Proverb #151

“Ụkpara anya gwugwugwu, n'afọ nnụnụ kpawom!” 

- ilu Oriakụ, Phoebe Isiodu (Nee Nwachukwu), Onye Ngwa alụ na Mbieri (Mama m).


The grasshopper with flared pupils and a glint
in the eye and a 'don't care attitude' ends up
a bird's meal ...

Not for the faint hearted. A person that is often warned without taking heed is suddenly destroyed.

Compare this quote from Proverbs 29:1
'He that being often reproued, hardeneth his
necke, shal (sic), suddenly be destroied, and
that without remedy.'
[As I am told it appears in KJV16]

So then, those eternal Jews knew it and those eternal Igbos knew it.
But who said it first? Arrgggh!

Kpawom ! is supposed to be the sound a grasshopper makes as it passes the bird's gullet.

How mum ever made that recording? I would never know :-)

[On Her Behalf]Contributed By Kelechi Isiodu
[Variants Posted By]
Uzoma Nwaekpe, Isi ala Ngwa: Ukpara anya gwugwugwu, o ji ezuike la akpa afo ukwu nnunnu.

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Proverb #107

One of Tim Lyon's Birds: See also Proverb #7.

"Nnụnụ isi akaghi aka anaghi aga ahia otụrụkpọkpọ."

Weak-skulled birds don't flock with woodpeckers.



I read a story once about a goat that wanted so badly to be a lion. All sorts of contraptions and devices were invented and imagined for this goat, but nothing worked.

Eventually someone suggested the goat leave the herd and go dwell with a pride of lions. This leaves nothing to the imagination. No prizes either for what might have happened to the goat.

Our proverb calls to mind the Igbos' homage to the idea of everyone being properly acquainted with their own talents and skills. You don't call the palm wine-tapper to do the work of the flutist. And I guess if you aren't a woodpecker ... then you aren't a woodpecker.

It's funny where reading takes you - from the pages of  Awake - the watchtower magazine - to catch up on facts about the Gforce skull of a Wood Pecker - click - style or design?

Contributed By Bob Ojii, Umuahia, Abia State.

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