User:Isioma Obidi

Isioma Obidi... is a poet, public speaker and an astute business and financial manager from Ibusa, Delta State, Nigeria.

Principal interest include visual and creative Arts and  Talent Management.

Selected projects and roles: Assistant Director Breach Repairs' National Parenting Conference, GLA, Parkview-Ikoyi, Lagos, 2016. Curator .. Beyond the Limit, Terra Kulture, 2008(Solo Exhibition of Ola Balogun). Planner/Curator.. Rhythm of Creativity 1 & 2 @ Terra Kulture, Tiamiyu Savage, VI, Lagos, 2009 & 2015( Group Exhibition of Ajibade Awoyemi, Joe Essien, Ola Balogun and Ebogo Ekwere, and Bede Umeh, Gerald Chukwuma, Osagie Aimofia and Rhythm Creativity 2b, 2015 @ GLA, Park view, Ikoyi, Lagos. Co planner/researched/interviewer: Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu's Documentary on Mental Health, treatment and Management.

Education: HND Business Administration and Management, FedPoly, Oko.. PGD Financial Management, ATBU. Bauchi...

Books, literary works(unpublished): Enemy Within, Amanzela, Deep Rooted, Memo To Mankind &  other Poems and The Enemy called Fear.

Poetic teasers.. ..

For Love of Poetry!

For the Love of Poetry!

Words will work with willing words. Not just walk with mental images, But forming pacts in lines Of reality like couples on honey moon.. .

For the love of poetry, Enemies will sing love songs in battle fields, Within welded walls measured by Meticulous Meters of love.

For the love of Poetry. Irony will march metonymy as Tales are told in paradox: and Life is given back to the dead.

As speaking words start to ascend the hills of healing,

As Images carry weighty weights of wealth. And these appealing sons of mysterious prophet, precious poets Are appreciated and applauded by all....

As the poets start to harvest flaming fame in the farm of wit... Oh, mental wealth becoming glorious gold.

For the love of Poetry, We will continue to ink Glory on the pages of grace and rewrite our history... Recreating our illing world.

2.

I am black, and I am proud!

I am black, and I am proud!

I am black, and I am proud. Who will not be proud of this priceless black pearl, Of this gorgeous precious gem, This glittering grace, a light so bright, even in the darkest night.

I am black And I am proud. Who will not proud of Negritude, the joy of being A gem, a rare and costly gem. Who will not be proud of a noble birth, of purple blood, of the noble Nubia of the glorious Mali, of golden Ghana;

I salute you, courageous Congo, Noble Nile, gracious Orange glorious Niger, lovely Limpopo, Zealous Zambezi.... Greetings, our living waters I am proud of you.

I am proud of Kilimanjaro, Our great man of war. I am proud of our striking Suez Canal, Where the world salutes amiable Africa.

Africa is a unique Uranium, the vaporous spirit, the quiet volcano that no one can truly slight. I am proud of our wonder working brains, the joy of Greatest citadels, also of your wealthy weather, of our wind that Is still sane.. our sane wind That blows hope, that shows That the world is not yet gone.

I am black And I am proud. I am proud of the mild wind Of smiling Sahel and the joyful heat of the striking Sahara, of our cute desert cities, and the Beauties within our beautiful seas. And our other fields of apt jewels and of all our arable fields, I am proud of our rivers of gold..

I am proud of our fathers: Of Nyerere, Azikiwe, Nkrumah, of Kenyetta, Lumumba, Kaunda Of Mandela, Salassie, Masa-musa, Of all our mothers on whose back Africa rejoice. Of all Africans! The citizens of enviable Eden.

Who says our barns are empty? Who says our lines will never meet? In one noon soon our dots will meet. And all these messy rain will cease. And the true Africa will emerge.

I am black And I am proud.
 * 1) beautifulAfrica #blackandproud

3.

Hard Work!

The speakers are speaking, Preachers are preaching Changing words are flying But the world is crying, my bcos my pocket is trebling

Yet wealth is shouting, My yoke is not easy. Hard work is my weakness. Hard rock bows if strong And sharp blows are pounding. . I am an rooted rock Hit me really ruthlessly by your ruthless wrath, Soft pounding causes no pain... Wars are won with ruthless.

So work. Stop rhetoric. Serious art rewrites arts. The harder you press, The better  your wealth. Laziness is but an alluring snake.