Tony Adah Poems

A cow won't value it tail
Until it is severed
And flies will besiege and taunt it.
It will begin to blink its eyes
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The wind blows
And blows the cover
Of everything off
When it blows over rumours
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A friend in power
Is a friend lost
A friend in money
Is a friend with wings
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On the way to the village spring
Was an overgrown forest
Nobody had touched in my
Grandfather's life time.
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My mother pounded foo-foo for me
Away I was in school
And kept it to warm
By the hearth
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Again and again
The prisoner went
And came out of prison
He solved a lot of problems
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A forgotten boy
Sat cheeks buried
In the cups of his hands
Worried that he and he alone
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Hunger breads anger
If you're a parent
Provide
If you're a brpther
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Winter is here
And our house is snowbound
We either skate outside
Or we remain indoors chattering our teeth
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The recession shrivelled us
Like a riped tobacco leaf
It came cold and dry with the winter
And our tantalizing extragance
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