Ebenezer Ampadu Poems

Your smile wakes the sun
The moon glides past and salutes
Beauty which shakes men like earthquakes
Beauty unsurpassed
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Blood-thirsty dragons in dark caves yawn
Awake at midnight to hunt the sun
Ashes spew as they fly
To bury men in sugar caskets
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Oh, Daylight, why do you look so sad?
A titan riding his fierce horse, Dark Nebula, and morning lost 
Cloaks as night and eyes as fire
Oh, Daylight, death has just passed you by!
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My love for you overturns like a typhoon
My love for you arrives like an avalanche
My love for you glows red like a hot rod straight from the blacksmith's forge
Ethereal love
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What done you to majestic Time, oh hideous creature
That he quivers and flees from you?
Have you put him in shackles as a prisoner?
Or quietly wiped him off the face of the earth as tomato sauce spilled upon your kitchen table?
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You, suddenly, appear in the midst of men, like an angel sent straight from God
Clothed with the heavens
And held aloft by two angels, friends of God
Your glimmer is like the sun at midday in the middle of summer
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My mother's sister
Wealthy
Full of life
Great beauty
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Look:
At the refreshing and bubbling waters of the Niagara
The white garments of Mount Everest
The well-built arms of the beckoning oak tree, dancing to the flute of the cool breeze
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Love like madness
That is what I feel for you
I predict someone swoons over you
But I love you more, like a goddess
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From the corner of my eye, I see you scorning me

I said nothing, aunty
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