Sombrero Monologue: Sublime Poetry

By Murphy Biriabebe

SOMBRERO MONOLOGUE was an attempt at encouragement in a time of dire distress. It was an intendment for the despondent spirit that strength and purpose could still be found in a time of bleak hopes. The first series of poems were written within three days of a dilemma. They are poems of hope, faith, trust and realization written to heal the broken heart. But it wasnt until after a year that I was able to write the other poems of triumph, freedom, survival and love. These are qualities soul needs to reach its goals. One may find within it, other matters, since in an effort to merely encourage, the muse in the poet took flight and re-plotted the direction of this work. During the initial writings, I devised a serialized pattern for writing this work with a rhythmic song like metre which contributed immensely to the expedite completion of this work.
The primal inspiration being the encouragement received from Kathy Black of the Vermont Studio Centre, U.S.A, after the events of September 11 2001 spoilt my chances of a residency in the U.S. but through the encouragement of this woman I never met, a fire started in my heart. That fire became the torch for an immortal goal, lighting the gloom passages of despondency and failure that followed, revealing a series of poetry to me in a manner I had never experienced before. These poems became SOMBRERO MONOLOGUE. The message has gone beyond that and reached Universal dimensions and my approach has been metaphysical.
Here, it appears as twelve songs divided into two books sang in twelve days by Diowei, son of Kiemoye, keeper of the sacred flame of Diseye and the sentry of Kemeikiyou, during his sojourn to the banks of the Sombrero River to purge himself of the karma of life, where he paused long enough to compile these poems.
Each song has twelve verses with equal number of words and equal number of lines as well, with the end verse leading to the beginning verse.
I hereby present to the reading world; SOMBRERO MONOLOGUE, hoping it will serve as a useful addition to literary shelves the world over.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: May 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482802153

Murphy Biriabebe

Tonyo Murphy Biriabebe is a lawyer and poet who lives and practices law in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state. He was born in the city of Lagos, to a soldier father and a mother who dedicated her entire life to making the home. He grew up in the multi culturally diverse-cities of Lagos, Epe, Ibadan, Gombe, Port Harcourt and Amassoma his hometown. His first book of poetry is UNDERCURRENTS. SOMBRERO MONOLOGUE is his second book. He is currently working on a novel titled THIRST.CROSSWORLDS and BROKEN BRIDGES are also his works in progress.

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Contents

Author’s Note

Prelude

Acknowledgements

BOOK 1

Days of Humans

Beginnings

Dreams

Woman

Culture

Races

Leadership

Honour

Class

War

Laughter

Cure

Survival

Days of Vision

Determination

Focus

Vision

Direction

Purpose

Intention

Progress

Dignity

Sustenance

Humility

Achievement

Success

The book of dreams

Hope

Faith

Experience

Understanding

Wisdom

Identity

Awareness

Consciousness

Being

Dream

Love

Heart

The book of grace

Eyes

Soul

Purity

Charity

Compassion

Grace

Wings

Freedom

Morals

Discipline

Chastity

Reality

The book of truth

Dreams

Truth

Thought

Creativity

Service

Spirit

Harmony

Birth

Death

Life

Sleep

Goals

The book of prize

Means

Way

Lamp

Sight

Friendship

Guide

Trust

Lessons

Memory

Prophecy

Moment

Prize

Book II

Book of nature

Season

Growth

Water

Fire

Air

Form

Change

Earth

Decay

Apocalypse

Poise

Nature

Book of