USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Fragments Of Poetic Thoughts (27)

Dear Chidi,

Another telegram

In a mere billionth of a second we transit from 2016 to 2017 !More Poetry!

Three cheers for Liberation Theology!

A Happy New Year to you and to all of those United in Poverty

and to Joel Osteen and others who preach the Gospel of Prosperity !

Just ask Achebe's Okonkwo, there's nothing wrong in working hard to achieve prosperity

for the children of Biafra : baby, baby be strong – listen to the Igbo's greatest guitarist : Identity

Too much money!

Can't complain: Coming up, the annual Dinner For One and the fireworks this evening

Cornelius

We Sweden

P.s. : The rice was not plastic

New Year Resolution ( a revolution in the Niger Delta ) : Time to grow your own...

On Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:51:43 UTC+1, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:

By Chidi Anthony Opara 

The Clergies

Caress our love for prosperity. 

They are calling us 

To come tonight 

Clutching 

Fat tithes and offerings. 

Tonight, 

They say, 

They will cross us over 

From the old year 

To the New Year. 

Else, 

They say, 

We will drag the poverty 

Of the old year 

To the New Year. 

(Poem presented as social service,  all rights reserved). 

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects

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