RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - "We Will Become Men Tonight" By Chidi Anthony Opara

I think Im in perfect agreement with Dele here.  Its always been a delight to read the poetry of
Chidi Opara on this forum with its distinctive style, that constitutes a bridge in the discontinuity of the Greats in our literary cannon.  We on our part await your return to base to stimulate the ground work for the "Mbari Movement" of our generation.  As you will realize in the coming months I shall not be stinting in the contributions to such resurgence. Chidi Opara's poetic style assures we may have in our midst the next poet of the people...
 
 
Olayinka Agbetuyi
 
poet, critic, teacher, translator and road safety professional.



 

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 22:07:45 -0700
From: delelayiwola@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - "We Will Become Men Tonight" By Chidi Anthony Opara
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Chidi:

Could you please do an anthology of your poems so that we can have an oeuvre at one go!

Congrats and more successes.

Dele

 

Prof. Dele Layiwola
Institute of African Studies
University of Ibadan, Ibadan
Nigeria

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - "We Will Become Men Tonight" By Chidi Anthony Opara

At dusk

We walk in slow steps

From the square

To the sacred grove.

We walk in single file,

Our lips sealed with fronds.

We walk with our loins

Concealed in loincloths,

Our bodies painted white,

Our scalps hairless,

We will become men tonight.

The priest sits waiting,

Our fathers wait,

Ancestors await our arrival.

We walk

Into the embrace of the gods

And learn secrets of our land.

We become men

And dance to the beat

Of the sacred drum.

At dawn

We depart the sacred grove

And walk

Into the bosom of maidens,

Our betrothed.

 

http://homelandmelodies.blogspot.com/2011/09/we-will-become-men-tonight.html

 

Zeblon Zeus-Information Officer, Public Information Project Management(PIPROM)

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