A great friend is like a clean river In days of drought A good friend is like the most delicious meal In days of hunger A good friend is like rain When you, like the earth, scatter in dust, They fall to piece you together II A good friend is like thunder Giving shortest light […]
Marry a man Marry a man and not a boy Marry a man as fair as the sun in judgement A man who looks at you like a myth, a beautiful myth Which is like wealth he can never lose Marry a man who feels no pangs of failure in your successes And has no […]
It started like child’s play As you listened to the naught I say It started like a fake dream A soothing balm on hurt scream Oh a snail’s pace would have won If it was a competition started by a horn But you did creep in, somehow II Now I am left thinking Whether the […]
On this day I severe the placenta of care With the scissors of nonsensical ties Brought forth by atrocious idiocy Nevertheless, you are my baby in my heart II On this day I make you a trap A trap made for heads drunk with bitterness Living in a forest of no- sense Should they step […]
Are you a meteorologist of femininity Reading through its seasons to pick? Are you a weather so changing a blue Combing through skies to lick? Are you a fire, burning through seasons to kill? You definitely must be a chameleon, reflective of every passing colour! II You picked me up like sunny season Only to […]
There are plants that grow not in certain soils There are plants whose nutrients are found in questionable soils My soil lost to you in nutrients And age has been a witness So I had to give you up II You might not know but I dug a foundation of hard work To lay bricks […]
We have travelled through riddles Where subs were added in set fiddles Who at all broke the middles To bring us to this confusion of lonely needles? II We knew familiar binary numbers of hearts In fractions birthically laid out in charts Now positive and negative integers are left to try out Spark fires of […]
The lightless sky smiles with doom This heart’s sigh responds with gloom For you are the lie which walks the night with no moon II All the promises made in fantasy And all the raw wishes saved in fallacy Still battle these stitches binding this heart III Yet you yell in my deepest cell Still […]
The starting point of every race Births successes The rising point of the sun Births light Just as palm trees have no useless parts Mothers, even in graves, shelter our souls In spiritual protection Who is without a mother’s is Or, in sad terms, a mother’s was? II Like hens, they struggle to hatch Like […]
Baby mine Do not, for the attention of these storms pay a dime Life in suns and rains rhyme So let’s let these storms, their time chime You beautiful sun of mine II You were picked from the world of passion With wishes of building for you a happy nation Breaking backs to give you […]
There is a summer hut On the roof of the moon Which all prying eyes cut Waiting for us to swoon So do those problems shut II We need our hands threaded in symphony Our feet running in a perfect dance To tickling sounds of harmony Our eyes writing our thoughts in each other at […]
At this crossroads Where good leads to bad And bad leads to good Stands the whip of fear At all ends II At this crossroads Righteousness begets pain While cruelty begets peace Yet conscience acts judge With a gavel of suffering III The lioness in me battles the sheep I am The tears in me […]
Let, let your kindness walk In sneakers on these slippery tiles of need Let, let your kindness walk In knighthood in this festival to feed Let, let your kindness walk Like Santas who give to goodness lead Let, let your love walk the talk of giving II There are bodies living in nakedness Walking in […]
Videos keep playing Where you shyly, with roses In sweat, called Holy Moses In proposing II How a perfect vehicle Zoomed into a thorny bush And saw itself in an empty desert Has opened my sky of tears III The video of you playing horse In the shore of peace Me, playing sheep In the […]
​The stance of an eye And its distance Determines the visions thereof Like plants in the different pores of the earth We stand in view of a portion So how can our mouths be in judgement seats Audienced by other eyes and ears In marking right from wrong? II God may appear in different beings […]
Which is the right way? The rough route with sharp stones The smooth route with the slippery oil? Or the cool road built with a painful patience? II Which is the right way? Rebellion to conquer slavery Battle to kill desires Or dialogue to smoothen seams? Which is the right way? Which is the right […]
