When poverty chains you in life And calls on need to put you in strife Even in the chains do continue to bark Look and see even in the blinding dark II When whips plant on you some aching sores Which cease and freeze your airy pores Never kneel to your chasing flies Never sing […]
We have reached the tree of hopelessness On whose biggest stool branches sit foolishness Who order for your beautified abode After their worked thoughts rode In gains of power And a presence many will cower Odomankomah gye wo man! II We are wearing clothes of indiscernible thoughts Our minds with manipulations bought Advertisements of a […]
So I craved a properly shaved Well chiselled face To be in my face and check my pace His fine red lips in loving sips His hairful hair In a fine trimmed dare I thought I had seen the perfect one Until he got under one bright lit sun Oh where is the half of […]
In this nest called earth Minds differ in colour of thinking As others sit to pray, plan and stand to tan Under the tough skies of hard work Some weave their traps like spiders To get hold of some hunting flies Others look for pliers to take out the knots on others barrows Okukuseku! Nnipa […]
Oh you tears Feeling like streams Because sadness feeds your source On this heavy pillow Think again Even your feeder tires in abusing II A sun will shine To dry you out Even rains from skies have their exits So be not prideful Your today can be erased by a happiness tomorrow Your stains can […]
Why don’t you show The frown you keep beneath your smile? Why don’t you show The fangs you keep and present as teeth? Why don’t you show The claws you keep as nails in my greeting? Why keep a friendly body in daylight And release your natural haunting shadow in my dark? II Fight squarely […]
In this cold Do me hold Even when sold Make me bold You who did me mould II We are in grasses filled with rhyming snakes We are cut weeds being chased by sharp rakes We are vehicles with destructive brakes We are bread death busily bakes Why won’t everything cause fear shakes? III Build […]
We have lived to see a fountain of example seize After watering many a revering We have lived under the disinfection of a lotus Even in this menopausal mud We have seen the rise of an oak even in thirsty soil And we have learnt to dream even in our wakefulness Busumuru, yÉ›dawoase o! II […]
Shame has turned into a cobweb hosting my soul As I look at my once rubbish bowl Sitting in gold Receiving rains of blessings in many fold Odomankomah, forgive this body which sat on its foresight And battled you on a crowded site II The vulture whose best saucepan was the rubbish heap Is now […]
We have travelled through riddles Where subs were added in set fiddles Who at all broke the middles To bring us to this confusion of lonely needles? II We knew familiar binary numbers of hearts In fractions birthically laid out in charts Now positive and negative integers are left to try out Spark fires of […]
It was supposed to be farm stool That every tired farmer could sit in rest It was supposed to be a river Meandering across scary deserts For tired travelers on paupering roads To quench their thirst It was supposed to be a fruited tree For all in hunger A calmer for all in anger A […]
Maame Menka! Call Owusua and Akosua Yaa Bruwaa, Ama Serwaa Afia Adutwumwaa and Eno Boowaa Selikem and Elikem Hasana and Husna To come to my compound now I have seen the area pestle Pounding and breaking mortars of our land! Including the newly built, ones in building And ones whose trees are in the watering […]
Oh how complex is age? Known to have initially been tagged with sages Until dawns saw kings living above sages in new pages! Oh what is the coupling advantage? That a lone femme traveller is seen on rampages All her ails needing attention seeking bandages One who spoke no sane languages Until her garbage can […]
I saw a sun in your heart That I stole to light me up Your proximity is a key Which sparks a playful arrhythmia In the sealed contours of my chest A thief prays to never be caught So why do I steal daily from the same spot? II I believe it is time to […]
It is sad Very sad when a rotten nut Destroys the sweet flavour of a whole pan of soup Who can; tired legs, Needful minds and broken palms run to? A whole tree thought to be Odum Ended up as a beautifully rotten pawpaw tree Waiting to murder an unsuspecting leaner Who made the laws […]
The lightless sky smiles with doom This heart’s sigh responds with gloom For you are the lie which walks the night with no moon II All the promises made in fantasy And all the raw wishes saved in fallacy Still battle these stitches binding this heart III Yet you yell in my deepest cell Still […]
I love Accra Which exist like heaven to a village dreamer But in reality, is a cane soaked in kerosene And smeared with pepper On the skin of a greener pasture traveler II I love the name of Accra Whose birthed names can fill the Korle Lagoon And litter its centre While its pregnant ones […]
