Ao! She has told me blankly I went to bath my hair But I ended up staining my ears Abena, I have heard it all now II She says I have a hole like her And I need a digger, lest it fills up with dirt She said she has been studying me like a […]
We are like varied but same flowers Pretty in different shapes, colours and sizes We are like flowing rivers Bubbly and dense but burning by rocks beneath We are like opposing reflections Speaking in weird deflections Making dumb demi gods weak While stabbing ourselves with our double edged daggers Yes, we are that twisted II […]
We are like hens Hens are the pens Which write lives Hens pave way for cock men To help write lives So I tell mothers: You are the lands Which keep the well You are the hands which feed all mouths You are heavenly gateways For blessings untold You are the pores of heavens Which […]
They are miracles Miracles who suffer to give Giving the world miracles Too bad many don’t see II They are miracles Miracles whose love are unchallengeable Loving unconditionally Too bad many don’t see III If there were to be a fee For every second a being stays in I am sure that work will be […]
It is the cook Whose blame is booked When the taste goes bad Like a stinking spoilt fish So women! Do cook the lads so right! II You worship your creation Into demi god-ship When they seek for worship From your future yous As you’ve always worshipped in tears Book your blame For you are […]
You are not to blame Go on and shame The sheep who offered Its centre of gravity To hoard a trash whose sounds are so harsh Is the one who needs a mourning II You are not to blame Just go on and shame Since you have no centre of gravity Open you trash and […]
Flowers in colours What are you blooming to show? Attraction to your nectar? By droppings of scents? “Dib dib dib, dibi dibi di haa Dib dib dib, dibi dibi di haa” II Flowers with paints What are you painting to show? Erasing of age routes? Concealment of colour? “ka ka ka, Kai Kai Kai […]
The widow Has shut hurt windows Which need opening in love Where accusations are rolled into bouncing balls Thrown and blocked into its little tiny holes It turns into a bomb Which blasts to ashes What little will there is II Please, have compassion At least, have a heart Like a mirror on the wall, […]
Ha ha, hehehehe, hmmm “Akosua is a ‘kosua’ A ‘kosua’ which needs a holder A holder with veins feared by the earth But she fears palms” *** Really? *** Oh elders like shelvers! Elders with clippers! Elders with machete tongues! ‘Odomankoma Ahunu Abobirim’ is a generous God So generous as to make Akosua legs, hands, […]
My blood boils like water on fire! Who steals from a sacred temple That once gave him sleeping space? Must be an it! II Who acts evil Grazing holes that hid him from his enemies When they chased his formation? It must be an it III Who embarrasses a goddess Whose tears turn into rains […]
When the hands of night embrace As sounds tell of mosquito hunts And beds cry for their weight And rains fall on benevolent roofs Loneliness sit close to this bedside Marking time in loud tickings II Then thoughts become restless Walking on the mind of this old maid Whose society deem useless because it has […]
She left her smiling alter Knowing not she was going in for a slaughter Oh why is she being pounded in a mortar? Somebody’s precious daughter! II I hear she had the greatest court Knowing not those days were for her to be bought Now she sits in thorns smiling but hot Can’t say what […]
Who are the flowers Wearing their thorns Calling for fairness Hitting and biting admirers hard? II Who are the roses Burning opposite noses Claiming they’re bosses And hitting hard in doses? III Listen to a fellow say; Every rudeness has a pay You’re not superior in any way You fight for fairness Then be fair […]
In this era When there is a war of gender Which seeks for us to surrender Who are those calling for cheap smiles to be rendered To climb societal ladders? II Who is acting like a chameleon? Changing spots in gender reflections And using ambitious temples as cheap brothels For gains? This is insane! […]
Weak? No! Never! Flowers from Ghana are never weak And I’ll tell you why II Long ago, while warriors were killed And the king was caught And what bravers there were hid, Yaa Asantewaa stood tall And she was a flower from Ghana III Even those who raised their hands And flagged gender opposites as […]
We are fire And your desire You make us tire Pushing us into situations dire Yet we are still the fire Which goodness require A few pushed may desire To burn some blues But we’re still the fire Which breeds warmth in this empire II Know we are the world Know, we build the world […]
