ThenIt started like an unfairnessAnd graduated to discipline-shamingIt did reach a point of divisive awarenessAnd rose to naming and shaming NowYoung seeds act as fruits in bloomingSkipping steps in growth to life’s horrid distress They are brazenly leaving their trees and fallingRotting either close to their mother tree or far far in their rollingAmoafowaa Sefa […]
Listen, those days are goneYes, goneThe days when wives were stamped “good materials”built to bend,to break,to weather every storm you called tradition… are gone Now they rise…equal imperials,Leveling the pig-like habitsyou passed down like heirlooms of ignoranceThose days?Over! So stitch yourself a new mind like a tailor with skillSail yourself a new course like a […]
Hardwork must count for somethingSustenance must count for everything They are like our pipes of livingThey are those whose sweats work for our savingThey’re what we eatSo why do we them cheat? Pay for what you takePay for what they makeFor your fashion and teaching and doctoring and ruling Are nothing without their dirt and […]
The high school students failing in some core subjects has a lot of people talking. I have heard a lot of people who have no business talking on some platforms doing so in such bizarre ways and I marvel at their shamelessness and applaud the bravery with which they spew ‘horrifics’.Madam Janet Nabla of the […]
A smile forms by itselfAt the thought of our time togetherIt was history by itselfAnd I enjoyed myself altogetherFrom the lessons in lifeTo your drive through striveFrom our adorable keep-fit sessionsTo your loving and poignant questionsYou are a blessing I’ve come to knowAnd at the thought of it, I glow IINever have I ever felt […]
They sent a flat chest to save the landFlat chest caused chaos and duped the landOther flat chests did try to workThe more they showed up, the more responsibilities they did shirkUntil you cameSolemn, promisingUndying hope rekindlingHonouring and appealingUltimately satisfyingLoved and praisedUpon the land…until a race showed your caseNot knowing you were a samia …which […]
I heard him saySay he was jealousJealous of the eagleEagle flying freely in the skyAnd I frozeThinking he is overlooking something Something so deadly IIThe sky, to me, is the most dangerous placeWhere weathers are unfriendlyExperiments are dangerousIt leaves you naked to the eyes of manyMany with cruel intentionsYou’ll know not where will come a […]
Majeed Ali called me “Mr. Mum Cee” todayThat was the first thing he had to say…to me early hours of todayAnd I am still processing itThat stubborn Dagomba boy in the position of manFelt I was too strong to be called a womanCome to think of itIsn’t he too boyish to be called a man? […]
You don’t disturb a tree of bees…and complain of stings from angry beesYou don’t annoy me like a fly disturbing my nap timeAnd give me guidelines as to how to react IbDish and be quiet on that unknown slimeAnd let the served choose how to react IIIt is only an inhuman who can drive a […]
I am the polished version you hoped forTried to account forBut failed to even make sense ofI was like that maths test you always failedYou see me newAnd wished you saw some of these traits, even fewBut time did take its time to work on meThat’s the luck of the one you see with meSo […]
This is a lesson learnedTo not be eager to help one so in needFor those are people who have earned…many mouths acting far helpers of your dying feed IIThis is a great lesson learnedThat you’ll become the broken beadEven if your back burned…to be the soil for a needy’s needed seed IIIBecause minds choose to […]
I did tell youYour weight was like a coupWhich would wait for no time to oust youFrom your throne like a foolWho antagonizes his servants…and loses their trust in an internal rebellion…which he will see not until his ending But you told me you’re big bonedAnd your strength was carved and droned…by a hand which […]
