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  COLOURFUL POETRY

  By Wilson Ayinbangya Amooro

  &

  Stella Allou

  Copyright 2014 Wilson Ayinbangya Amooro

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  Copyright © 2014 Wilson Ayinbangya Amooro

  Dedication:

  To you!

  Aknowledgment: 

  Thanks to you!

  PREFACE:

  It may be expected that this book is unified on a single theme like the rainbow, a symbol of freedom and unity. Instead, this book divides each poem and they all stand individually representing lots of ideas, a ridicule to the rainbow, thereby separating the colours and making them stand out in brightness with their own cheerful warmth. Every poem has a story to tell just like every colour has a mood to drive.

  ~ Wilson the Poet ‘Mandela’

  Table of Contents:

  Preface

  POEM OF COLOURS

  TO BELIEVE

  LOVE WITHOUT CLUE

  I BELIEVE

  LIFE IS DEEP

  LIFE

  WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES

  INNER BEING

  ROMANCE WITH THE FUTURE

  ENDLESS LOVE

  THE MOMENT I SAW YOUR FACE

  HAPPY FEELINGS

  WHEN HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

  STRANGELY NORMAL

  ONE OF A KIND

  BEFORE NOW AND THEN

  DON’T JUDGE ME

  I CHOOSE

  A WOMAN’S HEART

  REFLECTIONS

  MORE OF US

  PUZZLE OF MYSTERY

  IT’S DAY BREAK

  HOLD ME

  ILLUSIONS

  LIFE GOES ON

  DECEPTION

  WANTS

  THE REASON

  I AM A STORY

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  POEM OF COLOURS

  I love purple

  It makes me look supple

  Just like a fresh apple

  I’d choose violet

  Instead of scarlet

  To match my bracelet

  I’d go for red

  That’s what a friend said

  So I’ll be called, ’lady in red’

  I look good in pink

  I always end up with a wink

  And always go out in a blink

  I prefer yellow

  To make me glow

  And the brightness will never go

  Did you just offer me white?

  Thanks please come home

  For a bite of pizza

  Because you make me feel like a heaven’s kite

  I’m in love with blue

  And I’m stuck to it like glue

  Ha-ha, guess you’re looking for a clue

  TO BELIEVE

  To believe

  is to conceive, what gently comes around

  To own it

  is to receive what belongs to believe

  To inherit it

  is to discover what owns us

  To feel beautiful

  is to be grateful

  You own a beautiful melody inside you;

  a charm, slowly unleashed.

  Don’t forget you are a miracle!

  LOVE WITHOUT CLUE

  I felt I had found my knight in shining armour

  but my whole ended up taking everything as a humour.

  Please don’t get it twisted; I know Oliver Twist asked for more

  but in my case, I had no choice but to love you the more

  Sometimes I thought I was flying without wings;

  you and I would testify that my dreams ended us up in swings.

  Remembering your face was a hobby anytime a love song was sung.

  I woke up from my slumber and realized it was all a dream

  ‘When the wrong one loves you right’:

  Celine Dion couldn’t have put it any better

  but who is the wrong one in this love letter?

  I heard love goes where love is,

  so can love lose its way through the mist?

  I hope and pray fate brings us together

  even though I see you’re happy with another

  Remember I still love and cherish you

  and when it comes to loving you

  I can’t stop looking for a clue

  I BELIEVE

  Have you loved someone that much

  Every day you send them several calls

  Not even a returned flash or a text

  To console your heart with a touch

  So scarred and scared

  To carry your feet along

  Which route next?

  Say to your beautiful self,

  ‘I believe

  someday, my true love

  will come chasing for me among the millions!’

  Are you surrounded by people

  but loneliness becomes the alarm

  That wakes you up first in the morning?

  When you grabbed the radio

  to cool off in the evening

  by accident the songs

  Stirred your deep feelings

  from the privy rooms where they belonged?

  Don’t mind

  Wave your hands in the air

  And hum to yourself,

  ‘I believe

  the moments are confiding in me’

  Have you searched for a broken piece

  [like a tiny grain on the beach-side’s sand…]

  to restore that inner peace

  like free mansions begging for occupants?

