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An Ode to Leadership in Ghana

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  • Kwabonku 11 years ago

    Nice but difficult words to understand. Can someone break it down for me?

  • Paa Kwesi Mintah 11 years ago

    Ah there goes my cousin. I'm trying to drink his first poem of the year only to find it with some indigestible impurities.

    Cousin Atta, you're no doubt a poet who can churn out verses ad nauseam.

    However you need to tig ...
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  • Kwesi Sakyi 11 years ago

    Hi Cousin, your salute DHLed to me. Leadership in the nude means impoverished leadership. Sorry I gave you a puzzle to unravel with your superior cro magnum occipita, cerebrum and cerebelum. What is poetry for but to scramble ...
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  • OTCHERE DARKO 11 years ago

    Different people understand or interpret poetry differently. You don't have to dissect a poem line by line or verse by verse.

    Kwesi Atta Sakyi may be an amateur poet, like many people who post poems at this site or forum, ...
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  • Okofo Dartey Samuel 11 years ago

    Your critical review is appreciative but I must say a true poet is also true to their style and emotions as they write. And whatever diction and form they choose to convey their stream of thought must not be crucified. A depa ...
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  • OTCHERE DARKO 11 years ago

    I have read the two comments preceding mine. I can understand their quest for explanation.

    NDCs will be wondering whether the poem is singing their glory; and NPPs will also wonder whether the poet is weeping with them.

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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago

    That is ingenious of you, Otchere Darko, for unravelling my motive and devious scheme of hunting with the hounds and running with the hares. It was a strategem and subterfuge. I give you high marks.

  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago

    Crude leadership is rude to people, as it insults them and calls opponents names. This is nakedness or ineptitude of an unstatemanly leader who blindly adores accolades of partisan supporters, and does not cut a dignified fat ...
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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago

    Crude leadership is rude to people, as it insults them and calls opponents names. This is nakedness or ineptitude of an unstatemanly leader who blindly adores accolades of partisan supporters, and does not cut a dignified fat ...
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  • Dick 11 years ago

    I struggled a bit also but the conclusion l deduced was similar to that of Mr Darko, abet I will not say weeping with the NPP but encouraging sympathy to them.

  • asante 11 years ago

    i never like poems, but i think i like this one. so interesting

  • AUGUSTINE 11 years ago

    Nice one, Kwesi, poetically speaking. I'm just seeing this. A good one there, congrats, bro, even though I wouldn't have mentioned Nana's full name, but hey, like William Wordsworth the father of Romanticism(along with Willia ...
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