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Book Review: Literal Appreciation of Elocuencia de Silencios by Francisco Munoz Soler


Appreciation of Elocuencia de Silencios

Francisco Munoz Soler delves into the drums of Eloquence of Silence with a magnanimity of words mowing the forage that held the echoes of words from fasting and feasting In them through silence. The book provides a tendency of focusing on meditations as one decipher the words that upshot from the art of silence. A therapeutic edifice of attaining enlightenment. It should be known that one must be eloquent enough in other to withstand this zephyring but warm atmospheric moisture released by the art of obeying command and writing, being provided and commended by the spirit of silence lying in a soul of an adept who becomes an initiate. He proves to be a learned adept in the field of silenceness, in this poetic discourse ” Elocuencia de Silencios”. He further broaden my Spanish quest as it opens the lines with famous lines of great thinkers and poets, like Rilke, Blake, Colinas, Szymborska etc.

The translanguagation makes one to become a rodent as it decipher the messages encased in the nut. Lines that implores my soul to master Spanish as my third working language quickly, which I am being self taught.
In order not to deviate from this appreciation of this great work written by the scenting poet Francisco, I would state categorically how the poet understands the words silence provides. In “MY SOUL HAS THE MOULD ” the lines ran:
MY SOUL HAS THE MOULD
of the horizon of its dawn
everything in me is created
in the intangible eternity
of its untouched presence in me
I grow in the absence of caresses
in the breath of the fertile transparency
of our unforgettable love.
One cannot rise above the softies of silence if there is non conformity with the waves, rising the tides in the eternity of beingness. The poet tells it as he encounters the creation innately before its physical manifestation. We that are of free spirit understand the mystery of “intangible eternity” or are trying to understand the brimness of this. I see there is no form of sentimental fallacies in this book, which most poets based their writing upon, through sublimation of material imagination. Rather, I saw the enclavement of an adept wearing the disk of an initiate through the eeries of silence. Making me recall my personal encounter. Using my words: and “I buoyed through the eeries of silence” as encountered. I fully understand the telepathic fibre released here. The poet tells the beingness created in silence.

Furthermore, in “AN IMPOSSIBLE DESIRE” he opens the harp that is held captive, when you struck the rock instead of talking to the rock, the repercussion against obeying the voice of silence is dead. Here, the poet obeys. The lines ran:
AN IMPOSSIBLE DESIRE
occupies my days
it forges a pain so sharp
that illuminates the dense night
in the hollow of my footsteps,
an impossible desire
surges with her absence,
it goes through me weaving
the silence of caresses.
An avid reader of the holy book will recall Number 27: 14 this marks the foundation, beginning and willingness of killing the egos in us. The Freudian tea that will make a savour offering to humanity and mother earth and the universe. The ability to overcome this self desire makes the poet a poet.
In ” I remember the young people of my adolescence” the poet ends the point and notions to racial discrimination and all form of humanstreaming experience globally on geometric progression. He opens and ends the lines with:
I REMEMBER THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF MY ADOLESCENCE
in their own times,
with the original colour of their hair,
.
.
.

with the turn of the page
far from all time,
I remember them as if in a dream.

Lastly, the book is segmented into five, having great themes and marvellous poems summing up “Elocuencia de Silencios” running in free verse as encountered. A story he opens at “Poets, at times” marvels me because it upholds the first law of poetry, making it easier to read through.
POETS, AT TIMES
because of their uncertainties
feel tempted to comprehend
the human condition,
they try to capture echos,
the eloquence of silence,
the radiation of kisses,
and the endless exchange of looks,
without the scientific knowledge
of going back to the origin of our souls.
One must reflect on the mirror of being here, and seek the vehicle which will board us into the abyss of our root. The origin lays the quintessentiality of a soul, our ability to forge back in a purer form makes us to gain eternal life or eternal strife, both of these eternity, none of our part dies. In a succinct and apt line I would say Soler understands how to tap to the songs of silence, diving into the stream of existence as a master, conversing with his visitor and ending his long suffering.

Thank you for this masterpiece.
With LOVE
Martin Ijir
© Martin Ijir 2020

Hunger massage


Dear lover, I am sorry for my late reply
Learn you’re leaving Wuhan and will be at Italy
Before coming back to Nigeria. I am so happy

I want you to know there is a curfew on the street
It is difficult to see a lizard, butterfly, and birds
But it is not difficult to see gecko, cockroach and crickets
I am so excited by the songs of wine they provide as
I self isolate… in lonliness and misery and hunger massage

My tavern is open as the street of Spain
Near, the door stood the rye of salvation
Nothing can stop my kisses and embrace
I read about a new belch that separates
And stop men from loving and hugging

Nothing can stop me from licking the scars
On your inciting lips lumping the door of my longings
Nothing can stop me from touching your linseed face
In them I see the longing soul that beauty and time obstruct
In them freedom reclaim and birds, butterfly and lizard I see
(c) Martin Ijir 2020

