Imaobong Akan Poems

Education
Acquired through learning,
In an ink and page.
Giving wings to her devotees,
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An opportunity, free gift to mankind
The fame of positive creators of impact
An all encompassing phenomenon
weighed not by possession
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Does it embrace or disgrace?
Does it nearer bring us grace?
If it does accompany us disgrace;
Then we kill our world of race.
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It’s like a thick bush at first sight,
Hides beneath, unnoticed without height.
But when the inside is searched,
Then it is discovered, imperfect and sketched.
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Retained by stony hearts
Not earned by all but can be learned
To keep both feet and hand
Unshaken and knitted to the arts
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Time, the pregnant one
Friend to all, listening to none
Giving birth to all mortals’ desire
Be they fair or dire.
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Like a silent weapon,
Not heard by voice but action,
Though covered with the body;
It speaks faster than the body.
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