tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4636468815027494572024-03-13T11:53:06.198-07:00WRITE TRACKLiterature is not things but a way to comprehend things.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
To write is to express what lies in the deepest parts of our hearts.
And these are what we wish to share.Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-78240646526579722122013-05-28T03:39:00.001-07:002013-05-28T03:39:34.459-07:00SYNERGY by; Hannah Amma Konadu Anarfi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This pain</div>
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That brought me to this land</div>
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Cannot leave.</div>
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When it does,</div>
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I might die</div>
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When it disappears,</div>
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I won’t have you too</div>
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Sweet words</div>
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Ejaculated from the secret</div>
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Orifices of my brain</div>
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I might lose these</div>
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Turgid words</div>
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In constant, heated foreplay</div>
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With my heart</div>
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Now these tears</div>
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That wash</div>
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My soul out</div>
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And soak up</div>
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The night</div>
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With its overflow</div>
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Will dry up</div>
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When this pain leaves</div>
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I will die</div>
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Is it madness</div>
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That haunts me</div>
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And pushes me deep</div>
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Into the dark abyss</div>
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Of bitter memories</div>
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Each night?</div>
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Is it the hunger</div>
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To have you with me</div>
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That draws me</div>
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Into blazing fire - </div>
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To the edge</div>
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Of hell?</div>
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I cannot</div>
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Stand to lose</div>
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What feeds</div>
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My fingers</div>
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When she leaves</div>
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Oh when this pain</div>
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Packs up</div>
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And leaves…</div>
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I will surely die.</div>
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Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-36428223840288379372012-09-27T23:21:00.000-07:002013-04-09T07:42:26.869-07:00BEASTS. By: Hannah Amma Konadu Anarfi<br />
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Once upon a time,</div>
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The rhythm of our delicately merged hearts</div>
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Beating… skipping… racing…</div>
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When for the first time our eyes met</div>
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Was the music we knew</div>
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The only tune we could dance to.</div>
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Once upon a time,</div>
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We were both human.</div>
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But now these hands of mine,</div>
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Once innocent and fragile,</div>
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Are trembling.</div>
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This tired head now holds too much evil</div>
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Too heavy for my heart to bear</div>
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So it fell out as I journeyed here, heartless!</div>
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My tears have frozen midway down my cheeks.</div>
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For the melody in your heart has turned discordant</div>
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To you, I’ve become a lowly servant</div>
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And my mind with deep loathing, leaks.</div>
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You have made pain a constant companion</div>
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In this damned body of mine</div>
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The desire to spill blood</div>
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Your blood</div>
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Is like large flesh-eating termites</div>
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Crawling up my every opening</div>
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Feasting greedily on my insides</div>
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Dear Lord!</div>
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What is happenning?</div>
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Must I stay like this forever</div>
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Dining with the very image of my fears?</div>
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Must I, remain flat-faced on the floor</div>
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Prostrate before the beast you have now become?</div>
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No!</div>
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A year of hapiness with you</div>
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Was all I had.</div>
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Then you took as a mistress</div>
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That tall, elegantly shaped</div>
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Intoxicating green bottle!</div>
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Then you made me</div>
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Your whore</div>
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Your laundry basket</div>
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Your refuse bin.</div>
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You practiced your amateur boxing</div>
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On my belly;</div>
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Swollen with a son-</div>
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Our son.</div>
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Three in a row</div>
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You boxed out prematurely.</div>
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The last cost me my womb.</div>
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You sucked the human out of me!</div>
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And now…</div>
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Now</div>
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We are both beasts.</div>
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So let us waltz towards your grave, my beast.</div>
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All through our steps recalling</div>
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Those early nights you spent with me.</div>
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You once laughed with me</div>
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But now we have taken poison together</div>
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Bitter-sweet poison, together.</div>
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So let us go</div>
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Let’s go dance on your shiny marble grave.</div>
Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-12612517159416040672012-09-26T03:11:00.000-07:002013-04-09T08:33:53.045-07:00Ask Not; by FiendeBawa<h2>
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When hearts flow to meet you,</div>
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When emotions flare to illume you;</div>
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When the chambers pound and spew</div>
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Life into the carriers because they see you-</div>
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Whilst the fire burns in your direction,</div>
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When true desires for you are known;</div>
