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RESUME - Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey
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Favourite Poems - 1 - Library by Albert Goldbarth
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Favourite poem - 3 - I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou & Sympathy, P. Lawrence Dunbar
Favourite Poems - 4 - Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Favourite Poem - 5 - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Favourite Poems 6 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - by Thomas Gray
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Rough weather -

Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

 

A SUMMER CLOUDBURST

 

Summer sky bursts asunder

In a cowering cover of darkness,

Angry storm clouds billowing

In a congealing mass of intense density;

Heavy weather-

 

Brilliant flashes of streaming lightning

Crackling and bursting

A resounding reverberating presence

Of impacting sound

Ka-boom-

 

Then the skies open

Cascading curtain of raindrops

Blanketing virtual space

Between heaven and earth

Big pebble drops of heavens sweltering moisture

Falling, filling, fulfilling-

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