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Oh beautiful sculpture
Standing proud above the hamlet,
Above the hills and valleys,
Above whole rivers and rivulets
Standing proud above the hamlet,
Above the hills and valleys,
Above whole rivers and rivulets
Oh Gods creative
masterpiece
Drawing up grasslands and forests
Painting greens and greys together
Viewing fine pasture and hot deserts
Drawing up grasslands and forests
Painting greens and greys together
Viewing fine pasture and hot deserts
Oh great traditional
edifice
The guardian of our little hamlet,
Protector of our flora and fauna
And providing us with food and meat
The guardian of our little hamlet,
Protector of our flora and fauna
And providing us with food and meat
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Many are that wish
to
Climb you up from afar
Bend themselves over to
take off
their shoes or even put
them on
For they have not met a
kind like you
Afadja; thick, tall,
beautiful!
Let your beauty be heard
in far lands
That they may wish to
come applaud your elegance
O mountain Afadja!
---Oke Iroegbu, Fampah Coyish---
This is my second collaboration with Oke Iroegbu, a poet from Nigeria. This time, we wrote a piece on Nature, and about a Beautiful Mountain called "Afadja" found in the Volta Region in Ghana.
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