The tree of hard work grows in difficult soilPushing hearts and minds to toilMaking tired blood boilForcing undetermined souls to recoilBut tire not from the toil IIFor in the sweat of tirednessAre the bountiful harvest of happinessThe congratulatory harvest of gratefulnessThe loving harvest of calmnessAnd the painful death of restlessnessWhen age turns secateur to harvest […]
In the endThrough the bendTruth will out…to fight your bout IIIf you fendTo lend a mendWins will shoutTo stand you out IIIBecause life has eyesAnd sees your triesLove is an artAnd draws your heart IVNothing is left to chanceIn enhancing your danceIn the end, through all bendsHeavens make all amends VSo live rightAnd burn brightIn […]
Wa wrɛ wo ho te ɔpramire Ɛdetwɛn sɛ wo honam hyɛnhyɛn bɛ woso obi ama n’atu wo sɛ emire …a esi esie so Ɛmre da wo honam pɔ yi so oo b W’ahyɛhyɛ wo to Ahyehyɛ wo bo …tesɛ Tafo akutu a abuo Aso wo pɛsɛ obi dɔ ka wo hyɛ ebuo mu? d Mpenatweɛ […]
Seeds Seeds feed leads to deeds Feed Feed leads seeds to deeds Lead Lead feeds to deeds and seeds Deeds Deeds lead seeds to feed II Pods …created by gods To have many nods …through rods Knowing they’re sods to seeds Gods …created by God …to give many nods …through sods …seeded in pods Nods […]
May this day Push forward your yay May this day …drown your nay Because it is May Day II The world will not run itself If minds and hands and voices and legs cease …to run it The world cannot be this thrilling If minds and voices and strengths of humans …fail to work it […]
We have the stories Which can cure the sorries And grow our glories But we still live in ruin II As we live in the fence of religion Which prevents us from seeing the beauty of hardwork …outside The castles whose stories can rustle hearts And build our economy to a golden height Are fenced […]
There is a rainbow of cheer In every noble thought There is a golden line so rare In every impactful lot So work your vision Through a thorough mission With noble precision For greed will lead to unfavorable collision Through to shameful derision Never before envisioned II If you take out the comfort you perceive […]
Let them come and sow …protected by their arrows in bows Let them call us foes …punching with their mental blows Let them finish and go …calling all to behold in lo Let them laugh as we tirelessly mow …and puff to our succeding’s no II Let them shoot their pricking pos …until their hands […]
After angst and jubilation have gone to roost In an opposing clash which selections boost What is there but a sea with no boat Calling all eyes; with hurt and gloat To look past emotions and rise to a challenge II All in laughter show their teeth All in outcries show their teeth What is the […]
As days walk into months And months walk into years Hands of growth lengthen Into beauty and ugliness Deeds are born As others die no matter their impacts Dreams are birthed into mystic boxes And hang like dew Which needs to be conjured on a mountain top After climbing steps of hardwork Every step of […]
We Working like horses Can rise like mountains To look down on the flowing rivers Of poverty II We Together like bees Can be highly equipped To battle alien soldiers Of corruption III When wires of confusion Develop fingers of wickedness As fingers of indifference sit on Other walls in folding We, can break free […]
Get going Getty Goose Go get gizzards to grill Get a great gait Grease your gabbles Gallivanting for gain? Even galloping gets galumphingly gruelling So get going Getting and giving Or get grilled Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Each comes with its own songs And each wants its name among Like a battle where none belongs The songs sing themselves like an odd wrong II Travelling with time, one must mime To hear its sounds so one can rhyme To feel its pulse so one can time And work so right to desist […]
It is paint given in plain pots Another shot being added to the past shots You can make it a whisky shot Or make it a fanta shot, I now reckon My grandma told me so And put it in these see through words *** “Dear Tawiah, My only eye in this huge but small […]
Through it all, tortoise Walks, shocking birds whose swift fly Beat their day travels II Through it all, the snail Crawls, thinking it is so blessed, more Than the static trees III Through it all, the rain Fall, knowing only lucky Ones will land in streams IV Wise words hit to stop Minds of all […]
Pockets do differ But the sun shines bright for all Sins may tag confines II Sins may tag confines Sustenance is expensive Still the air is free III Tell me of suicide And I’ll show you an ingrate In your own mirror IV Hardship calls efforts That makes it interesting To the hard-worker V I’m […]
I The chicks scurry off Trying to hide from the hawks Their wings cannot fly Their weak chirping are not heard They see the shade of hawk frames II Their mothers weep loud To their fathers who sigh loud They try to set traps The specific trap breaks fight Whose must be the potent one? […]
She was a weak bird Hatched in a ground nest. Her mother was hunted down By one wicked hunter. Through hazy eyes she struggled to feed Through dark paths she managed to walk Like one optimistic poor princess Never knowing what wings were meant for. Flying birds mocked her walks Flying birds […]
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