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Whilst you must have never thought of it</div>
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And you sense the the yearnings nigh-</div>
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My friend, do not ask, do not search</div>
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Do not yearn to know the fire's fuel.</div>
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Let those pass: for arguments scarcely start</div>
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If we demand credentials and let none by.</div>
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Do not love with reason-they might fail with time:</div>
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Beauty fades, money dwindles, fame sucks- what the loss will bring.</div>
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So do not search</div>
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and please, man, woman do not ask! </div>
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Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-32633541015258752772012-09-20T11:43:00.002-07:002013-04-09T08:31:39.358-07:00BEWARE OF THE TROJAN BY: FIIFI DE WORDSMITH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I saw a neptunian land on earth</div>
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Angels of doom welcomed his birth;</div>
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While gods up neptune mourn his death</div>
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He galloped across the length and breadth of the third ‘universe’</div>
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I saw in my vision</div>
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How the Trojan holds man captive in his own jurisdiction</div>
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And the thousands of men that have excused their minds</div>
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Oh poor mankind!</div>
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Beware of him that promises gold,</div>
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Of him that smiles outside but frowns inside;</div>
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He is the Trojan!</div>
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He made my night on ‘dreamland’ cold</div>
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And outstrip me of hopes of brighter tomorrow</div>
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With such heavy tide</div>
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This is what we need;</div>
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Rebirth!</div>
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Yes, in the land of our thoughts</div>
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Whatever it takes and costs</div>
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For we are products of our thoughts</div>
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Now,</div>
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his identity lay naked before me</div>
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I have been liberated and so must my friends</div>
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My advice?</div>
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Think positive…..</div>
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And be careful who you tell your dreams!</div>
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◕Fiifi de wordsmith™</div>
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Samuel Abaidoo © 2012</div>
Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-65413042541178358752012-09-17T13:17:00.000-07:002013-04-09T08:47:15.810-07:00BEHIND THE SMILE BY; DORCAS TIWAA ADDAI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Like the giddy sensation a sunny day blossom on our souls,</div>
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Lightening across the face</div>
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Form an eternal footprint in our memory,</div>
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Even a stranger's own creates a welcoming scenery</div>
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As mortals we be, nature never granted us the wish to foretell,</div>
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To foretell what actually lies behind the glistering teeth</div>
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The bowels of the earth mothers mysterious offspring</div>
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Oh yes, the showcase of our bony structure is no different</div>
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Watch brethren! Least you fall </div>
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As cunningly as a serpent may wriggle</div>
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A smile may be a facade that shadows the real being!</div>
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Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-47160947894209652892012-09-12T07:46:00.000-07:002013-05-22T07:40:43.926-07:00HALF TRUTHS By: King Bright<div style="text-align: center;">
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The baker's bread reveal buried light,</div>
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Whose rays reflect in the hearts of the blind.</div>
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With their hearts they see clearly at night:</div>
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These half-baked truths enshrined in your own mind.</div>
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In haste, guardians dropout their promise</div>
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To shower gifts on the innocent child,</div>
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Yet on their return, shut off the bliss</div>
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And implant lies in the womb of the child.</div>
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Then the Minister woos us to Christ,</div>
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With playbacks of quotes of endless Freedom:</div>
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And into the bountiful arms of Christ,</div>
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We come to hear of joy in different form.</div>
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The seeds of half truths indeed germinate,</div>
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But verbal dysentery, its precious fruit,</div>
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Shall ruin my begotten restless State.</div>
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And like half baked bread, shall our stomach loot!</div>
Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-91888260050716221992012-09-10T03:34:00.000-07:002013-05-22T07:38:53.997-07:00Writing Frenzy (group project)<div style="text-align: center;">
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How possibly </div>
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Can the Prince of Peace </div>
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Calm all the storms and tempests </div>
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In this dispensation down?</div>
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How, </div>
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We ask, </div>
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Can this bitter root </div>
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Of eternal lies </div>
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Be uprooted from our backyards?</div>
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How long </div>
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Must we drink </div>
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From the pot of ignorance </div>
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While dark clouds form </div>
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Above our humble abode?</div>
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How long </div>
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Shall the thirsty palm wine tapper </div>
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Be denied a drink </div>
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From his own calabash?</div>
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The coal pot </div>
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Now fears its own ash</div>
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At night, </div>
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I feel the might of a clear mood </div>
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Coming from a shattered sight</div>
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The promise </div>
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Of storm-less skies </div>
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Calls me ever on </div>
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Toward the horizon</div>
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Where my hopes are shattered, </div>
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The future made bleak </div>
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And my bio-root threatened</div>
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My search is nearing a sad end</div>
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My dreams spiral down into a dark ravine</div>
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These dreams </div>
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Leave me eating my fufu with fire</div>
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The far-off sight </div>
