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 […]
Category: POETRY
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 […]
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THIS STORY OF CAPABILITY (Crazy Stanzas)
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 […]
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THIS KINKY MESS
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 […]
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CAN’T FOLLOW
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, […]
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YOUR TRICKS
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 […]
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THIS YGAP FERTILIZER
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 […]
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A HE IN A SHE
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 […]
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SUN OF MINE
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 […]
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CRY THE VAGINA 0F THE NATION
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 […]
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CAGES OF AGES
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 […]
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BLOOD THIRSTY
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 […]
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TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO KNOW
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 […]
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THE STATE OF FATE
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 […]
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BEASTS IN FLOWERS
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 […]
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APPEALING FOR MURDER
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 […]
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TO THE POINT OF GUILT
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 […]
Not every bee around honey is its producer Some look to steal, acting among Not every raised hand is for praise Some are up to act as trap cues I can see the mischievous fans Hiding murderous intentions in fanning While parcelling love with smiling Oh you fake fans! You can try all you can […]
If there is a fire that lights the path of mistakes Surely, fear is its lighter If there is a wire that electrocutes dreams in pregnancy Surely fear constitutes its positives and or negatives If there is a chair in hell Pushed thither in swiftness Fear surely has a hand therein For farfetched fumblings felt […]
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CRACKING THROUGH (For the depressed)
Winds of confusion snake through unseen corners of minds Throwing dust on enthusiasm in the darkness of loving eyes Breaking dignities and will to live All the while working from within to without like a bomb in a living being Without showing signs on bodies So let’s beware II Look beyond smiles And listen through […]
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THE AMMUNITIONLESS WEAPON
Aminata thought and thought Is she to give her youth to this brown leaf Ready to fall off the tree of life And watch her green Musa in another’s arms? The thought brought shivers down her spine But which weapon of a mouth does she have To stand on the battlefield of parental war To […]
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THE BARE BRUTALITY
(Written at the Genocide Centre in Kigali) There is a bitter taste in my mouth Sitting here Here, where spirits of innocent Tutsi’s fight back tears of their loss Here, where their few leftovers go and come Like struck sheep Still knocked out by degrading shocks Even after years are nearing their thirty steps Only […]
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THE PENSIONER-TODDLER
We are here A stop from the suppression there Like the lost freshly liberated We are here Knowing not what is fair Like a set of fowls in hungry-hawk-city II We are here A hop from the crying square Like bloodied and maimed warriors We are here Still fumbling and walking bare Like toddlers III […]
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A HEROINE’S WELCOME
Mark it You, you and you Who have used my most precious thing As tool to shoot my pride Your hands will clap at the rebellion of your heart Soon, very soon When the world asks that you stand To give me a heroine’s welcome II Mark it You, you and you Whose teeth jubilate […]
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INSENSITIVERS
“Eii w’ayÉ› fine o Wo body no aba kama” Whatever parcels of meanings you hide In this sentimental showdown I’ll have you know That I didn’t fetch an angel from my land of pleasure To label him burden Unfortunate are the years of toil Unfortunate are the years of struggle Unfortunate are the years of […]
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ON BEADED WINGS (18+)
On this beautiful day, I come like a knightess, to defray your pickle Oh be in the mood for a tickle For there will be a suckle That will call for an enchanting wriggle Summoning many an amazing giggle So let afrukuto, all-fall-down, azuikoto, som-ma-me-nyÉ” with patrikotum mingle And shame days that documented you a […]
Expectations hide in this day When hearts hide wishes dreamt about in telepathic conversations Maybe Valentine needed bars on his emotions And not his person II There are those who wear beautiful handcuffs applauded By society as crowns Hiding fountains of tears caused by deceptions unmentionable They may be paraded but with their hearts silently […]
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EXPECTATIONS
Give me a stone and I will see the glaring message “Heart of mine, trip all you can, I will be here to catch your falls” Give me ordinary sand and I will smile at the sweetness of thought That says “Even if we turn dust, this heart will you belong” Even the stinking end […]
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ONCE IN A LIFETIME
Overflowing Blood of hearts merged and urged by fate In there, everyday models Valentine’s deeds Harvesting laughter in serene happiness Many are in the embrace Eating from the plates of love with the fork of contentment It makes me turn Michael Bolton’s tune into a question Are you the one he sings of for me […]
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TIME TO COOL OFF
