Supreme Leader Soliloquy (Poem)
Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA
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Beautiful
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Cornelius Hamelberg
What you have written is REPREHENSIBLE
After you digest Wilayat e Faqih
Maybe you won’t send your soliloquy
For early publication at The Babylon Bee
We understand that you are probably a member of PEN International, but you don’t seem to realise that Membership of PEN does not automatically confer immunity from being dispatched to join Muhammad's Dead Poets Society where you could rest in peace eternally
“The peace of the brave
Not the peace of the grave”
Chairman Arafat used to say
This is proof of the bravery of the foolhardy. Clearly, “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” does not apply to everybody, certainly not to Chidi Antony who either has the Chi, the gall or the gumption and not lacking in any of the three is not afraid of making fun of even The Supreme Leader - for fear of someone putting out a contract on him or a Salman Rushdie fatwa being passed on his head.
Chidi knows that if an Iranian comedian like Omid Djalili (who likes making fun of Nigerian accents) makes fun of the average Owerri Motor Park Poet he’s probably going to say exactly what this Nigerian says here in Comedy Sketch: Mr. Djalili's Funny Encounter in Nigeria : “ Your whole manner is racist ! Nobody makes fun of me ! I’m going to teach you a lesson ! “
So as not to waste ink or spittle, other news:
Ipsos Poll: Trump Trims Harris' National Lead to 3
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Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA
What is happening ?
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour”
It’s another season of Auguries of Innocence - auguries, not orgies…
Pharoah Sanders : Prince of Peace
In the Tanakh, The Book of Job and in the whole world of Literature, The Book of Job has all the questions and answers.
After that, requiring our attention :
PressTV ( an Iranian news and documentary network )
#Chidi the chronicler, currently shuffering & shmiling, sitting over there patiently ( I almost wrote
“like a patient etherised upon a table”) Chidi, rabble-rouser in that old Owerri Motor Park near the once “Garden City” of Melford Okilo’s Port Harcourt.
#Apart from shuffering and shmiling he “has been publishing news online since 2007”and also has “knowledge of information and data management”
#Anthony Chidi Opara, a former Biafran ( with Ojukwu as his Supreme Leader) Chidi now a real Super Nigerian ( “what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause”)
#Chidi Opara, lover of life, Ayatollahs, poetry, juice, muse, Jews
pay your dues, sing the blues, don’t be objective with your views
Like everybody else, I know all about The Islamic Revolution in Iran, and although nobody can claim to know “ all about” anything , this one thing is certain : He who feels it knows! People - including a few Iranians I know, have said much worse and that doesn’t make what they say less reprehensible Over there in the US, and over here in Sweden, it’s mostly the opposition - self-exiled Iranians that we have and that’s why one day whilst I was praising The Iranian Revolution to one of the miscreants ( rascals if you will) he took off his shirt to show me the scars from lashes that he said he had received on his back. I was dumbfounded.
But that was just a one word : reprehensible
Perhaps you prefer flattery? Praise? Sensible ?
“Beautiful lines, as always. Great inspiration.”?
Of course you have every right to be partial/ impartial/ objective/subjective, even bi-assed.
I know that just like every other good missionary boy who once upon a time attended to a good missionary school being run by the Baptists or the Catholics or Full Gospel Businessmen, you’ve probably got a hangover, you’re shuffering guilt feelings inflicted on you in Sunday School - original sin etc , so you think that I’m standing in judgement over you, like God Almighty. Well, I’m not - and - by the way ,
your Supreme Leader Ojukwu
could have stopped/ ended the Biafra War much , much earlier,
it’s painful, yes, poetically speaking, instead of sacrificing
As Michael Afolayan suggested, “Isn't there another monster on the other side of the inferno?”
But alas, Chidi is still on the same page as that Negro Spiritual about The Battle of Jericho
Apart from air, nothing else in this world is free
So Mazi Anthony Chidi Opara FIIM, CDOA
before you rest in peace in eternity
whilst alive in Nigeria’s Poets’ Society
it’s time to wake up and shmell this coffee:
Billy Graham blessed the men before sending them to Vietnam
About our own personal limitations, the incident of Balaam and his ass - the main encounter in question: Bamidbar/ Numbers 22: 21- 39 ) of which verse 23 goes,
“The she-donkey saw the angel of HASHEM stationed on the road with his sword drawn in his hand; so the she-donkey turned aside from the road and went into a field. Balaam beat the she-donkey to get it back onto the road.”
The Stone Chumash note on verse 23 reads, “ Rashi and Ramban ( two eminent Torah commentators) disagree regarding what the animal saw. According to Rashi, animals are allowed to see spiritual beings that are blocked from the human eye, because human intelligence would cause people to live in constant fear if they could perceive everything around them,
Ramban asserts that angels are not physical beings and cannot be seen by people or animals unless they assume a human form - as when they visited Abraham - in which case they are visible to everyone. In Balaam’s case, it was not that the she-donkey actually saw the angel. Rather, it sensed that it was in danger, for, figuratively. a being with a sword stood before it”
According to verse 31, “ Then HASHEM uncovered Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of HASHEM standing in the road, with a sword drawn in his hand. He bowed and prostrated himself on his face.”
The note on verse 31 begins, “ It appears obvious from this verse that Balaam was not accustomed to seeing angels, for if he was, it would not have been necessary for his eyes to have been uncovered. This also proves that he was not a prophet, for even Abraham’s wife Hagar and the prophet Elisha’s servant Gehazi saw angels, though they were not prophets... If Balaam had been a true prophet, he would have had no trouble seeing an angel, actually, Balaam was a sorcerer, not a prophet
#Some Swedish Jazz : Torbjörn Zetterberg Hot Five : Flickan som aldrig hade fel ( The girl who was never wrong)
The Torbjörn Zetterberg Hot Five
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