Love is when the heart Stands at the dilemic path of uncertainties and possibilities II Love is when misunderstandings Blow over and turn fun To vaporize into lessons III Love is when thoughts sway afar Sitting with memories of one in a present shadow IV Love is when you open your mind to dream Thinking […]
I have a heart Whose magnetic eyes see it all From the sighs to wishes from afar Right up to fantasies I can never fulfill But I stay rooted Because of love II I have a mind which murders all And bisect to disect every detail From my traditional thoughts To my bold stance And […]
I sit in comfort on my bed With head carrying fires of hell What could I possibly be to you? A fling in a sling on a swing? II I think with my heart Which beats like bass in a loose speaker I hurt like a bird with broken wings I can fly to no […]
When you feel him drifting Heart races in sad palpitations Fears roll in high doses Pain slices deep in soul But what is a woman to do When his heart drifts? II Pain is the reluctance to chat Harm is the secret of neglect Murder is the hidden other Hiding, and cheating Tactfully dismissing Skillfully […]
The beginning of love Is like the beginning of creation I am sure God’s heart raced As he created it all His joy sat in a celebratory palanquin Developed wings and danced like an all powerful ruler Hailed by satisfaction as a look upon jubilant When all was done Chorus: My ears can imagine his […]
Pushed by loving winds from my home tree Onto dead leaves I have smelt much unpleasantness Tasted rot Been blown here and there A pawn of the air II I have searched deserts And felt the pelts of sand Barely made it out with visible holes all over A poor little leaf like me I […]
Nana Pokuah I went to the market to buy fruit I bought water melon Thinking it green through and through Only to cut and see how red it was within And how cumbersome its many seeds clung to its bleed Little minds are like watery flour mix Only heat can harden them to feed I […]
I need, need and need The love they speak of I want to be a cassava And meet a plaintain, yam or cocoyam And together be pounded In the mortars of life by its pestles And blend in the perfect fufu II I need, need and need I need the friction of missing Photographic memories […]
It is a machine We, rolling to end up drawn Like lotter numbers As seen and unseen souls jubilate But a win today Expires tomorrow A loss today Heals tomorrow II There is nothing too awful Some live like vultures Not that they crave not for belonging-beds But misfortunes have housed them into vultures Always […]
His ladle is busy Stirring them together Seeking harmony where hardness reigns Don’t they hurt? His arms? II I am a watermelon I see some mango And oh! There is an orange And ah there lies some banana All shedding their juices Hoping for a common ground Look at how that apple struggles to blend […]
I was the happy mat Glad to be stepped on Honoured to be lied on And like the lifeless Where legs kicked Was my happy home II Even when my seams strapped I waited to be stepped on Refusing to rise Acknowledging no horror eyes That mirrored my plight And pleading mouths Who sang my […]
You are like a leaf with thorns within And I am like your fruit You cover like a close umbrella Acting like my protective crown Sieving the sun to give me warmth Blocking the rain to give me coolness Shielding the winds and sending me airs But you painfully pinch within my skin II Who […]
Where were you? When cold threw shivers And tears on my fragile body And boxed me like Azumah in his boxing fury? II Where were you? When scarce waters Were woken from deep pots And made to flow into gutters Like unneeded waters from a washed colander? III Where were you? When the gates of […]
Touch me in And not out Then my glow will show In the glass of love Touch inside out And not outside in For thieves break in to steal in the dark Making light their enemy In the stealing territory II I need a carer And not a thief I need to glow Not to […]
As to how it got quenched I cannot tell Except that like a vulcano Overtaken by a rebellious tsunami I woke up bruised At the shores of love When I had barely paddled to the count of ten On its sea II Wet grounds Wet woods All dry matches watch Marking abominable my territory Taking […]
Love made her his dog When he was himself a frog Tied to a log So her running turned into a jog Her big frame Insulting her state Like a queen with her crown With a fool tag like a clown Teeth showcase themselves in her honour For the fun of it When it is […]
When flowers bloom Many groom to be grooms Working their magics To get their nectars II Only few seriously need And dedicate themselves to a flower Hoping to water into fruition Hoping their fruits ripe to feed For their seedlings to continue its cycle III Many hover to steal With no water to nurse for […]