You have lived and livedThrough the fires…the storms, the fair weathers…and the aftermathsSo we mourn in gratitude IIFrom shadowing one of the progressive politicians…like an eagleTo acting like a national prayer warriorRight to wanting a political seatThrough to your defeatAll in a body so beautiful…that it looked forever youthfulWe saw a woman whose needs and […]
There is a story I’d like to tellI met this beautiful girl in an uncanny placeStirring banku, sweeping, washing plates, cutting vegetablesI greeted the household and went on to see my parentsThen my sister, Maame Fosua, dragged me to her roomShe asked “Did you see the girl washing plates outside?”I nodded“She has completed JHS and […]
It sounded relievingTraveling back from Ati without stressingIt sounded great, talking and bonding…thinking with like and higher-minded peopleAnd surely it started well Mr. Derkyi drove like a careful eagleSeeing and smelling through the driving struggle He acted the gentleman who saw to the needs of us womenHe wouldn’t engage when he and Aunt Mariska were […]
There are friends like relativesWho can do it all including changing the narrative…of shame to gloryThis is the image Dr. Gbormittah carries He won’t stand to see any of his own shamedHe won’t stand to see any of his own defamedHe won’t stand while others are apatheticBecause he loathes ends which are patheticThat is Dr. […]
This sadnessThis sadness of seeing a different you…smeared and draped in gold…down to leanHas drained some life out of me This sadnessThis sadness of seeing you aloneOn your last bedAs a show for all who wish toWhile adowa dancers and drummers display Has left a gap deep down in my soul For you were and […]
Ɛnɛ ɔsraneGyina ewiemu te sɛ esum kuraƆsrane eeeeei, tie m’amaneɛEwiase ɛyɛ dɛEwiase ɛyɛ fɛNanso nnipa te sɛ kurowaƆnkyɛ na w’abɔ B.Enti nka ka baabi a wo wɔNa hyirɛn baabiara a mɛ kɔƐnɛ ɛhan ei…Ka babia wo gyinaNa boɔ ma me nna ngyina babia ogyinaOnyin ataadeɛ abɛhyɛ meƆhaw adane m’adwenkyɛEwiase gyina babia ogyinaNanso me de mmirika […]
I have many flowery words I can use…to confuse and abuseI have a bubbly personality which I can use…for many to me choose to lay a cruiseI have a head which can trick…for hearts to on me stick without a flickBut I chose to teach…and became one who looks like I poverty-preach IIIs that not […]
Abena mɔborɔwa, ewiase bɔ me pusaWɔn de awareɛ danee aban-kawa guu m’anuonyam nsa…twii no kɔtoo aniwuo kokomuMe de ɔyiaw ne amanehunu firii mu no,Wɔ san de awoɔ bɔɔ me kwaadu wɔ amansan asɛmdibia…ma me dii nkuguo pɔtɔɔMe de apiriapireɛ woo ba baako pɛ,…na wɔn san de ‘ba koro’ suboɔ bɔɔ m’ahweaseɛAfei wɔn reka m’anim sɛ […]
There are many droplets which make the seaI dare an eye to claim to each know and seeEven witchcraft has its boundsBecause they have many houndsSo when you stand on podiums to talkKnow your generalizations do you mock III hear those who claim women feel good by talkingImplying there is no introverted womanI hear those […]
I am the one from a poor family…not youI am the one with many benefactors…not youI am the one who chose to live for the rural poorSo you can serve nationsSo when you bloom, feel the sunBask in the wetness of the rainAnd breathe the best that every air can giveBecause I am living like […]
After the public sympathyComes the forgetfulness leading to apathyBut those who’ve lost partners…fathers…brothers…lovers…family members…sonsWill carry the burden of remembranceSo let the nation give them a chance IIFor they have lost providersThey have lost guardiansThey have lost protectorsThey have lost advisors They have lost partnersThey have lost the umbrellas under which they slept That kind of […]
Whoever births a greatnessWho shone in the arts and businessAnd stands as the lioness…protecting a constituency bigger than mostIs worth the honour post IISo as you shed your human bodyAnd joins the ancestral bodyWords need to be arranged to show you were somebody…somebody who lived and shone and gifted us a she…who does more than […]
In the clouds, where silence weeps,Eight brave souls took their final leapsAbove the earth, in skies so wideThey soared with purpose, hearts full of pride Men of courage, each one uniqueWith lives woven in stories they lived to seekFrom bonds of hardwork, they drew their strengthIn every heartbeat, in every length They answered the call, […]