Gimmick deceptions


Some few men sailed with Columbus nosetruth, pandemic, deception, enough is enough
This time an American covert dealings 
aimed to discover coronary that will make 
Their gourds to filled with euros, yens & mighty dollars
The pounds of the flesh used in the Wuhan laboratory 
Is raw with climate change temperature, aiming to wipe 
humanity’s love, peace and sorrow 
a new genome that will wipe out Africa & third world countries 
Mistakenly they forgot that tropics boils the sun 
Our ebony skin is full of softies so is the softies of our ebony blood 
Some few men sailed across the Wuhan wall 
In icing igloo faced hoodwinked covid 19 was created 
These same men possessed the cure 
When their safe is filled up, cure will come 
They hinder social life and shutdown economies 
These few men have a bunker of raw stash, living in isolation 
Giving termites their loaf of share, and human loaves of covid 19 
They provide humanitarian service as charity 
How could charity works when there is no pandemic? 
How will donor give willingly when the have-nots are not in IDP’s camp?
Luckily enough, covid 19 is meant for the rich 
Soon a cure will come, million of dollars already spreads 
These same men will donate their resources in gimmick deception 
To lure many into their eeries of silence 
I am hiding in my room afraid to be victimized
Though weeping knocks at night, joy opens the door at day
When you see these men mauled them with fangs of laughter
(c) 2020 Martin Ijir

Seized tears


These blizzards wreak the songs of togetherness
through the night all sounds are unheard
but the songs of the razing fire thatch I felt
the noise of the striking axes passing through deathless
spirits, bumping flies that missed their path
I can hear the songs of agony,
render by their sleeping spirit
beclouding the lids of my eyes, my hands
shivers as a stroke of canvass spited on my heart,
an unbearable cloud passing its enchanting chasm
so much pain, seized tears paints the picture of my frame.
(c) 2020 Martin Ijir

The mad man


The mad man
Long before now, long before time was infused inside my soul. Before I was sent to the earth. Near the stream containing many shrubs I walk on, elegantly without fear, shame, and harm. I have seat my self in those sullen water, i guessed nine months or thereafter. I was threaded with the placenta of birth and death. Betrothed to life scorching sun, smiles of bitter rain and lustrous muses of scavenging for the nuts to nourished my body, unite my spirit and guides the soul to manage his genderless attributes back to where time wasn’t created. I have walked a million time to the stream, casting my net daily, catching nothing. Even the little tadpoles which a child catch without suffering I alone couldn’t lay my net on. I have lost none inched of a hope because I targeted the daily calmness of the stream. If i could not get hold of the beings on water at least I can pluck the flowers near the stream on terrestrial abode. I walk to the flower, with songs of conquest. She smiles as nature, baring the regalia of wild purple, waving her nectar in silent wickedness. The wilderness that separates the flower from the stream encamp countless bees that sleeps and enjoy their sun, conversing with the gloom of their wings as they chat. I fluttered myself into this trap. I was stung by the bees. I became a madman. Having no fishes, no shell, no pebbles, no gold, no flower. I am having nothing and carrying nothing inside my haversack bag, as I am going to be infused back into the cubits were time end as a soul.
(c) Martin Ijir 2020

My foolish foul


I am sorry for being an unjust dust,
I am so sorry for being your word rust,
so ashame for devouring your temple,
the seat of thy holy throne.

I am sorry for betraying your trust,
I am so sorry for falling your test:
shame on me, for not following your way,
tears fill my soul as i swing away:

find a day and revamp my soul
within i implore you clean my foolish foul.
(c) Martin Ijir 2019

She is your breathe


There’s someone that occupies your heart
Like the air in the sky she journey through you
She creates a new smile and erased your sorrows
Like ocean you heard her tides when she’s absent
There’s someone so special you feel her love
When the days became dark she brings a light
Like the moon she shines inside you in amorous posture
Like a pasture she feeds your troubling soul with love
She becomes like an oasis in your desert journey
She enchant your heart to call her name for she’s your breathe
(c) 2019 Martin Ijir

I thought i lost love


I thought I found love, I lost it,
I only found the beauty that love gives.
It blinds my soul and breaks my heart,
for all I do, it is your image I see.
How could this love link us as one!? An
insanity that makes my soul to be open:
a feeling that closed the lid of my mind.
It is yours, do whatever you feel with it?
But don’t trick me with your shard shadow;
for I found the lost love,in the love I thought was lost.
(c)2019 Martin Ijir

A trance


Under the tree where love visited us
And take us into the woods down to the forest
Where fears erased in our mind
As love leads the way.
I could remember when rain beats me
When I accompanied you home, how late it was
I don’t care, I enjoyed the logjam and wish it lasted
How love makes my body so dried
As I felt your presence, how you called me
To come online so we chat, and to know how safe I am
how you despise your boyfriends because you’ve discovered
The one whose soul is one with yours.
How proud I am to be by your side!
How jealous many felt when we walk together
Then the rumours of me having your carnal knowledge resonates into my ears,
I was happy because I am being talked about
How we discovered the hidden treasure on the tree
Where we sat and read the love in our soul
How your unmade hair, brings the glowing beauty in you
I was tempted to touched them and caress them with my hands
To feel the scents of the almonds you sprayed on them
I was tempted to kiss your glowing lips which invites me
As the rain falls, I heard the silent whisper of your soul
Where those raven pays us visit on that silent day
I know it was real love that burns inside us
This trance makes me believe we speak and understands
The language of the soul which is love, dear lover
(c) Martin Ijir 2018

Justice For Ochanya


Please tell them a beast is loosed
its swinging door needs to be lock up
onto the footsteps of its devouring
tactics, its blood flows in their family,
Less they keep devouring others.
Justice for Ochanya is all I need
Let her rape soul gets ripe justice,
in a world where the cup of pains
torn our desire for evilness, Ochanya
needs this, as a deterrence to end
plight of girlhood, if justice isn’t granted
we’re also raped, we will barricade the system
of injustice till those beast are lockup also.
(c) 2018 Martin Ijir