There is nothing wrong with a break After a tsunamic life shake After all, it takes time for scared fishes to travel through rivers Back to their sea after explosive shivers So you in the mirror, take time to cool off II Eyes close take time to open After a whirlwind As its dust takes […]
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TO THE GREAT DAGBON
There is no ingenious cultural counting That Sikaman will undertake Without your number up the charts Your beautiful fugus on your lovely leather foot-wears Your beautiful skins worn on your humble floors Speaking of bravery unseen to all eyes in meet Your fierce and baffling tongues Which leave foreigners in lost realms Oh your many […]
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THIS HOME WE WILL ALL GO
Heads buy thoughts from many sources As to how it is beneath, ha! Untrusting, fearing, praying Souls shiver in spirits which scare bodies But we know the trip is imperative No matter our standing II I know death is an animal unseen That whose teeth tire not in chewing That whose hunt never fails That […]
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THE ME OF YOU
Don’t you know me? Pluck the sun to see my face I am your future Waiting patiently for your present as it comes through your past II Don’t you know me? Buy a moon to look very well I am your final back Which would be seen by all No matter the faces you may […]
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DEVELOPMENT HOUNDS
(In honour of our fallen Tiger Eye journalist Ahmed) You there wake the one napping there Let him wake the one snoring there So we can stand here and wailingly shout Don’t ask what about Haven’t you heard about the loss of a touch in this muddy sea we live? We are shouting to the […]
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YOU’VE BEEN ATE A LION’S EATING
You’ve been ate a lion’s eating Your pot licked clean like an asanka of a famished seer Even the veins in your womb have been drained of blood Which shares your hope to other parts of your emaciated body Why won’t every child come sensely vacant? II You’ve been ate a lion’s eating No wonder […]
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I OWE YOU NOTHING
There is a laughter building up in the grounds of my stomach Laughter which needs thousand voices of lionesses To bring its intensity to ears Whose mouths are shamelessly asking Asking for a family building when they know I just arrived from a war after losing a castle A castle which was bombed after a […]
Educate your root to groom its tree For the tree will in turn groom its flowers And the flowers will bloom fruits in the grooming II A strong foundation is the trusted seat Of a good building So dig well with best pickaxes Clear well with best shovels Mix well the foundational mortar A good […]
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I AM A WITCH
I am a witch! Yes, a witch! That witch who flies on the broom of hard work Through canoes of the night Paddling with rumours of the bored On rivers of the covetous Hoping to reach the sea of success Without your sweats of bother So hide not in calling II I am a witch! […]
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MENZGOLD OR MENZZERO? (Crazy Stanzas)
There has been a huge rain of evidence Spelling FACT in bold Of the rot that pilolo as myth in this nation What does it take to buy the land? Stamps of high stools bought by currencies without solid roots! Pictures of first personalities whose camera is set By fundings whose stem dazzle to blind […]
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NOTHING MOTHERING ALL THINGS
I have been following your mythical silhouette to find its owner Living like a leaf carried by air in the sky of uncertainty Anger mixes frustration and disdain As something seems like anything All in the can of nothing But then again Nothing is the mother of all things Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, […]
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WONDERTROPIS
We have crossed the seas of wonderment To the shores of no surprises Overlooking waves of bizarre shocks whose lost electricity Have turned bubbles, foaming tongues of the ever licking waters, flirting with sands And succeeding only to open and close onlooking mouths Without waking any sound from their belly beds II This is an […]
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REMINDERERS
There are sounds which are better not made There are scars better left under skirts of decorum Just a stick prick, and an infection occurs Old songs of sadness are best left unsung II Care is knowing the hurt path And leaving it to grow weeds of forgetfulness Love is seeing the painful clothing And […]
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WOMANOCOOLTASIES
There are many noisy drums humming definitions of women Abena Amoafowaa Jemremedua My ears have turned bigger than that of the biggest elephant Hugging the ground in listening As oceans of chaotic banter battle winds of infuriated ears. Some define a woman as a bottomless hole meant as a collection bowl by Odomankomah Nana Nyame […]
We have crossed a bridge of a year onto another Another which needs no bags loaded with problems Dragged into its realm Another whose slate can accommodate no old news Let alone entertain old sentimental views Shed it, we’re birthing ourselves anew II Our past can only be the fertilizer of our present The more […]
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CHANGE IN NEED
I am shedding my clothes of sadness Here I am Standing stark naked Awaiting your layers of seconds to fix scars of yesteryears Your minutes to fix heartbreaks of your predecessors Your hours to act as underwears of success Your days to fix all premature greys Your months to put on me clothes of dignity […]
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PRIDE TO DEATH’S FALL
The fingers of days have connived with that of months Joined in by hours and minutes, seconds and nano-seconds Crowned by years to selectively Choose the best part of this heart To dig foundations of pain Building storeys of unforgettable loss through grave deprivation But I tell you today You will search from my hair […]
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A CHRISTMASLESS CHRISTMAS
The Eve was a scarecrow of leaves Pushing hurtful carols through monstrous throats of uncertainties Blood on white background, garnishing taunting bodies Whose teeth in laughter are marks of cannibalism Battling hurts on unfair stages Oh Tearstained Holy Night! A birth garnished by sadness! Foods of fear sit on plates of impending years Burning wines […]
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