Long Celerity Poems

By Vicki Acquah on Thursday, April 18, 2013 
Prince Kennedy & Oladeji Vicki Acquah

Disappeared
We- are gone
diluted into oblivion
we have nothing left but our footprints
The handwriting is no longer on the wall
The noses are broken off...

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Mama held me close to her bosom
wouldn't let me go astray
she shook the cradle of civilization
and to her wayward offspring 
she paid attention.
 
She added a tinge of color to the cheeks of some
and tinted...

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the joyous partner the microwave
it has become my chef
alas not quite my mother's hand
but for its swiftness of foot
there is no other
yes i survive on the TV dinner
oh dear Lord i have shown my age
frozen...

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Qualities of the person in the mirror lie within you
Moulded, built and boosted by friends and associates you choose 
Although to ascend the next level blood fresh and new
Needed in a cruise

Beyond agile ambitions and...

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PLEASURES OF MAN’S FOLLY

What can we say of man’s wisdom?
But to know it seeks freedom
From the distance of heavens kingdom
The thoughts of which we should feast on
Pleasures of man’s folly

What necessity is invention?
Than to rip...

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The aircraft might be fifteen minutes late,
You might be there, before it's too late.
Too late to reach there before you take off,
Off to somewhere, within the country,
Or without, or even beyond, my mother told me.
Better...

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we awoke to five machine guns
staring at us
all were American made
therein a comfort
another American in a foreign land
the caveat, Federales were holding them
we were naked
Sally from the Alley and i
wanted to ask us a few...

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Crazy
Fate mocks People
Fuzzy
How we become a couple

In business, in marriage
Make commitments
To nurture the carriage
Teeming with developments

Cultivated into a caring art
When from the bottom of our hearts we feel love
So smart
We float and fly above wings...

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Challenges singe meninges sometimes
Painting dark clouds on the canvas in corridors
Where at times
I seem to coerce open doors  

To weep
At the folly I engage
To sweep
Common sense and its stage

Aside as I create reality too...

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Our wall clock chimes midnight
You’re still frolicking away from home
I cry rivers of tears in the wee hours of the night
As dreams we once shared away they roam 

Far, far, far away to a distant...

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A midsummer's day turned any old night,
Yet my wife, my wife was nowhere in sight.
Around the town I searched with frantic celerity,
Yearning for a glimpse of her blonde-haired gaeity.
Her friends, I spotted, her friends did...

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I dubbed a first year my room mate
Upon arrival into our teacher training college
To baptize him. His pride in quick order I did decimate
Taking him at high celerity on a binge

Initiating him into traditional beer
In...

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The ManPower Invitational  Celerity Sphere Contest

Contest One
Large one (369 lbs)
Bigger Sphere (550 lbs.)
Sphere Grande (705 lbs)
Winners pot includes both sponsor
and contestants roll! Trophy and
a prize.

Contest Two
Yak verses Yak waist harness tug of war
20 men...

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Seldom mistaken
A besotted bloke in New York
In love taken and shaken
Dreaming of an infatuation stroke

Bakes in his mind
A love niche his heart to gladden
Despite the labour grind
Of the love burden

Strutting his manifesto
Under a moonlight in...

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Beautiful innocence, purity plain and true is fleeting
Spent the honest face of likeability that wore the thin veneer of naivety
Forgotten the simple control of ratiocination, it has gone.
To be seen and heard, to be adored...

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A searing headache this morning my head splits
In circumstances whose cause I can’t pinpoint
In twilights when I teeter and shamble on my stilts
As my head I wrack to diagnose the flashpoint

That turns my world topsy...

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BAT planted many seeds that brought him a great harvest
For which many held his ideology with august interest
With claims that Jagaban dealt with those political jagabats
Who knows little or nothing about keeping political stats

Since kingmakers...

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How shall I love again if love leaves me in tatters?
Love invades my heart and turns it upside down
Driving at high speed adrenalin in my arteries where it matters
Little whether I make a scene or...

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Cool summer breeze hot body can console
But heavy winds can hummer the very soul
Not just the fury of wind but also its role
Not the usual one of spreading the seeds but one reminding us time...

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