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Alagemo by durotijesu: 2:27pm On Sep 14, 2011 |
Under the silhouette sky we toiled that day Night embraced day and the sky grew gray We’ve worked all day but we didn’t halt For if stumps are not cleared by first light Our taskmasters will not pay. Yea, if heaps are not raised by cockcrow Our daylong labour will be in vain Then, from a nearby shrub, something flashed by Startled! Yeeee, we screamed in unison; Paramole! Paramole! Paramole1! In sheer mayhem, folks scrammed, I stood put Armed with machete, I invoked my torch Scrutinized the rustling of leaves nearby Alas! Its no paramole! It’s an aged Alagemo2 Bellowed on my folks and together we chanted in folksongs “Oh Alagemo, man of many colours” On the shrubs, you are green On the earth, you are brown Oh Alagemo, man of many colours The rainbow clad itself in seven colours Will you lend it one more? Will you? The zebra, stripes itself with two, just two Will you lend it one more? Will you? Me too! I have one black skin Will you lend me one, and make me yellow Yea, make me yellow, turn me to an eebo3 We sang till the night wore thick black coats Folks left for home, I refrained Then I probed Alagemo; Oh Alagemo why do you switch colours? Are you afraid of the oluode’s fiery shots? Or are you just afraid of the haunting claws of death? Please indulge me Alagemo Iya Agba said you have zillions of colours Is it true? Or you are just a skilful magician; Amusing the wild with colourful tricks? Mounting Questions upon questions I was when he replied “Don’t you pity an old thing?” “For fortnights now, i haven’t fed” “I lay here in ambush for straying millipedes” “And you juveniles killed my muse” “Why ask what I don’t know?” “Why do you wear multicoloured aso-oke4 to nuptials?” “And clad in black ofi to funerals?” “Counts of colours I have in me, only Osa-Oke5 knows “Am just a colourful omnivore of Eledua’s6 artistry” “Ask no more and leave me with my misery”! ______________________________________ 1 Paramole: Snake 2 Alagemo : Chameleon 3 Eebo : Whiteman 3 Oluode: Chief Hunter 4 Aso-Oke: Woven attires, worn on special functions 5 Osa - Oke: Deity in Heaven, literally; God 5. Eledua: God [b][/b] |
Re: Alagemo by akigbemaru: 6:36pm On Sep 17, 2011 |
Keep it up! It's a good write up! |
Re: Alagemo by priesty: 6:02pm On Oct 02, 2011 |
Fine write up. qute original |
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