Dela Bobobee

Dela Bobobee

Aveyime-Battor, Volta Region, Ghana
Saturday, June 7, 2008

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Rating: 5.0

Daily she hummed her favourite unknown tune
laboriously she scooped morsels of bean cakes
in skillful similar proportions into the sizzling oil
in the frying pan on a clay hearth emitting smoke
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Dela Bobobee
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Christine Austin Cole 17 July 2008

I completely agree with Bianca's comment - this piece is undeniably visual, and so appropriately so. Your first stanza sets an image so clearly in the reader's mind that it is absolutely impossible to shake. You make this real for the reader in a way that even television news can't seem to. You've brought the other side of the world - home... to our hearts (where it belongs) . Christine

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Bianca J. Walker 19 June 2008

'I'man’s inhumanity to man starts from the nuclei home when brutes with ill animalistic tendencies dominate wallow in the stupid aphorisms of “it’s a man’s world” I'm speechless at this poem. I was there with her, a stunning visual, and conscious piece.

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Sulaiman Mohd Yusof 09 June 2008

scintilizing facts of isolated drama in an isolated continent.

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Dela Bobobee

Dela Bobobee

Aveyime-Battor, Volta Region, Ghana
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