Tony Adah Poems

The door creaked on its rusty hinges
Flipped open and what I saw
A frightening effigy of my mother long gone
And alone in a lonely night
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I am tired with rumours
The bricks with which the world is made
I will go to watch the silent sea
Move forth and back
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A little bird perches on a twig
Where a flower blossoms with whorls
Of red and purple petals
A long tongue drained the whorl
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On what grounds should Akpalo be acquitted
With his mighty boots trampling on
Ants, grasses and humans
He is larger than life and his backbone
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Every head bowed and every hand
Covered the head
As if an invading swarm of bees
Was flying above
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The rain splattered outside
Singing a song of the season
Huge cluster of clouds make the sky to frown
With a rumble and a flash of lightning
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When I look into her eyes
A magnetic flux pull my legs
When I moved I didn't know
If I should miss this love
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The frail little girl laid down
On a straw mat panting with little
Or no energy
Her rib cage rising and falling
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A goat stood by the roadside
Bleating with no credible sympathy tears
In the eyes of men
He bleated and he cried
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They gave us fish and enough of it
We didn't know where the fish came from,
Where it lived
Up or down
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