It is a day of creeps Trees want to climb the climbers Guns want to hold the hunters Hoes want to hold the farmers As if that is not enough; Songs want to sing the singers Preachings want to preach the preachers Television wants to view the viewers As to why? Defiers they say abound […]
With tears you pleaded For something I thought I never needed In suspense of what the future holds I conceded Little by little, to love’s call I heeded When you shouted for issue sharing I yielded When I doubled my steps your voice made me receded Together what seemed like a beautiful cupid farm we […]
There is this deadly eater Which eats through even sweating A sneeze gives it sharper teeth To chew the human from inside Merging blood is its travelling aeroplane Pleasurable kissing its smooth vehicle We’re lucky the air begrudges it Or it will wipe us all out Lovers must be shunned When they are caught […]
So he gave the head for thinking Strengthening it outside for carrying And he gave the eyes for looking Looking at everything, no discriminating He gave the mouth for talking Giving it a hose for eating And he gave the ears for listening Listening to everything, no discriminating He gave the hands for touching Touching […]
Many people find it difficult understanding poetry, so they abandon the subject and conclude that poets are “confusers”. Some poems are straightforward but not all of them share this feature. Some poems twist our minds to make us dig deep to find meanings. With poetry helping me through many of life’s challenges, I have realised […]
When I sniff and sniff I think I stink and stink When I blink and blink I think I’m blind an blind When I listen and listen I think I’m deaf and deaf When I walk and walk I think I’m a crippled cripple When I touch my hair I feel I’m bald and bald […]
I have always dreamt Of having beautiful features To fly close to places in the sky Where my eyes’ lovers lie But my mother Always told me Fishes swim They do not fly No matter how I flapped my tail Bobbed the water and jumped, I reached no further than deeper my waters My […]
In my tired dream I crossed a vast stream And saw Love gleam I caught a hold of its seam And asked that he had a chat with me, I can’t tell for sure if his sure was a beam “I am not a dog To do all your bidding I am a servant […]
Three friends met to play But none had anything to say Toothpick suddenly begun complaining That his work always leaves him nauseating Toothbrush told him to stop the whining As that is his itinerary every morning and evening Cotton wool cleared his throat And asked if their suffering exceeded his Toilet roll who was passing […]
I bowed head To fight my thoughts And closed my eyes To shut the void Only to feel a tingle On my leg What alien snake Aims to bite? I turn on my senses And see the commotion It is that borrowed Brazilian hair Things alien Need some getting used to. Amoafowaa Sefa […]
I have lost my way I saw Ama And I didn’t know what to say She took Yaa’s man and made her single Could it be karma at play? She had her lips and cheeks Soiled with blood And her eyes blocked With divided whiskers of rats Her hands disabled With claws of a tigress […]
“What beauty! The worldly materials they fancy I must be among So I can also belong” Now I see my mistake I sold my freedom For materials I cannot take When I enter the pores of the earth I have been tied with ropes of demands Which tightens at my failure Where is […]
Papa, I don’t know what to learn When you say I should learn, I can’t say know They say “cell” is not “sell” “Bank” has different meanings But has no tag for differences They say soul is not sole That you can see one and can’t see the other They say sort is not sought […]
Stillness, In the land that was shaky is stillness Which floats in the cold, this stillness Abounds It was trust It was trust which caused this stillness Trust for respect on corruption In this town There was merriment There was merriment when he won, No wonder, disappointment sits in stillness And weighs […]
We are children With clean big slates And long white chalks We will write, write and write Until we get life right We will see it all And will heed when there’s a call We will rise when we fall. We have play in store As we will have work in store An important […]
Now in the arms of money Lies the fairest of beings Kwaa Attah, being a bird Whose wings have been clipped by The sharp teeth of money What will be my fate? I watch as perfectly painted beaks, Claws and faces saunter like Angels in perfect outfits walking on rainbows into arms of apes […]
Symphony, Your breath and mine are in harmony So going in different paths will be a felony Blimey Asking for more will be pure gluttony We, even in a desert, will form a colony Isn’t it an irony That we lived like cat and mousy And now our union is branded as […]
My whole life, I’ve had to deal with many Africans who either hate white people or begrudge them for looking down on what they term “coloured people”. I’ve also had to deal with those who think all whites are superheroes and worship the grounds on which they walk. I do not have any problem with […]
Charley Pee Come and pee Don’t you pee On your hot pants Cos your mum Will never find it fun Do the right thing And be free Don’t cry out Don’t you pout Just sit here And learn to grow Cos your blessings Will fall in that way Good, good children Love to learn […]
You were my friend I never disrespected you Your instructions I carried Your worries I quenched I thought you saying goodbye in your sleep Meant your instructions have ended So why are you stuck in my head Criticising everything I do With a whip of conscience? Please show your face And stop haunting A whipping […]
The love story of the sea and shore Pushes me the fore The sea met the shore Merged and formed the sea shore They went for many tours Aiming to extend their territory They shared their all; The sea cooling the shore, The shore being the chair for the tired waves They held hands […]
You are the reason I live […]
You are the reason I live […]
Words shout and clang In a bouty bang […]
I have developed this habit Of watching you sleep Because you have made it my habit With your peaceful countenance in sleep I think I’ve forever found my sleep In your pretty beautiful land of dreams And if you so much as deny me entry I am positive my nights will be jail Like a […]
Atia the tailor met a sailor On a dreamy angry shore He made his scissors his siren to call The coiny pocket of the sailor who toured He got what he wanted And won the contract Of an oldy tattered shirt He cut away the hands in broad day The sailor saw he […]
