The Echo of Poetry And Psalmody Moments

About the Book

The poems in this book are a collection of works that really began as early as the mid sixties during the civil war that nearly destroyed the entity generally known as Nigeria. The collection continued until the recent time as the book goes to the print. Some of the original words have been carefully softened with years of reviews or totally replaced to gracefully accommodate the issues that may still be sensitive to some readers. Of course, what pleases one may still be offensive to the other. But real life is actually full of these kinds of bold interactions with the positives and the negatives covering a spectrum of one’s environments. The poems cover a range of reflections on the events of the human life and the life of the society as viewed by the author who has traveled extensively over the years. The section on the psalmody is a prayerful reflection from several years of encounter with the beautiful words of the psalms. Some of the poems are loaded like the layers of onion skin. “My Favorite Titles” actually opens a whole new world of literature made up of some of the beautiful novels locally available and read by the author. “The Blessed Knights” is the longest single piece that gradually weaves the anguish and politics of the era that initiated and finally gave birth to the entire book. It gives an epic history of a civil war that ended as dramatically as it began and then became dormant like a volcano that is still awaiting another round of eruption. “Our Racial Fears” reflects on the concerns of ethnicity within the United States while “The Frozen Moment of Peace” longs for an era without wars or other kinds of distressful human frictions. “The Incredible Piss” is an attempt to listen to some of our organic functions as the aging process takes its toll on the human body. “Pangs of Poverty” captures the awareness of the total absence of any tangible bargaining chip whatsoever. Definitely there is something here and there for everyone in this book. A few of the poems have been published in the compilations of the International Library of Poetry: “Love: The Essence of my Being, The Frozen Moments of Peace, The Pious Terrorist, Our Racial Fears, Funds for Nuns,” and in the Noble House Publisher´s THEATRE OF THE MIND:“Eulogy to Mama the Great." Take up the author’s invitation to enjoy the echo of the realities provoked by the theatrical manipulations of the wordings of this book.

About the Author

Felix Amaechi Onuora is a fifty-nine years old Spiritan from Nimo. He is affiliated with the Boy Scouts, the American Association of Christian Counselors, the Worldwide Marriage Encounter, the Vincent De Paul Society, and the International Society of Poets. He studied at Saint Thomas and Ibo Union school Kano, Saint John’s Alor, Bigard Enugu and Duquesne University. He is a church master, percussionist, an artist and a story teller. His hobbies include poetry, photography, scouting, stamp and coin collection.