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Kwesi Brew: Ancestral Voices | djwenmo
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Kwesi Brew: Ancestral Voices. They sneaked into the limbo of time. But could not muffle the gay jingling. Brass bells on the frothy necks. Of the sacrificial sheep that limped and nodded after them;. They could not hide the moss on the bald pate. Of their reverent heads;. And the gnarled backs of the wawa tree;. Nor the rust on the ancient state-swords;. Nor the skulls studded with grinning cowries;. They could not silence the drums,. The fibre of their souls and ours –. Between puffs of pale blue smoke:.
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Ellis Ayitey Komey: Oblivion | djwenmo
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Ellis Ayitey Komey: Oblivion. I want to remember the fallen palm. With whitening fluid of wine. Dripping from its hardened belly. In this forest of life. I want to remember it from the road. With mud on my feet,. From the branches by the water. I want to remember them well. The sight of the green-eyed forest. The jubilant voices of the frogs. And the pleading crises of the owls. I want to walk among the palms. With their razor-edged leaves. Shadowing the yam and cassava shrubs. I want to remember them all.
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on and on | djwenmo
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February 14, 2007. Posted by Nii Ayikwei Parkes in Poems. I’m very pleased with myself because I’m managing to pick up some poems by now-obscure Ghanaian writers to share. I love ‘The Serving Girl’. By Acquah Laluah, which is in. Rite poem by my Uncle Frank (Francis Ernest Kobina Parkes), ‘African Heaven’, which also appears in the. This is, after all, Ghana’s 50th anniversary year so I might as well get busy with it. My other blog. No comments yet — be the first. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are...
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Atukwei Okai: Kperterkple Serenade (excerpt) | djwenmo
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Atukwei Okai: Kperterkple Serenade (excerpt). Make room in your inn for me. When karl marx grabbed his bibliography. And ballpen and pocketed his toothbrush. And his shaving stick. He went and bought a ticket to london. When ghandi girded his loin cloth, it. Was london he had in mind. When lenin fled his beloved motherland. His final haven-crashpad was london. Your address book too has memories that yield. Of von braun and charles dickens and. Marcus garvey and amerigo vespucci and. Of the red indians.
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While Digging | Noise Reduction
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Can you hear me now? October 8, 2013. At the playground with Two, who’s now three! 8220;This shovel is old,” she said. “We should throw it away.”. 8220;Nooooo,” I said. “Don’t throw it away. I’m old – give it to me.”. 8220;Ok. But are you broken? Because it’s broken, too.”. December 5, 2013 at 09:55. Not broken. “busted” lol🙂 by a three year old. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). What I’m Reading.
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This Really Got To Me | Noise Reduction
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Can you hear me now? This Really Got To Me. In In the news. March 22, 2011. On Saturday, I actually had a moment to read the paper. It was breakfast time and I was sitting at the table with the Hobbit and Two. The paper was the San Francisco Chronicle. And when I opened it I found the following picture and list of programs that were cut in the just-passed California budget. Damn, I thought as I took it in. First there was the picture – all those faces! Programs that were cut in state budget. An increase ...
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emceekate | Noise Reduction
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Can you hear me now? A writer living in San Francisco. Graduate of Columbia University (BA) and Birkbeck College, University of London (MFA). February 3, 2015. My 2014 ended with a bang, the reverberations of which I am still feeling. No need to go into detail, but it’s been a hard time. And when hard times hit, I tend to lose interest in speaking. Sound advice. And so beautifully put. It made me want to be lost in a strange land. It made me wonder where the river is in my own situation. ...8220;This sho...
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