The Spear That Shakes Poem by Tosin Abegunde

The Spear That Shakes



Wake of eternal reference
On the platform of Ake
Like the order of melchizedek
Established on timeline for ages.

Sown, same sounding seems
Overtly with no link or akin
Yet yielding 'yond yearnings.

The initials plant the tree of memory on high
Nurtured nomenclature not noted, nothwithstanding
But ability without stabilty yields futility eventually on contrary.

Keffi's BirthdayTreat brings The Invention of The Swamp Dwellers
Where The Lion and the Jewel
Quickens The Trials of Brother Jero

A Dance of the Forests that increased My Father's Burden
What an era of The Strong Breed!

Before the Blackout, Kongi's Harves paves The Road
Where Madmen and Specialists
Sing to The Bacchae of Euripides
Thereon, Camwood on the Leaves
Establishing Jero's Metamorphosis.

Death and the King's Horseman
Always surface in Opera Wonyosi
Hence, Requiem for a Futurologist.
Sixty Six years i read A Play of Giants
Right From Zia with Love as The Detainee
Hampered by A Scourge of Hyacinths.

The Beatification of Area Boy
Brings about Document of Identity
Revealling secrets of King Baabu
As one of The Interpreters in Season of Anomy
What A Tale of Two Egbe's Sworn Enemy
Written by Madame Etienne's Establishment in Alapata apata.

Im sure, The Man Died not in Aké
Then in The Years of Childhood
Also of The Penkelemes Years
During A Voyage around Essay
He says 'You Must Set Forth at Dawn'

Just like Idanre and other poems,
A Big Airplane Crashed Into The
Earth
Having taken A Shuttle in the Crypt of Ogun Abibiman
Reflecting Myth, Literature and the African World View
As it is inMandela's Earth and other poems
Which are the Early Poems of his.
Samarkand and Other Markets I Know as one.

Towards a True Theater
He built a Culture in Transition
Structured as Neo-Tarzanism:
The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition
Strongly on Art
Vehement in Dialogue
And Outstanding on Outrage
All From Drama and the African World View.

In The Credo of Being and Nothingness
The Burden of Memory - The Muse
of Forgiveness creates A Climate of Fear
For Kongi's Harvest Culture in Transition and
Blues for a Prodigal Translations
In The Forest of a Thousand Demons: A Hunter's saga
imortalizing D. O. Fagunwa's Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀
In the Forest of Olodumare

For his Legacy and honours
The African Heritage Research Library and Cultural wont forget
The writers' enclave in Lagelu
As parts of Naija seven Wonders
At Lagos Black Heritage Festival.

The Doctor of letters that Leeds,
Overseas Fellow of Cambridge
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Achieving Anisfield-Wolf Book
Nobel Prize for Literature
Agip Prize for Literature
Commander of the Federal
Republic
Benson Medal champions Doctor of Harvard.

Same, the doctor in Princeton
Yet the Akinlatun of Egbaland
The tribal aristocrat and
Academy of Achievement Golden Plate.
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award,
Lifetime Achievement they are.
Indeed his spear shakes forever
Is not it?

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
It is an appraisal used to celebrate professor Wole Soyinka on his birthday. All his works are featured to bring beauty and life into the literary piece.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Gajanan Mishra 28 July 2014

towards a truetheater, good one

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