Supercourse Ode by Francis Ohanyido
Francis Ohanyido,
Nigeria
An Ode:
An Ode to
BA SuperDesk
Awakening
The Empiricist’s Song gone West
The Sphinx, a silent shadow of the East
The Pyramid , a patient witness
Awakening
From the Obelisk of Knowledge
The Great Ankh, we took
And Euclid’s secrets, laid bare
Piercing Apathy’s Heart
Banishing Fear’s torment
In the brightness of Ra
Looking into the Nile
A memory of research
Now desert of publications
Awakening
We looked forlornly
From Lagos to Karachi
…And beyond
A story of dearth
And death of the researcher
An elegy to another age
Awakening
Does one not ask?
Why have we faltered?
Why have we declined?
And Ron answered “stataphobia”
Holding a scroll of hope
For stataphobia is a deadly curse
Anathema to better research
Awakening
We invoked the Muse
Herald of ancient calls
From the hallowed Halls
Echoing off the walls
In labyrinthine chants
From the City of Alexander
And knowledge rose
From its trove
Rising
In the Epidemiological Grail
In the Cauldron of Supercourse
Served in the New Age Chalice
By many a thousand Wiseman
In ‘empiricician cascade’
Of Sage and Acolyte
Returning statistics
From the verge
Wikified...
Simplified...
A Synergy
Of minds and methods
Rising
BA SuperDesk
A bane to stataphobia is born
In the dawn of a New Spring
Do you have a question for these Wisemen?
By Francis Ohanyido 2013
A short poem "The Grid":
I feel
The connection
When we meet
Connected for life in methods
Before
the smiling Imhotep, Charaka, Lazarsfeld, Cauchy …
Many more connected, many more faces alit
Smiling down the Hallways of Thoth
A quest for the light
Long shining in our thoughts.
We are here
Bound by research
Evolving The Grid
Lacing these web-o- minds
Birthing ideas and innovation
Forging the Ankh of Wisdom
In the Great Library of Alexandria
Where the walls know limitless scrolls
And knowledge walks the Hall.
We are here
Wed in communion of research
Into communities of interest
A stimulus for cross-disciplinary enquiry
In tremulous dawn before the awakening
Into the fellowship of The Grid.
We are here, it is here
Power- up The Grid!
By Francis Ohanyido, February, 2016
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