All roads lead to Kuto Bridge in Abeokuta where poets, writers, actors, dramatists and critics would converge this Saturday to extol the virtues of Poetry, the numero uno in the literature family. Williams Wordsworth described poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” recollected in tranquility or in retrospect. Indeed, poetry is life from conception to birth to adulthood to old age and finally death – kerewa rhythm of copulation, pregnant women dancing and singing “mumibiwere o Oluwa. Ka gbo ohun mi Ka gbo tomo”, to “afope folorun” at naming ceremony, lullabies, nursery rhymes, birthday songs, weddings and burials with dirges.
Listen to the persona and tone, check the architectonics and language – Lend me your ears! Tease my drink lobes with poetic melodies. Check out the context as poems do not exist in a vacuum!
Join us under the bridge on Saturday morning to as this year’s theme suggests “Build bridges for peace and inclusion”
Catch ya!
Oludare FolarinÂ
Vice Chairman, ANA OGUN CHAPTERÂ
