How do you live the God…remain God…and never get bored? IIHow do you wield a sword…as God…and never cut human cords? IIIYou see us like the teases we are…throwing dirt on your nameYou see us like the pigs we areBathing filth with your nameYou see us like the frogs we areHiding in horrid gutters to […]
Tag: HUMANITY
THE FALL OF KABUL
Will Kabul rise from this fall?Who will make that rising call? IIFrom Herat to KandaharMashar e- Sharif to JalalabadHands hold hearts as chests run wildIn a chaos only horrible heads thrive onSo who will call the rise from the fall? IIITorn between a worn out power…and a vicious powerDrones carry bullets to avenge deaths…by suicide […]
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 […]
EELMEOSNYRAY (Puzzle Poetry)
1.Sky’s is kindness great a lessonTeaching to us its embody worksIn to order like live beings…with spirits, hearts, and souls bodiesSo take do to time study +2It us gives from rains aboveSomething need we quench to thirstIt us gives pathfinding the sunSomething need we keep to warmEquipping to survivors their live livesAlthough sometimes it gives […]
ANSWER THE CALL
Sometimes a cock crows to call for help …not to wake the sleeping Sometimes a dog barks in its own danger …and not to alert its owner of the approaching Sometimes, just sometimes Even eagles fall and break their wings …their walk is not a call for laughter and slaughter …but a call for a […]
A human A human who will umbrella in rain And fan the sun off A human A human who can umbrella the sun And air condition its heat A human A human who swims than a fish And flies than an eagle A human A human who runs more than a cheetah …and jumps higher […]
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 […]
EVERY INCH OF TRUTH
When the ordinary bowl …taunts the ceremonial bowl …with its daily patronage …forgetting the heat wearing it off …and it’s lifespan …being cut short Life giggles …time wriggles …the earth shrivels in anticipatory addition II When the ceremonial bowl …haunts the ordinary bowl With its flawlessness …forgetting its gathering of dust …and it’s possibly being […]
I hope for skies …which have tasted no stars …and have seen no moons To be blessed with the lights …of your celestial brights Ib a. Skies – Humans b. Stars – Gifts c. Moons – Breakthroughs d. Celestial brights – Miracles II And for we those in blindfolds Seeing not the celestial brights …passing […]
Drums, engines Receptive, rebellious, forceful, first Loving, hating, regretting Beats, hurts, remorse, sad Quitting, apologising, retaining Freedom, bitterness Human Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
STEPPING IN UNFITTING SHOES
Imagine horses or donkeys as humans and vice versa Holding the whips as we run with them and their goods Whipping the slowness off our veins when tiredness catches up Imagine dogs as humans and humans as dogs Teaching us the smell of edible games and giving the instructions Giving us a pat on […]