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. :)
The clock of change ticks Transforming in shockaholics Yet many feed after thorny pricks In places whose geography elude mapachronics Living healthily by the green waters of kontomire As others blinkardly gobble dead fishes in oily rivers II Gone are the days when elderly buttocks Filled seats before their young Gone are the days when […]
They say he who fetches water Breaks the pot So he who goes to sit under Odomankomah’s umbrella Enjoys the shade under torrential rains And is able to dodge the scorching sun But did I fall into an army of hungry ants Bathed with sugar? I went to the temple To listen to the gospel […]
When a yard is given Extending to a mile is a given Then some come in needful farm Regardless of the harm II When a gate widely opens Even mosquitoes can turn royals Dictating to owners when to sleep and what to keep Of course the malaria virus becomes a necessary tag III Draw a […]
This link is for the live streaming of today’s launch. Foreword to FaceOff With the International ‘MP’ “It is often said that we take ourselves too seriously, and do not laugh enough. If this description fits or suits you, then please stay as far away as possible from Rodney and his writings [scratch that!]: read […]
If you marry me You will be my sea And I your fish Preparing for you many a sumptuous dish Giving life to many of your wishes II If you marry me Your happiness, my wish will be I will be your warmth in the cold And your cooler in heat’s fold Blanketing you from […]
(In celebration and reflection on my birthday) As my years travel the world Questions act like soldier ants Who have chanced upon a loot In a land of famine II The biggest captain being achievements Co-captained by failures All curious as to the shrouded steps left To the hungry hole of endings III The frightful […]
Those days When light only came from the sun rays As fruits fed from their ripe stations Have no living nations II Those days When charms and pushing gays With domestic care so rare Were all a woman needed to be fair Have gone under As today, more need surrender III Eve was a blessing […]
Happy Father’s Day to all fathers. Enjoy this piece: Whoever said chicks follow hens Wash your faces with treated water And watch It is that day That day when some cocks act hens As some hens model in cockdom This world! II It is this day This day when the pains of motherhood Root firmly […]
I was glad when two gentlemen I knew from the Ghana Association of Writers contacted me and asked me to apply for the Ebedi International Writers Residency. The thought of a cozy place to complete works I deemed difficult, was very welcome. Then I thought of going through Togo through to Benin to Nigeria. Seeing […]
We cry your liquidated soul Which has been forcefully fried From your solidly mobile form We hail your gallant nurture Which prevented your strong nature To harm a hair of your enemies, oh you with good stature! We pray for your hovering soul Which stands on the invisible soles Of all that you hold dear […]
The code of souls was breached When I saw the gates of death Being torn by many who morality preached When their swords of advice wore their breath In hidden and opened quarters of their sons As they pushed me through by cruel runs II I felt the lighting slaps of hands And bore the […]
Pity our land A land arrested and tamed Into a free wild horse on its very habitat Sat on and dragged with so many heavy things Fed crumbs from our own pots Oh cry! Cry for our land! II Pity our land A land with so much yet thinks so little And was confined by […]
It is sad to hear that Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama was mistaken for a thief and brutally lynched on May 29, 2017. But I am amazed at the fact that this is just getting the attention of the Ghanaian populace now. I will not say it is a Denkyira-Obuasi (Central Region) thing but it is […]
In His Majesty’s quarters Women are flowers to be gathered Into an unharmonious bouquet From colours black to white II In His Majesty’s quarters A step calls for stooges in circled clichés Ones who see God when his shadow Draws in closer drawings III In His Majesty’s quarters The devil’s shed stands for evil check […]
A flying bird in troubled nest Can never have a needed rest A flying bird in a troubled nest Clearly may have no request II I flew from heaven to here Thinking I could find beauty in the road to steer But found a rope around my leg as the ground did cheer […]
Maame Mama Maa Ima The first pillar of contact The first room with the warmest of bedding The first breath shared like a sweet meal The first wall in a kick Maame Mama Maa Ima One who accepts madness for what she terms the blessing of motherhood And feels the pangs of her child’s suffering […]
