Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Change Is Here (Poem)

IBK, Hear Hear!

Cha-cha-cha and

cheers to Baba Opara

just like the cosmological prafassar

about change, he's supposed to know what the Buddha  

said in the Heart Sutra

and in the Lotus Sutra

not just his Chief Abiola Irele (God bless him) and Wole Soyinka

and Baba Chinua Achaba

currently in Satyaloka

He's listened to  what Jalaluddin Mansur, Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyowele say

about CHANGE  - heck! People kick the bucket and go to heaven or to tha otha

Place - that too is a change from where they used to pee and poo and more importantly - excellent wisdom poetry like Hebraic, about real change and not prohibiting the moral bankruptcy  of the type that has accompanied the devaluation of the naira….

OK, so the latest Boko Haram atrocity shows that  Brother Buhari cannot  just like Allah sub han t'ala, say KUN – and the bread turns to non-alcoholic wine or all corruption ceases in an instant – any more than Andrea Del Sarto to his Last Duchess :

"I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together."

A pro-corruption movement would be no change at all! We've got to help the Brother!

What do we all want? We all want a better Nigeria, and a better Africa!

And now, for someone's edification, a few lines about hypocrisy which you'll find on page 472 of THE COMPLETE POETRY & PROSE OF WILLIAM BLAKE - edited by David v. Erdman with a forward and commentary by Harold Bloom

From chapter v – songs and ballads:

How to know Love from Deceit

Love to faults is always blind

Always is to joy inclind

Lawless wingd & unconfind

And breaks all chains from every mind

 

Deceit to secrecy confind

Lawful cautious & refind

To everything but interest blind

And forges fetters for the mind

 

 

 



On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 12:55:54 UTC+2, ibk wrote:

CAO,

I grant you poetic license. Yes change is here. From tolerance of graft to intolerance of corruption and moral bankruptcy!

Cheers.

IBK

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