THE BEAUTIFUL STORY THAT WAS NEVER TOLD--It is just a poem of one stanza. Read it and cry.
This collection is the author’s first work in poetry. The poems bring to mind the poignant moments of life from the writer's childhood to today. The tones of the poems are set in high emotional level--emotions that are inspired by love, nature, grief, injustice, mystery, beauty, remorse, loss and admiration.
In all, the collection contains 39-poems categorized into;
Narratives--The Beautiful Story That Was Never Told/ The Stranger
Elegies --It Tears Me Down, I Told You I Was Sick, Etc
Writers’ poems--Challenges of a Writer
Figurative--The Eyes of Dora
Political/historical--Don’t Trust Risky
Motivational--What Do You See
Society-- The Arrow, Racism, Etc
Ode--Ghana’s Favourite Hometown
In-the-poem the ‘Stranger’, Joe Adu-Gyamfi strives to solve the complexity of the difference between poetry and prose, but unlike T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost,Ben Jonson and-Paul Valéry, he didn't add to the mystery but walks the talk by authoring one piece in both poetry and prose to allow the independent-minded-reader to judge.
In "Challenges of a Writer", he sums up in few words the numerous challenges writers face. He goes further to motivate writers in another piece--titled: 'A-Great-Writer--Who-is-He' and complement it with 'A Poet's Last Poem'.