If you know what a second holdsIn our time which runs and foldsYou will sit not in a world this coldAnd act like a destructive grumpy mould IIAs helpless birds walk their complaining poorAnd average fliers fly up many a doorEagles who own the vast vast skyGet burnt to the ground in a belly-up lie […]
To uproot the concept of tribal wars, we must capture the children so they do not inherit the feuds of their ancestors through their parents. By helping this dream come true, you will help Ghana get knowledgeable people who will help promote peace, thereby eliminating the wars that plague some parts due to chieftaincy. Please […]
Na me mpaebɔ ne sɛ, me rensu mma wo wɔ me mmabaawa brɛ yi muNa me mpaebɔ nso ne sɛ , wo nkra yɛn animanim yi araEfirisɛ na me pɛ wo asɛm bebreeWo maa ewiase hunu sɛ anidaso wɔ hɔ ma obiaraWo san kyerɛɛ sɛ Onyame were nfiri ne mmaWo de afutuo akɛse na egyaa […]
I don’t like memories of you…although they live with meI love that you were a part of me…but dislike your moments of suffering…my moments of breaking…our moments of crying…our moments of parting III see kids your age and imagine you grown… into the handsome teen I envisioned …when I gave you lifeYou were handsome…no, you […]
AMe na me dan bɛn tiefiEnti m’aso ɛsɛ atie-foo ne atie-fiNanso mo nkae sɛ…m’ano ɛbɛ tumi akyerɛ amansan mo trumu-nnwom a mo de retetɛ BMe na me nisuo nni ɔpupafoɔEnti me fata sutrɔ firi nsa a ekura agyimifoɔ ahomasoɔMonkae sɛ, Nana Nyame hwɛɛ aboa biara so…na ɔbɔɔ n’akodeɛ a ɛbɛhwɛ ne so DMe na me […]
As we sit and watch the Bald Eagle…wanting to swallow the Beaver in a power struggleAnd know the Giant Panda…badly wants to add the Taiwan Blue Magpie in ways including gangstaWhile the Eurasian Brown Bear…fights and shoots and bombs the Nightingale who fights back in fearYou must know it is time IIIt is time to […]
I wish there was a way to re-member youOr a way for you to re-member carbon copies of your spiritTo join the African struggle for total liberationTo lift us to a realm of a fulfilling celebration III wish many will get to read youTo win for their minds many a freedom chitTo join the struggle […]
I heard some unsettling news in the morning…which put me in mourningAce confirmed it…and I had a fitI walked through one of Tamale’s storms under a student’s umbrella in the heavy rainsAnd reached home tortured in my brainsLeft wretched with worrying pains IIIs it the Nana with laughter so infectious…and a heart so precious?Is it […]
Your friends are not the wires which aid faceless faces…to write words which you love to embraceYour friends are not the clicky followers…whose unknown footsteps brand you an ambassadorYour friends are not the click baits and the false fansChallenge and call them to realityAnd see if your shadow will meet a shadow from the net […]
I rememberI remember our conversation like it was yesterdayWhen you told me about the medicinal capabilities of cassava leavesAnd the strength of your wife…even in seed-keeping III remember telling you to do a check up once in a whileAnd you laughing it off, encouraging me to turn to our local herbs ratherAll the while fixing […]
She, the whole family on her shoulders, carriesShe, all her people, good and questionable, about worriesShe is the fountain of emotional strengthHer presence in the family is an immense wealthLose her and you lose the light and laughterAnd many good traits go to the slaughter IIShe takes a house and makes it a homeAll in […]
I thought you would outlive meAnd our parting will be long enough to let me seeYour many successes that I now see…were not meant to beThey say He who giveth…takethBut your taking costs many priceless emotional fees IIThe earth which will swallow you is not fairIt should have waited to at least share…a portion of […]
Ɔse aban a ɛte so yi yɛ n’abanEnti bɔne biara a ɔbɛyɛ no aban no bɛbɔ ne ho banNanso Eno eAgya eAban yɛ ɔman yi hyɛnkafoɔƐnyɛ nnipasuo bi banbɔfoɔƐyɛ kɛtɛasehyɛ ne prɔyɛ…na ɛde yɛn aduru saa ɔhaw yi asuɛyɛ Enti fa adwene na di asɛmpaMɛntoa suban bɔne yi so mma no nka IIEfirisɛ aban kɔ […]
