Pathways to Helsinki

By Nii Yeboah Norton Nortey

pathways to Helsinki is an inspirational journey. For me, at the time, my first living proof to life and other disaster, a daughter’s new age, and a love relationship less ordinary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Sep 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781532054037

Nii Yeboah Norton Nortey

Nii Norton was born on January 04, 1987, in Accra, Ghana. He published his first book at 28, and started writing poetry after admiring works of Charles Bukowski and James Baldwin. “pathways to Helsinki” is a gritty, rousing journey, from life and other disaster, the birth of a daughter and a love relationship less ordinary.

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PATHWAYS TO HELSINKI

Copyright © 2018 Nii Yeboah Norton Nortey.

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-5402-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5320-5403-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018908215

iUniverse rev. date: 09/19/2018

Contents

I.      alone in my head.

II.    faces of unaddressed envelopes

III.    memoir

Preface

For Naana; all bliss. I am so very sorry for bringing you here.

alone in my head.

I have worried myself over nothing; I have killed myself over everything.

butterflies and coffins

my art is beautiful, of an old soul

Capricorn thoughts of depression

painted in tears and dirt

of a woman’s torment

and mine; a foolish way to go

i endured an unspeakable tragedy

the admiration of fine art

a suitor’s lust

this faint work will be mourned

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i sleep on the floor

my dreams count the past

i have walked miles in circles

betrayed and battered

lies, deceit, intolerant failures

of myself, past the truth

the boy i used to know

a darkness burns in the light

i lived a lie, backwards in solitary

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skinned to the bone

i pray for you, before me of an old picture

captured in xerox; i see a reflection

sitting before a table,