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Of the stilled <em>adukuro mu nsuo</em> </div>
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Leaves my throat calling for help</div>
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A call to the ancestors </div>
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Who masticate serenity </div>
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In their shrine </div>
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We Call</div>
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We Cry</div>
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We Plead</div>
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Give us reason</div>
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Give us... </div>
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Peace</div>
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Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-22723175386209154852012-09-04T07:51:00.001-07:002013-05-22T07:46:52.374-07:00MY LIFE (2011) ADU .E. K. POKU<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How I long to see your face today</div>
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But all I see </div>
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Are your feet </div>
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Lingering </div>
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In my weak memory</div>
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I mourn you today, </div>
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My life</div>
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Here I lie in dismay</div>
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Because thy wise mistress says</div>
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Gold and silver I cherish</div>
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Not the ink of a fool on paper</div>
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How sweet it looked</div>
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Seeing my first fruit</div>
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My companionship </div>
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With your mistress produced,</div>
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All I have today </div>
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Is a seed of this fruit</div>
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Forgive me </div>
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My life,</div>
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For your name </div>
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I remember not,</div>
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Forgive me </div>
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For I call you my life,</div>
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For my work’s sake</div>
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Oh how gay I am </div>
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At the sight of your feet</div>
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My life</div>
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For thy body’s photo </div>
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Is nowhere to be found</div>
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The photographer remembers not</div>
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I mourn you </div>
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My life</div>
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But I mourn your mistress not.</div>
Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-77953773309511067252012-08-30T05:21:00.000-07:002013-05-28T04:05:34.460-07:00THE THOUGHTS IN MY HEART by; DOUGLAS BOATENG <u><b> </b></u><br />
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I fought my thoughts out</div>
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The scenes I perceive</div>
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Thrashes out my zone of comfort</div>
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I lay out my thought to my captor</div>
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My captor is my defensive weapon</div>
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She unravels my true inner being</div>
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Each night and day, I sought out</div>
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My sentiments to outdoor what</div>
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My heart has caught</div>
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But to all my hopes I lost</div>
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My heart has bought a stricken old coat</div>
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And each time i wear it, the looks and sighs</div>
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Of the lost generation I feel</div>
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I am one wild walrus in the sea</div>
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Searching for survival </div>
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But</div>
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I have been kept in shackles</div>
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Shackles that wear off my skin </div>
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When I struggle</div>
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I am one fearless, candid eagle in the air</div>
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How difficult is it to question my veracity</div>
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For the gospel is my priority </div>
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But</div>
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these shackles shuts my thoughts to a naught</div>
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My fate is at stake </div>
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On a highway</div>
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But the way to exit tells me </div>
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One day,</div>
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I will say out my thoughts </div>
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In my heart</div>
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To my appraisal </div>
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Bosom of affection</div>
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This is my time of perfection </div>
Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-61791523061211207862012-08-28T01:39:00.003-07:002013-05-23T09:14:30.410-07:00SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER by; Fiende Bawa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kate a barmaid turned to conquer</div>
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And Marlow was by accident wooed.</div>
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In this instance I see that her stoop lays bare</div>
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What he would not search.</div>
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And now, he was as new as grass in rain days;</div>
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Never being mauled or blemished,</div>
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And there she stood with an appealing look;</div>
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Awakening his emotions, overthrowing his reasoning.</div>
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He never could resist the urge to enter,</div>
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And she took the rope, untied,</div>
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She stooped exposing the<i> iron gate</i></div>
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..........and he once entered was forever vanquished!</div>
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<br />Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-29008189811179420782012-08-24T17:05:00.001-07:002013-05-28T04:09:07.280-07:00LETTERS IN JULY by; Awurama Adu-Gyamfi Betty<div align="center">
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summer 2012,<br /><br />from a lonely journey to a lonely soul across the world,<br />These days between spring and autumn are not yet numbered,<br />The days are yet to come and every passing moment feels like eternity.<br />Heaven has provided warmth<br />And loneliness, chilly nights<br />The mirage of you keeps running and breathless<br />On those memorable days I laid my pillow<br />Touching you now in my mind;<br />You are looking and smiling,<br />We are giggling and teasing,<br />You are saying the words in the song,<br />I am saying the words in the poem.<br />But these are just phantoms and shadows,<br />And more like mannequins which look like me and you.<br />These days have more stringent rules<br />and so the distance will be kept for now <br />and the letters will be read later<br />The beaches are wonderful,<br />The sun is beautiful,<br />The people are in love<br />the only thing out of sight is you,<br />But after summer we will be together.<br /> for all the days.</div>
Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-90506765132829868512012-08-18T05:09:00.000-07:002013-05-22T07:30:55.096-07:00DONT WORRY. by; Kofi Amankwah Asihene<div style="text-align: center;">
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You hear the clings and clangs <br />Of the shackles </div>
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Of the brave African warriors, </div>
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As they are being led </div>
