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Today, I have as a guest, a very good friend of mine from Ghana, Nana Awere Damoah. (Currently living and working in Nigeria) As a matter of fact, he has inspired me a lot, with his encouraging words and great faith in my abilities as a writer and poet. He is also the one who created this blog for me, literally as I don’t have any iota of comtech. I’m sure you would love his lovely and informative blog where he has insightful posts on the political situations in Ghana as well as funny and interesting musings on everyday life in Ghana and Nigeria. Do check him out, folks!
Recently, he read my small stone My Muse and was inspired to write this wonderful passionate affair with creativity.
Do read on, my friends.
You inspired this, Celestine:
The Passion of a Pen-Pusher
The sweet pain
of a love affair
with prose and poetry
with words
with images
floating around
the medulla oblongata
alphabets traversing
drawn to one another
kissing in literary ecstasy
poetic passion
that takes your breath
away and relief comes
only when
pen pricks paper!
Oh, the passion of a pen-pusher!
© Nana A Damoah, Eko, 13/01/13
About the Authour
Nana Awere Damoah was born in Accra, Ghana. He has formal training in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (KNUST, Ghana). Nana started writing seriously in 1993 when he was in the sixth form and has had a number of his short stories published in the Mirror and the Spectator. In 1997, he won the first prize in the Step Magazine National Story Writing Competition. He is the author of Excursions in My Mind, Through the Gates of Thought and Tales from Different Tails. * (You can read the reviews on this blog)
Reading Pleasure 
Oh the passion of a pen pusher… Love that line
Thank you, Boomie. Nana is a great wordsmith. 🙂 I do hope you are doing great with the lovely duo. 🙂
Thanks Boomie 🙂 The pen pricks me to perambulate perpetually in my grey matter – what passion it precipitates!
Thanks a bunch, Celestine! You always succeed to give my neck more work in holding my head, presently swinging like that of the legendary Mugo Yaro!
Laughing so hard here, Nana. But seriously, you more than deserve it, my dear brother. 🙂 And the thanks go to you, not me 🙂
Very Cool!!
Thank you, Marie.
Thanks Marie!
Very nice.
Thanks Kim.
Thanks Kim.
Thanks for this introduction to your friend’s work. What A lovely poem. As a writer,I resonate with it. I’m also grateful for his help with your website. His help means I can read your work.
Alice
Too true, Alice. Without Nana’s invaluable help, where will I bel now? It is also due to the wonderful fencouragement from friends and bloggers like you that I have come this far. 🙂 I appreciate your lovely commnet, Alice. 🙂
We add feather each others’ wings so we can all fly.
Alice
Alice, Celestine is easy to love and help! Her passion for writing puts me to shame each day!
Oh Nana. 🙂
Oooh how exciting, another West African writer to follow (you don’t know just how starved I am of my cultural heritage).I’ve followed Nana and wil lhave a good read when I have time at the weekend. 🙂 Thanks Celestine!
You will love his writings, Gilly. So insightful and full of humour. Ow I can understand how you feel. I will try and make my posts as Ghanaian as I can. 🙂 Where in Ghana do you come from? 🙂
Thanks Gilly! Just as a reward for searching for West African writers, I will give you a gift of an e-book, if you read e-books. Take a pick of any of my 3 books and send me a mail at ndamoah@yahoo.co.uk. I will send you the code to download!
How wonderful, Nana 🙂
loved the poem celestine! thanks for introducing the writer!
You are very welcome, Trisha. 🙂
I’ll have to check out his site. He did a beautiful job setting up your blog.
Oh yes indeed! Check him out Nana. His books are also great and inspiring. 🙂
Nana, the truth is that I just create the foundation. I have no hand in how beautiful it has become!!! Celestine learnt on the job and now I need a refresher to catch up!
I miss having Nana in Ghana. This is excellent. Are you guest blogging now?
Awwww Kuukua! I miss the literary events too! I posted on inspiration and Celestine decided to expose me 🙂 How are you doing, my dear?
Thanks, Nana. I won’t say no when the opportunity comes up. Are you game? 🙂
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