POEMS: True Love, A Proposal & Lovers' Meeting

True Love

Love me not for beauty

But love me for my deformity

For beauty may bring misery

And my heart knows no treachery.

A body so ugly

May hold a heart so holy

So love not for the beauty

But love for sincerity.

Love me not for good qualities

But love me for faults and follies

These, your love will make better

 And life-union sweet.

For those who hoe for perfection

Hearts do not get their satisfaction

So love me not for beauty

But love me for pity.

                                                                                                                PATIENCE YANKEY

A proposal

Try me,

I am hard and true

As steel;

Forged in the flaming tongues of fire

Of love;

Weathered may violent storms,

Yet untouched;

Suffered great disappointments,

But unbent;

I am willing to try yet again:

Will you have me?

                                                                                                                         SAM ANTWI BAADU

Lovers’ Meeting

They met by the light of the moon

Under a leafy tree with a silvery sheen

They consumed each other to satisfy their hunger

In the immensity of their passion

They lost baptism of fire in action

And the two were one for the nonce.

                                                                                                SAM ANTWI BAADU