Tony Adah Poems

No one knew the colour of Adam
Or that of his wife, Eve
Twosome forerunners of the world
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We swotted at night
Read the pages of our books
With the dim blaze of candlelight
To find our feet on this part of the earth
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My eyes overflow with tears
And I am weeping bitterly
Night and day
Not that I have lost a dear one
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That day all their grips
Will loosen
And that which they claim
The world will take
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I do not know what is new
About the year
The trees remain dusty
And yellow like the setting sun
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The winter breeze blew
And the cold air threw its stream
Of chilled mist upon our shoulders
And rang in our ears
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The cat is sitting
On a mat
Suddenly it senses
Some movemeant and
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A soldier's morale was killed
Just like his enemy by the dearth of munitions and food
His mettle had gone
The only motivation left in the war stricken soldier
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The shadow of the wind
Passed by the empty plastic bottle
Lonely as it stood on a short wall
It fell down noisily in the quietude
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I am walking up the road
And seeing all the variegated bushes
With dews cooling my feet
I am in love with its colours
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