Poetic Thought

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

The lord from Lagos

Or is it Iragbaji?

Strolled

To the soapbox,

Spoke a slurred speech

And with shaky hands

Snatched a mandate.

(C) Chidi Anthony Opara

#2022Poeticthought

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet, IIM Professional Fellow, MIT Chief Data Officer Ambassador and Founder/Publisher of, www.publicinformationprojects.org)

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Dear Chidi,

Let the purveyors of malicious propaganda 

Perish in their own excrement and shameless

Sheikhs of fake news shriek their everlasting 

discontent.

That's what I says. 

The Ear  - by Louis MacNeice

There are many sounds which are neither music nor voice, 

There are many visitors in masks or in black glasses

 Climbing the spiral staircase of the ear. The choice 

Of callers is not ours. Behind the hedge 

Of night they wait to pounce. A train passes, 

The thin and audible end of a dark wedge. 

 We should like to lie alone in a deaf hollow

 Cocoon of self where no person or thing would speak;

 In fact we lie and listen as a man might follow 

A will o’ the wisp in an endless eyeless bog,

Follow the terrible drone of a cockchafer, or the bleak 

Oracle of a barking dog.

https://voetica.com/voetica.php?collection=3&poet=693&poem=6869

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Let me quicken my steps

Out of this quixotism,

Mass quixotism.

Let me quicken my steps

Out of this lingering quandary.

(C)Chidi Anthony Opara

[Olasupo Laosebikan]

With a few strokes on paper

Chidi did it again

Wrote a dissertation

Chidi!

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Olasupo,

Thanks for appreciating my little effort.

Pray for me

So that the din

Of the motor park

Would not deter me.

-CAO.

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Let me tongue lash

Tyranny

And frolic

With freedom.

Let me not be detered

By the din of devildom.

(C) Chidi Anthony Opara

[Adeshina Afolayan]

I don't want to

"tongue-lash tyranny

or frolic with freedom".

I want to look again:

Is freedom not a kind of prison?

Is tyranny always tyrannical?

My eyes are not monochromatic;

what i see is not black and white

Adeshina

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[Olasupo Laosebikan]

Brother Chidi!

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