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 […]
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KELVIN RASHAD ALLANDU (An Elegy)
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 […]
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THE ULTIMATE
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 […]
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MURDERERS ENCOUNTERS
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 […]
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ATIFI MANTƐM ƆHYIW
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 […]
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TRActor and Ore (For Ibrahim Traore)
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 […]
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UNHIDDEN SKELETONS
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 […]
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A STRONG WRONG
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 […]
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MADE THROUGH YOU
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 […]
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THE SILENCED LION
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 […]
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MAAME AMA DONKOR (An elegy)
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 […]
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POWER SHIFTERS
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 […]
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DREAMS OF NEED
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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A NEW DAWN
When the stakes turn in the lowsAnd leaders become foesMinds thought dumb fight egos thought highestGhana’s pulse beats as a political conquest IIBut we wait with held breathsFor freedom in life or socially horrific deathsOh we are still in greyAs we can be led astrayIn a corrupt decay and gagged say IIIFor we walk like […]
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THUMBS STUMPS
Like market sellers, you can sell your thumpsAnd like poor passengers, you’ll feel the rough bumpsIf you recklessly cast your voteThere are many things you have to noteLike not electing ones who will themselves devote IIThere are many buying your peace with future chaosWearing angelic wings to cover their true apparels so deviousThere are those […]
Dear God,When times are rough and I can’t be toughRemind me that I am enough…faults and all IIDear God,When times I need are times unrightRemind me that You fitted times to be right…even when I dread a fall IIIDear God,When I feel pressure before a treasureRemind me that all great things are yours to measure… […]
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ENCHANTING BLISS
I look at herShe who was thought uglyNow nearing a time deemed wrigglyAnd I can’t help but her beauty unbearWhy ugliness stood out of her beauty…is something age is yet to answer III look at herStrong from many broken piecesOne who lived under losses as bossesAnd walked through chaos to find peaceStill struggling from sudden […]
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DIFFERENT BUT SAME
Your religion is not my religionBut we live the same missionsTo satiate with pieTo hate in a lieTo hurt and cryTo live and die So be kindFor nothing is a bindExcept body and dust Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © November 9, 2024
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THE DEVIL THAT I AM
I turned into the devilSitting on necks of the pious with my evilForcing them to collect hammers from heavenTo hit me with an unsolvable burdenHow so? IIThey called heavenly fireWhen Saturday stood in front of a fading FridayAnd pushed a sleeping MassiahTo shut me down like a weevil with no sayWhy? IIIBecause I called them […]
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A FAIL PASS
It sucks the life outAs your inners like angry hippos shoutIt pushes your soul into a boxing ringAnd forces you to walk about…waiting for a heavyweight who you will fling…to your many hurtsAs shame with you flirtsYou feel more sadness than a clean lossAs your conscience do you tossPushing your head into a bowed positionEven […]
Never have I seen intelligence metamorphosing into dumbness…at a primeSo have I never seen diligence dressing down…in growth timeI stand in this mirrorTo narrow down this horrorOf me wearing a tag of dumbness…in my prime IICould it be?Could it be I’ve run out of knowledge…drained by muses into a sewageAnd standing as a sorry storage…of […]
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LOSING TO LEARN
Losing is not a sweet potionAs it is like a stinky river of emotionWhich touches sanity and causes corrosionAnd causes spirit’s demotionBut losing humbles highed-arroganceAnd gives humanity in heart a chance IISo I am taking off my clothes of winsAnd accepting my gaps as sins I am willingly sitting in the tutoring binAccepting critiques as […]
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A TASTE OF FAILURE
