Today, March 21, is WORLD POETRY DAY. For Wordswoth, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” As a deep expression of the human mind and as a universal art, poetry is a tool for dialogue and rapprochement. The dissemination of poetry helps to promote dialogue among cultures and understanding between peoples because it gives access to the authentic expression of a language. - Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO. What does Poetry mean to you? Share a poem with a friend today. I share below, one of the first poems I studied in my early days in the university in 1998, under the guidance of Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang (the current Minister of Education in Ghana). It was an interesting session, I recollect, exposing us to what ‘true’ poetry was. AKOSUA ’NOWA By Joe de Graft They say the guinea-fowl lays her treasure Where only she can find it. Akosua Nowa is a gunea-fowl: Go tell her, red ant upon the tree. I met Akosua Nowa this morning; I greeted: Akosua, how is your treasure? She looked me slowly up and down, She sneered: The man is not yet here wholl find it! Akosua Nowa has touched my manhood; Tell her, red ant upon the tree: If she passes this way I am gone, I am gone to load my gun. No matter how hidden deep her treasure, By my fathers coffin I swear I will shoot my way to it this day; Son of the hunter king There is liquid fire in my gun!
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:21:47 +0000
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