Just a simple Ghanaian trying to find the best in our society. I may be fun, I may be interesting, I may be funny, I may even be foolish or intelligent, but it is all based on the mood in which you find yourself. I believe our minds make us who we are. Know that, pain, no matter its 'unbearability', is transient. Unburden or delight yourself for a while in my writings please. And all corrections, advice and opinions are welcome. Know that you are the king, queen or royal on this blog. :)
Perspectives are all we have Where you stand differs from where he stands How you act differs from how she acts So you’re free to draw me From the pencil of your view In your artistic tone II Your steam might be showing my form in anger Her steam might be showing my form in […]
It was so real I had an easy feel Sins were so few That my tears were like morning dew II But now I see the waters sweating sins I see the trees chattering sins I hear the air snaking sins I hear the birds chirping sins Oh mountains echo sins Plants pray peculiar sins […]
Sea tortoises …living in their sea in body, soul and spirit …loving their sea as silver lining love their sky …working to clean their sea like lotuses in mud Are worth celebrating – …when Asaase Yaa chooses to honour its builders Shikaman bii, oyiwaladÉ”n! II Strong eagles …watching and protecting …as normal eyes sleep Stamping […]
Creation in nations had stations of rations Odomankomah so made it all Fitness in unfitness Unfitness in fitness A completeness of complementations II That is why – …there are talls in fit of shorts That is why – …there are fats in fit of slim That is why – …there are fair – …in fit […]
In this horrid sadness …you left behind Amidst this painful lifelessness … I live in bind I think of it all …what I hoped for ….for you II Even in my hunger …I hoped for your fullness …choices of delicacies on an optional table Even in my anger …I hoped for your peace …a calm […]
As the boughs break in aim …for your best And the guns shoot in aim …for your gains Let none see the spear of fear …aiming at your sanity II It is a battlefield …of breaking and broken It is an unfairness ring …of reasoning and reckoning It is a bandying court …of cutting and […]
When you want to tell it To an audience unreadable Your tongue becomes a football park And ‘it’ becomes a slippery ball Dribbled by your will Coming as far as the tip of the tongue And speeding back as far in as the end of your throat II When you want to tell it Knowing […]
Men who cry over constipation But look down on life pots As unfit kings do their dirty subjects You are like lost pigs in poisonous filth II Men who weep over constipation Sleeping with their rear worshipping the sky Begging air for some cool relief Yet thinking they have power over life’s links of continuity […]
I know no foe I don’t hate sow I show no arrow in my bow Until I am unfairly asked to kowtow II If you carry no hatred In the inheritance bowl of your ancestry Where stones of ethnicity aimed At my dignity is atrociously firm If you carry no buckets where catapults of class […]
Use every will to work Frown on all those who shirk Till we all our flaws impeding growth bury We need to be in a fair hurry So our feat will be seen So we’ll get out of this sore hurts we’ve been II Let all who laugh with smiles At our snail pace growth […]
This is a world where strong sentiments …need stronger spirits This is a world where stronger hurdles – …need the strongest souls This is a world – …where conflicting battles are fought with emotional swords This is a world – …a world where a little inattentiveness spells doom So dig it- …your sword of smiles […]
So I brought my wife from Ghana and got this fine Montana My aging lovely wife Is my soul, heart and life I didn’t want to lose her Undoing Montana wasn’t fair So I invited her home and introduced them as such; “Owusua, m’adumamu ni ni o, Montana meet my lovely cousin” Language alibiing in […]
I smell it Vultures perching – …on trees of negligence Waiting for their meals – … on grounds of confidence Snooping for locationing – … on the internet of carelessness After signing trust deals …on papers with drunkenness I smell it II I sense it – Shocked orphans crying …on grounds of hopelessness Sadly munching […]
“Roads lay like mythical foot mats Traffic lights; do they stand vertical or horizontal? Will I be embracing danger of any kind? Where is the shine of my vision? I feel like a daunting unrhyming lyrics” II “Blasting sounds are so fierce As they do nothing to me tickle Only taps wake knowledge of happenings […]
Go kill him, your Jesus And wake him after your playing recess Go kill him, your Jesus And resurrect him after your prayers access And continue the eternal cycle Always a unicycle II Start by arresting him – …with charges of your creation Saying the son must – …suffer for the Father’s nation Start by […]
Great girls- … Bully boys Regal layered, local- …national, internationally pushed A stampede so brutal- … Egos lost through negligence still seeingly unseen Oh there’ll be Bronya dresses … And overused chalewote to match Catastrophic catastrophe – … Who says? The seers say! II The winds, before, pushed down lasses Down dream hills Making them […]
