This first attempt at poetry was inspired by a workmate who coined the phrase "high scream".
Here it goes....
There was a high scream
Arousing concern from the team
They thought perhaps I had been bitten by a Ghanaian chacu
or was practising some Malaysian juju
To their relief it was neither
It was just a lamp from the ceiling
dangling like a feather
Doing 'La-pour' in the City of Accra
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When I was a curious, capering child street-sauntering at Achimota School,
there was an obliging, octogenarian gardener with no known name. People
called h...
8 years ago
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