Lives left to languish in loss …live without luck …learn with limitations Sorrows sailed through servitude Ib “Soul’s smacked with slavery” “Bloomed berries replanted in burns” There’s been many of such analogies But this is a year of celebration A year of jubilation A year we know we can harvest greatness …from the sadness of […]
December 10 is too hard to remember It shows the blood in all red And builds dark clouds in all my skies As your thoughts roll like waves …to the shores of my mind II December is a month I dread It stopped my happy years By taking Aduse Poku on its 26th And taking […]
A heart opens like a flower Once the right sunshine of tenderness …the right dosage of rain of love …and the right amount of air of care Bless its growth When it does …appearances don’t matter Poverty won’t close it Opinions won’t shut it For its beats will only follow the drumming …of its benefactor […]
Her eyes glued on him Her pores raised their skirts …of goosebumps …in their yearning for him Even thoughts of his possible touch …rained her clouds of passion So she boldly went for him …and succeeded II Her dear Kwabena Appiah was ditched …like a chewing gum emptied of sweetness Forson’s fine figure, His impeccably […]
Love is one of the strongest rums …of emotions Just the right dose …keeps the heart aboard the ship of happiness …balancing challenges in smooth sails An overdose arrests cognition …defies will …kills shame …suppresses ego and pride …blinding and deafening and numbing all odds II An alcoholic drunk …has better fate than a love […]
Gloria, You know the gift you’ve bought is euphoria, Changing my odd spirit name to Victoria In what can now be part of our best historia A beautiful beautiful Thursday traveling to a Friday utopia II From Nyerere Street to Central Park …Daily Nation Headquarters to the pilaar joint Coffee Casa and its literary insights […]
Child those who hurriedly opened their gates beneath them …to eat from the first fruit of Adam …to tear open their innocence End up killing most dreams with rushing diarrhea Becoming ghosts to success II Child A young heart needs time …to grow saucepan of maturity …to fit onto the fires of love So as […]
If you do love …a struggling being And have looked above …their unfortunate scenes Here – …A HUG OF WORDS II If you’ve spoken …for a voiceless mouth And have broken …an unfairness mark Here – …A HUG OF WORDS III You are eyes …to a blind walker And a shield of lies …of their […]
Sometimes when two hearts stand at a sharing junction They become an unparallel duo The more expressive …the less retaining The less expressive …the more retaining That is why hurts stay longer in the latter …in an abrupt end II They are like sand and clay Although water quickly seeps through sand Clay takes its […]
What is this fog parceling hard work …and aiding shirking? What is this anger hanging tribes …making nationals strangers …and causing looming danger? Name calling? Agyawaadwo! II There is a beauty in even insults That is, …never will they stick on their bearers like tags …and they never hurt those in uncaring shirts Still …what […]
If cold winds can call your presence …from your absence ..to my presence And stop biting me with longing for you I will live better …without feeling the miles which knot like ropes …to hang our lust in our days apart II If nights will stop the frights …of the emptiness that this huge bed […]
Where do I go from you? When your looks …book me confusion Your smiles …blind me in illusion Your hugs …buy me commotion …of loss in your warmth Where do I go? Just where do I go from you? II Where do I go from you? When you are the house …I hope to build […]
We are in this doom fence Nursing fear of separation With rains of vulnerability falling into the konkura …of our heads While our faces mask the opposite …in deviance II We’re in these emotional whirlwinds Digging dust to blind each other …in our troubled tracks When unspoken words ghost our unhappiness …with heartbreaking sadness How […]
A home is like a beehive Built with care Treated so fair With a peace so rare An easy sea with cherished breath for every dive II A home is like dolphins’ ocean Strong in bond All in fond A safe haven tu le monde A place where every commotion through emotions are carefully worked […]
Fireflies will fire and fall Fairytales will ferry and fence Flicks will flip and flap Fear will fly to false farms Fasten your firewalls We’ll get no sleep tonight II Tingles will tangle in triumph Time will toast into tatters Touches will take all tree-airs tend to trust …into titillating thrusts of the titans Take […]
We both felt the flames of attraction And watched as our hearts held hands …walked happily out and about …kissed and drank fresh nsafufuo …joked and laughed And came back into their shameful enclaves Watching us languish in yearning …without doing a thing II You were not willing to take a step And certainly, I […]
