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Edidare - Rotimi Ogunjobi
ÈDÌDÀRÉ
By
Rotimi Ogunjobi
ISBN 978-978-49837-4-7
Lagos Literary and Arts Journal Imprint
© 2012 Rotimi Ogunjobi
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
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Author’s note and acknowledgement
Èdìdàré is a poem which tells the story of a group of adventurers in search of the Wisdom Fruit from the Tree of Enlightenment. The title and some characters were taken from books written in Yoruba by the late Yoruba author D.O Fagunwa.
This book is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons, dead or alive, or to any place occur in the reader’s mind; not mine.
Contents
THE QUEST
THE JOURNEY
ÈDÌDÀRÉ
THE KING’S PALACE
THE BETRAYAL OF ATANPAKO
OMUGODIMETA
THE COURT OF EDIDARE
THE DEPARTURE
LITERAL TRANSLATIONS
About the Author
THE QUEST
Beyond Oke Langbodo of ancient legend revived;
Beyond the Sanguine Stream of ancient legend revived,
Near the other world where the dead go to live.
Lies that distant city, where wisdom never fades.
Beyond the enchanted forest of Elegbeje,
Where dwellers observe the daily doings,
Of those that have passed away into the other world,
You can daily hear the sable roosters crow at dawn,
From across the Sanguine Stream, near the other world,
Where the dead go to live when we see them no more.
There at Oke Ironu, stands a tree mysterious,
With fragrant flowers every day brightly blossoming,
Surrendering in season a thirst-slaking fruit:
That refreshing fruit called Enlightenment.
Those that shall the bank of the Sanguine Stream brave,
Those that shall seek the source of its serpentine trail,
Shall there find a mighty gilded portal,
A passage way for the departed, leaving this world,
To the other world where the dead go to live.
At threshold to this grim portal,
There Death has built his somber mansion,
And Pestilence, his consort has planted a flourishing garden.
Ours is therefore a voyage fit only for the valiant,
A pilgrimage for those that will without fear accost Death;
We are valiant men - thirty-six warriors, who have conquered fear,
Resolved to bring to back to our disillusioned city, Alupayida;
The thirst-quenching fruit of that