[New-Poetry] IDOWU OGUNMEFUN- A DRAMATIC POET THAT SUMMONED THE PSALMIST & THE PHILOSOPER TO HIS TOMB

[gbemi tijani-mst]

After the funeral rites ...
   
   
  nb this is memoir no 1 only-
  TO NEW POETRY REVIEWS AND VIEWS FROM GBEMI TIJANI - MST
  This trepidatory reflections will be in two parts when the intermen memoirs would have been drained of details of incredible scenes -spiritual,cultural -coincidenttal?-No Not really but surely transcedental...as it would be for any translated friend or admirer -in and out of stage ,mentor to a few Phd guys ...As i earlier said my mind is still clogged with sequential reasoning and it wont be tangetial to IDOWU OGUNMEFUN's philosophical arguemnet style .He 's a dogged student as well as a lecturer of theartre arts basics & Use of English at the under graduate levels.Besides he's been involved in more than 35 dramatic productions as a stage manager,actor,director and several miscellany significant to a stage drama for both academic and commercial audience -before his demise precisely mid-february.In the interim we thank the Creator Supreme for his life-his rare psychological  dispositions devoid of bitterness despite any difference in the berthing position of his peers or
 lay friends in EXISTENTIALIST THEORY...He's been labelled as the author of THE ANTIMONY OF EXISTENTIALISTS AND HUMANISM -the thesis work he was unable to viva voce ...However he would complete and submit this in the great beyond ...Yet i wasn't sure he was trying to hypothesise that there was no heaven nor is there a paradise after death -especially cell death-cessation of somatic physiology,biochemistry and all the scietific indicators of modern science...
  My mind is still boggled ....till the 2nd part of this  witnessed funeral memoir barely a week at  the U.I.Catholic church and the Sango cemetry oratory by his fraterninty and the priest concluding concecrations at the sepulcre..O Death is just literally wicked -thouigh no news that it is a necessary end..It doesn't even consider the harvest time for the anthology of toiling from diploma to the mnultiple Bachelor's ,Master's  and plus or minus Doctoral degree levels...Life is a mystery just as struggle for or quest at an  intellectual cum top-notch career target is a paradox of endeavour ,of becoming somebody or relatively of identity depending on one's outlook or family status or Holy Spirit 's leading .Or again as the Yoruba-africans will wittily say :BA O KU I SE O TAN - translating to unless one dies ther's no end to doing!
  May God deliver men and women from all inherent imperfections of poetry or philosophy that will always or could sometoimes impact not too  positively -yet not too benign values,illusions,desiderata that could be timelessly a raw material for thesis works but may not spiritually,psycho-biologically empowering in holistic survival...His old chums at St Charles Grammar School at Oshogbo practically in  their diverse callings in Microbiollogy,public health,marketing of this or that that are equally of social and life -supportive demands anytime anywhere as much as living on academics in a milieu that does not  copiously cushion  basic allowances let alone work out suitable emoluments that should support a functional academic professional...
  O lamentation is for the living ...Or is Watteson totally correct -if ,of course his view of the deceased and his survivors are to be taken JUST LIKE THAT
   
  If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away full of fragrant perfumes or sympathy and affection that they intend to break over my dead body, I would rather they would bring them in my weary and troubled hours and open them that I might be cheered and refreshed by them when I need them.  I would rather have a plain coffin without a flower, a funeral without a eulogy, than a life without the fragrance of love and sympathy. -Watterson
   
   
  A POET SUMMONED THE PSALMIST AND THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS TOMB
   
   
  IDOWU OGUNMEFUNBA,MATheatre Arts (PhD in –View, 1957-2007) Most sustainable theatre artist, longest - laughing seeker and finder of the truth of life, perennially one of the most inexorable philosopher –poet that eventually believed Christ as his Lord and Saviour.His baptismal name –John  re-echoed several times during the final burial rites at The Seat Of Wisdom Catholic Church of the University of Ibadan - where IDOWU fondly called I.D. roamed through the literary and theatre worlds .He could be labeled a doubter –an agnostic for some years but he was actually never an atheist .It surprised and buoyed many of his friends and surely his senior colleagues in Theater Arts Department  too that such a bundle of social poetry and practical philosophy ,undaunted truth searcher eventually stayed in a church, yield to baptismal rites and accepted Christianity without jettisoning the Sea Dog’s Fraternity.
   
   

 		
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