All are folding Folding into touches of feelings Eyes will see but won’t know Ears will hear but can’t translate Minds will sit, only calling on feelings To search To seek and tell In the end II A crow may turn vulture in spirit An eagle may look the part of a hen A bark […]
A good farmer tills his land and digs out stumps before planting He is sure to protect the planted Until germination After germination, he sees to irrigate Makes sure the sunlight and air are all apt for the farm He wards off weeds And fertilizes to ensure smooth growth Pesticides are provided to make sure […]
Meet me there There At the blue kiosk right by the street of Nyansakrom For sips of sympathies which sink unfairness in oceans of insanities II Meet me there There To fathom with the power of kabi kyerÉ› w’ase Why thoughts of society seem more complex than man Man who is their sole author III […]
Your talented fingers Can make wholesome my figure From arms to thighs Neck to knees Vein to vein Help, help put me together II All the feelings of yesteryears Bottled and dusty All the failings of months past Suffocating and harming All the brighter routes Missed in blindness All the calling stars in the clouds […]
In this myth we live No matter who conceived All that we believe Is the magic of breath II It lights the eyes So let them look It opens the ears So let them listen It opens your mouth So let it say All that it needs to say III It powers the heart So […]
Fireflies glow to charm the night Darkness always playing their best partner From the intruding moon right down to its stars Charmed eyes only see targets Relegating others into nonexistence I am the one you need to have Not one you have to need II Hearts speak even in separation Minds bond even in absentia […]
The boldness of darkness in deceptive acquisition Is a mystic and hypocritical existence Which abhors the steps of light Even in far distances It’s a little wonder legs turn three Moving without support for the third Chests grow mounds Hoping with no straps for decorum When the law chases II Wigs are rigs in these […]
As existence of breezes Is seen in the dance of a tree I wish you dance in my hair or body For all to see You hidden monsters in my arteries! You surely make me a walking corpse In a walking stalk Not that you care II Haven’t I looked for plasters to you seal? […]
Pain is looking at a difference, in molestation, afar Devastation is seeing your reflection in the bins of others Sadness is seeing minds trapped by slavery And tracing their roots to yours Bitterness is knowing it all with a helplessness That imprisons your confidence Brewing unshed tears in the sky of your heart II When […]
The starting point of every race Births successes The rising point of the sun Births light Just as palm trees have no useless parts Mothers, even in graves, shelter our souls In spiritual protection Who is without a mother’s is Or, in sad terms, a mother’s was? II Like hens, they struggle to hatch Like […]
If structures could turn see-throughs In these cold powered days Many would find what stands true In this raining May II Would be fun to watch As lightening hugs get sticky With eyes magnetizing eyes Lips calling in other lips Veins in arms sending hands on exploratory hunt For pleasures abominable In leisures of weathers […]
Now the day is awake The sky is serving light All that hands will take Will base on a heart so bright II I hope that for life’s sake We work with all our might Like bread in an oven bake Our ends will shine so bright III We have to burdens shake And face […]
It slowly rose like smoke Making eyes teary and red Baking minds like loaves for their feed Then became the weed of love Making many kowtow with their all Presenting their successes and their falls It has now graduated to opium and cocaine combined Building addicts out of thinkers II High on this drug-like serve […]
Imagine your feet on no solid ground Your ears, no tree in sound Imagine your shelter in a hanging And life without farming Now follow the reasoning II Dress not the earth in your mess Even if you are a pig thinking it a sty For you live in the borrowed And should leave it […]
Just as socks are made for feet Hats are made for heads This night, my apparel is beadly My walk, a gracious call in passion’s voice For our touches will be sparkly Under these sheets II Clear your eyes For every step will be a language Every shake pointing to treasures hidden beneath pores Clear […]
Culture is like a cloth Washed for its stains only to develop other taints Time has travelled to see it merged like “nsaasaawa” Making living confusing in acceptables Making flaws contorting in reprimands Time has washed the myths of trousers Now shes freely live therein II Days which picked females like banku And dipped them […]
Here I am A hair on this blessed earth With weak roots Being played by winds like a piece of kite in the sky And watched by eyes as to how far I can go II Here I am In a fearful storm Blinded by the dust of pain Shamed by the clouds of need […]
