What is Poverty?

poetry Is there anything like poverty?
is it POVERTY when a man is healthy
but not wealthy?
Is it POVERTY when a man is wealthy
but not healthy?
Is it POVERTY when a man is a rich-illiterate
but a poor-literate?
Is it POVERTY when a man has many children
but there is no money to take care of them?
Is it POVERTY when a man is rich
but has no child?
What you call POVERTY might be RICHES
to the other man.
Are there not out there financially
rich barren women
who are craving for children?
Are there not out there
financially muscled people
who do not have peace?
Are there not out there people
who are handicapped
but have handwork?
What seems as POVERTY to you
might be RICHES to the other man.
Is the success of man
determined by how successful
he is financially?
In life, man lags one thing or another
no matter how highly placed.
So, there is no RICH man, no POOR man.
What abound are gluttonous-insatiable persons
or you call them, kleptomaniacs.

Odimegwu Onwumere
is a Poet/Author, Founder of Poet Against Child Abuse (PACA), Rivers State, Nigeria. Mobile: +2348032552855. Email: apoet_25@yahoo.com 　

A Multicultural Night Welcomes 2010

By Hakeem Babalola


It was a night that carefully sent the message across: that our world depends on the survival of multicultural society. It was a night that reminds us about tolerance, a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior. 

The organizer of the Multicultural Festival probably puts it better as he welcomed guests at the Old Venicia Restaurant situated at Jozéf Korut 85 in downtown Budapest on New Year’s Eve.

 "I feel happy," Deen says with a quiet, cordial and generous laugh. "Because this is a tolerance program designed to bring different people together. I have been doing it for a long time. Bringing two, three cultures together! There's no better way for integration".

The Mahatma Gandhi Human Rights Movement founder is right on the spot with his remarks as refugees, children, the young, men and women, business executives, footballers, singers, lawyer, blacks, whites, Asians mix well and enjoyed themselves. 

Alice B, from Kenya who is married to Hungarian was delighted and described the gathering as wonderful. "This multicultural thing is the best," she declares, adding that she would soon deliver a bi-racial baby.

Zara who says she's a refugee from Liberia could not hide her joy as she was eager to mingle with the other guests.

Margit Piroska believes that the excitement that usually comes with a multicultural gathering is unsurpassed. 

Mbaye Ndiaye, Afro Magic Band leader and who also entertained guests simply says, "I'm here to offer my own contribution to the multicultural awareness which is the language of communication".


CUBARITMOgroup and the Afro Magic Band entertained the guests after which Mr. DJs did their things






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