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AGING

MANDELA MINI ARTS FESTIVAL AT DUBOIS

Drama can be really fun and the same can be with poetry when they are experienced separately but have you imagined what the blend of drama and poetry could spark up? The enactment of poems supported by good music produced from instruments like the keyboard, flute, and acoustic is what a group of young artists […]

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AGING

MY BIRTHDAY

I am traveling I know I have traveled I am traveling To an unknown destination But I know this step today Takes me nearer II I have seen hurdles I have seen pain I have seen lions Like a hunter,  I have battled their wounds on my skin I have housed scars which never fail […]

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AGING HEALTH LIFE

I May Be Gone

I wore no clothes But came to be worn by air Every visiting day asked me to shed And wear thoughts of the older And these thoughts keep getting colder Mamaa! I only need a smooth sail Why must I wear a whipping tail? Papaa! Like one you knew existed, Couldn’t you have kept me […]

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AGING LIFE LOVE

SWANS WITH A HEART

I Arm in arm Let’s move like we swam In the rivers of beautiful but challenging Cupid Ignoring many comments like “They are stupid, Leave them be, Later they’ll see, That feeling is foolishness” II Arm in arm Let’s move like swans And step into old age’s jacuzzi Swimming as we smile and look back […]

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AGING DEATH LIFE

MERE MORTALS

We In  the arms of armoured earth Protective of us Fight with race Fight with gender Fight with geography Fight with ethnicity And fight for what we can’t forever own II When we Crossing over into soil Take nothing but our beings Our skin being butchered by moth Our bones being powdered by age and […]

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AGING LIFE

FOREPLAY OF BEAUTY

I How pretty The budding smile Of the new born beautiful flower Which feels the air And sees the sun, Tastes the rain And hears the humming of thunder II Oh how beautiful It sways in youth As all do look Her way more than once Dazers gaze for long As it dances to show […]

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AGING

LIFE’S JAIL

He’s frail And death’s quail But deserves a hail For standing on three legs after a fail Of life’s success jail II None knows his fears None can count his tears None thinks of his years None knows how he all bears It seems none cares III He may have been treated fair Or not […]

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AGING LIFE

TO BE A CHILD AGAIN (AN EXCERPT)

I The child in me Peeps to see The adult I am And helps me see What I’m missing II I’d like to play around And make all the healthy sounds I’d like to throw tantrums And sit on the filthy ground… Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014

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AGING FREEDOM PEACE SOCIAL

TAKE ME TO INNOCENCE

                The peace and serenity That was with my completeness Fled into the arms of the savage Who squashed and swallowed it whole The moment my guard was down And the holder of my emotion took charge   Now I am in need Of that peace and innocence […]

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AGING DEATH LOVE PEACE

FUTURE FILTH

Future filth Stop the frown Straighten up And be around   Your time is now When you can ask how When your time stops There’ll be no sound   So future filth Don’t act like gold You will get old And can’t be sold   Your buyers will pay For you to be hidden from […]

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AGING DEATH LIFE

VANITY OF SOME SORT

In the light Of this fight We find the sight In an insight And lose our might   Like a kite We fascinate in light In God’s sight As our colour bright No matter our height   But  there is our night Which brings our plight And turns all things right On this site Into […]

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AGING LIFE MOTIVATION Uncategorized

STRENGTH FOR THE FALLEN LEAVES

The tree stands in glamour Attracting birds Attracting bees Attracting monkeys Attracting snakes Attracting eyes And singing hymns   None cares About the fallen leaves Which was high above And has served its time They step on them, hailing the new And ignoring their pain Although their work is not done   Like an unwanted […]

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AGING LIFE

IT MAKES ME ME

Amidst the pain And all the gain   Amidst the storms And the beautiful suns   Amidst the rough roads And the smooth ones   Amidst the love And all the hate   I’ll never change a thing Because each thing had its bearing on the me today Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014

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AGING LIFE

IN THE PRESENT

Associators are interested in the past Money makers are interested in the future So I used to look back; Back to a place I could not hold And into the future; Looking into what I could never see And ended up in the same place, Juggling between two poses Past and future As time placed […]

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AGING DEATH

THE OLD MAID

Walls climbed walls At her order Pride joined beauty at her table, Made her an unmatched princess And froze her thoughts of age   Inside a wall without an opening Age minded no frozen thoughts And walked through to his territory Taking hold of her skin like wild fire Making mirrors her enemies   As […]

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AGING Uncategorized

NOT A NUMBER BUT REALITY FOR ME

“When I call, I need you to fall”   What? Talking to me?   Like trees, we all have our thoughts Goats don’t know the difference Between their mothers and lovers If you ask me, I’ll tell you You’re no goat and I’m no mother of a goat Neither am I anything close to its […]

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AGING LIFE MOTIVATION

REVIVER

An ugly fixture  Can be a god A horrible mixture Can be a cure   In my worst I try my best To make me a god Once in a while   Then like a peacock I spring back to life, Stretch my wings And let the world see The me which slept. Dear friend, […]

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AGING SOCIAL

RADDLED

This leaf is raddled Saddled by the reigns of ageing Ageing which happily flaunts its job To the fascination of time And takes ridiculing as its compliment   This leaf is raddled Raddled though it is It has seen all shades of the sun; Mild, seductive, angry, angered, and frightening But none blinded it   […]