Some are like aphrodisiacs Thoughts of them make cobras out of worms …looking for water closets to shed their vomits Some are like comic movies Thoughts of them break smiles …and sometimes mad laughter Some are pride pens Thoughts of them paint pictures of prestige Calling important airs to float the soul Some are flies […]
It is a boil One makes to plant on the soul Every passing day stretching its hurts Till it bursts and sores II It sucks the fun out of life And rides bodies like horses Into ditches where stitches fear their dents And never leaves a way out After its breakthrough For it then creates […]
You …yelling your yearnings …like thunders troubling and tormenting You …pleading with persons …like a beggar brutalized by a brutal beast …seeking sympathy You …dressing in duress …feeling a fault …courting my court All you need is to let it speak for itself …to mine – Your heart II There is a language of sincerity […]
You tripped on the stone of my warmth …and landed in the lair of my love Seeing nothing but darkness above You say you can’t find your way out I know it’s hard to find that way out …but try II Your tears are flooding my abode …man tears lack charm in a plea bargain […]
Ia Ogya de gya! …me de awÉ” no! M’adi apagya! …me de aka no! M’atu mu dÉ› …me de akyerÉ› no! WÉ”ma bebree paepae ansa na wadro abÉ” Agya-nyaneno ne É›na-twimu ma me bebrebe no …nyinaa yÉ› nsu brane …a É›tÉ” dum ayaase abaa mu gya So STOP it! Ib If your flex With your […]
I. Respect 2. Kindness 3. Progress 4. Love II A. Care B. Tenderness C. Trust D. Consideration E. Love III You give me 1 and I’ll give you 2 We can both work 3 to get to 4 That is my 1, 2, 3, 4 of fairness IV You give me A in a 1 […]
The world, God’s gift, Was originally a dwelling for all Without demarcation Without ownership How humans heckled hostage And carved supremacy to draw lines called borders Made a funny video in my mind Sanity made it understandable Development made it beautiful Until ownership turned vindictive Murdering beings In a nice x word, clothing a devilish […]
I have jumped through the windows of my heart After its doors were shut by pain …and the keys thrown into the sea of disappointment II I have maneuvered through the ceiling of my mind After its doors and windows …were nailed unopenable …by hounds of hurts III I have shed the skin of my […]
Bags are packed …with clothes of patience …undies of curiosity …shoes of excitement …armour of compromise Waiting for your cue …to board the vehicle leading …to the airport …for the begining of our journey to your heart II I am ready to embark …even if a dog with rabies searches through a scare bark I […]
For those who raise their rods …as Moses did …to part the red sea on their best halves …and just walk through …caring not about the delicate grounds …they stump on …going forth and back …until they shed their semenic enemies …caring not about the beautiful rains never unshed You’re horrible hate harvesters …in your […]
It must not happen again: The barbaric facts …of humans turning monsters …to treat other humans like animals …for their selfish mortal desires II It must not happen again …the trapping and hunting The catching the whipping The painful transplanting and torturing …overworking and murdering It must NOT It must NEVER happen again III It […]
Friction fires fights among friends …and fuels feuds Fickle fronts fume feeble fits Freeze friction Free feelings …in friendly favours For forces that function …feel fevers of fiery-clashes II Defrost fury …in a delightful hurry Ditching sorry …in dining worry Drawing dears into darling dwellings For loving swellings III Feed no fridge your feelings …to […]
Mother in law Please be no monster in loathing …scaring an innocent as cats scare mice Mother in law …be no bore Your words cut deep into sores Breaking the decorous bones of my jaws Your claws in paws defile the law …in your name’s core II Mother in law …a first love loves a […]
The mind is a fertile land …in the head of every being Plant weeds of hurts …and reap seeds of hatred …with its shadow of cruelty …and spirit of harm Plant loving flowers with caring fragrance …and harvest nectar of faith …scent of love …beauty of tenderness …colours of trust …thorns of care …providing fences […]
If I wanted your game I would have more than that …in less than the sweat of your hunt If I wanted your game …the game you so vilely parade …trying so hard to cover the charade …with my taunting, I would never break so much as a sweat …in fencing me with many …better […]
Did I come to the market late? I must have …considering the rotten goods …waiting for selection …or buy Hurtful II What will rotten vegetables and foodstuffs fetch? …Stale taste? …Stomach ache? …Running stomach? …Food poisoning? Yet see them scattered in near filth …on my disappointing market III What will a polluted goat fetch …in […]
There are birds who visit …in blessful transit There are cool airs …which bless our flopped fairs …only to pass us on to brutal bottled beers There are suns …whose warmth we worship …but their steps never sync ours …so we’re always left behind Think of these …really deeply II Cherish the times recorded in […]