Godon godon godon, gong gong godon Apatampa godon, krÉ›kÉ›tÉ› godon, kon kon gudon, krÉ›tÉ›ke godong, apatampa gudon, É”nwam atikÉ” pÉ” firi suantie twÉ›deÉ›! Godon! II While the sounds lift Even the heads of mouths in ground dancing Close doors stage worst nightmares To be covered by dust made through the dance of the crowd How […]
All you scouting streets for holes of meat Feigning defeat when pushed to back seats Sulking from playing last fiddle to passion’s beat You don’t have to be a roaming cheat All you need is a baaad girl II All you need is a … baaad girl One who can flip … your flaps Deflate […]
Yaa I Abena- BoÉ” is a mysterious being, I swear! See, just last week, Maame Ama’s cat Escaped Efo Dzakpasu’s bÉ”tÉ” And found an opening in her window So decided to find some protection from its assailant In her room All we repeatedly heard was Ei abayifoÉ” yi! ƆbayifoÉ”, É›nÉ› deÉ› w’ahyia! By the time […]
Let’s open our doors – …of deeds And sweep out – … silly sulkings Gathering the dirt – … of daydreaming Adding the garbage- … of grumbling To throw into the incinerator – … Of servitude To see the cleanliness- …of a start-anew II Let’s dust the sands- … of dawdling Fetching and filling our […]
I will gift myself to a Caucasian Than have me be the back decoration of an Afrimuffin Who left the embrace of his mother To serve at the feet of an unkind master II I will gift myself to a Caucasian I will so gift myself to a vulture looking Caucasian Than be one of […]
Exhume the words from the soil of the past And dust the hurts which nailed the heart At the crossroads of good and bad Making it take the latter To reach the hell of uselessness In the vehicle of bitterness II Kinder words would have nursed the seedlings of morality In beds of role modelling […]
I will ride on your rea– …soning I will sit on your su– …ffering I will brake on your brea– …kage I will soo clout your ca– …ring And will lick your lear– …ning II Let me hear the drops of your tears in torrents Ko, ko, gidim gidim, ko, ko, ko, ko, gidim gidim, […]
You chose, You chose the flapping and slapping ass And the beautiful big brown eyes You chose, You chose those breasts oh so walky-up-and-downing voluptuous And those beautiful long legs You chose You chose the toffee-like mouth well painted And the milky-coffee-like-skin well bleached I didn’t matter then I don’t want to matter now II […]
Your Jesus whose name is a whip you pull out Whenever your anger turns into a shout On building a house into a home Was he not lonesome? II Your Jesus That name you spit out Whenever you seek from me a man in the moral stout Did he ever let his pestle pound fufu […]
Feuds hide in curtains of days past To make monsters of grieving cast On stages of new days How did I come to wear a devil’s mask In mirrors of new eyeballs? Did you so mix days with nights to win wars of the past? II You drag me through the slums of hunger Arrange […]
“Mirror mirror on our wall What are we at all?” Lions swallowed by cats swallowed by mice All trapped by hyenas You are ebonies lost in fake pink and on the brink of a sink You are porcupines made up like rain-whipped nsÉ›nsÉ› You are abro a apÉ›nsÉ› Marked to be harvested by mouths whose […]
Once tortoise befriended a snail And they embarked on a loving tale When storms did visit, tortoise snail shielded When cars did bump, tortoise snail shielded There wasn’t a thing in harm that could tortoise get Snail just looked and began to fret People sang of the great tortoise’s strength And went ahead to shelter […]
I feel it That yearning that won’t fit That unsettling that won’t sit That dream that won’t quit Dissatisfactions that always hit All those feelings threatening to wrestle me into doom’s pit II But when I, like a snail, the boarders cross I feel like I’m carrying a loneliness cross Wearing heaviness and a sense […]
We have lived Lived through the dawn of our rise, To the morning of our victory And got stuck Between the morning of our victory And the growth of our rise Why? II Blessed with suns unrivalled I wonder how we’ve still not gotten there There, where the suns of growth shine fair Blessed with […]
She is a she from a she through a he She is a sea made of rivers no mouth can name She is a sky with lightning and clouds With suns and moons accompanied by stars even in rains Her hands are healing Her bosom is a comforter Her shoulders strong to take in Any […]
The porcupine walked like the kqueeng of pride Tongue-macheting and butchering lion “You are like the foolish baboon Who stays only in the thighs of trees Pouring promises like rain In an action of zero Let me be Let me be the kqueeng of this jungle And see the change and peace and light and […]
This kinky mess Can turn one in many and many in one This kinky mess Stops blood in its painful oozing Oh medicine on a head! This kinky mess Is a dress in the cold And a disciplined disciple which listens to hands of its comb When dressed, respecting scissors and making it easy for […]
