Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Our Civilization Collapsed (Poem)(Repost)

Good point, poet.

Note though that "beasts"

are sometimes nice, friendly, 

lovable creatures - biblically 

speaking, and elsewhere.

But it's your poem so you

have the last word😁

Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
Professor of History/African Studies, CCSU
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Gloria,

If you do, you would achieve your "alliteration", but what would the word "beast" connote to your readers? Would such connotation be in line with the "personality" of the poem?

-CAO 

On Sunday 28 July 2024, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

A beautiful poem, indeed - although I would

replace "animals" with "beasts"in line 5-

for alliteration purposes.🤗

Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
Professor of History/African Studies, CCSU
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Beautiful. Simply beautiful!

MOA

On Friday, July 26, 2024 at 08:18:18 AM EDT, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

By Chidi Anthony Opara 

A new day

Without the sonorous 

Songs of songbirds 

And the bustle 

Of busy humans and animals.

The sun struggled to rise,

Struggled to shine,

Weighed down

By the dark couds of July.

The clouds unleashed rain, 

The rain drenched and drained 

Our knapsack of knowledge.

The iron birds 

Could no longer fly,

The medicine men,

The medicine women

No longer know 

The cure for our illnesses,

Our civilization collapsed.

The rain 

Rained in torrents

And drenched our earth

Devoid now

Of our knapsack of knowledge.

(Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved)

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