It is amazing how the fourth arm Works with its arms From acting like robbers with arms To being eyes without qualms II These are the times Growth with accountability rhymes These are the times corruption bells must chime To wake sleepers who throw in their dimes To get fingers acting in mime to […]
Some questions echo and bounce Pinch and scratch Confuse and drain all morsels of words In the earthenware of my mouth One such is what is your favourite colour? II Red is the colour of my blood And is like the bridge from chaos to my peace It is the symbol of life’s fluid A […]
Try not to cry but fly You broken bird on a land so dry Try not to cry but fly The only right thing to get you by II Try not to cry but fly Manna falls not at the sound of a sigh Try not to cry but fly Like antelopes knowing danger is […]
With the arms of the mountains in protection Tell me the brooms that sweep nightmares into heads Show me the airs that aid their heads into homes Is it the calls of horny beads of widows for what fate has snatched from their sides? Or the rumbling stomachs of widowers for their gone lovers? Tell […]
When salt sellers hear of rain On open market days They flip and trip and slip to pray But a farmer waiting to farm gives praises to his maker II We are in a world where same buildings welcome infant cries And send off living souls A reflection of virtues and vices Staring eachother in […]
(To honour World Poetry Day) As the day spells your mention And the rays promise your distinction I bow to the holy minds Which brought you to bind With passionate souls To massage our tired soles From weariness of spirit Giving us breathing chits II You are in countless forms Giving us ready picks To […]
I am a student A student is I Who dresses like a brushed kangaroo With eyes of a determined eagle And the spirit of a meek sheep Hoping to be strong in mind like a blessed ant To grow in wisdom as giraffes grow in neck II I am a student A student is I […]
When songs of nightingales Hit blocked drums of infatuated cocks They cry loss but look hardest Cursing the hearing maker II When the ‘borla’ bird Dreams of cuddling a peacock It shivers at peck-like-axing One that can give away its intestines In a split second III Every struggling soul Like a beheaded fowl Kicks and […]
When sadness sits like a chief Brewing the pungent and ugly grief Siding with all words but brief Stealing a heart like a shameless thief Why do you say fate’s ladle is deep? II When this chick chirps as a bird And its mother finds it absurd As its rival families root for it as […]
We are farmers Farming our kind Tilling our lands to plant Selecting best and compatible seeds for plantation And when the earth houses the seeds We water, provide sunshine and air II We may give too much water When the young shoots emerge We may give too much sun We may even provide winds instead […]
Women The glorious beings of this worldly den The best hearts likened to hens The most gifted of all of life’s pens II Women are the flowers so bright They blossom for all but their thorns do fight Against pests in hurried flight Great agents who fear no problem of height III Women are wondrous […]
We live in the sought after gold Clothed by a land fertile enough to banish the barren We live on a land so expensive Blood so precious protect Only to make us free We live on a land so wondrous Black star lights to guide us through When did a blessed turn cursed? We are […]
I am a citizen A citizen paid by citizens I am like a chicken Fed grains to reproduce grains I am a hunter and the game My effort contributing to my gain So why should I rest in labour? Will a sheep pray for the blindness of its shepherd? II I am a citizen A […]
Almost gone are the days When good songs told stories Stories of morals and uprightness And were whips for wayward consciences To run to the right paths II Almost gone are the days When rivers of wisdom Flowed into empty wells of youth To seal the future of morality and discipline Eternal darkness is falling […]
I always aimed to be a potted flower I envied their supplies From waters carried by muscles To the manure bought to feed Talk less of their pampering of shades and aids And their protection and attention II They were like the dream Which emptied me from their cans of dark bliss Onto scolding thorns […]
If I build a house I won’t house a mouse Mice which crawl in clothes of darkness To eat my rice Rolling my dice And putting my eyes in a quandary of lies Are nothing nice II Roasting on ghost nets After walking on the finest clouds Being toasted on fear fires Like a lost […]
Love is when the heart Stands at the dilemic path of uncertainties and possibilities II Love is when misunderstandings Blow over and turn fun To vaporize into lessons III Love is when thoughts sway afar Sitting with memories of one in a present shadow IV Love is when you open your mind to dream Thinking […]
