RE: Hive-Naija Weekend Engagement #66 - “RHYMES”

A wonderful initiative and I'm just joining the party.....well better late than never😁

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Make una give me chance becos I haff com oooo.

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Nursery rhymes were taught to me in song form when I was in nursery school. To make sure it stuck with us, our teachers back then would make us recite every morning before any class activity would commence. At a point in our lives, we could not do without them.

My favourite nursery rhyme back in the day was "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall".

I liked this rhyme because of the demonstrations that accompanied it. Once we start singing, our teachers would demonstrate and we (the pupils) would copy them. It was always fun reciting those nursery rhymes.

Here goes my rhyme...

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the king's horses and all the king's men,
Could not put Humpty Dumpty together again".

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At that time, I thought the nursery rhyme was about a real person who was perhaps careless and lost his life but as I grew older, I began to read in between the lines and that was when it clicked to me that the nursery rhyme was about trust. Once trust is broken, it is difficult to regain its original form (*I'm a smarty pants right? .....I know 😎)

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If there's a rhyme that I feel most people don't know, then that would a rhyme taught to me by my dad as a child and it was sang in my father tongue. *Oya ibibio people, come and Mark register here o😁.

The rhyme goes thus...

*"Cassava....iwang,
Banana.......mbodo,
Udodia.....plantain
Waterleaf....mmong mong nkong,
Sugar cane.......mboko.

Abeg clap for me, e no easy o👏👏👏

Even though I'm not so fluent in that dialect but I still remember that rhyme a lot. *Maybe it is because it has connections to food 😂😂.

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I won't eat this dinner served by @nkemakonam alone. I invite @patienceakoan, @faithwellington, @luchyl, @rukkie and @elizzy to come and join the party 💃💃💃💃

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Happy weekend to you all...cheers🥂