The Poetics of Love
1 Likes, 0 Comments - V. Chukwunonso Onwuaduegbo (@vconwuaduegbo) on Instagram: "la poésie de l'amour"
This is my first post that is audio heavy. I am going to start playing with sound more, especially as a linguaphile, sound is a major component of language, but it isn’t the only one.
This is voicemail from my mom. My phone was on the fritz and I missed her call, so she obviously felt the need to leave a note explaining that I missed her call and she loved me.
It is funny because I have had voicemails where my mom cusses me out and I delete them immediately and then there is this. The two sides of her are night and day. One is incredibly affectionate and the other is vicious.
I am starting to realized that even though a feign indifference, I am affected by those modes and I throughly appreciate the good times, so I am documenting it. So that when the night comes, I can remember that there was once day.
This also represents that way emotion crafts poetry, especially love. When we think about love and poetics, we think of the great poets and orators that have made themselves known on earth and we forget that even the exclamations of a mother to her son is poetry as well.
Daalụ. Nke a bụ Nonso ma anyị na-asụ bekee!