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World Poetry Presents MICHAEL KWAKU KESSE SOMUAH from Ghana!

Ariadne’s Notes!
Welcome Ghana!
A wonderful show Tuesday night with hosts Ariadne Sawyer and the incomparable Anita Aguirre Nieveras. Also in the studio was the poet Lui Porc and Anita’s lovely daughter. Featured: The talented humanitarian poet and organizer, World Poet Ambassador to Ghana, Michael Kwaku Kesse Somuah. World Poetry theme song composed by the World Poetry Ambassador to Japan Yoshifumi Sakura. CLICK HERE to access the show.

DREAMS OF A VILLAGE BOY

When our feet befriend the ground
We shall touch the earth
and mark our foreheads with the sand of our prints

When our feet have learned to walk
we shall not perch as the Eagle
to meet untimely wounds
and strikes from the heavy rains
We shall fly above the clouds
to run our feathers from the cold strife
of deaths trial

When our might marries the strength of the wind
We shall defeat the Trojans
with the will power of the gods
so as to tame their existence
from the hymns of the living

We shall be called Conquerors
by the mother of history
should our eyes see beyond the distant farmhouse
when all is said and done.

Kwame and Michael at the World Poetry Café Radio Show, CFRO 100.5 FM Vancouver , Canada.

Michael Kwaku Kesse Somuah lives in Ghana and a Vibrant African Poet. International Poetry congresses and festivals have included his poetry presentations and writings in their programs. He is a multi award-winning poet and has participated in Poetry events, readings and performances in and out of Ghana, including Greece, Cyprus, South Africa, Canada, India, Holland, Paris-France etc. Michael has been voted as one of the top twenty “coolest” individuals of repute under 30 years in Africa by Celebrity fashion magazine Glitz Africa, Issue 20 in 2013.
As the World Empowered Youth Poet- honored in Canada at the University of British Colombia, National Youth Achiever in Literary Arts during the maiden awards by his Excellency the President of Ghana, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, Kostis Palamas poetry prize winner in Greece, and Guest editor of Poetry Space-UK, he is being published widely in books, Literary Journals, Anthologies and newspapers in the UK, Canada, India, Ghana, Kalahari review-Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Pakistan, Hungary, Greece, Cyprus, Nepal, USA and other web hosting literary Magazines. He uses his form of poetry in projecting brotherhood of peace and has appeared in the Austin International Poetry Festival News letter of 2015. Michael is a distinguished member of United Poets Laureate International (upli-USA), World poetry Canada, Ghana Association of Writers’ (GAW), Omilos Eksipireton (Servers’ Society)-Greece, Tuck Magazine-Canada, Indigo Dreams UK, Poetic Republic, Poetry Society-South Africa, Arterial Network, Bluzog-Nepal, among others.
Michael holds an Honorary Diploma Certificate in Poetry (Greece) and have his poems translated into other languages such as polish by Piotr Balkus, Croatian by Vinko Kalinic, Hungarian by Istvan Dabi, Greek by Vassiliki Ergazaki/Omilos Eksipiretiton, French by Jacqueline Maire, Philippine by Anita Nieveras, and have had his poems displayed at the University of British Colombia, Canada, Ideogramma Spring Poetry for Peace-Cyprus, read in Afghanistan and interviewed on several media platforms in Ghana, South Africa, Greece and on Co-op radio in Canada by Ariadne Sawyer and Israel Mota
Michael was the Speed Mentor of Barcamp Ghana 2012, an Entrepreneur and have designed Creative Nation Initiative with passionate colleagues to promote arts whilst enhancing reading and writing in our schools and Communities. CNI believes each child has an inner ability that needs to be unearthed to make the society better. Also, Michael is nominated as the Patron of the Ghana Writers’ Awards to assist the initiators encourage the inclusion of Ghanaian literary works in the curriculum of our educational sectors, promote peace and development in Ghana and Africa through literature, create market for Ghanaian writers and to promote the cultural heritage of Ghana through the art of writing.
The general object underpinning the establishment of the award scheme is to inspire writers to write to educate, inform and entertain.

Michael has once again been honored as the World Empowered Youth Poet from Ghana during the Prestigious World Poetry and art festival April 2013 in Vancouver, Canada where he was welcomed by the Governor General, the Mayor of Vancouver and the Premier of British Colombia. He’s performed his poetry at the Mayor of Vancouver’s office during Explorasian media launch, Literature festival at Douglas College, African Night at the New West Public Library, Cape music Institute with Camillo Lombard in South Africa, World Poetry Congress in Greece, Ideogramma spring poetry rain in Cyprus, an evening of Candle light readings on the occasion of the celebration of the 21st International African Writers’ day for the late Professor Kofi Awoonor at the Wole Soyinka and Naguib Mahfouz courtyards at PAWA house, etc