Legs stand frail Smaller than thighs Which they carry like a huge mountain on two small trees Yet move calculating not That head to waist add to their load That is the power of living with your all II So why will a soul in flight Complain of the burning of the wind? Why should […]
Seeds begot plants Through rot Every ray of sunshine, Every drop of rain, And every bit of air Hold hands to torture for growth The blessed farmer sure must be grateful And considerate II A harvest comes with its history As humans do their shadows Every step praises the ground Remembers crippling moments Feels flashes […]
A step forward Ten steps lost What time has been slow to wash Now sit in filth Filth worse than it had seen Being fanned by flies Oh knives of division cuts through humanity And like a melting cake It gives way to wailing wishes Guarded by suppressing bombs II Tales are told upon tales […]
We have crossed the river The river which made us shiver Keeping us on safe ground All around II We have bossed We have bossed the bosses who consciences checked Regarding none that crossed Now chaos, like clouds, wreck into worst wreckedness III Cockroaches now fly in daylight like birds Flies now rule like eagles […]
As many, their cutlasses wield Like monsters on a game field Please Lord, don’t let my spirit yield Be my capable shield II I know I am not fast My legs, in run, will not in this race last Not with enemy soldiers at vantage points on a land so vast Help me see this […]
The sky sees many monarchs Those whose sadness floods the earth Giving life to most and taking some Those whose happiness burns the earth Warming most, drying fractions and killing some Those whose air barber trees Burning weeds And aiding and abetting fires The sky really sees many monarchs II Amazing how all weathers have […]
Mouths of challenges smile mischievously Even when their hurricanes dance With beasts of chaos Brother of mine Walk through its fires And be its king II Words which walk through the taunting mouths if troubles Can scatter brains as the mad scatters in insanity Brave hearts allow the noise Knowing blessed breezes are on the […]
Shame is the first act which chases As the heart, in pain races Soldier words in mouths take bases Dead flowers of horrid laughter in ridicule vases Such is the cross of loss Turning a crown into a horse With a foe as its boss III A crowd gives worship of pain Darkness tries to […]
There are many dialects tongues drive In this realm called earth Their beauty; to lie on their own fields Being dribbled like a ball with Abedi on a smooth park Time is confusing tongues Mixing strange ones with the authentic Soiling what once was pure and untainted “Mere di Sandwich” You will hear the Fanti […]
I am that I am And all that I will ever be The servant murdered into birth in seconds Feeder of the body in locomotive spheres Contributor to every living’s well being I have my gentle side My exploring side And my fearful side No farmer farms into famine So I whirl in play and […]
I have a heart Whose magnetic eyes see it all From the sighs to wishes from afar Right up to fantasies I can never fulfill But I stay rooted Because of love II I have a mind which murders all And bisect to disect every detail From my traditional thoughts To my bold stance And […]
Closed eyes see best But suffer mistrust and fear Closed eyes feel best But no matter its painful tear It matters not to the open rest II The elders say Children can climb the tallest trees And will never be able to see the needed Wrinkled old men sit behind closed doors With closed eyes […]
Our guest post for today is a cameraman, a cinematographer, video editor and a film maker. He is what I call “all round in the film field”. He is a gentleman, a hard worker and has marked his name on many grounds. He is none other than Mr. Abdul Washeed. For the convenience of this […]
Wool travels through a tree In a pod which explodes to throw it out Lucky hands gather to refine Piece upon a piece into many elegant things Who is a bird to blame hands When it feeds on fruits Stays on trees and Paint its surrounding with its rear vomiting? II A hole can be […]
There are rots Cradling our cots Killing our lot Having us bought II There are filth Even in quilts Causing us to wilt Amidst all spilt III What dies today? Breaths are taken The world is shaken Most are awake And can change bake But what dies from our rots? What dies from our filth? […]
It is funny Very funny how fishes muddy Toy with Waste The water in which they live II They create their storms And shake their grounds They reject the right rains And dig for tsunamis They heat their waters But stay therein Is there a thought to point that out? III Oh big fishes! Digging […]
I was born with nothing No fangs No claws To talk of clothes and rings and slings to cling Look at me now Looking at these crossroads II I was born like mixed flour So light Does the sun boil me like heat Which fans the buttocks of pots As air stirs my content to […]
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