You have been like a shadow Haunting in my follow Daunting in my sorrowful hollow Uncaring even in my Jonah-like-swallow Call me shallow But I still can’t you follow II I can’t tell whether you’re farther or a father I can’t tell whether you’re a monster or a mother I don’t know what you feed, […]
They are boiling, boiling like angry waters From the pits of your stomach right up to the lid of your head II They are boiling, I know they are boiling That rejection water I served in the calabash of your ego Burns right through your throat And is raising monstrous hatred Boiling you unwholesomely whole […]
I am paralysed by happy shocks Knowing I could a factory buy many stocks Thanks to this fertilizer you’ve given to this cause II The dream of women being their own shades Through the trees of their pockets Umbrellaring their own in nursing great Protecting their young from needing so cruel Would be realized thanks […]
1a A he is in a she as a she is in a he A she is in a he as a he is in a she Yolk and water, a blending cooker So why can’t we all see? 1b We have been long in this shuttle of prejudice Which drove us through deserts of […]
Sisters and brothers turned strangers in the strange! Mothers and fathers left lonely in old gaols Sons and daughters growing in deserts of hatred Think not you are cursed Lament not your dejection For if time will peel history backwards It would reveal your mountains of love Turned pain and sadness in your grand ancestry […]
You blow strength in my mind And leave me, like a cruel lover, to watch your behind You build faith in my heart And you fly to live on the tree of myth like a deserted dove You nurse optimism in my bed of pessimism And leave me with thorns of sadness You shine me […]
Pen them Pen your thoughts and stamp them as norm But legalize them only in your world Not the one we all share For your thought’s rights cancel not that of mine Nor his Nor hers Nor theirs Even elephants as a set own not the jungle And lions as a set own not the […]
Cry the vagina of the nation For all the penises of neglect pounding its hole Cry the vagina of the nation For all the huge penises of corruption tearing her up into pitiful pieces Cry the vagina of the nation For the hands of children of her womb Taking off her clothes, opening wide her […]
I see I see sameness in variation One in many and many in one If only minds will see same II I see I see blackness in shining armour Swords of words and words of arrows If only hands will use III I see I see colours weathering on same skies In a bond that […]
As cages of ages in the past which now turn to imprison minds Become old for a sold Future children are being killed in present wombs Through manipulation of present minds To keep our knees on the piercing gravels of the ground To maintain the posture of our heads So we look down with our […]
Hearts now jump from chests into hands At the mention of byes Luggage shivering at commuting thoughts On bloodthirsty baits Lying straight or curved Clearly smooth or rough Bearing tombs or pools With gluttonous teeth in wait Crying for attention and getting none II How many more ghosts do we need as barriers At every […]
Ladyboy Are you not under the umbrella of pressure Having to hide your he in clothes of a she? II Ladyboy Do you not feel the pain of your cracking ego When you lie beneath for a pounding Hounding your rear hole? III Ladyboy Even with lubrications Your rear might have altercations with pain Oh […]
Tell me Tell me what I need to know Break the ice of secrecy which burns my heart’s core Please tell me II I can’t tell you I saw you lovingly kissing her lips I can’t tell you I saw how you happily unzipped her zips I can’t tell you I saw you skillfully unstrapping […]
This is the state of fate Where every second hang foot-wears and paths For naked and blind feet to step into Knowing nothing that awaits Not thorns nor sticks Nails nor smooth roads Trees nor shrubs Rains or sunshine II This is the state of fate Where every day holds spectacles for unsuspecting eyes Who […]
Only a devil will push his tail in a nation Forcefully Only a pig breaks into a temple to leave prints of dirt Happily Only a coward chases to have what is not theirs Possessively Sit, take out your consciences Polish, clean out the monstrousness And put them back If you can’t, just cut that […]
There is a cave deep down this mountain of chaos Sewn with stones at its entrance by the thread of greed In there are tears of the broken In there are the songs of those dumb by fear Therein lie the youth of troubled children Oh in there lives the hope of the poor Their […]
This space This space beyond fear This space drained of tears This space with no claws of penury This space where different colours of freedom pimp my ride This space opened to curiosity of carelessness This space where arms of start-overs stretch This space debtors slip off to their far falls to a never rising […]
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