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Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 2:30pm On May 18, 2007 |
ya, beautiful poem by all standard! heard the idea was conceived when Clark had problem with another notable person during the war i think he left the person behind or something like that but he was just telling the person that we are all victims of war. there is this other poem we also read but it is a foreign one talking about a pilot , i think he was saying that ' the ones i kill i do not hate, the ones i kill for i do not love etc another great poem! |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by Nwoke: 10:14pm On May 19, 2007 |
Casualties by J P Clark. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by laudate: 8:07pm On May 22, 2007 |
[Quote] AFRICA MY AFRICA Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs Africa of whom my grandmother sings On the banks of the distant river. I have never known you But your blood flows in my veins, Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields, The blood of your sweat The sweat of your work The work of your slavery The slavery of your children Africa tell me Africa Is this your back that is bent? This back that breaks under the weight of humilation This back trembling with red scars And saying yes to whip under the midday sun, But a grave voice answers me Impetuous child that tree young and strong That tree over there Splendidly alone amidst white and faded flowers, That is your Africa springing up anew Springing up patiently obstinately Whose fruits bit by bit acquire The bitter taste of liberty [/quote] Learnt this poem in high school. And it is still one of my favourites. It was written by David Diop. Labyrinths by Chris Okigbo is another favourite. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 9:06am On May 23, 2007 |
laudate Labyrinths by Chris Okigbo is another favourite. please, car you jar our memory by reproducing this poem? PLEASE. i love Africa very much too. did you know that David Diop, the Senegalese Poet died in 1960, by a plane crash? |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by creatorjc(m): 9:23am On May 23, 2007 |
well,to me,ABIKU by soyinka is nice but something close to incantation in yoruba mythology.have u read HEAVENSGATE by chris okigbo ?the poem is tight,very tight.about nigerian poets,i love clark,okigbo,soyinka and okara in that order.chao |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 4:21pm On May 23, 2007 |
Abiku In vain your bangles cast Charmed circles at my feet; I am Abiku, calling for the first And the repeated time. Must I weep for goats and cowries For palm oil and the sprinkled ash? Yams do not sprout in amulets To earth Abiku's limbs. So when the snail is burnt in his shell Whet the heated fragments, brand me Deeply on the breast. You must know him When Abiku calls again. I am the squirrel teeth, cracked The riddle of the palm. Remember This, and dig me deeper still into The god's swollen foot. Once and the repeated time, ageless Though I puke. And when you pour Libations, each finger points me near The way I came, where The ground is wet with mourning White dew suckles flesh-birds Evening befriends the spider, trapping Flies in wind-froth; Night, and Abiku sucks the oil From lamps. Mother! I'll be the Supplicant snake coiled on the doorstep Yours the killing cry. The ripes fruit was saddest; Where I crept, the warmth was cloying. In the silence of webs, Abiku moans, shaping Mounds from the yolk. By: Wole Soyinka boastful, mystical, mysterious, diabolical, awe inspiring, this poem is hardly an incantation. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 4:37pm On May 23, 2007 |
i just stumbled on a couple of poems that were really delighful in those days. WE HAVE COME HOME by Lenri Peters SEASONS By Wole Soyinka THE CALL OF THE RIVER NUN Gabriel Opkara IBADAN by J P Clark OLOKUN STREAMSIDE EXCHANGE all by Prof J.P Clark Streamside Exchange Child: River bird, river bird, Sitting all day long On hook over grass, River bird, river bird, Sing to me a song Of all that pass And say, will mother come back today? Bird: You cannot know And should not bother; Tide and market come and go And so shall your mother, By: J.P. Clark |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 4:43pm On May 23, 2007 |
Where is my generation of poets? what is happening? wasted generation are we? i hope not, i believe we are not. Niyi Oshundare and co., w`sup? 1 Like |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by laudate: 5:45pm On May 23, 2007 |
Knotty, Labyrinths is a collection of Chris okigbo's poems. Which one of those poems would you like me to paste up here? |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 11:49am On May 24, 2007 |
wow! |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by randombee: 6:50pm On Nov 19, 2010 |
The truth is that our generation of Nigerian poets are being stifled to creative inactivity by the debilitating forces of academic decadence and cultural alienation. Our present society can boast of very little to promote or even support poetic creativity. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 11:22pm On Nov 19, 2010 |
2007 to 2010 ending? something must have been lost in our collective literary awareness. what new great stuff is coming out of our clime? i am wondering. i have a collection of poems i did in my secondary and A level days. i shall be beading home by Xmas with the hope i can lay my hands on them. if i do, we shall all enjoy them here together. |
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