In my weakest moments The ant always has the greatest comments; Take it as a stage Or a story and hurry the page If only I had the mouths to spill My horror stories will the world fill A tooth that will break, does not need a vigorous shake It can embarrass […]
I sit here Sorrow eating my judgement Pity nursing my hurt And shattered pride killing My thoughts My perfume of dejection Has taken over the town The salt in my tears are Being extracted to prepare Commercial and home cooked meals Which body do I wear on this soul? Which face do I […]
It is a little over a month since the disappearance of Theophilus Tagoe popularly known in showbiz as Castro the Destroyer. No one knows if he is dead or alive and we’re all grieving over it. The Castro I watched from afar is a good singer, no doubt, but like all singers, not all songs […]
The same tick tock Which grows the plant Is the same tick tock Which kills the plant Every leaf, stem and stalk Will dance to the tune It grew to love And learn to detest its hands and discipline A time for one, Tick tock will pass And will never bother To take […]
In fear’s arms panic cuddles Feeling safe and on top of threats The lovers push their victim to the wall Crushing it with their hands and teeth Ofori never knew their trick The fear of ebola drove him mad He took to his heels and run frantically Into the opened arms of fever […]
I am from here But I’ll not hide it under a sneer The Africa to detest Must be detested by all Under the bright sky, A lone traveller walked Time beating him As the moon kept him watched My continental people saw he was vulnerable And thought of what their spiritualist had said […]
Never meeting its production, A machine lied cold Disobeying instruction And its defiance showed All productions went in the way Of other machines which were ready But this machine had nothing to say And looked keenly but had nothing to study Its master got angry And stopped its oiling And told all and […]
What is happening in Ghana? Even protection from the deadly ebola disease is non- existent. We are not sure of security at the entry points and now it seems measures to protect citizens are seriously being affected by bureaucracy. What is happening? At this point I am thinking of my safety and that of my […]
Set me a boxing ring And pair me with years, Bring them one after the other Years are proving troublesome With every step they give more weight to the mind Years must be slashed generation after generation backward To take back the weight on the mind Since we cannot empty the ink in their […]
“When I call, I need you to fall” What? Talking to me? Like trees, we all have our thoughts Goats don’t know the difference Between their mothers and lovers If you ask me, I’ll tell you You’re no goat and I’m no mother of a goat Neither am I anything close to its […]
For a mystic unknown Much hatred is shown For a mythical blessing There are many hate lessons So this one says hurtful things to that one And that one cuts the ear of this one And the brother of this one kills that one What is their aim? To please one who has never been […]
When I was young, I remember I was a devout Christian. I prayed and prayed for others and sang so well at church. But growth came with the realisation that religion is psychology manipulated. Its main purpose is to use what is morally upright to cage the mind and subdue our animal urges (which they […]
When passions erupt And sanity prevails Chaos abounds We met as enemies Found a common ground Until our hearts were chained By an un-openable lock Then your head generated heels Then my head generated heels We went to places our hearts screamed We went to places where misery reigned And now we are […]
I can tell you pride has been sold For power in my home For the first man status, a sheep clothe was worn. To be the keeper of all, A known affluence was paraded But a lion could never stay in a sheep clothe forever It tore free immediately it landed on the stool […]
It is a perfect creation A machine to sieve and produce One to give pleasure and satisfaction Not an imperfection calling to be perfected It is a machine of perfection Which cleans itself with every growth And has the decency to close and open Under the instruction of a mind on top There […]
A land of plus A land of negative, A flower of happiness A flower of sadness, Life Death, They are three and three Though everyone identifies with the flowery, The negatives have been ordained from above So their powers bluff rejecters Because they know they are boarders to their journeys When rejecters reach their […]
I wake to a void An emptiness and an ache I am like the calabash without content, The river without water, The house without a tenant, The president without citizens, The bulb without light, The beautiful valley without lilies To what end can a smile travel to my face? If only donkeys knew the […]
No matter the level of drought In the sky There’s the occasional dewdrop A little is better than none None is none So who wants none When he can have it all? Let tongues travel Across the sea and back Making me infamously famous It is a starved plant which hears its stomach […]
He was my bodyguard And became my cover cloth Then turned into my sweet dreams Like an effective god He ruled my world Without him, all malfunctioned Then a flirty wind blew him far Into the arms of a fiery witch Who had a battle with love I saw, I wept, And […]
If you see a cranky old Asante Think no further; He’s been denied “fufu” for days If you see a cranky old Northerner Think no further; His smoking “pito” has been stolen by the kids If you see a cranky Ewe, Think no further; He’s been denied :akple”, hot pepper and keta school […]
How can I paint? How can I paint a white sheet white A black sheet black, A red sheet red, A yellow sheet yellow And a green sheet green? What will I be showing to the world? You claim I paint you When you clearly paint and stand out What I paint is what is […]
An ugly fixture Can be a god A horrible mixture Can be a cure In my worst I try my best To make me a god Once in a while Then like a peacock I spring back to life, Stretch my wings And let the world see The me which slept. Dear friend, […]
By a dint of thought She realised she’s always fought Fought for the general umbrella of her faith Fought for the general umbrella of her tribe Fought for the general umbrella of her gender Fought for the general umbrella of her family Then why do the rains flog her? All the rains flog […]
Don’t crush the skull You must be distraught, I know You are a sufferer Because many pull your skin Wanting you to follow their path to a creature across the sky A path that they claim has been hidden behind death Don’t crush the skull You must be tired like stuck bottled water wanting […]
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