I always wondered what failure felt likeI now know what it feels likeIt feels like sitting on a thorn-spiked bikeWith the inns of your soul hollowWearing sad clothes of sorrowWondering how you can face tomorrowI felt this only under the umbrella of Guns III did know what those who failed looked likeMany looked like they […]
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TO BE A RETIRED TEACHER
One will ask what is required to retire…as a teacherIt requires wearing resilience as an attireLiving like a pillar of strength…and a fountain of sorrowIt requires eating disrespect…and commanding respectIt requires dancing to the whims and caprices of studentsAnd facing the judgements of colleaguesIt requires talking, watching and listening…like a god who is always on […]
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UNDER GREATEST OF LEADERS
This is the taleThat it went to a dead mailThey didn’t bother to callAnd watched my spirits fall III remember my many a callOh they keep playing my emotions like a ballTelling me to prayAs that was all they could say IIIWhatever makes grown learners’ leaders workProbably pushes them to shirkWhatever makes learners’ leaders get […]
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PAINFUL FRIENDLINESS
They watch in dismayAs I walk like an ox so gayFor I fell not into their pretentionsTo enhance their victorious intentions IIThey wanted me to have no legsThey wanted me to painfully begThey wanted me in a sickness pegSo they could hang me on their wordsTo show men the power of their tongues IIIBut I […]
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UMBRELLA OF GUNNERS
Where did common sense goIn a knowledge bank which acts so slowAs real work stands at no showIn a realm which frustrates their own future? IIWhy are they chasing promotionsDetrimental to their charges’ demotionsAnd causing frustrations and commotionsIn hearts structured to fit their future? IIIIt is horrid, seeing birds frustrate their boarding treesIt is heartwarming, […]
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VIRTUAL INSANITY
The eyes are windows to soulsHow many of us enjoy their views?Now we live for virtual “lols”Neglecting voices whose needs are duesWhich we must pay for real “lols” IINow horns of cars don’t warnDrivers must conceive care and drive like snailsNow earpiece-chokes are bornTo block listeners from hearing horrid wailsOh how did we get here […]
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JANE NAANA OPOKU-AGYEMANG
Like a little child…I get excitedBut the past into the present makes me wildAnd put out the hope your appearance lightedThat is because of the umbrella that was shot downParaded, in the full glare of our townTime and time againIts political podiums have blessed us with lying tonguesWhich cast doom on our weltanschauungWill your tongue […]
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ME YƐ ƆBOTAN
Me yɛ ɔbotannsuo bɛtumi ayiri afa me soAwia bɛtumi ahye me kosi sɛ ntutuo bɛ bunkam me soEgya bɛtumi ahye me ama m’ayɛ tuummNso mɛ kɔ so ayɛ ɔbotan B.Me yɛ ɔbotannnipa mpimpim bɛtumi afuru meAbɛ tiatia m’apampa soEbi bɛtumi abɛgyina me soDe apiri Ɔbɔadeɛ asotieEbi bɛtumi agyina me soDe akunkum wɔn atamfoM’ɛkɔso ayɛ ɔbotan […]
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TO BE A WOMAN
To be a woman is not just a frameIt goes deeper than a burning flameAnd is more difficult that a lioness’ tameWith a tiredness that is oh so same…every day II.To be a woman is to have earsSharper than spearsEars that sifts its hearingAnd saves many from the tunnel of the mouth IIITo be a […]
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ASƐM SƐ BƐ
Sɛ aniwa mu abufuw tumi kum nnipa aAnka Abena Jemremedua…m’awuYɛhwɛ me benkumHwɛ me nifaHwɛ me tiiiKwɛ m’atikɔTe sɛ ɔbonsam asraafoɔ a wɔn ɛrehwehwɛ me mogyaAdɛn aMa ti amansan amaango korɔ a esɛn prɔyɛ wiemuAbena m’ahyi B.Na wɔn dwene sɛ me de suro bɛ guane te sɛ ɔpɔnkɔ a w’ati prakaNso me de abotrɛ tenaa wɔn […]
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JOBS FOR SALE
Akwasi is capable…reliable…responsibleAnd can raise the output of any institution with his skillsBut many a rejection holds a machete which kills…his will and piles on him unpaid billsBecause jobs are for sale IIJobs are for saleSo Abiba has nervous legs which sit notBut shares letters which many officers claim they “forgot”When she calls to get […]
There were times I lived like a shellLoneliness making me taste a chunk of hellThere were times uncertainties did me sellWith panic of a lonely life acting in my head as a loud bellThere were times I was in a jealous cellEven as many saw me as a perfect pearlIf I knew my special home […]
In my search for lightCrawling through thorns of frightYou switch on a saving lightHolding my hand and leading me right…to a goal now bright IILet the world know you became my wordsWhen fear rooted me in my steadLet the world know you were my moneyWhen my torn pocket did laugh and acted funny…at my hard […]
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GEN ALPHAS
