your local newspaper. There is a cottage industry of writing scams perpetuated by pus poetry pimps, the chief among them International Library of Poetry, aka Noble House Press, aka Poetry.com. They advertise in USA Weekend and the Penny Saver--well, not the Penny Saver, but they might as well, because that sums up their opinion of poets. If you’ve seen the ads or received a letter that says, “Congratulations, your poem has been selected for our next anthology,” congratulations, you’re being scammed. Like so-called modeling agencies or “talent agents” who prey on the dreams of nubile girls wanting to be the next Lindsay Lohan, poetry pyramid schemes exploit the number one hope of writers: publication, and more importantly, recognition. Many excellent Web sites such as Preditors and Editors and PoetryNotCom detail the outrageous mechanics of poetry “anthology” scams, and the infamous Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest by WinningWriters.com cheerfully skewers vanity poetry contests and the submicroorganisms who perpetuate them. How do you spot a poetry scam? Look for… 1. Insane pie in the sky prize amounts. I ran the DeAnn Lubell Professional Writers’ Competition. Most poetry contests with reading fees pay, at most, $1,000, and that’s for a book-length manuscript of poetry. For a single poem, the first prize pot is usually a whopping $100, $150 tops. A $20 million prize, as dangled by Noble House, is a big crimson flag. Oh, and no one ever offers poets a chance to win a world cruise. It’s usually assumed that we sail around the world on a Mark Twain raft, a sampan, or a Hemingway skiff. 2. No contest fees. Wergle Flomp is the only “F*r*e*e” poetry contest. Now, people on the Internet and toiling poets naturally leap at the word “F*r*e*e”. But, like victims of those modeling scams, you’ll end up paying for your moment of bargain hunting. Modeling scams want you to work with a particular photographer (usually fake European). Likewise, poetry scams won’t let you even see your poem in print unless you pay for the anthology. When you do pay for the anthology, you may wonder if you just bought a copy of the Penny Saver, because your poem looks like it was crammed onto the page to make room for the “Spot the Difference” puzzle and the adult talk lines. Then there are those awards banquets… 3. Phony awards banquets. Ten years ago, no joke, I received a mailing from Famous Poets Society that lured me to fork over the cash to attend an awards banquet and convention. If I paid my money, I could join the elite company of poets such as…Ted Lange of “Love Boat” fame. Who knew Isaac the bartender was a closet Langston Hughes? Plus, I could win $6,000 in door prizes. Now, if you’ve ever attended a poetry reading, especially in coffeehouses, you know that poets wear their vow of poverty as proudly as a Che Guevara T-shirt. Just the thought of winning $25 in a poetry slam made my fellow poets and me weep more cathartically than the contestants on “Deal or No Deal.” And Ted Lange usually doesn’t attend. 4. Questionable reputation or none at all. In poetry, if you don’t have Nikki Giovanni, Czeslaw Milosz or Donald Hall front and center in your magazine, plus several angsty Eastern European poets, would-be poets drop you like Oprah dropped James Frey. Look for magazines, publishers and poetry contests that publish and are judged by literary lions. It’s Bukowski or bust. And when Poetry.com can’t figure out that Dave Barry and 20/20 are hoaxing them, the joke’s on Poetry.com. Similarly, if a vanity press charges you $3,000 to $8,000 to publish your collection of poems, and the top author promoted by Façade Press is an eighteen-year-old writing poems from the point of view of her liver, save your money for the hard work of actually submitting your poems to Threepenny Review, or literary magazines or publishers that you read about in Writer’s Market or Poets and Writers. 5. Advertising in newspapers and glossy magazines. Real poetry contests don’t advertise in USA Weekend--sure, USA Weekend may sponsor a teen essay contest, but poetry advertisers? Forget it. People don’t pick up USA Weekend as a literary publication, even though USA Weekend features books and authors. If you see a mass call for poets in a mass market magazine, give it a miss. Real poetry contests get deluged with submissions as it is. They don’t need to fish for more. 6. Sending you a letter of acceptance for a contest you can’t remember entering or a publisher you can’t remember submitting to. I admit, as a writer I have difficulty keeping track of what I sent to whom and when—we go into writing to avoid paperwork, not do it, although when we’re not in the mood, reorganizing files suddenly becomes as tempting as a day in Cancun. Fortunately, Writer’s Market features a Submission Tracker, and some enterprising bloggers actually post their submission schedule to make the rest of us sigh in unorganized envy. If you can’t find the cover letter/e-query in your file cabinet, on your computer, on your Zip drive (you do back up, right?), or in your Sent folder, chances are you never submitted to National Library of Poetry or Wordscum.com (apologies if there actually is a Web site out there called Wordscum.com). Yes, after 300 rejections, getting an acceptance letter may be a boost, but to misquote Groucho Marx, think twice before you accept just any club that will have you as a member. Aim higher. Imagine if JK Rowling had just said, “All right, I’ll pay a million pounds to have a few hundred copies of Harry Potter for my friends and relatives to buy.” 7. Promising to get your book or handsome anthology on the bestseller rack in bookstores. Number one, PoetryNotCom is one of the many sites reporting that this claim is