Eyes within see what eyes without do notAnd it counts for a lotAnd so fears drive actions in situations unclearForcing innocent citizens to act grasses of fighting elephants IILensesEyes within see eyes without as enemies. Who fears not what they know not?So sometimes wars are made on scores unknownAnd fought on unthoughtful groundsJust because I […]
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THE PEACE WE TAKE FOR GRANTED
As the beard of the Tulip burnsAnd they yearn for priceless peaceImpala Lily which turnsKnows peace is not for lease IIBecause hunger in peace is better than hunger…with the pangs of warBecause anger in peace is better than anger…with the angst of soresBecause danger in peace is better than danger…added to the pangs of warNothing […]
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KISS OR KILL
Once upon a timeThe gods of Ahoban created spots on the landTo check hostilities…growing among people living on their land IIOnly the seer of the land knew these spotsWhen two enemies stepped on the same spotThey either kiss or kill eachotherThe first enemies to be caught by the gods Were Owura Amanfi and Efo GboviThe […]
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JUST SO YOU KNOW
A bird which loves the sound of its beak…on a stumpWill always complain when fate changes its stump into a live tree IISo don’t go asking happenings of day…from the owlDon’t go asking the state of roots…from mushroomsDon’t go asking how to keep hair…from a vulturePlease don’t go asking air…why cotton blows far off its […]
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LETTING GO
In this heat of memoriesWhere many a past monsters now model sorriesI look up to the future unknownAnd look back at the hurts I still mournBefore looking into the eyes of regretsI see the burning fretsAnd forget the foeSo I’m thinking of letting go IICarrying hurts are burdens set to stifle my growth…I knowA hating […]
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PATHS WE CHART
TeethBite your tongue offAnd call your lungs…to lick your gums when they itch IIEyelashesTravel into eyesAnd call for fingers…to protect your spot when it hurts IIINoseEject your hairAnd expect dust…to stay off your nostrils in a whirlwind IVEvery bad anomaly…has a priceSo live the price…if you’ve guts to live your badLife lives on punishments and […]
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A SAGE’S STAGE
When scissors get lost in the jungleNaked molerats don’t bother to speakAnd so does the vultureIn the same wayWhen a mouse gets lost…in a fair and just jungleAll self respecting cats, lions…and their carnivorous othersWho have nothing objective to sayMust refrain from making as much a sound IIFor in the moment of tensionA little meow […]
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ONE IN ALL
Once upon a timeAir, Rain and Sunlight started a conversation as friendsAir said it was the most important thing to manAs men can’t do without it for a secondThey breathe it to liveThey need it to light fireAnd they need it even in rainsThe other two shook their heads in disagreement IIRain also said it […]
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AROUND LONG BREAKFAST TABLES
Around long breakfast tablesWhere connections are cables…calling to be brought to existenceFear, pride and shyness are the only scissorsCutting their birth between beingsJaws work in their own rhythmsThroats wait their swallowing turns…chew, swallow, chew, swallow IIHere, colour is just a painting…which every difference hostsHereClass can only come from the mouth of the crass…whose ass needs […]
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BODIES and SHADOWS
You think and see how strange it is It is no mirror It is no body It is just a cast of you mostly longer than your form, sometimes sizeable, other times shorter Sad they can’t be touched Horrible they can’t be hugged Annoying they flee your advances to mould Yet they are your shadows […]
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OUR PATH
In the beginning of creation Sicknesses were the greedy hunters of death They poxed Boxed Layed their coughs They shivered Angered Boiled and ached Then taboos added to the list Until death added a new recruit War II War was planted from our greed The land which owned We sought to own The will for […]
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IF EYES MARRY EARS
If eyes marry ears Many stones of disappointments Will be thrown at fears The sun tells of its birth With its mildness as all bodies carry, Even the albinos’, Scares almost all bodies into corners When it stands on its podium of peakhood And loses its light To make way for weak eyes To see […]
In the land of Parts of Speech All resolve my yearnings to teach But indulge in verbal breach Rendering me an outcast II See, they couple by inflections And I couple by base, no inflections My lonely sound bounce back in deflections Because of the addition of ‘s’ to my name; ‘Shows’ III Now Tables […]
I Roaring rays Raising ruins Raising wrecks Reaching rules II Hear Havoc! Have hearts! Hurt hatred! Heal humans! III Love lives Long lives Leading lives Loaning leaps IV We’ll work When wise We’ll win Win wars V Roaring rays Reaching real Rest right then Reap your rise When we win Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2o14
I Shiny sun, Gentle rayed moon, Twinkling stars, All shine to light II None competes For another’s space Because they know Their precious places III The sun has a tempo That it controls itself, While the moon appears; Little by little until It stands in the middle of the sky Accompanied by the little stars […]
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SCARY WHITE, SCARY BLACK
I Let our imaginations run wild And for once dream With no thoughts of victimization Nor victimising Isn’t creation interesting? II Imagine how the white man felt When he first saw the black man Probably scared out of his wits So scared, he took to his heels Shouting of seeing a ghost Tripping, falling, rolling […]
Sky beings live As we live Clouds travel Respecting the stars and moon As fiery animals move farther To get out of the reach of humans There are the tensions Those tensions which get resolved Perhaps, the clouds fear the sun Perhaps, the moon fear the clouds Perhaps, it’s the other way But they live […]
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SHADOWS
Shadows Merge in shadows unmatched Shadows which swallow shadows How can they be seen? Lights Merge in lights unmatched Lights which swallow lights How can they be seen? Agree And let our shadows give their marks Standing visibly in togetherness So we can each be seen Agree And let our lights battle […]
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