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Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 2:20pm On May 11, 2007 |
mine is the duology between the two ABIKUs by Prof Wole Soyinka and Prof J.P Clark. i still can recite them till tomorrow. what are yours? |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 12:08pm On May 12, 2007 |
oh! so many! telephone conversation (wole soyinka) cracked me up real bad pauper( i think j.p clark) made me sad, thats the height of poverty night rain snake so many i call recall the title but great great poems! |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 12:38pm On May 12, 2007 |
viee did you study literature at o/level during the mid eighties? those were poem i studied thereabout for WAEC and tell you what, they were really,really nice, especially NIGHT RAIN. remember THE VULTURES? sweet poem! |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 12:43pm On May 12, 2007 |
yes i did study literature at o/level but that was ninetis i still read poem from my younger ones books |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 12:44pm On May 12, 2007 |
havent read the vulture wish i can get it nite rain was fabulous |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by osegwu(m): 12:58pm On May 12, 2007 |
knotty: ABIKU by Wole Soyinka In vain your bangles cast, Charm 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 sprinkled ashe yams do not sprout in amulets to earth abikus limp. Do I coninue? |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 2:16pm On May 12, 2007 |
LOL pls dont stop |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by iice(f): 4:36pm On May 12, 2007 |
viee: Me too! I loved it! |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 1:52pm On May 13, 2007 |
osegwu pleaseeeeeeee don`t stop continueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 2:01pm On May 13, 2007 |
sorry The Vultures is not a Nigerian poem. it is from Senegal by David Diop. in those days, when civilisation kicked us in the face when holy waters slapped our clinging brows the vultures built in the shadow of their talons blood stained monument of tutelage i`ll continue |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 8:15am On May 14, 2007 |
u guys should plzzzzz not stop! |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 8:17am On May 14, 2007 |
iice: it was great i wish i can lay my hands on it again always made me laugh esp the brunnette part boy! |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 3:17pm On May 14, 2007 |
"The Vultures" In those days When civilization kicked us in the face When holy water slapped our cringing brows The vultures built in the shadow of their talons The bloodstained monument of tutelage In those days There was painful laughter on the metallic hell of the roads And the monotonous rhythm of the paternoster Drowned the howling on the plantations O the bitter memories of extorted kisses Or promises broken at the point of a gun Of foreigners who did not seem human Who knew all the books but did not know love But we whose hands fertilize the womb of the earth In spite of your songs of pride In spite of the desolate villages of torn Africa Hope was preserved in us as in a fortress And from the mines of Swaziland to the factories of Europe Spring will be reborn under our bright steps. 1 Like |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by WesleyanA(f): 1:28am On May 15, 2007 |
i only remember a few |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by WesleyanA(f): 1:36am On May 15, 2007 |
"a coward dies many times before his death" (i don't remember any other lines from this other poem and i can't find it online) @viee i liked it too. you can find it online. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 2:57pm On May 15, 2007 |
wow!, great job guys! wesley , where exactly do i go on line? can i also see other poems there? |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 4:55pm On May 15, 2007 |
~groping in the dark~ i can see that i have missed more than i knew. nairaland is beginning to make more sense than i ever thought it would. can someone finish off the Abiku, Part1? |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 7:53pm On May 15, 2007 |
u can say that again! i need to get those poems on line!!!! |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by WesleyanA(f): 9:20pm On May 15, 2007 |
@ viee, you can type in "'telephone conversation' soyinka" in the google search bar and pick your website of choice. [url]http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNFA,RNFA:1970--2,RNFA:en&q=%22telephone+conversation%22+soyinka[/url] i choose the first website on the list http://www.k-state.edu/english/westmank/spring_00/SOYINKA.html srry if i sound redundant. just trying to be helpful. lol |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by closetpervert(m): 9:22pm On May 15, 2007 |