bogus. Number two, most people who go into a bookstore to read poetry probably can find the poetry section blindfolded and spend three hours debating the symbolism in Whitman over a decaf skinny latte at Borders Café. Number two, although getting your book in bookstores is still the gold standard, Amazon.com and online retailing make it easy for even the tiniest press to get books noticed. Number three, bookstores are so glutted with inventory that they can’t even stock the POD books, let alone anything from ScamPoet Publishing or Poetry.com, and bookstores will not accept vanity press books. For that matter, no poet besides Ludacris or Jimmy Carter will end up on the bestseller list in a bookstore. We don’t go into poetry to be rich. We go into poetry to sound our barbaric yawp…and a fellowship or two is nice, too. Many beginning poets get bilked, but you don’t have to. If you’re smart and ambitious, you’ll be a successful poet with tons of lierary magazines and e-zines bearing your byline. Poetry.com and its ilk will always be “The pus that infects the mucus that cruds up the fungus that feeds on the pond scum.” |
Re: Rhymes by ACAN(m): 5:06pm On Feb 04, 2008 |
Lekana WAO, THATS A USEFUL INFORMATIONS U GOT THERE, I HAVE BEEN WARM BEFORE ABOUT POETRY.COM AND I EVEN HAVE A POEM DISPLAYED ON THE SITE. BEEN DOUBTFUL ABOUT THEM ALL THIS WHILE. THANKS AGAIN FOR THE INFO. WE ALL NEED TIPS LIKE THIS. |
Re: Rhymes by princesa(f): 11:39am On Feb 05, 2008 |
@ darf a lovely poem on the mercies of God love it |
Re: Rhymes by lekana(m): 6:02pm On Feb 05, 2008 |
@ acandav you're welcome bro |
Re: Rhymes by lekana(m): 6:08pm On Feb 05, 2008 |
Put your Trust in GOD Never put your TRUST in a man made from DUST He can let you down. Be strong. Though, it might COST you time to rise But GOD will BURST you out, THRUST you in no meantime from being a RUST in life if you are ready for the QUEST (mission). 1 Like |
Re: Rhymes by colors(f): 7:58pm On Feb 05, 2008 |
i'm so happy today i feel i can fly trust me its not drugs, i'm just on a natural high ok, i think i've just lost my rhythm , |
Re: Rhymes by angelempy(f): 10:26am On Feb 06, 2008 |
hey guys, no one s talking of naija's natures and the set back in the cup of nations wonder what their nu coach is doing they seem no better than when they were in the cooing however it a shame that eagles cant consolidate their fame unlike their wonderul dames |
Re: Rhymes by cooljoe(m): 10:30am On Feb 06, 2008 |
Its gonna be a chilla, a thriller, and a killer, when I get the gorilla, in manilla.- Muhammed Ali. |
Re: Rhymes by lekana(m): 7:21pm On Feb 06, 2008 |
men, this place is great, love your rhymes gamine,colors and others.I rhyme also and i hope i can make it up to you guys. Well done everybody, keep doing the good job |
Re: Rhymes by lekana(m): 7:28pm On Feb 06, 2008 |
colors: oh! colors,you feel you can fly from the natural high i hope you're not ready to say bye because i can't watch you try it will end up to die and i hope this idea you'll buy i need your reply |
Re: Rhymes by ACAN(m): 6:59pm On Feb 07, 2008 |
i bust flows not slows don't stare you might catch cold feel the rhymes like gold of cause you can grab hold i flow rhymes that touches if you are in new no rushes i got chicks on my couches we will still keep our rhymes on so that we all can catch fun in you ain't in, you will loose its up to you to choose acan saying peace to you all |
Re: Rhymes by ACAN(m): 8:21pm On Feb 07, 2008 |
when u see a bush burning you better come running who knows it might be a warning telling you that am coming horning my love for you will still be raining believe me when i say i love you honey its not like when you are holding your teddy bunny it can't be bought with money though some say its funny i will save all my love for you jenny 1 Like |
Re: Rhymes by cooljoe(m): 3:33pm On Feb 08, 2008 |
He took the pass neatly, dribbled without pity, and he scored without mercy, his name is Lionel Messi. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: Rhymes by Gamine(f): 4:45pm On Feb 08, 2008 |
i have bin too busy dont know what to write too lazy i just got out of a fight too crazy this is not right too sketchy Try, hide, Cry, sigh!! |
Re: Rhymes by justbones(m): 7:24pm On Feb 08, 2008 |
she couldn't sneak in or sneak out because she wasn't wearing sneakers Those who push wheel barrows will be shot up like arrows |
Re: Rhymes by Gamine(f): 9:33pm On Feb 08, 2008 |
justbones if those are not DSA's rhymes then i am male |
Re: Rhymes by doyin13(m): 3:40am On Feb 09, 2008 |
Gamine: sure had me fooled ![]() |
Re: Rhymes by darf(m): 1:56pm On Feb 09, 2008 |
@ darf a lovely poem on the mercies of God love it. -Thanks princessa. |
Re: Rhymes by lekana(m): 3:41pm On Feb 09, 2008 |
You will spring You will leave that SUBWAY To a BROADWAY Because the airplane is waiting To take you FARAWAY Beyond what you think. You will BREAKAWAY the jinx But don't be CARRIED AWAY When you get there. |
Re: Rhymes by jkpretty(f): 3:59pm On Feb 09, 2008 |
There's a real big deal in rhyming its not a hype Really hard to make words flows, into lines as u type Trying to make huge sense with little psych Making ur words heard without a mic ![]() Hi all |
Re: Rhymes by cooljoe(m): 5:37pm On Feb 11, 2008 |
I met this pretty damsel in a car, I felt a strong urge to care, when we alighted, we booked a date, that day, I slept very late, during the date, my date was so lively, I had to admit, I've never met any so lovely, after the date, I told my date, "I'd have love to have you laid, but then, you not just another maid, cause you mean so much to me, let's keep this thing, and see what fate makes it to be". - memoirs of my love sick friend. |
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