  Let go…

  Wave your hands in the air

  Say to yourself one more time,

  ‘I believe

  I am meant to be me

  even if flawless mirrors don’t lie’

  Have you received several NOs

  In your try

  That made you cry?

  When you were young

  the lullaby mom and dad sung

  into your head said, ”you were the best.”

  Now your world seems crushing

  with life's wild pace

  but remember a fulfilled life

  is like the toddler’s graceful steps;

  so refreshing

  no rushing-

  Your endurance is writing a test

  Wave your hands in the air

  Say to yourself for the last time,

  ‘I believe

  one YES is enough for me.’

  LIFE IS DEEP

  Sadness sets life travelling deep

  Happiness we long to keep

  Pills unable to console sleep

  Bills trading place

  for a race

  so cheap

  The more I know

  the more I don't know

  How do I explain how

  that's the real feel’ right now

  Slow it may flow

  The low

  will glow

  as the young shall grow

  Reassuring is thinking

  Resigning is sinking

  Respect for humanity

  makes us queens and kings

  No man owns spe
cial genes for identity

  Humans have only one true race

  A unique class respect for human dignity

  Moment to movement

  Comment to commitment

  Black and white piano buttons blend for my favourite song

  Together we are strong

  May our lives prolong

  where others will be glad to belong

  Amen!

  LIFE

  Life is indeed how you make it

  not how you feel or see it to be

  William Shakespeare once said,

  “Life is a stage” and humans are the characters

  My verse betrays this sage:

  If life is a stage

  Then who are the audience?

  We’re our own audience

  We were all born with a purpose and a vision

  Whilst some choose to watch the characters on stage

  others walk onto the stage to display what they know best

  It’s about time we took our destiny into our own hands

  Take up the fight and walk onto the stage

  Let’s give back to society what God has given us for free

  Wait a minute Mr. Camera-man says, “stand by and action”

  But where are the audience?

  The audience left will be God and the heavenly angels

  Watching and judging us according to our deeds

  So let’s all try to make the planet earth a desirable place to live in

  Well then, we will give a nice tune and dance to it

  He who pays the piper callsfor the tune

  WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES

  Something in me died

  Like a bullet poisoning my every fibre

  I remember when you recited the creed,

  ‘I will cross the world for another like you’

  [my senses started banking in six-figures.]

  I never imagined

  someday I will walk these lonely alleys alone

  without your pampered shoulders

  to lean on as that special one

  Whenever I close my eyes

  And my hands merge a bond

  I won’t rain a curse on anyone

  A billowing surge of blessings

  Overriding the lessons

  Invited in by my new strength

  When the season

  comes home with sufferings

  the beautiful sky

  reminds me I am mighty

  to overcome any calamity

  instead of looking down on myself

  With a plain heart as an offering

  saving my tears, to shaming my fears

  When I pray

  I pause a little moment

  This time not to request

  Simply to be happy I passed life’s test

  When the genie grants me a wish

  I won’t ask for the right person to carry me on

  I was too blind to know

  It’s me, not anyone

  When I see good people suffer

  I console myself

  If all their problems pass away

  where will be the feat to celebrate?

  This miracle reminds me that

  we are stronger than our obstacles

  INNER BEING

  I don’t even know whether to call it a monologue

  It has left me with a bunch of thoughts I call a catalogue

  A pal suggested I refer to it as a dialogue

  but I sat down and my mind’s eye showed me the synagogue

  I believe I had the ability

  Folks said, “Ha-ha you’re a liability”

  It really affected my sensitivity

  Now I feel no genuine connectivity

  It wasn’t easy having the tendency

  All what people said was a fallacy

  but I never compared it to literacy

  Just built my own world of fantasy

  After sometime, thinking I was secured,

  I went ahead and successfully acquired

  I didn’t know I would be totally required

  To bring up events that had occurred

  I hope that is all it inquired

  I’m listening to my inner being

  Of course you aren’t hearing neither are you seeing

  You there, don’t even try peeping

  After all what are you seeking?