You sit and watch, The hands which has a fenced mouth Through which your disrespectful sermons walk out with ease, Touch and caress your sacred temple As its legs kneel in the tightly closed doors of “mock to” ears And you do nothing? Shoot him! Shoot that freaking son from a rabies dog! II […]
When farms of greens are cultivated And the farmers are without harvesting tools And the farmed lack the strength of nutrition Chaos abounds How these farms get farmed By allowing the farmers to farm to harm Beats minds which care for ready farms Please get green farms to term Please get green farms to grow […]
“I need to rap No one should tap I’m not on laps When impressed, just give some claps II I’m now a bird I’m not on a bed So why are your eyes red When I’m building my shed? III Let me live like an eagle And soar like an eagle No need to act […]
Wrapped in beauty Are the rots with shiny eyes Booting goodness With their long legs of deceits and fancy II Wrapped in the rots Are the goodness sent to hell By heads doped in the rot Into the reverence of its essence III A world, so harmed By bad, so wrong Yet minds, don’t think […]
Television hosts in Ghana hardly impress me especially when they host interview programmes but The Delay Show blew me away the first time I watched it. I felt the host had depth, could push, could intimidate, and knew how to get the answers she needed (And she still does) and so hardly a session pass […]
I no want be man Why I go dey want be man? Woman dey be waaa II Them no dey fit cry Them always dey shave shave beard Wet dreams, na wetin? III I no want be man Africa pressure no small For man, them sweat pass IV Them always dey beg […]
When dangling bells Sound to their importance sell My chest pots do bell II They do bell and tell Of trees of God’s perfection Seeking reaction III Do they produce fruits No matter their hoarding years? My heart calms its fears IV I’m the only house Of mobile humanity Made by the […]
Maame told me not to wriggle Because it will make many eyes do the tickle But a step from leg come with a wriggle And I saw no eyes do the tickle So I wriggled my wriggle On my many leggy workings II I met Apia on the way to farm One Monday and I […]
Even without the cock The hen does its wake Pecking and pecking For its children’s sake Opening its wings When danger does bake A piece here, a piece there An angel in the wake II When sticks are coming It does shout for all to run When chicks need afternoon roosting It sits and forms […]
Don’t you bother telling me much I know in times past I was nothing as such Eight to eleven is a huge gap I think I need to give you and I a tap I’m no longer in amoasene You’re no longer in bente Like the spider inspired kente We have all covered our asene […]
She saw him In the light of innocence And loved him For she housed him nine moon travels But time showed his flaws Earth conquered his will And society came to see “Ei! What is this? It could be an ancestral curse! It could be the result of her prostitution! It could be the curse […]
I marvel at the way Taunters justify and say ‘tis a tradition and needs no reaction Sad! With today’s intellect and technology A pox on all those thoughts! Veins are connected A running blood goes through it Gayly working with other organs In feelings of ecstasy and Never wanting […]
I live in a skirt A skirt zipped tightly to seal To seal as a present for the deserved I’m not renting out Definitely no to-lets II I know in rat holes Many moles can be placed To trap the hole lords But this zipped hole is not a rat hole Serving as a play […]
Cooking pots Please stop the rots When you are on fire As you get hotter Your steam must attract through smell And your pot must be hot to scare You need not break down Sending ladles down town To get many hands to carry you down Pots, it is normal to be hot For the […]
Mama mused the amused Breaking through the used And getting to the abused II Abusers were clearly charmed With thoughts of the harmed As the abused hoed and farmed III Sleep whipped them in sleep They woke to their own weeps And taunted their beings of keeps IV Share the dreams Of many who scream […]
Mercy! Thought killers! Mercy! Women boilers! Mercy! Mere phantomers! II Bright! This earth is bright! Bright! Because of our rights! Bright! And you give us frights? III Sorry! Beaters and slappers! Sorry! Taunters and killers! Sorry! You have no faults, we are the birthers! IV If your mothers sat on your heads As you came […]
Since the beginning of time, women have been known to be possessions of men. This trait is waning thanks to the emergence of Women Rights Activists who cry for the emancipation of women but this canker still persists. Although there are good men out there, there are many men who think it is their […]
