CHINUA of AFRICA

I remember when I first heard of the book

Sad to say I never got to read it until late last year

"Hard to believe"; I can hear you echo from afar

Particularly for a "reader-fellow" like me

I read every other book on every shelf but this

"Things Fall Apart"
One of many other titles

The name always rang a million bells

One of Nigeria's finest...blazing 'em trails

Every candle burns with a flame

Every flame gets tossed of the wind

This candle did burn with a flame

The kind that spits grammar like Gamma

A linguist like no other

Novelist of covet like Rivera

Out of pitch-hue Africa rose an ICON

a LEGEND by every standard

a BEACON in every regard

Your soul rises to the great beyond

The universe sings you her sweetest verse

"CHINUA ACHEBE my beloved!

My sun, my son; thou didst do me proud";
Mother Africa mourns her favored son

You rocked Grammar Land

You brought honor to our land

Adieu Papa

Your works forever remain with us

©iampapyrus

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Let's Talk 'BASICS'

Novels are fun
Autobiographies are true

Family is golden
Friends are a blessing

Success is sweet
Challenge is healthy

Thru' it all
Thru' my everyday

This I know of 'ME'

Music keeps me going
Poetry keeps me breathing




©iampapyrus
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A Word With You Please...

I’ve heard talks about leadership

I’ve heard talks on followership

I have read about leadership

Just as I’ve read about followership

I’ve read about fatherhood

I’ve seen and been thru’ childhood

I have ideologies about fatherhood

I have experienced first-hand…childhood

What am I driving at?

Where am I headed precisely?

My ‘writership’

Your ‘readership’

My ‘writerhood’

Your ‘readerhood’

It’s not about me

It's not about poetry

It’s about us

Without us

There’d be no papyrus

©iampapyrus

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i do POETRY

There's something I love to do
There's something I was created to do
There's something I most leisurely do
There's something I can't help but do

The name you call it, same I call it
We call it...they call it POETRY

©iampapyrus

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Biko! Sip Small Courage

Worry this

Worry that

Worry here

Worry there

Mountain to Pillar

Pillar to Post

Biko! Sip small courage

Na only shikinni remain

Only a lil’ while longer

…and it’d all be over!

All for the greater good

BABA has bounties in-store

Of that I’m viva-sure!

©iampapyrus





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Coudé.Cougar

Trying to make this work

Quit the act, be less a jerk

Swung off into thick jungle

Figs, twigs and digs of bizarre

Precisely what we are

The earlier the better

So permit me with pleasure to bar

Car afar, lest a drift too far

Coudé.Cougar

©iampapyrus





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Gongo Aso!

Young lad hustler

Boy street struggler

Nothing but vernacular

Yung lad hussula

Boi strit struggula

Na so so vanakula

Olowo dey pass

Olowo dey fashi

Faaji ati kilishi

One day after today

Young lad go hammer

Better cloth for glimmer

Grammy go dey shimmer

Yung lad hussula

Gongo a so...

Gongo ma so!

RevV Thine Engines

So far, so good

Thus far have we come

Hungry for more tho' we got some

What holds beats 'em scolds

These molds; beets 'n folds

Thus far have we come

Thus far are we charged

God save the morrow

We ain't gonna laze

Mos def, we gonna blaze

You ain't seen nothing yet

(in Pa’s distinct vocals)

ANN [Artificial Neural Networks]

I've got a brain

Very much sane

You've got the same

So has Jane

Amazing capacities

Mind blowing abilities

Endless functions

Simulate that, shall we?

Mister Davies

Make hay, make pay

Make clay, sake say

Educate, then emanate

Emanate from distillate

Distillate for segregate

Blah, blah, blah…

“Blah-binz”

Anyways,

i.e. “Inothernews”

The yummy boil is savory spoil

Serve-in calorie foil

Serving Mister Davies

(..and his buddy Lewis)

©iampapyrus

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