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Euterpre’s Dream
Blessing Elebra
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-10-30
Euterpre’s Dream About the Author About the book Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgements Off the Cuff Kismet Ode to the Gunners French Change Sunshine Jack of All Trades (Master of Science) The Jury Cerebral Rinse Attention Thirty Something The Beastess Occhi Guy Fawkes (Fire Starter) Shropshire The Mermaid Torre Picotta Burns (for Honest Men and Bonnie Lasses) Carnia Jean Of Love Mamma Universal Nimbus Matrimonia Catch 69 The Devil’s Dandruff Reflections Portrait of an Artist as a Poet Model Bragging Rights The Magician The Tube Pegasus Mommy Carnival The Masterpiece Fidel The Berliner Musa Paradisiaca (PLANTAIN) 2017 Lover (of Poems) Across the Channel Soul of Seoul Bufunfa Vicissitude Autumnal New Planets 20 USA D’ARTA Customary (Tunnel Vision) Route 452 Words and Worlds Heavy Heart Pool of Love Oxon Zhivago 13 th Arrondisement Legs of Deutschland Blue Is the Colour (Indigo) Cassius Philo-Sophia (Love of Wisdom) FCT Tutti E Azzuri Bruised Mannequin Rain Ball Ode to True Love African Truth The Landlord River Delta Rushed! Kepler 90-I Smiles and Styles The Giant Gun Londra Coconut Concrete Pippolo Mary Magdalena (Lachrymose) Snowflakes Couplets The Chilean Placa De Mare Mr Flowers Sonnets The Phoenix Plankton (Blue Planet) Bullet thru the Neck
About the Author
The author was born to Nigerian and American parents and is British, thus identifies himself as a ‘Child of the World’, staring at the stars above and hence, his nom de plume – Starchild.
His academic achievements include a BSc in Human Biology and an MSc in Medical Microbiology; perhaps, this scientific direction must have stemmed from a curious mind and his love of nature, and its wisdom.
He is currently studying for a PGCE in Science, specialising in Chemistry.
As a child, he was generally good at sports and passionate about books, chess and music. He has also earned a living as a disc jockey.
He is at ease with each platform and is able to juggle and find inspiration and familiarity in music, poetry, nature and science. As if the same language is echoed through the forces of rhythms, harmony and melody, present in his poetic license.
A combination of all the aforementioned circumstances has brought him to a point where he seems to have developed a penchant for prose and verse and, most notably, sonnets.
About the book
On Pegasus’ wings, I fly like a phoenix
Soaring across continents, clans and counties
Gliding over mountains and seas
Inspired by Euterpe’s secret melody
While singing Orpheus’ lamentable hymn
They say poetry makes it a bit easier to live life
I hope that these sonnets surmount such heights
Burning like fire and quenching like water
The truth, spoken through the word
Of a child staring at the bright star
A chance, at least, to live twice, here and afar.
Dedication
To my mother and father.
Copyright Information ©
Blessing Elebra (2019)
The right of Blessing Elebra to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
ISBN 9781528966993 (ePub e-book)
www.austinmacauley.com
First Published (2019)
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Acknowledgements
My gratitude to my publisher and all the wordsmiths.
Off the Cuff
When I first arrived
They all asked me what I was doing here.
(I thought that it was quite obvious, dear!)
Now that I am leaving, the question is:
Where are you going?
The answer, there and everywhere:
On a different journey or path.
Not to amass riches like Gates or Rockefeller
Another type of wealth, for the reader and prose writer
Sure, many shall forget me by next summer
But I have surely left a part of me at your centre
Even for those that don’t even bother.
Kismet
What are my chances against kismet
If all that I am has already been preset
With summer’s spring and autumn’s fall into winter
The flowers blossom and so shall they wither
And as the sun shines and stars glitter
All in tandem and equal measure
O shower me with thoughts to ponder
Like when lightning strikes and heavens thunder
There must be more to this I often wonder
Or could it be just a fateful blunder
Familiar chants from spires, minarets and altar
Echo loudly across Java to Gibraltar
The promise of tomorrow always on offer
It seems, perhaps, just a careless whisper.
Ode to the Gunners
Oh Arsenal, cream of London!
Rising to the top is in your nature
Often curdling and changing in texture
Able to be prepared at any temperature
Swirling and dazzling with each fixture
Ever preserving that brilliant feature
Ye pretenders sneer and plot
With confidence oft’ hurt but pride never spoilt
Onward and forward with every shot, and occasional blot
Never yielding, for pace and beauty is always a must.
Recurring derbies and challenges to our North
Nouveau riche pretentions keep us brewing in the West
Intermingling with history and heritage down South
Not to mention those hammerings of the East
Still slick and chic, served with panache
Solid number ones of years past (Oh, that nostalgic moustache!)
Like the Flying Dutchman soaring without flight
The A-Team, invincible! Never forgetting such remarkable and unbelievable heights.