If tears and fears Could be called to tell I know much women tears Will rise from the grave And whine at the unfairness That sent them there II Tears of those who suffered Extreme jealousies which Were interpreted as witchcraft Tears of those beaten and stoned To death for following their weird passions And […]
Leg on leg A lady never sells Her farm or pride II Leg on leg Even in love, there is A knock before enter button III Leg on leg Head and chin up Are her greatest tools yet IV Leg on leg Lowering eyes is a Defeat sign V Leg on leg Owning the kitchen […]
I cannot wish to be anything else And no one can force me to Mentality drives beings to their wish lands Femininity is superiority Elegance of beauty coupled with rooms and locks of Mankind holds me, I have an intelligence which makes me phenomenal, A power to […]
Ghana is a state known for its peace, we have a few scratches here and there but of course, we are revered for our achievements as a peace loving nation. That women are relegated to the background most of the the time is a known fact, but we are actually working very hard on it. […]
I Sing songs from the great voice of truth Sing songs which will equally soothe For songs bright for all get most dance Songs for the half put half in trance Let the songs from Africa call For the ones made to take the fall Since time was, up to the present See it as […]
We are like corn We give and give In many shades We can be roasted And can be boiled We can be grinded And can be broken But we keep on replacing Ourselves and others Feeding world’s hunger Helping the poor Women are givers Of tall and short Of slim and fat Of rich and […]
Plugged to the socket of deceit Swished till the view of defeat We are getting used to electrifications of shame But no! Let us not! Let’s be no plugs Neither must we give any shocks Let’s root our voices in sense Battling the unfairness of being plugged The pain of being electrified The fear of […]
I Like goods, they’re transported in goods Like firewood, they are bundled to alien homes They are things sold in barter trade Oh Africa! Oh paths of lives! II Like tools, they are used and left Like the headless, they are shunned in decisions Like crumbs, they are swept as rubbish Oh Africa! Oh paths […]
I I walked into his senses Through his lens And broke all his fences II I walked into his fences Through his many lens And damaged all his tenses III I walked into his senses My perfume taking him to heaven And tossing him painfully to hell IV I walked into his senses Through his […]
I Wright works well to wreck Well, we wish he works well to rock Like a chicken, he pecks, and scatters Leaving no trail of his intakes He believes a real man Uses muscles to tackle women Subduing them into fear He believes one who makes women cry Is the real deal He believes, even […]
I “Let’s talk about toys And forget boys Mortars do cover Pestles never do” Akosua says II “But I do boys And don’t like toys What’s with all the coys? They can’t produce any joys” Amina replies III “But think of toys They never break hearts And do as told They never break rules too” […]
I It was a taunter’s dream To have a cook and a washer His dream has changed Into a cook and a book II It was a taunter’s dream To have a ride and many cries His dream has changed Into a hot ride and few cries III It was a taunter’s dream To kill […]
I It is for sons and sons The paths are blocked Amazing how the machetes still need the paths II It is for sons and sons The paths have thorns Amazing how the machetes walk on without clothes let alone sandals in their vulnerables III It is for sons and sons The paths are no […]
The sickness, her life craves The preacher promises a god which saves So her mother leaves her in his care At night he gets his share He, like the preacher he claims, For her beads, to pray, aims, Gets possessed and damages her more Gaining more pleasure and leaving her sore His nightly prayers continue […]
Grandma was no doormat She had three husbands Husbands she gave three lives each And the earth took one from each Mother was a direct opposite A doormat used by three And taken by one who stepped harder Through her journey of five lands In nine moons apace The three lands she had journeyed Gave her […]
I Unripe fruits, abused Weak seeds, used New born plants, deflowered What are these? What are these? II Full blooms, seek Beautiful grooms, speak Strong hearts are weak So they abuse their strength They abuse the weak III The weak weeps With broken hearts They hide the fears You imprint on their souls. IV […]
(This poem is dedicated to all women in all corners of the world who are being mistreated by men who think they are their properties. It also goes to women sold by their own families. I pray with you because I know it can never be easy living and being used like an object. Forced […]
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