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Into European dungeons.</div>
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You see the whips </div>
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Of the slave master, </div>
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Tearing off the black flesh </div>
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Of your black brother.<br />And you hear him screaming </div>
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And cursing </div>
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In his native tongue.<br /><br /><br />But don’t worry, </div>
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Be happy. <br />Because you are not the one in shackles; </div>
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And your flesh is not the one interacting with the whips<br /><br /><br />You hear the crazy chants </div>
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Of the Ku Klux Klan </div>
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As they hunt down </div>
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The men and women </div>
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Who have the devil’s complexion<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br />And you hear the screams </div>
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And shrieks </div>
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And shrills </div>
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Of the black woman </div>
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As she is being raped; </div>
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Not raped to be set free, </div>
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But raped to be murdered afterwards.<br /><br />You hear the silent sobs </div>
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Of the little black boy </div>
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As he watches his sister, </div>
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His mother, </div>
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His grandmother </div>
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Being RAPED by men </div>
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Who have the angel’s complexion.<br /><br />You hear Martin Luther King </div>
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Shouting at the top of his voice, </div>
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“I have a dream!”<br />And that phrase </div>
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Echoes </div>
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And echoes </div>
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And echoes </div>
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And echoes in your head </div>
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Till you can bare it no more.<br /><br />But don’t worry, </div>
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Be happy.<br />Because you are not the one being raped; </div>
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And you are not the witness of any racial rape.<br /><br />You hear the rattling </div>
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Of the machine guns </div>
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In the Hutu-Tutsi land<br />And you hear the swish swash </div>
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Of the Hutu machete </div>
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As it slashes and chops off </div>
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The heads of the Tutsi family.<br /><br />You see their heads rolling </div>
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In the bright blue sky; </div>
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Acrobatics.<br />You see their heads spitting out blood and brains.<br />And you smell the stinky </div>
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Rotting </div>
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Bodies, </div>
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Piled up </div>
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As high </div>
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As Kilimanjaro; </div>
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Black dead bodies </div>
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Dead black bodies, </div>
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Left to rot.<br /><br />You hear the cracks </div>
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Of the bones </div>
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Of the black man </div>
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As the apartheid dog </div>
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Sinks its white teeth </div>
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Into the black bones </div>
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Of the black barbarian.<br /><br />You hear him scream </div>
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In pain </div>
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As he is being masticated alive.<br /><br />But don’t worry, </div>
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Be happy.<br />Because you are not the one being beheaded; </div>
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You are not the one being chewed alive. </div>
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You hear the rattling </div>
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Of the machine guns </div>
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In the northern deserts.<br /><br />And you hear the shouts </div>
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Of the rebel leader, </div>
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“Allahu Akbar!” </div>
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As he pushes the final bullet </div>
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Into the body of the great oak tree; </div>
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The final bullet </div>
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That will silence the great oak </div>
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Forever.<br /><br />You watch </div>
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As the stubborn occupant </div>
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Of the white throne of tusks </div>
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Is elevated; </div>
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Not elevated to a higher ground, </div>
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But elevated </div>
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From his throne </div>
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Into the dungeon.<br /><br />You hear gunshots </div>
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Between the Bible </div>
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And the Quran.<br />You see bombs </div>
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Being hurled </div>
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At the churches </div>
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From Bokko Haram.<br /><br />But don’t worry, </div>
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Be happy. </div>
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Because very soon </div>
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It will be your turn.</div>
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So don’t worry, </div>
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Be happy. </div>
Creative Writer's Club (CWC), University of Ghana, Legon.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13147908148408776001noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463646881502749457.post-18632735057331872302012-08-18T04:34:00.001-07:002013-05-28T04:09:27.212-07:00IF I EVER LOVED. by; Bright Owusu<div style="text-align: center;">
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If I ever loved,</div>
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I would dare pluck heaven's glory for you</div>
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I would inflict your being with pains of success</div>
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But when night is bereft of the moon's splendor,</div>
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And the clergy of their clerical suit,</div>
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Realities entangle imaginations in the web of wishes</div>
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If I ever loved,</div>
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I would dare pluck Cupid's wings for you</div>
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I would drain and instil in your veins bouquet of trust</div>
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But when oceans are robbed of sand dunes,</div>
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And gardens of rosebuds,</div>
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Desire locks choices behind the bars of free-will</div>
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If I ever loved,</div>
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I would dare with Lucifer's voice sing</div>
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I would scrub and infuse in your mind thoughts of assurance</div>
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But when dawn is axed of tears,</div>
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And flowers in June of bloom,</div>
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Yearnings sink abilities in the stream of forgetfulness.</div>
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