Kris Atta Pappoe Poems

16
ILLUSION

We heard them shouting loudly,
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. COMMUTER’S CALL

(For Justine)
I sat three days by the banks of life
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10
MEA CULPA

Blank skies in unblinking red eyes,
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14. ADDIS ABABA FAREWELL

(For Kwesi Pratt and Tai Solarin)
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ANIMA KRISTI


It hurts,
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15. ZADOKELI

(For Gopi Menon & atta-Gyamfi Britwum)
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SOJOURNER


When the primal dust has settled
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. LANOR

Wipe the tears out of my eyes, Labor.
Wipe these salty tears away.
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. GABADA FOR CHRISTIANSBORG


Walking the plank of self ridicule.
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WHITEMAIL
Before we came to their dreams,
Hatched in the Cauldrons of Hate,
We did not know
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