Michael’s poetry collection, “That sweet name like magic has made me”, has been published by Susan Jane Sims of Poetry space-UK Limited (www.poetryspace.co.uk), edited by Richard Gall and foreword by Deborah Harvey

He is an Assistant Director of Administration, humanitarian and former student of Hermann Gmeiner School-Tema, Presby Boys Secondary School and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Studies from the University of Cape Coast, Institute of Commercial Management-UK, and finds poetry as a tool of promoting peace and conquering the opponent with love.
Michael is currently seeking collaborations with musicians to put most of his poetry into salad songs and is humbly calling on any artiste who shares in this idea to contact him. Poetry festivals, corporate bodies, schools, organizations, publishers are all welcomed to put meaning to poetry by using it as a leverage to promote their products.
Michael has once again received a Cultural Ambassadorial Award for Ghana in Canada in October 2014 and nominated as a Patron for the Ghana Writers’ Awards project in Ghana.
You can reach the Poet at kmsogh@gmail.com and blogs on www.mkksomuah@wordpress.com. You can as well navigate his accomplishments by googling: Michael Kwaku Kesse Somuah

World Poetry Cafe Radio Show Proudly Presents Lui Porc from Canada!

World Poetry Cafe Radio Show Proudly Presents Anita and Lui from Canada!

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Featured Poet!

Host in training Vivian Davidson and host Israel Mota welcomed Anita and Lui to the World Poetry Café Radio Show. To listen to this special show, CLICK HERE.

Please read our free Peace Anthology! Link on the right! Anita is in there.

Anita Aguirre-Nieveras is a bilingual poet from the Philippines. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree (major in English and minor in Social Sciences) and Secretarial Administration (major in Education) as an academic full scholar.

Anita taught skills (Shorthand, Typewriting) English, and Social Sciences at the Karilagan Finishing School (Manila). She was the Head of the Secretarial Department at The Philippine State College of Aeronautics where she taught Literature, Social Sciences, English, Essay, short story, and novel writing. She has a Master’s Degree in Education (major in School Administration and Supervision), owned and administered The Holiday Hills Pre-School in San Pedro, Laguna.

In Canada, she became an active officer in Senior’s Organizations, an ESL tutor, one of the Directors of the World Poetry Reading Series Society, a World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award winner in 2004, and World Poetry Ambassador to the Philippines. She also writes Essays and Short Stories and has written an unpublished novelette in Tagalog. Her published books of poetry are Potpourri and Two Songbirds Singing. She hopes publish another poetry book this year. Anita is also an active participant in the activities and programs of the World Poetry Reading Series Society and the World Poetry Radio Show.

Anita Says:”I wrote three poems in one sitting when I went for a visit to the Philippines from December 2012 to February 2013. This is one of them.”

HOMECOMING Anita Aguirre-Nieveras

Eager was I for the warmth of the sun,
For the brillance of the stars;
For the peaceful wafting of the Eastern breeze,
For the smooth flowing of the blue tide at my homecoming.

Yet, no warmth I felt from the sun.
The stars drab and gloomy up there
and the hostile breeze harsh in its passing
as the dark tide fiercely roared my homecoming.

On its path the years have etched a seal of minds and hearts hard as stone.
The wounded earth is rough with scars.
Nothing is ever the same again.

Could I turn back the tides of time,
Or re-write the stars’ brilliance once again
Or tame the soul of the new fierce wind
and rekindle the old and lukewarm sun?

My home will stay as it is now.
Fate, I’ll leave to its own natural course
what is in store for me, I shall yet see
If ever I will still come back for another homecoming.

World Poetry Ambassador to Poland:

Lui Porc was born in Poland , but he has lived in Canada most of his life. Being exposed to a great diversity and mobility – including the traveling around the world – he has learnt how beautiful our universe is, especially when we live in peace, harmony, and prosperity. He is educated in international business, science, and… of course, the arts. Lui likes writing poetry, stone sculpture and jewellery making the most. It is ecstatic to create with love, to write poetry, especially the poetry about love – be it in the past, the present, or the future; the actual, the prayer, or just a dream -they are all fantastic reality. Volunteer and long time supporter.

YOU ARE THE CREATOR

You created a happy baby
To grow and bloom to shine maybe
Like the sun star in the future
As an adult bright and mature

On birth giving like a miracle
You have conquered great obstacles
To bring new life out of your own
Happy new life to be well known

Happy new life for new being
With good guidance and good steering
The best wishes for your starlet
May all your dreams shall be now met

Omnipotent , omnipresent
You just labored golden present
Out of ovum like a miracle
No man ever dreams to tackle

Glory, glory, and ovation
Only you could build new nation
Full of love to love great culture
Truly living – not just sculpture

Glory, glory, as you woman
Only you can, only you can
Make us happy to live fully
With your beauty, to say truly

You are only one creator
In multitude and metaphor
Of your grace – no words can be told…
Live the life to love your new world

Lui Porc (C)