It started like serene air …in my sunlight You, me attending …you me loving …you, me feeding …you, me caressing …you, me cuddling …you, me kissing …you, me tendering …you, me calling And my vice versaring Then it turned from mild to cold winds You, me neglecting …you, me annoying …you me forgetting …you, leaving […]
There is a beauty in seeing peacocks …living happily with fowls There is a beauty …in seeing winds …carry happy sands There is a beauty …in moons pairing suns …at the rise of one and the fall of the other There is a beauty, …a beauty of one sky being shared by both …at right […]
You acting bricks …scheming tricks …to be have as chicks …mostly end up with dreaded dicks …who master tricks …to break your bricks Oops! Did I just bend a nail by hitting its head? II In an era where promises scatter …before flutters shatter Bitches need to know their love for bones …and grab them […]
Love is like a seed …in an unknown soil Whether it’ll germinate or not …after planting an interest …is like the hawk of death …and its hunting human fowl II A heart undergoes the process of oneness …just as the seed battles its new soil …in hope of birthing a new shoot There can be […]
Tears drizzle in my heart They drizzle to tickle my sadness On this day when motherhood …sits on the throne …to be exalted II It is upon the inspection of feathers …that akokÉ” asÉ›nsÉ› becomes aware …of its skin protectors I crave this bed …and thank it as a shed …to hide the mood which […]
You You rock which shock my mocks You You bone which stone and drone …my emotions …into public places You You fork which locks and blocks …my defenses …into helplessness How? How could you make me so bow? You prick! II You tickled my trust …to tremble in tearing You woke my warmth …to wickedly […]
I know no foe I don’t hate sow I show no arrow in my bow Until I am unfairly asked to kowtow II If you carry no hatred In the inheritance bowl of your ancestry Where stones of ethnicity aimed At my dignity is atrociously firm If you carry no buckets where catapults of class […]
“Roads lay like mythical foot mats Traffic lights; do they stand vertical or horizontal? Will I be embracing danger of any kind? Where is the shine of my vision? I feel like a daunting unrhyming lyrics” II “Blasting sounds are so fierce As they do nothing to me tickle Only taps wake knowledge of happenings […]
All you scouting streets for holes of meat Feigning defeat when pushed to back seats Sulking from playing last fiddle to passion’s beat You don’t have to be a roaming cheat All you need is a baaad girl II All you need is a … baaad girl One who can flip … your flaps Deflate […]
You blow strength in my mind And leave me, like a cruel lover, to watch your behind You build faith in my heart And you fly to live on the tree of myth like a deserted dove You nurse optimism in my bed of pessimism And leave me with thorns of sadness You shine me […]
Aminata thought and thought Is she to give her youth to this brown leaf Ready to fall off the tree of life And watch her green Musa in another’s arms? The thought brought shivers down her spine But which weapon of a mouth does she have To stand on the battlefield of parental war To […]
“Eii w’ayÉ› fine o Wo body no aba kama” Whatever parcels of meanings you hide In this sentimental showdown I’ll have you know That I didn’t fetch an angel from my land of pleasure To label him burden Unfortunate are the years of toil Unfortunate are the years of struggle Unfortunate are the years of […]
On this beautiful day, I come like a knightess, to defray your pickle Oh be in the mood for a tickle For there will be a suckle That will call for an enchanting wriggle Summoning many an amazing giggle So let afrukuto, all-fall-down, azuikoto, som-ma-me-nyÉ” with patrikotum mingle And shame days that documented you a […]
Expectations hide in this day When hearts hide wishes dreamt about in telepathic conversations Maybe Valentine needed bars on his emotions And not his person II There are those who wear beautiful handcuffs applauded By society as crowns Hiding fountains of tears caused by deceptions unmentionable They may be paraded but with their hearts silently […]
Overflowing Blood of hearts merged and urged by fate In there, everyday models Valentine’s deeds Harvesting laughter in serene happiness Many are in the embrace Eating from the plates of love with the fork of contentment It makes me turn Michael Bolton’s tune into a question Are you the one he sings of for me […]
Educate your root to groom its tree For the tree will in turn groom its flowers And the flowers will bloom fruits in the grooming II A strong foundation is the trusted seat Of a good building So dig well with best pickaxes Clear well with best shovels Mix well the foundational mortar A good […]
I look at the grieving me in any mirror And see the monstrous horns of horror I think about the remaining you in the cold In between the teeth that earth crush in fold Then I remember I was told There was a concrete with cement sold To the mouth of the earth through the […]
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