Sixty-Six Songs

By Wale Owoeye ESQ

SIXTY-SIX SONGS features an exotic array
of birds with a song each celebrating life in its
many colourful dimensions. Crafted in the great
tradition of Negritude , the collections flows with
a sweet cadence, fi lling the soul with ethereal
melody to herald the light of a new beginning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781479765102

Wale Owoeye ESQ

Wale Owoeye is a lawyer, poet, teacher, mystic and the author of SIXTY-SIX SONGS. He has written a trilogy of memorials of which SHALIZ-THE SECRET STAR is the bridge linking the first and last book together. An avowed Neo-Negritudian, his writing style is avant garde, charting a new course of lyrical mysticism in the age old genre. He is presently writing another commemorative poetry work inspired by President Barrack Obama.

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Sixty-Six

Songs

Wale Owoeye, ESQ

Copyright © 2013 by Wale Owoeye, ESQ.

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Contents

Foreword

Call Of Songs

purl                     Ardea cinerea

silt                     Phoebastria nigripes

amoeba                     Phoenicopterus roseus

whisper                     Hylocichla mustelina

sonance                     Anthus spidetta

indigo                     Alauda arvensis

mneme                     Sylvia atricapilla

carbon                     Muremecocichla nigra

lilt                     Menura novaehollandiae

obelisk                     Prunella collaris

cells                     Pycnonotus barbatus

interstice                     Pachyptila turtur

modem                     Auripus flaviceps

aperture                     Lanius cristatus

portrait                     Parus caeruleus

hexagon                     Porzana carolina

jades                     Cynacorax yncas

module                     Bombycilla cedrorum

ellipse                     Philetarius socius

diffraction                     Carduelis cannabina

zephyr                     Piranger ludoviciana

detritus                     Pterocles personatus

pod                     Tringa solitaria

umbra                     Amaurornis flavirostra

opaque                     Ceryle alcyon

photon                     Chloropsis sonnerati

helix                     Empidonax virescens

cacti                     Colaptes chrysoides

oblong                     Lonchura cantans

parabola                     Chlidonias niger

mahogany                     Riparia riparia

pubes                     Turdus merula

equator                     Carduelis tristis

midnight                     Ninox strenua

nocturne                     Corvus brachyrhynchos

la                     Mimus polyglottus

quartz                     Branta bernicla

memoriam                     Dicaeum vulneratum

wreath                     Terathopius ecaudatus

epitaph                     Serinus canaria

graphite                     Dumetella carolinensis

column                     Cardinalis sinuatus

logarithm                     Plegadis falcinellis

numerals                     Cardinalis cardinalis

corona                     Baelophus bicolor

friday                     Passer montanus

mollusk                     Botaurus stellaris

chlorine                     Passerina cyanea

meteor                     Sayornis nigricans

saturn                     Paradisaea apoda

nebula                     Calothorax lucifer

nuclei                     Tyrannus vociferans

vertex                     Vireo olivaceus

paradox                     Anhinga anhinga

lullaby                     Nycticorax nycticorax

june                     Upupa epops

lux                     Lamprotornis nitens

citrus                     Dendroica petechia

rose                     Zenaida macroura

sunset                     Aquila chrysaetos

afterglow                     Caprimulgus vociferous

silhouette                     Catharus fuscescens

cobalt                     Chordeiles minor

solanum                     Luscinia megarhynchos

rendezvous                     Icterus spurious

id                     Larus canus

About The Author

About The Book

‘SIXTY-SIX SONGS’

Is dedicated

To the undying memory of the Beloved

Who slept on Solstice

OWOEYE AFOLABI OLALEKAN

(1978-2006)

Foreword

‘Sixty-Six Songs’ is a commemorative work in the main. First, the songs commemorate the beautiful life of someone whose footprints on the sands of time would have permanently been lost, being that he sired no child before his light dimmed on earth in the sixth month of the sixth year of the new millennium. To reverse this sad fate gave birth to the book which incarnates his memories like a child and by that makes him victor death in his sleep. Hence the title and its recurrent motif.

As an extension, the songs symbolize the act of breaking away from the fetters holding the spirit bound so that it can soar like it was created to. The sixty-six songs, each of a bird, therefore are an expression of freedom and a leeway into the divine window of which every spirit aspires. Set in a sestet of perfect quatrains to the glory of