Chidi,
I read the poem ( a eulogy?) and wonder like Shakespeare's Mark Anthony,
"Shrunk to this little measure?"
Indeed, Death the Leveller
Over here in Sweden what would Olof Palme say today if he were alive?
From the same era, Pierre Schori reveals quite a bit about Fidel in his political memoir "Minnet och Elden"( Memory and fire )
The significance of the comrade's role cannot be underestimated...
Well, here's A Tribute to Fidel Castro - National Anthem of Cuba Revisited [ COSMIC EXPERIMENTAL COMMUNICATION ] as performed by Frédéric Iriarte ( Frenchman) usually a funky type of guitarist – it's his birthday today - and Santiago Jimenez Borges (Cuban) who I know as a virtuoso violinist extraordinaire – when he wants to play – turns off the lights, lights some candles, very romantic and time to close your eyes (then you hear and even imagine – what TS calls "the auditory imagination" much better, more onomatopoeia, with your poetic ear.
Con la obra de Marc Chagall - going back to the early 1970s by one of my favourite Cuban troubadours : Silvio Rodriguez: Cuba, Fidel
And long before Silvio, there was and is Victor Jara : Cuba
And Che Guevara? (Once, a CIA operative came up to me (from the middle of nowhere) and for a good half hour tried to instil it into me what a thoroughly evil guy Che was – he tried to psyche me out…but beware: don't believe everything that you read or hear with your ear. He disappeared as mysteriously as he came, I never saw him again...
This was presented to me by a fellow Chilean student approximately seven years ago :
The Real Fidel Castro by Leycester Coltman – which gives a more balanced picture after donkey years of vile Yankee propaganda, not least of all some of the gas issuing from the obabas in Miami…
But Fidel ignites fiery passions in some of the Cuban exiles and nationalists all, over here , even among some of the Santeria folks and I've learned to be quiet - last time when I was defending the Iranian Revolution the guy took off his shirt to show the scars on his lacerated back
he who feels it knows
but in both cases - the Cuban Revolution and the Iranian Revolution the big idea was that neither should succeed - in the case of Cuba, then the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean could follow – and in the case of the Iranian Revolution – the rest of the Muslim world could have been next and that's why Saddam invaded Iran….
On Thursday, 1 December 2016 09:58:12 UTC+1, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:
By Chidi Anthony Opara
His frail fist
Clenched,
Dropped.
The deed of death
Done.
The wails,
The wreaths.
Memories of his fights
For their freedom
On their minds
Etched.
On the paths
Though which the ash passed
They waited
To bid farewell
To the one
Who lived in the jungle
So they will have freedom.
On their minds
A monument they erected.
On the monument they inscribed;
"To the memory of Fidel Castro".
(Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved)
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