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    The Ghost of Zina
    The Ghost of Zina
    The Ghost of Zina
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    The Ghost of Zina

    By Charles Ayo Dada

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    This extraordinary cycle of poems is capable by turns of making
    one laugh or cry; such is the spot-on enthusiasm and aptness
    with which its author communicates all of the
    bitter-sweet joys and disappointments of love.
    Whichever voice the author adopts, it is impossible to ignore him.
    Charles Ayo Dada speaks in a voice which demands to be heard!
    ~ ROBIN SAIKIA, UK
    In our opinion, Charles Ayo Dada has the true poetic impulse,
    together with considerable skill and stylistic versatility.
    ~ R. ROSS STANTON, UK
    Each page is splashed with the sweetness of words
    -lovingly crafted and reverently servedto
    pander to the taste of the most fastidious aesthete.
    ~ PROF. ADEBAYO LAMIKANRA, O.A.U. ILE-IFE, NIGERIA
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateFeb 21, 2012
    ISBN9781469153452
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      The Ghost of Zina - Charles Ayo Dada

      Copyright © 2012 by Charles Ayo Dada.

      Library of Congress Control Number:       2012900974

      ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4691-5344-5

                         Softcover                                 978-1-4691-5343-8

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4691-5345-2

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      0-800-644-6988

      www.Xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      Orders@www.Xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      302906

      Dedication

      To Zelina

      who once asked me:

      Is there an end to love?

      {The poems in this collection were written in the years: 1995-1997}

      CONTENTS

      BOOK ONE

      It’s More Than A Movie!

      The Piper’s Conquest

      Staff Sergeant P.W. Drake

      At The Frontiers Of War

      Scandalous

      Tugging Softly Away…

      Sorrow Upon Sorrow

      Slaved

      All In Vain

      Beyond The Castle’s Walls…

      Kites…

      Eureka!

      Deaf To My Pleas

      Conquistador

      Those Hours And Moments…

      The Ghost Of Zina

      If Only…

      Waiting For Eternity…

      Lost In The Storm

      Come Back To The Pool!

      Caught In The Flames

      When Doves Cry

      The Soldier!

      I Fear…

      Stalemate

      BOOK TWO

       . . . T’is Too Late

      Daughters Of Jezebel

      Windowside Blues…

      Incommunicado

      Overwhelmed

      When I See Them

      Not Anymore

      Blotted

      A Painful Severance

      In The Past… And Now!

      For The Sake Of A Rose…

      The Strange One

      Siamese

      Was It Love?

      Web Dynamics

      Fatal Attractions

      Dare You

      K.K.

      Pain!

      Crippled…

      Softly And Sweetly…

      Hardened

      Beauty

      Au Revoire

      Whose Fault?!

      BOOK THREE

      Beyond Words

      Love Strings

      This Love Of Ours…

      Water Girl

      Soul Mate

      Lost In Thought

      That Something In You

      Love Beyond The Earthly

      Whispers In My Soul

      Precious

      AUTHOR’S INSIGHT

      Often, through heartfelt joy or deep sorrow, a man communes with his spirit.

      In these rare moments, he is usually permitted to view life from vistas

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