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Image From the Dark

THE IMAGE FROM THE DARK It crawls gradually in haste with all it has No fame and yet able to alter the way we live Once it comes, it demeans, embarrasses and mutilate And we do cry all day, all time, cursing Oh fate what have you done Poverty! That is fate, you! A thwart Life in pieces of rugs and hunger Surviving like fallen Lucifer from Heaven Always not successful … I ask He wants to know They contemplates Is poverty a sign of fate? So, Let be on the run Help me to fight poverty, the image from the dark Bringing down the curtains of “wishes” So we cross the desert of life together Running to God a freed men from the dark, not poverty.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 8/19/2010 4:33:00 PM
"Life in pieces of rugs and hunger Surviving like fallen Lucifer from Heaven" A strong simile, also symbolizing the dark by the comment of 'fallen from heaven', for hell is gloomy and collectively symbolize the hungry, poverty, cursed fate etc which hinder the men to be freed when they are in their full grim. The last philosophic touch gives the poem an endurable memorization.
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Date: 8/10/2010 7:25:00 AM
i enjoyed reading your poetry Kofi. hope u will enjoyed yourself here at PS keep writing and reading poetry
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Date: 8/3/2010 5:20:00 PM
Wow excellent poem. Welcome to the soup
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Date: 8/2/2010 8:52:00 AM
I would like to welcome you to PoetrySoup Lamptey. Wishing you the best in your writing endeavors. If you have questions please feel free to ask anyone here. We are all willing to help and if we don't know the answer we will find someone who does. Love, Carol
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