This is your worldA world where words wear woolen wrapsTo cushion offenses hitherto known as crapsEmboldening culprits who should wear shame…on societal stages IIThis is your worldA world where perfection pushes people to make upsTo points where recognition hides in binoculars of the higher upsMaking natural beauty pale to those…who must wake up IIIThis is […]
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CALLING ON SCHADENFREUDE
Eat my gratitude and vomit it as blameDrink my care and sweat it as disdainWear my tenderness and discard it as tattered insanityYes, all my good to you will always be vanity IIEat my love and defecate it as hatredUse my advise and project it as overratedWear my support and project it as wickednessAfter all, […]
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RECYCLING GARBAGE
We had pure cornThen complacency forced us to grow a big hornWhich made us discard the cornFor its leaves and huskWe created junk, praised it, then cried until we were forlornThen threw our precious junk away to bask…in delusions for beginnings we should have long won IIThat is not the worseWe live in a forgetful […]
Ɔman ti paƆman akoma korɔɔnƆsaagyefoNkrumah Show BoyKukudareƆmangyefoAbibiman twerɛduampongYɛn awia ɔsrane ne kanea a ne nkae nyera daƆman ba papabi a y’ahwiri! IbY’atu mfie kwan firi nkoasom mere mu abɛsi nnɛNso ɔmanpanyin biara nsene NkrumahƆno na na ɔyɛ nsa a ɔne n’afɛfoɔ ɛɛnwene Abibiman bɔ mu te sɛ ntama papaƆno na na ɔyɛ adwene a ɔrehyɛ […]
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AKƆKA ABƐKA ABƐSENE
Konkokoniko kyinkyiniiAboa Apapu afuru apata asi fɔm…akɔfrɛ Oguan ne ƆkramanAyɛ n’ano te sɛ asɔsɔAkɔdi nkɔmɔbɔne afa aboa Ɔtwi hoAma Ɔkraman akɔ pɔ sɛɛ wo wo wo wo…ama amansan ati B.Konkonkoniko kyinkyiniiMmoadoma nyinaa asu ama Ɔhene Gyata…afrɛ yie ne nhwehwɛmu ɛdi aboa Prako adi ho kyeameAma w’ayɛ asɛm no fi pɔtɔɔAkɔfrɛ Ɔtwi sɛ ɔmmɛ yi n’ano […]
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DEATH’S DEBT
When years pile on death’s debtsAnd the body is unable to payEven when the spirit wants to be keptAnd the soul has a lot to sayFate’s unwavering stancePushes through mortality’s romance II.So sit, stand, seek, sailDo, dial, dress, danceLive, loathe, learn, loveClean, cry, care, cleanseSeek, soar, speak, stormThe earth, with your rains of emotions For […]
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THIS IS ME
This is meA gem wrapped in problems unendingTrapped from a catapultAnd thrown straight into a gunOnly to be found in a bombBurning all but the pained me IIThis is meWho sailed as an unwanted canoeOnly to be broken apart to become paddlesUsed on a broken canoe which drowned at seaIs it a little wonder I […]
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THIS VESSEL
1aI love this vesselIt has taken me through many battles without hassleFlown me through turbulent skiesRidden me through fumes and criesFerried me on angry seasWithout as much as asking fees 1bI love this vesselOnly I know of its horrid everyday hustleBut it doesn’t give many sighsHas told me no byesAnd has pushed out double hi’sEven […]
M’akɔpɛ asɛm anya asɛmBɔɔla so anomaa gyina me so ɛre pɛ ntɛmAma ɔse ɔde m’akoma ɛrekɔma adɛnkyɛmEfirisɛ m’ani ahunu ama m’ano aka n’asɛm B.M’akɔpɛ asɛm anya asɛmHwan koraa na ɛka kyerɛɛ me sɛ me nkɔka n’asɛm?Me nim paa sɛ ne yɔnko ne apɔnkɔ, akɔreɛ ne adɛnkyɛmWɔn a wɔn tumi dani ntrɔ fitaa nokware asɛmNti m’ano, […]
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The awakening
Picture that one girl who looks in the mirror and her mood changes.The same girl who’s always afraid of speaking out because she’s scared people will laugh at her.The same girl who becomes the butt of all jokes when she’s with her friends, family and even strangers .The very same girl to laugh at herself […]
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DARK CLOUDS
Clouds which refuse to falland refuse to scatterwhat do I anticipate? IIClouds which refuse my sunand refuse my moonwhen will you emancipate? IIIClouds which hang to destroycatastrophes enjoywhat will you placate? IVClouds which hound and boundsend winds to shatterwho can your matter adjudicate? V.Clouds which harass to embarrassand kill to stillwhat will you next truncate? […]
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THIS PART OF MY SPEECH
Should I look for a powerful nounOr look for a powerful verb? Should I turn into an adjective to accompany you in your nominal formOr turn into an adverb to describe you as a verb?I hate to think myself a conjuctionJoining you as an independent clauseTo another dependent clauseI hate to think of myself as […]
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THE FALLEN SLIPPER
When you were newYou were fresh like dewAnd those who needed you were not fewBut you chose to this master, like a cat, nestle and mew IIYou were used like a toilet brushWhile being flattered like a wanted crushYou were used like a toilet rollSo you stuck throughout the thorny hard and long strollHoping to […]
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