An oven when the sun fumes A freezer when the rain spews Chaotic battlefield when tempers rise Pauper worshippers without shame in the light But true serenity stays in Tamale Strong muscles dazzle at work Loud voices call for customers Angry consumers get into their own way Fuming and cursing the patient ones But affordable […]
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I need us to sit In chairs that will fit And speak abjectly Because I am bereft of happiness And I can see the clouds of sadness hanging on your head Forget the pain And think of what we stand to gain We’ve cast aspersions, loathed for public viewing We’ve sat in wild silence […]
When eyes gaze into nothingness Mouth opens unconsciously Ears shut its doors to prevent its neighbours entry And the heart trots listening not to the head I know I’m in the beautiful land of Daydreaming There, I need not pretend I am me all through and through I dance naked in front of whoever […]
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THE CORNER STONE
The junk, joined the filth By the sweeping of the broom With the power of hands Which I loved Sorry to say I was in there Somewhere between the filth And the junk She saw me She looked and swept dust Into my pleading eyes When we were gathered, We were thrown into a […]
The hair on the skin cry out The hair in the nose freak out The hair on the head pouts out And armpit hair ask why? If it is being bombarded with scents It has its fair share Being hidden and suppressed It has its fair share Apart from those who live in the […]
Technology has come to stay. Each day, there is a new invention, discovery, and history being made. Technology helps us, no doubt, but we agree it is one aspect of life which must be blamed for backstabbing and the ever increasing scamming. Now families live in houses but their mouths have turned into their mobile […]
My friend turned foe? I planted in sweat what can’t grow? Welcoming teeth fill my vision Hungry angry claws appear In front of my eyeless back? Not fair if you ask me Why can’t you be in front of my camera? Why hide in darkness If bitterness watered By the water from my stream grew […]
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DREAMS
The sun rises light But it does shines bright It works with all its might Until time for rest is right We won’t forget the clouds They mostly come with the louds They can interrupt the sun But time makes them run I am the pretty sun Who wants to have fun I […]
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WOMEN SHAME-ERS
They hear “fuck you bitches You ain’t shit, damn you bitches, am ma fuck you” But clad in skimpy clothes And shake their properties As overdosed dopers slap squeeze them like unripe mangoes How can you betray your kind, Insult them and brand them useless By dancing to your insults and theirs? Tears of disbelief […]
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 […]
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APPRECIATING POETRY, THE LAYMAN’S GUIDE
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 […]
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 […]
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I CAN’T LEARN
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 […]
You are the reason I live […]
You are the reason I live […]
Words shout and clang In a bouty bang […]
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 […]
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 […]
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OVERLOOKING YEARS
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Procrastinating is a thief of time and prevention is better than cure” are famous sayings known to every tom, dick and harry in this world but the Ghanaian state. I remember my days at the university; a cracked concrete ceiling on a walkway was neglected until it killed a student. It was then that it […]
For years, AIDS and malaria have ruled. They ruled in shaking the very existence of mankind. But their reign has been elevated to the background by Almighty Ebola. Its swiftness in eating away the human in days has hearts shivering in West Africa and the world at large. Humans may be crying but bats and […]
In this life, there are things which are pleasurable when done right. One of those things is sex. There are instances when people engage in sex and say it is thrilling and is worth it. But I think when you are at ease and know what you’re doing is right, then sex becomes sweeter and […]
Drummers drum,
The drumming hands will never fail to drum
When they see a beautiful drum
Like a pro, yours will be next, its rhythm more than perfect
Stomach cut in
"I store all your belongings,
I look through with my crew and throw some out
To make sure everyone is all-right-"
"Then you must be the financial minister"
Buttocks cut in and continued
Oration of chastity Parading of nudity Inculcation of sincerity Akweley passed the test of “Sonimouni” No rice or corn ingestion She was bathed in a river with admonition Of family ties and connection By the gathering of all hands to eat “Ho fufui” Her hands were trained on the culinary Her skills, […]
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WOES OF A VICAR
Stories are told Of a vicar who only preached About hell fire and its recipe He expounded on lies Fornication, Adultery, Divorce, Lack of submission, Quarrelling, Lack of respect, Cheating, And many others His bulky wife had a mouth as sharp as a double edged sword She was a lioness who wore angelic clothes in […]
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THE CROSSER’S CROSS
How grand Pounds and Euro battled not rand Nothing was left to strand All stars stood in their respective stances Eyes feared to blink, for fear of a magic escaping Mouths couldn’t help to gape Knees felt weak with envy Hearts fluttered and imagined themselves us Tears were our evidence of attraction The clothes […]
This leaf is raddled Saddled by the reigns of ageing Ageing which happily flaunts its job To the fascination of time And takes ridiculing as its compliment This leaf is raddled Raddled though it is It has seen all shades of the sun; Mild, seductive, angry, angered, and frightening But none blinded it […]
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OVER-CIVILED
There’ll come a time Pens will write by themselves Seeds will grow themselves Foods will cook themselves Cars will drive by themselves Airplanes will fly by themselves Ships will sail by themselves News will announce itself Houses will build themselves Sicknesses will heal themselves Countries will rule themselves All bodies will be listless And obese […]
Laugh from the heart Because we are here for a while, Only a while. We are balloons We are like balloons; Flat at birth, Blown to be big and beautiful Only to burst Or our air let out Little by little until weakness catches up And little holes make themselves in us Then we are […]
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WHAT I’M NOT
Salad leaves are no kontomire leaves And I am no goat in a coat Coffee is not for the energetic And I am no weakling Heavy furs are not for the heated And I am forever perspiring Losing to make-up is not for the natural And I am no artefact Throwing fists is not for […]
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I AM A WORDSTER WHORE
I am a whore There’s no need to deny I have dated from affable to acrid From brats to bastards, From cute to candid From dull to dunderheads From eloquent to the eleemosynary From foul to fantastic From gullible to giants From heartless to horrible From industrious to innocuous From jesters to jollies From kabuki […]
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UNSEEN EMBRACE
Seclusion in abundance An unhappy witch’s handicraft, perhaps Collusion of voices of annoyance Amidst vocals painting great ambience Still secluded, a bad spirit’s doing perhaps. Blow me cold, blow me hot Blow me right, blow me left, perhaps A good embrace awaits somewhere Somewhere these eyes see not To pull me to safety with a […]
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JACK THE BORE
I am tired of living with Jack Frost Who blows, taunts, jabbers and queerly sings Even when goosebumps in surrender raise their wings He laughs and gains more strength to frost Honey, come and let’s sack Jack Frost I’m tired of being his puppet even during springs He puffs and hardens and makes me […]
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DOUBLE ARROWED SPEAR
Let’s aid and abet the blowing wind To travel across the wretched sea To clear the dust and misty mind Of hate and killings they love to see I can see their thoughts like words on a board They make no attempts to conceal the lot If we stand to watch these in their […]
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