A pen never acts manly on an oily sheet And true, both okro and cucumber may share a knife But should never see themselves as equals For the slime in the former makes it a cook and eat And the plainness of the latter makes it an instant chop Well, an “anyhow you want it” […]
As wisdom drowns amidst time’s wheels And integrity gets tied to death’s heels Many are the ills that like eels walk in heels On talking tiles mocking our helplessness Weird huh? II Gone they seem, those days when caterpillars were peacefully left to turn butterflies And tadpoles were left grow into frogs Now very young […]
I write this letter in mock reverence of your time You whose mountains of problems hang thorns and stumps On the trees of your dreams Making the closure of your eyes nightmarish And the mattress of your bed hellish Yet find time to look keenly at my strides With eagle eyes when your hawk eyes […]
Blessed are the pure in spirit They are like the cleanest water in a tormenting desert They surely will be there for all Discriminate against none And hate not on any It is a day to wire bells of empathy for a lifetime II He who said broken seeds feed not Has never known hunger […]
Days have travelled to a weary feet And now pulls its shocking seat Of time with all its surprises Of change so strange in range II The cross’ significance sit in revered history Of the old and few committed But serve as archaic artifact for many Whose pleasures outweigh biblical interest III Drunkenness in coital […]
There are many fruits which fail to mature On their mother trees Mama, I don’t want to be one of such fruit I need to be sheltered when storms break Need to be covered when the rains come in Need to be pampered when good air visits And to feel the matured company When the […]
There are clawed fingers Which scratches the core of the heart of loving souls Plucking out happiness and planting sadness Leaving the future bleak and eyes red II They come in their horrid varieties Slow or aggressive And take over the senses in helpless lenses Take over muscles in fearful pulls Take over shame with […]
Daring was her nature Beautiful was her stature Much talent was hosted in her bubbly frame The head of youth popping out of her character at every juncture Defying norms and soothing ears Representing her in the past tense makes me tense Yet a greater hand has beckoned Who is this mouth to ask why? […]
This Face we book Has many pages to flip Beautiful pictures to look Opened relationships to zip Different recipes to cook Vulnerable seams of souls to rip Many addictions to hook Many tears to in sympathy drip II In its town, many a secret sit naked Many a bomb lie unclothed Many a lonely heart […]
I came to you straight from life’s hellish oven With a soul brutalised and so very grief shaken I came to you like a tired lamb With my neck in offering On feet so rebellious because of needs and pain’s whips You held me, soothed me, and magically mended my callouses Like a gentle ice […]
If passion’s flicker did take liquor And whispered these many trials That hang on every life’s tree To flower into fruition To be plucked or pecked, fall or rot Only to reach a cut, break or an uproot Many swim fighters might have failed in competition Intentionally II Yet a real excitement Like curiosity, hanging […]
I live With the body of a lioness But walk At the pace of a snail The earth; a cruel boiling The air; a slapping heat On this road, are monstrous feet And on the sky’s face, is an annoying grin Even the dark seems dangerous As legs with no intent join targeting ones in […]
Varied colours of bees, birds and flowers Will dance under Cupid’s showers With soaps of gifts in parcels of hearts Many in heels on tiles of public stages In fantasies of crumbling perfect sheets In the arms of secrecy Others in sneakers of dignity On woolen carpeted back staged floors Hoping their hearts’ arrows Will […]
Flow with the snow and alienate your rain Giggle in shivers of winter and act coy with thy harmattan Mate summer and pretend its sun is all you’ve seen You melaninos pretending to be dark albinos In strange strange spheres II You are they who hold erasers of the past Cleaning footsteps as they go […]
This morning tastes sour Making the sun frown at its bitter luck In throats are melodies which water sores of heartbreaks A blooming voice has muted Pressed by deaths wicked fingers How I wish death’s father lived in the physical For her soul to date in his hate II The sensuous figure that worked so […]
A flower of smiles In a hand so warm A massaging sun waving from miles In a sky of no harm Greets your morning from the land of my mind II The land of my mind In which I farm happiness in weeds of strife Throwing stumps and thorns into dungeons of past’s behind Carving […]
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