GEORGE SAKYI - DJAN. and ADZOA SEFAKOR DOGBE.
THE UNEDUCATED
What have I done to deserve such a fate?
I've realised I've left it to be too late.
How come everything under the sun I do hate?
Life fights me as if nature is debate
Who am I if even I know not my birth's date?
Then all my ups and downs somebody should dictate.
When comes a day when I will oversleep and wake
not prior to but subsequent to eight.
In all my odessey; I've toiled for someone to take
just because ancient laugh it's unwealthy to educate.
He bleeds when with the hands of money I shake.
I humble tremble when with the suitman I face
what I'd experienced; I fear no human disgrace
throughout the sea of my days; I've won naught a race
when trouble visits, do I hide or embrace?
Is it the neglects of ancient or the modern race?
The world of my life is straightly crooked as if I did trace
but how in my dream's bank; I wish to give and take.
Are all these the evil side of being wisely illiterate?
Then nature is plightfully hypocrite.
I FOUND HIM.
I have finally found that somebody
Who puts a smile on my face
That someone who makes my heart soar.
That someone who touches something.

You are my fire.
I light up in your presence
When you touch me
I burn with an undying passion
I want your soft caresses
To last for ever.

I care so deeply
And I know you do too.
We're made for each other
And between us both
We'll make the feeling last forever.
Lartey Nefisa
MY MOTHER
Her heart is filled with love
It resembles a bright sunny day
Being loved and cherished is her reality
Living to see me grow is her fantasy
Her eyes show what she feels
They show that love and care are so real
Her smile she tries to fade
But she still smiles as he passes by
I wonder, will I ever find a sweeter mother
Dear Lord, will I ever find a lovelier mother
Will her caring ever come to an end
If so can someone please tell me when
So I can prepare for it
Mother is my brightest light
She's my hope and guard
The only one I truly love is
my mother, the one who spent my
restless night with me
Sometimes I wish she will never leave the earth
And wish O how I wish that she could be free
From all the sadness and pain she's come to know, see and feel
Yes this is her life
Yes this is my mother
LOVE

love is blind
love is strong and breathtaking
love never looks in the eyes of
one and says how ugly he is
but it drowns you within it
never for you to see it's banks
for you to be in love is a wonderful
blessing full of curses.

love descends the heart to capture the soul
as we move in this earthly pilgrimage
one must ride on the horse of love to run
the race of manhood
love is divine but it is never a bed of
blossoming red rose.
Akua Tuffour
REJOICE
Rejoice and shout with laughter
Throw all your burdens down
If God has been so gracious
As to make you black or brown
For you are a great nation
A people of great birth
For where would spring the flowers
If God took away the earth
Rejoice and love with laughter
Throw all your burdens down
If you are black or brown
A LITTLE CHILD
Little child, what ails thee
In a world so tiny
Why are thy sweet lips cross
Thy peachy eyes so dim
And why do bears now film
Thy lashes long
Ah, thou has soiled thy smock
Thy nice and pretty frock
And undone thy pearl button
What odds! I reason
Thy daddy does not mind
For he was once a child
And played in forests wild
Men will be boys, boys, men
Girls, mothers, mothers, girls
And life itself thus renews
Regina Dwomoh
BETWEEN YOU AND ME
Anticipation….
I didn't know
What it really meant,
Until we needed to be apart.
All because I couldn't hear you
Speaking until I checked the volume
Control of my conscience.
I store up things to tell you
Whenever I kneel and pray;
And wonder what you'll have
To share with me, but you've
Promised me that I should do my best
And you will add the rest.
In the drama of my life,
You were the director behind the scenes.
Many gave their lives for their country,
But you gave your life for me, because of my iniquities.
When you were hurting and you needed a helping hand,
I pointed an accusing finger at you; but still what was between you
And me was very strong.
Whenever I opened my Bible,
I asked you to open my heart,
That you may come in and stay.
You touched my heart and brought
A smile to my lips.
Your eye is on the sparrow yet,
I know you watch me.
When we're not together, you bring joy into my
Life, because of what is between you and me.
A WORLD OF LOVE CAN MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.
When I look at the world, there are times I see regression instead of progression. That tells me that it's time for a revolution. Not in what we believe or who we believe in, but in how we believe. What about we being united? What about religion being replaced with relationship? What about sharing a message of love? What about helping each other? What about love? What happened to that? I may not be the right person to answer all these questions, but all that I know is, when we unite, the lesson will be complete.

