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Wheta, Gold Coast / Ghana

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On this dirty patch
a tree once stood
shedding incense on the infant corn;
its boughs stretched across a heaven
brightened by the last fires of a tribe.
They sent surveyors and builders
who cut that tree
planting in its place
a huge senseless cathedral of doom.

Kofi Awoonor

Monday, October 16, 2017

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Enyonam 16 July 2022

The poem is a beauty 😍

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Naaaa 08 July 2021

I WHAT THE MEANING

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Moonlight 16 July 2022

It's a prophecy about the cathedral Nana Addo is building. Lol

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APPIAH 26 June 2021

I want the Themes of this poem

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Kofi 05 June 2021

I want the literary devices in the peom

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Kofi 05 June 2021

I want the literary devices in the peom

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