Your “I’m fine” is heavily coated in worryYour “I’ll take care of it” is drowning in doubtYour “help” is always frying in sorries of selfYour “I’m glad you’re happy”…is always deep cries for helpWhy do you do it?Just why do you do it? IIYou love everyone but youBut God gave you yourself before any before […]
1.Like a weaving cobwebThe mind is always under constructionEvery encounter reforms it to fit a growth…or an ungrowthEvery lived encounter murders Making people we meet murderers;… good or bad murderers 2.There are good murderersWho can kill ignorance to birth knowledgeThere are revered murderersWho can kill doubts to birth loyaltyThere are great murderersWho can kill hatred […]
Ɔhyiw braniƆhyiw a ɛma ahodwan bɔ honam nsamraniƆhyiw mframakyiriƆhyiw mfifiri yiriƆhyiw m’apa B.Ɔhyiw nieƆhyiw a ɛma Ɛwura Adwoa dware mpɛn nan dakoroƆhyiw a ɛma ntadehyɛ yɛ akyiwadeɛƆhyiw a ɛma ahohoɔ ho yɛ ahiƆhyiw no nie D.Ɔyhiw nieƆhyiw a ɛma abɔdamsɛm yiri fieƐma nsuo dani ntutuo dwane kɔ sieƐma mframa dane ogya wusie ɛde ɛwa ba […]
You are one of the many souls we need on this fieldYes, this field of politics to help buildTo help build Black spirits who were brutally killedThrowing development into a coffin firmly nailedBy corruption, destruction, greed IIYou, are;The workable TRActor which is leveling and overturning the corrupted landTo the point of finding game-changing ORE to […]
01How can you murder ethicsOutdoor its skeletons as hens parade their chicksAnd expect moral teeth to wine and dine to your tricks? 04How can you destroy conventionsAnd expect traditions to applaud your convictionsWhen we all see your naked intentions? 03You’re a vulture with a dove structureA dog acting hogYou are a disaster with a moral […]
When you do it wrongWith a conscience so strongYou’ll feel you don’t belongAs rumours ding dong IIWell, your vigour will fallWith integrity on the floorAll below will use you as a ballAnd your respect will out the door IIISo your power can’t towerYour right orders taste frightYour aura runs lowerAs night sleep takes flight IVSo […]
I look at you and can’t believe my luckI ask myself which of life’s hack…I successfully used to get youJust by a lookI know I was made through you III know I was made through youFor you feel my emotionsAnd love me with such devotionThat the intense love pollution…which nearly poisoned my very coreHas evaporated […]
Once upon a timeThere was a lion whose personality did not rhyme…with many others in its jungleThere were many who wanted to it strangleBut this unlikeable lion rose and took power which it did dangleIn front of all those who wanted to it strangle IIThe lion uprooted respect with fearAnd made many live with at […]
Wo wuo yi yɛ dae a, anka anigye tuoNa me de bɛ ko ɔhyew abufuw…a ɛrenoa m’anisuoƐsan so reto nnwom-nkuguoƐrehyɛ m’akuma tuo IIƐyɛ atesɛm a, anka me de huro buoɔ na ebɛdi no dɛmAhyɛ ɔkonkonsani abotisɛmAma w’ato ntorɔ anansesɛmNa wɔn afura aniwuo te sɛ wɔn akokyɛm IIIWo bra kosi wo wuo…gya me nisuoW’ahofama ne wo […]
Those standing left and those standing rightCome, let’s engage in a destructive fightLike two elephants at their destructive heightWhen we work for power…and see ourselves tower IIOh come and let’s fightLet’s destroy all that past toil did buildAnd go right back to the nothing fieldHoping to use weak minds as many a strong shieldTo push […]
I know no one can taste the fruit of this treeAnd not yearn for it daily by their soul’s decreeBut once this tree cuts you offYou need to see all your feelings offFor you were tested and failedOur ship sunk after we sailed IIYou were not the right tenderYou can’t now be a menderYou failed […]
I dream a dream we cease to screamDivisions and blames oh so extremeAnd tend to the land we collectively ownSo corruption and lies will be overthrown III dream a dream where elections endAnd all the parts form whole to defendThe Motherland which needs all our working careFor life for her children which she holds so […]
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