THAT DAY
Take a journey with me into the shadows of hell,
Where once great men all finally fell.
The sickening odor of flaming souls is what I smell,
Thus I come to you with a story I must tell,
For on that day the mighty shall fall,
Groping on their knees they all shall crawl
Why must the devil stand tall?
When Jesus Christ offered salvation to all.
He came amongst us in the form of man,
One living personification of God's master plan,
A sacrifice offered on a silver platter
Sent to win souls and cause the devil's plan to shatter.

NII AMU OTOO and
JUDE RICHARD ABBEY
The Land Of Eternal Life
As the days go by,
You reminisce on the things of yesterday,
Hoping and wishing you could go back,
To repair the mistakes of the past,
But I urge you to take your cross,
And follow Christ To the land of eternity.

Aggrey, Guggisberg and Fraser
Aggrey, Guggisberg and Fraser and all,
Who in their toil,
Made Achimota a school,
Which can be called mighty.

Bible quote: To gain knowledge, have reverence for God.

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Tomorrow A Vision
Tomorrow, A Vision
Yesterday is but dream
And Tomorrow is only a vision
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.
And tomorrow only a vision of hope
Look well therefore to this day.

Work
Don't put off work until tomorrow,
What you can achieve today.
Working hard until you're finished, Will keep poverty away.
The less we do today,
The more we have to do tomorrow.

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Barbara Adu-Poku
The Lost Doll
I once had a sweet little doll, Dears,
The prettiest doll in the world.
Her cheeks were so red and white Dears,
And her hair so charmingly curled.
But I lost my poor little doll, Dears,
As I played in the hearth one day.
And I cried for more than a week, Dears,
But I could never find where she lay.
I found my poor little doll, Dears,
As I played in the hearth one day.
Folks say, she's terribly changed, Dears.
For her paint is all washed away.
And her arms trodden off by cows, Dears,
Yet, for the old sake's, sake.
She still is, Dears,
The prettiest doll in the world.
Each Day Brings A Chance To Do Better
How often you wish for another chance
To make a fresh beginning.
A chance to blot out our mistakes and change failure into winning
And it does not take a special time to make a brand new shirt
It only takes a deep desire to try with all our hearts
To live a better life
And to always be forgiving,
And to add a little more sunshine into the world we are living.
So never give up in despair and think that you are through
For there's always a tomorrow and a chance to start anew.
Ruth M. Tetteh
APPLE OF MY EYE
From the very first moment I saw your
Beautiful angelic face break into a smile,
Exposing those well-cared-for teeth,
Moving in the gracious manner
Which caught the eye of everybody at the ball
My heart missed a beat
And you knew then that we were meant to be together.
My eyes three draggers at every male
Who went any close to you?
Until I got to you
And felt the bond that held us together
I then purposed in my heart
Not to ever let you go
For you are the Apple of my eye
You'll be mine forever
That much, I can promise you.
"The words of a groom to his bride".
Adjoa Swanzy
NO ONE KNOWS NOW WHAT MANY KNEW THEN
Yesterday I wept
As I heard the cock crow
For I knew it was the last crow
before the break of the new dawn
Yesterday I wept
As I witnessed the sun set
as though I'd been told it would rise no more.
Yesterday I wept
As I saw the dew drop from the petals, soft and gentle
And every now and then I shed a few tears for the things that went so wrong.
But today I sobbed, like I'd never sobbed before
As the gong beater struck his drum,
To pronounce her untimely death.
Indeed I wailed but not for the journey before her
but the unfinished task she'd left behind.
At her black parade
I lamented bitterly as the polished panel
of her casket was hauled but six feet below.
For above her today
stood the children of tomorrow
who knew nothing of yesterday.
Behind her polished casket now
The white ants eat away the wood
And no one knows now
What many knew then.