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    Digest of Poems: Snowballs in Scotia
    Digest of Poems: Snowballs in Scotia
    Digest of Poems: Snowballs in Scotia
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    Digest of Poems: Snowballs in Scotia

    By Bayo Buraimoh-Igbo

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    This volume of verse brings together a collection of poems; the poems have been put in sections based on themes. The poems have been selected from a compilation written over a period of time. Themes range from
    Chapter One: Supplications 3
    Chapter Two: Tributes and Adorations 15
    Chapter Three: Romantic and Love 27
    Chapter Four: Biblical Allusion 42
    Chapter Five: Untitled 48
    Chapter Six: Traditional 58

    The varieties of poems are wide as it reflects on different aspects of life. In supplication, praises are said to human nature that endure as it concerns unforeseen circumstance, adapting to situation of things, hope not being lost, and perseverance through difficult period in the life of a group people and individuals.
    Tributes and adoration of living and non- living things, here appreciation for nature and the beauty of the environment and the world around us is charmed during this period of climate change and global warming and the need to value the planet earth we live in. It also adore mans courage and relationship between mankind as it concerns instinct and affection.
    Romantic and love poems, what is love? How do we define it? Can it be defined or is it better expressed. What is this thing called love are we still trying to define and understand how to diffuse into what is the true meaning of love and its dilemma.
    Biblical Allusion, a special theme as it concerns past life experience of the happening of events, teachings about life and words that touch humanity until this present time and how it shapes mans relation to his creator.
    Untitled, a puzzle of abstract, appears as the theme with a focal point not given a title in terms of expressing ones feeling, but readers are at liberty to relate with it whichever way they can, the poems can neither be here nor there, they only play a crucial role as it is necessary to keep readers guessing or for them to interpret it the way an manner they want to understand it.
    Traditional the lass chapter deals with Africa pastoral setting, traditional African way of life and the village background, Africa in context, ceremony and customs, and an African out look towards life and issues that border on culture, thinking and perception of the happenings and events around him, and a mention on natural disaster from other continents and countries which is not experienced here in Africa that we Africans share their pain and grief, that is those people whose life were affected and touched when such unforeseen incidents happen in continents mostly in Asia and the Americas,( USA, Japan, Haiti, Mexico and other disaster prone places in the world).
    There is a great deal of fine poems, which are very simple to understand, it can be taken in with a cursory or single reading, only the untitled is left for readers to depict its meaning and give it their own personal title. The poems are written in free style verse, not following any known stanza. There accessibility is not made difficult as in most case it usually needs to be for critics, and with images for illustration, it appears as a modern 21st century poems.
    The Digest of Poems is also prepared as an aid to a good understanding and enjoyment of poetry, to those who think poetry is difficult to comprehend. It is to serve its purpose mainly to entertain broaden the mind. Verbal / Oral figures of speech and rhetoric has been devised to further expanciate and enliven written language.

    The Digest of poems, the verses, it is necessary to bear in mind all words are in the poets context, readers can relate the sounds, and the meaning to each other, words repeat its sound, word, lines and even ideas. They are mostly traditional languages that are thematically concerned with celebration of the beauty of abundance nature& human
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJul 23, 2012
    ISBN9781469195612
    Digest of Poems: Snowballs in Scotia
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    Bayo Buraimoh-Igbo

    Bayo Buraimoh – Igbo is a Legal Consultant at the Business Law Academy in Lagos, Nigeria, he studied law at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile – Ife.

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      Digest of Poems - Bayo Buraimoh-Igbo

      Copyright © 2012 by Bayo Buraimoh-Igbo. 303617-IGBO

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012906142

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

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      Contents

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      CHAPTER FIVE

      CHAPTER SIX

      Acknowledgment

      - This work is the result of a few years of writing poems that was inspired by things and happenings around me it is meant to express messages and invoke imagery of what i felt or see at a particular point in time in the readers mind.

      - To all other poets and writers all over the world, who have contributed in shaping my decision to add more to the body of knowledge in literature?

      - To those who have contributed to my progress, since no one has succeeded in life without the help and assistance from others. To the great minds of the world that inspire others to follow the path of honesty and hard work.

      - I am grateful to my sister Yewande Ayinde - Marshal (Wendy K 1 ), Shina Abul, Seye Abolude, Muyiwa Farinde and most especially Lucy Rama of Xlibris publication for both her comments and for her encouragements. I am deeply indebted to my sisters Yewande Ayinde - Marshal, Bimbo Oyefeso, Joke Elesheku and my brothers – in – Law for their moral support throughout the period of preparation of the book. I am most especially grateful to my childhood friend Kayode Fabunmi as partner in progress, and never letting me down. I also thank the Xbliris publication for their dynamism and useful suggestion, which is more than i can do myself.

      Dedication

      To my Grandmother, Late Mrs C.D Akinola of blessed memory. A poet, playwright / Dramatist and Novella, who always greet and welcomes me with oral poetry in our traditional Yoruba omo ekun (Son of Tiger), what a lovely granny she was,.

      C  H  A  P  T  E  R    O  N  E

      Supplications

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      An Eagle

      Like a fowl, but an eagle.

      That grows up among them

      Not one of them, but like them

      But not like them, but among them.

      Who seeks to find its own identity?

      Looks up on to the sky, looks up again,

      Finds them flying high, up in the sky

      stopped walking among them,

      looks up on to the sky again and again,

      stops for while and thinks again and again,

      looks up on to the sky again and again,

      looks up again and again and spreads its wings,

      screeches, and yearns as loud as it can,

      fly’s high!, an higher!!, an higher!!! again and again

      and looks down at them and sees itself,

      looks down at them smiles at them,

      they smile back again, look down upon them and said good bye.

      Fly’s and fly’s away it goes.

      Plight of the African woman

      The heavy load on her head is her Daily task,

      she is

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