la be igig orombo - ni be lagben sere wa, inu wa dun, ara wa ya, labe igi orombo. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by WesleyanA(f): 9:25pm On May 15, 2007 |
poetry not song lyrics. lol i thought it was igbo at first too. anyways, it's cool. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by closetpervert(m): 9:27pm On May 15, 2007 |
that na poety na. another one - oko plus obo equals omo. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 11:44am On May 16, 2007 |
WesleyanA: no u dont lol thanks a zillion, truly appreciate |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 11:46am On May 16, 2007 |
The price seemed reasonable, location Indifferent. The landlady swore she lived Off premises. Nothing remained But self-confession. "Madam," I warned, "I hate a wasted journey--I am African." Silence. Silenced transmission of Pressurized good-breeding. Voice, when it came, Lipstick coated, long gold-rolled Cigarette-holder pipped. Caught I was foully. "HOW DARK?" . . . I had not misheard . . . "ARE YOU LIGHT OR VERY DARK?" Button B, Button A.* Stench Of rancid breath of public hide-and-speak. Red booth. Red pillar box. Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar. It was real! Shamed By ill-mannered silence, surrender Pushed dumbfounded to beg simplification. Considerate she was, varying the emphasis-- "ARE YOU DARK? OR VERY LIGHT?" Revelation came. "You mean--like plain or milk chocolate?" Her assent was clinical, crushing in its light Impersonality. Rapidly, wave-length adjusted, I chose. "West African sepia"--and as afterthought, "Down in my passport." Silence for spectroscopic Flight of fancy, till truthfulness clanged her accent Hard on the mouthpiece. "WHAT'S THAT?" conceding "DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS." "Like brunette." "THAT'S DARK, ISN'T IT?" "Not altogether. Facially, I am brunette, but, madam, you should see The rest of me. Palm of my hand, soles of my feet Are a peroxide blond. Friction, caused-- Foolishly, madam--by sitting down, has turned My bottom raven black--One moment, madam!"--sensing Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap About my ears--"Madam," I pleaded, "wouldn't you rather See for yourself?" GOT ITTTTTTTTTTTTTT just not to be selfish, if u dont have time to visit the site wesley gave here it is |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 11:51am On May 16, 2007 |
viee: oh my! ha ha ah ah ah ah ah aha ha ha ah ah ah ah ah ah |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by iice(f): 1:49pm On May 16, 2007 |
My best part was when the caller said are you light or dark? Still is very much a part of our society. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 2:50pm On May 16, 2007 |
yeah, sure is can never get tired of this poem it is a lovely satire |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by SMC(f): 5:51pm On May 16, 2007 |
viee: What I love about the poem is the way it has racism down pat (especially the way it was back then predominantly in the 1950s and 1960s), although it is more subtle than what actually obtained. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 10:57am On May 17, 2007 |
i think i even love more after reading Knotty's 'Vulture' the two are coming from the view point 'racism' says a lot about our society, this era in Afriacn countries it is a story of blacks oppresing blacks sad. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by nanaboi(m): 12:37pm On May 18, 2007 |
We read J. P. Clark's Casualties - a collection of his poems set basically in the civil war era. That's where I encountered "Night Rain" again since secondary skool, and then "Abiku". There were otha more complicated/political poems that our lecturer, Mr. Akpuda, had to guide us through like toddlers. They were quite hard 2 crack 4 some of us who weren't so devoted. But the collection I read and fell in love with was Toni Kan's When A Dream Lingers too Long. I love all the poems in it, especially the title poem. My long essay was on that collection. |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by viee(f): 1:34pm On May 18, 2007 |
yes, loved casualties too 'we are all casualties of war' really touchn! havnt read any of toni Kan's poems only read his stuff then in hints can one read his poem on line also? |
Re: Which Nigerian Poem Is Your Best? by knotty(m): 2:24pm On May 18, 2007 |
Casualties yes, nice poem too. i remember. that one gave us lines like: many are the casualties who have no say in the matter dying by instalment are we not all casualties of the realities of daily living in Nigeria? did we have any say in the matter? are we not dying instalmentally? poets are prophets, but prophets are not poets. |
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