{"id":102175,"date":"2021-06-27T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102175"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:00:44","slug":"alade-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/alade-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Alade Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Alade Street<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I remember Alade Street<\/p>\n

It was a wide one, untarred,<\/p>\n

hardly traveled by other than us \u2013<\/p>\n

the dwellers of the street<\/p>\n

It stretched from the residence of the mayor \u2013<\/p>\n

The Baale we called him<\/p>\n

All the way to Mrs. Kojo\u2019s residence<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There were side roads dispersing from<\/p>\n

This quiet, untrunk-like trunk road<\/p>\n

Of the tributary roads, two were tarred<\/p>\n

The rest were like the trunk \u2013good sand sticking to the ground<\/p>\n

They were travelled by the bicycle riders \u2013Raleigh was a synonym for bicycles then<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I liked Alade Street, there was no up-down motion of even the bicycles<\/p>\n

They just crossed Alade street to go on to Morocco Road and others<\/p>\n

So, we were safely out, and flew our kites<\/p>\n

We won competitions as one kite reached higher than the rest<\/p>\n

And we bade the champion tell us how he got a higher height<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Come Harmattan, we ran up and down<\/p>\n

Trying to catch the cloud we saw from the other end<\/p>\n

But the cloud always cleared before we got this end<\/p>\n

And when we looked, the other end now had the cloud.<\/p>\n

We never caught a cloud, but we never stopped trying<\/p>\n

In Alade Street<\/p>\n

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