Shaliz - the Secret Star

By Wale Owoeye

SHALIZ-THE SECRET STAR is a codex of freedom. Written as odes recited in invocation and praise of Light, the book chronicles the legend of avatars in their journey through the celestial circuits to reach the Grove of Gold. Set in glowing 24 cantos of 24 stanzas each, the book opens into a vista of splendor, grandeur and joy for those bold enough to follow through to know the secret of stars.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483600116

Wale Owoeye

Wale Sasamura-Owoeye is a lawyer, poet, author, mystic, publisher, teacher and Renaissance Man. A Neo-Negritudian with the mission to make modern literary masterpieces for world audience, Wale Sasamura lives and practices law in Lagos, Nigeria

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SHALIZ

THE SECRET STAR

WALE OWOEYE

Copyright © 2013 by Wale Owoeye.

Library of Congress Control Number:                        2013903471

ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4836-0010-9

Softcover 978-1-4836-0009-3

Ebook 978-1-4836-0011-6

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.

Rev. date: 02/22/2013

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Contents

SYNOPSIS

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In loving memory of

CATHERINE SIENNA HAILEY

And

LAWAL ADENIKE AINA

SYNOPSIS

SHALIZ-THE SECRET STAR is an ode to light. It is a chant recited in praise and invocation of the elemental force which animates all things and through which living being subsists. Inspired by an intimate communion with Nature, the odes flow like a stream in an onward motion back to its source, symbolizing the cyclical motion of light from sunrise to sunset.

Arranged in glowing cantos of twenty four quatrains, the twenty four chapters’ book reads backward chronicling the legend of avatars whose fate was to journey through the nine spheres of stars to reach the Garden of Light. A book of riddles for those who seeks to solve the mystery of light, it began where the Spectral Tree was shown to the first of avatars and a taste led to the birth of time in the spatial field of four springs.

The Ode is of purity and peace and tells of the return of spring. It recounts how spectral birds shall herald the sighting of the star upon which the great turn shall be founded. Written in lyrical tones of rhyming couplet, the Ode invokes vistas of joy, beauty and colors in a way that will illumine the mind raising it up to the sky like a bird caught up in the wind.

In the book, the reader will travel through 576 spheres of light, guided by a winged counselor to see the secret of stars and become a vessel of light filling every gathering with brightness. For those bold enough to take a bolt through space and follow through to the end, they will manifest a newness of being.

"And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,

And that it was pleasant to the eyes,

And a tree to be desired to make one wise,

She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,

And gave also unto her husband with her;

And he did eat."

XXIV

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

Castle of light cast in the cloud;

Open up the mahogany door of Tuli,

And admit nightingales into the gray fold

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

Soaring high with the solemn wind;                        6

Attaining altitude by leaps and bounds,

Standing taller than the length of tamarind

Shaliz, Exquisite Star,

Fieriest amongst the fire-flies;

Beauty of the beautiful in Sig and in Baol,

Adorning the night’s neckline with a light

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

Annular sphere up in the air;

Laid out in a layout of splendor,

Illuminating the latent lines of atmosphere                        16

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

Single-tree of the golden shire;

Fledged with fruits and fragrant flowers,

Abode of orioles and other speckled friars

Shaliz, Oracular Star,

Sought out in the axial sky;

Seen on the scope of late night-watchers,

Found beyond the reach of the furthest mortal eye

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

Mighty meteor in the star bars;                        26

Guarding the ark of larks with sparks,

Ever radiant torch on the lofty radars

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

Lily in the Garden of Light;

Filling the glade with a sweet fragrance,

Rapture of robins and raven’s night delight

Shaliz, Exclusive Star,

In a class apart from comets;

Shimmering white on the stellar shore,

Shining bright with the decline of sunset                        36

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

Of sards and rare sapphire;

Alluring all eyes drawn to the crown,

Fitted on the head of the noble sire

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

In Zes on the eastern range;

Breathing bright light in its apertures,

Shading the sky with a splash of orange

Shaliz, Irreversible Star,

Bright before the Moon was born;                        46

Before a three-scores seraph was sired,

Before the pyre of the Sun began to burn

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

Friends of firs in the forest;

Treating their barks with a soothing balm,

To heal the travails of its innocent nest

Shaliz, O Shaliz,

Without a stain in its silk;