Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Poetic Thought

Our very own Chidi in whose words pictures clearly appear, materialize...

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:59 PM Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks so much Nimi.

-CAO.

On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, Nimi Wariboko <nimiwari@msn.com> wrote:

Oga, Chidi; 

I like this poem. It takes on the everydayness of simple pleasure and set it amid the pomposity and crudity of power in Nigeria—and the rottenness of everyday life. Such is the contradictions of the systolic and diastolic rhythms of life in Nigeria.  

In addition, the poem reads well; its cadence and rhythm work smoothly. It exudes something of the brisk morningness of the Nigerian sun wrapped in dews and mists, yet promising fire next hour. 

This is a good poem. It drops gently on the soul as the tropical dews, briskly walking the reader into sweet cascades of emotions along the walkways of memories and gentle appreciation of life spent away from the open sore of life in brutalized Nigeria. Thanks. 

Nimi Wariboko

Boston University

On Oct 25, 2022, at 6:42 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:



Dawn,

Drew drops,

Brisk walks,

Sweat cascades.

Walkways littered with slumbering

Victims of unscrupulous leadership,

Roads paved with potholes

And open stench oozing drainages.

Siren blares

Of pompous officialdom

Returning from all night carousing.

(C) Chidi Anthony Opara

#2022Poeticthought

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