  Nothing but a mere leaning…

  ROMANCE WITH THE FUTURE

  When the alluring thought of failure

  first fore played with my mind,

  mental pre-mature ejaculation

  caused me to die inside deep

  No warning for the circulation

  Even in my sleep

  my excited nerves lost it

  Rainbows starving as gloomy shadows

  No climbing to the plain heights

  When the thoughts of happiness

  first dated with my inner being

  I discovered inside me wings

  Even in my imperfect curves and lines

  ideas became invention

  A moment beyond eureka’s shine

  I am royally owned by my beautiful intentions

  I am ready for the storms

  to rock my boat

  on the way to climax

  Failure is fulfilment

  without happiness;

  Happiness is fulfilment

  overcoming failure!

  ENDLESS LOVE

  Behind closed doors and windows,

  two soul mates that in the lighter sense are shadows

  meet in the dark and converge like water meadows

  They have sorrows to share but no one knows tomorrow

  They’re head over heels in love; yeah they call it true love

  but I call it addicted love

  I don’t need you to second theirs’ instead

  but they feel protected

  Unfaithfulness is not in their vocabulary

  even if it’s in the full glare of everybody

  “I can’t live without you” one says to the other

  I look at them in disbelief, but it’s not a bother

  I hope it goes on this way

  because I see them make promises each day

  There could be barriers yes, you heard me barriers

  I wish they don’t pollute their manners

  Lest I forget, I’ve a broken heart to fix

  so I don’t want to spoil their album with my pics

  I better do something about my mood

  because I’m sure I’ll end up with something good

  They’ll forever be in love, I suppose

  Who am I to oppose?

  THE MOMENT I SAW YOUR FACE

  My heart stopped beating for sometime

  and my body stopped moving to analyse

  I heard strange whispers in my ears

  that I had never heard for all these years

  That was the moment I saw your face

  My legs refused to move

  Suddenly, I heard a snooze

  and I didn’t need to prove

  that I was already in love

  the moment I saw your face

  This moment of ecstasy sent shivers through my spine

  “I can’t wait till the day you become mine”

  My hopes sparked up to cloud nine

  and I wish this would never pass by

  The moment I saw your face

  Almost felt like heaven

  because I gazed into your eyes in my haven

  Hoped this couldn’t land me in an oven

  but rather my heart I’ governed

  The moment I saw your face

  HAPPY FEELINGS

  When troubles draw near

  I want you my feelings to take charge

  and be the happiest

  The peace inside you dear

  is bigger than any wasted tear

  I want you to smile all day long

  although everything we own won’t b
e perfect

  Daily plans may be correct

  but things can still go wrong

  When you are weak

  I want you to breathe life into yourself this week;

  I am strong

  My joy is coming

  to fill my cup

  to lift me up

  I don’t want you to hide your tears

  when you are in pain

  Let them show

  They will glow

  through your windows as they flow

  You will no more feel low

  Healing is coming home

  to cure every ill syndrome

  You may not own a pair of wings

  to rule the sky

  like the mighty birds

  but don’t forget you own a heart

  that has a beautiful song to sing

  to excite the beautiful birds

  for inspiration that never departs

  WHEN HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

  Oh no … not again

  I can’t bear this pain

  Why should this leave me in disdain?

  What did I gain?

  It is true of the saying,

  ’Once bitten, twice shy’

  but I dared to try this once more

  By and by, I’ve been left with another heartbreak

  I thought I was ready this time

  After going through this torture

  and left without a dime

  when will I find someone I can call mine

  They say, “Patience moves mountains”

  so I am counting on the day

  I will meet the one who will erase the phrase

  ‘History has repeated itself’

  STRANGELY NORMAL

  Hello my Doctor,

  Don’t offer me pills to digest my sleep

  I deserve a special dream cream

  that won’t wake me up

  to hug this pain

  all over again

  Hello my Momma,

  Don’t give me a wife

  I need a best friend

  in life

  that I can keep

  all to myself

  day and night

  till our love sneaks to sleep

  waking up to a blissful keep

  Dear friends,

  Don’t buy me compliments

  from your lips

  I need encouragement

  which comes straight from your hearts;

  pure to cure