Paul Owusu-Aduening

Boni-Bekwai, Ghana

Several poems published in Ghanasian newspapers, The Mirror and Step Magazine. Poems published by The National Library of Poetry, Feature writer for the Pioneer (Ghana). For Paul, music feeds the soul, and poetry lightens its path, we need both humanly speaking, if our lives could be on course, devoid of thirst or tumbles.

Rise Up Africa

Rise up if the cannons
Will ever sound its dirge
Wreak vengeance and misery
Keeping a track
Littered with carrions
Tracks murky for innocent feet.
Stand up and say No
If the brandishing muskets
Will ever wheedle overhead
And keep the fall of manna
At bay, for
He who eats your cake
Robs you of your beauty
Rise up, clear the stables
For, light trails in
When darkness flees
Stand by your ugliness
And pry for the magnificent
There lies the matrix of humanity
The essence of your rebirth

Monument

Build in my memory
When you lay me down to rest
a monument tapering high,
high above the reach
of human hands and taints.
Build for me memories
deep enough to evade
the stare of conceit
and hatred.
A monument resting
on the strata of hearts
that which generations
will find repose in its shade
never rusting
or decaying.
A monument
which the debris of time
will find it a thorn
to swallow
making me strut on
while I'm gone.