AmmaKonadu

Member since March 21, 2012

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Trapped

Posted Jul 13, 2012 · 23 lines · 6 critiques

The melody in my heart turns discordant
My tears freeze midway down my cheeks
To my flesh I've now become a servant
And my mind with immense sorrow, leaks.

Pain is a constant visitor
In this damned body of mine
Guilt, ever so sinister
Charges me a heavy fine

Anxieties like large, flesh-eating termites
Crawl up my every opening
Feasting greedily on my insides
Dear Lord, what is happening?

Must I stay like this forever...
Dining with images of my fears?

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Must I, Oh Abba, again shiver
At the memories of past years?

I say NO

Do not let go...

Hand me back my sanity
And save me from this death i'm locked in

For I am trapped...

Trapped...

... in my own body.

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Received a critique
on Trapped from @judyanne
"but imho you should lose all the exclamation marks - your write itself should implicitly imply them with your word usage just me i insist - but i find them distracting... great rhyme in 'discordant / servant', 'visitor…"
20 Fri

Received a critique
on Trapped from @Candlewitch
"As Ian has stated, it is a brave write. There is much honesty here, within the suffering. My favorite lines (were hard to choose): I say NO! Do not let go... Hand me back my sanity And save me from this death i'm locked…"
17 Tue

Received a critique
on Trapped from @Ian.T
"That we suffer so is hard and not sure which of the master plans if any to say this is. Maybe just maybe it is our own plan and that we suffer so is for us to learn though sometimes think that the lessons are so hard fo…"
13 Fri

Posted a poem
Trapped
"The melody in my heart turns discordant"
Open thread 23 lines
May 2012
28 Mon

Posted a poem
From a Distance
"I had a dream… after a long laboring day"
Open thread 16 lines
25 Fri

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LIES
"A drop of soul and dust did brew"
Open thread 22 lines
April 2012
16 Mon

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WHEN TOMORROW COMES

24 critiques to date.
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April 2012 — 10 poems
March 2012
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First critique offered
on "Lessons From Grandpa" (since unpublished) by @Lonnie
21 Wed

First publication
GREY AREA
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Joined Neopoet
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First poem published 1 days later.

About Me

About me

Just a young Ghanaian woman who loves to write!

Location: Accra/Ghana/West Africa, GHA

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Wilfred Owen

Claude Mckay

W. H. Auden

John Donne

Shakespeare!

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AmmaKonadu

Trapped

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Trapped

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WHEN TOMORROW COMES

April 2012 — 10 poems

on "Lessons From Grandpa" (since unpublished) by @Lonnie

GREY AREA

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My village, AFRICA.

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