ANWENSEM

(To honour World Poetry Day)
As the day spells your mention
And the rays promise your distinction
I bow to the holy minds
Which brought you to bind
With passionate souls
To massage our tired soles
From weariness of spirit
Giving us breathing chits

II
You are in countless forms
Giving us ready picks
To mix and carve
As carvers cut, shape and build their art
You have all the sides
The good
The bad
The loving
The sad
The intriguing
The disgusting
Is there any unknown in your known?

III
You give chances of choices
For words to hoard voices
Voices channelled in riddles which fiddle
Wise minds to giggle
Or tickle sad souls to wriggle out of depression

IV
Our heads have lighted our eyes
And curved upright our mouths
Thanks to your gift of blending
Your existence and our insistence
On not resisting your assistance
And making you the fountain worth watching
And the gutters worth sympathising
Is worth aromatically-arousing-praise

V
Our eyes have been clouded and rained
Rivering into seas of memories
With their sharks, mermaids,  and all their inhibitors
Serving as the routes for our boats of aging
Bringing us to regrets and or gratefulness

VI
You are as old as age
As cool as fantasies
As protective as knights untouchable
You are the mortal remains of our immortality
Lover of the lonely!
Friend of beaten!
Warmth of the cold!
Cool breezes of the heated!
Punisher of evil!
Stooge of all good workers!
Light for the blind!
Rain for the thirsty!
Food for the hungry!
Although you can be abused in our confused state
You do all
Anwensem!
You deserve all
All our felicitations in your celebrations
P-O-E-T-R-Y
Poetry!!!
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 22nd March, 2017