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    Troubadour
    Troubadour
    Troubadour
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    Troubadour

    By Obinna Mgbeahurike

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    A tale of a troubadour's view of life and earth and its impending cataclysmic fall and a journey to find his lost second-self...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherObinna Mgbeahurike
    Release dateJul 29, 2013
    ISBN9781301535170
    Troubadour
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    Obinna Mgbeahurike

    A poet, Free Thinker, Administrator, Economics and Engineering Enthusiast. Obinna Holds a Bachelor of Arts in English & Literature and did his research work on African Poetry and Drama.He has a strong affinity for African oral poetry culture and borrows dense, surreal and sometimes, personal imagery from it. He is a firm believer in art without boundaries so his work in usually heavily infused with languages, esoteric imagery, alphabets, mythology, art, music, cosmology, cosmogonoy, theology and philosophy.He has been writing poetry for over 15 years.

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      Troubadour - Obinna Mgbeahurike

      Troubadour

      Obinna Onyekachi Mgbeahurike
      ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
      SMASHWORDS EDITION
      ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
      ISBN 9781301535170

      Copyright © 2013 Obinna Onyekachi Mgbeahurike

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this work, in whole or in part, in any form.

      This is a work of fiction. All characters, events, organizations and products depicted herein are either a product of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously.

      Dedication

      To All voices in the eternal struggle…

      Emma & Antee – Teacher and Mother

      T

      he first strophe of 24 movements (in which the tale is somber, ominous and tells of destruction)

      I

      (faint lights with The Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626) in background)

      Caller I: cursed chatter pelting-

      words cascading in torrents

      like rain on tin roofs

      behind stages: organs

      whispering requiem: dies irae

      in soft faint notes…

      death distils in the air as

      insistent omens of once

      lightened drama now

      sinister bent…

      behind the plot of the mask-

      madmen money misery

      before the plot of the mask-

      habits princes innocence

      tongue has tasted the broth

      hand has pilfered the till

      unsweetened waters now mead

      drunkenness gives broom

      to sweep the stages

      as this tragic motions begin…

      II

      Caller II: without beak with

      out tongue lame ducks have caa-ed

      louder than a congress of bonobos

      & the stench of rotten teeth rise

      to the nose (who can doubt a smell

      without hand covering the nose…)

      and the conductor showeth:

      Un manque d’énergie considérable

      par rapport à celle de Toscanini.

      Pourtant la prise de son

      aurait du lui être favorable…

      ping-ponging between

      larghissimo e prestissimo…

      as the bland audience leave

      hurriedly before his grand chorus:

      le travail de la

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