Come Let hands touch hands If sparks flow Let them worry about their lightening As we enjoy their shine Dancing to the whispers of the air Exploring the contours of our bodies in our minds Fishing for golden information From the seas of our eyes II Come I’ve made a pact with the sky Who […]
I need to swim Swim in the streams of your eyes I need to bathe Bathe in the rivers of your mouth I need to massage Massage the inner chambers of your ears Like a thumb massaging strings of a guitar II I need to fit Fit into the cave of your neck I need […]
Miles with its wiles Have drawn a picture of longing Drawing mind closer to you Like a magnetic wave Pulled in by a metal wrapped in its interest II Glued in thoughts Separated in body I shake like a leaf in epileptic wind waves Eyes wide open and I fall Eyes tightly closed and I […]
Kwame Osei climbs trees Whenever he me sees He says he’ll pay my fees Then whine like bugged bees But whenever papa sees, he flees II Kojo Dzakpasu agbadza dances Whenever he me sees in his chances He, his muscles enhances As he my face glances Warning all to watch their stances Behaving like a […]
When mama arrested me She did not say why All she did was form And force me to conform With each spit I thought she cleaned With every mood swing I thought she cleared With every heartbeat, I felt some love No rules for living Resided in the jail, Jail of urine You should have […]
In this fiery winds Where hurtful dust blinds I need your sling to cling In this death ring II No matter how strong The arms of the winds I know I You belong So I wait as Your angel finds III Bounded, I crave you as a slave Haunted, I hide like a lion in […]
My thoughts set for you a giant screen Since your cloak stole an engine piece of me As you passed my route and looked not my way II Oh how naughty and mean Your cloak seemed, for having hands to tear And no mouth to prompt its owner III You back did pull its charming tongue […]
Oh thou phantom without breath Do I seek your needed concoction To have you formed in my boiling pot? II I know you need a mouth to ask “Why the hesitation?” Yes, I was so made into this Yes, and was so brought to this realm But do I wish this on another? III I […]
Enchanted By your alluring care Beautiful flowers crush intensely II Heatingly Viewing light from hell’s hall Devils crave to break free and capture III Engraving Upon the sky their hearts Thunders curse with force that touch no earth IV Lovingly Flying from tree to tree Doves dote on your graceful handsomeness Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
“Kwadjo, nobody loves me. Why don’t they love me? This is my 17th relationship. And they all leave me before even asking me to the altar.” Shiela squeaked amidst the flowing tears. “Am I that ugly? Am I that stupid? Do I love foolishly? Are there things I do that make me unlikeable? Kwadjo please […]
As Cupids little beings and arrows abound Tigers and tigresses show claws of protection Fencing their zones with stinking urinals of suffocation Their significant others, their heat baking II I know sheep will stand to be cheated Seeing as all they know is baa and foolishly roam Like zombies needing direction all times So roam […]
Before the first cry of dew Stepped on the ever thirsty leaf Minds which thought of the Omnipotent were few Because they behave like the deaf II He who crocheted you like a cloth Hoards true love for you as your God He who made you up from scratch Loves you no matter how much […]
This dead bulb Left in this heart that stood derelict Lighted like the full moon in a cloudless sky Upon your appearance II It’s a pity eyes can’t be privy To the bright rays it emits When your voice kisses my ears As your hands touch my layers III Flowing rivers are not my comparables […]
A chariot of gold Pushed by purest horses Move in bold Recovering all losses Magic holds cold Ordering love in many poses Laughter in many fold Resonates in all forces Ready hands to hold Open with no clauses Pain is sold As hearts dance with needed resources Red for intensity of the mould White for […]
Sounds of love blur ears of singleness Which seek its arrest by hatred While secretly hoping for its miracle But love is for those with traits of the sheep Traits of the dove Traits of swans Traits of the sun Traits of the moon And traits of cool breezes Not those consumed with the fierceness […]
Tell me a different version of the story The story of Romeo and Juliet Tell me the loving part, And kill the tragic deaths Whose moral uprooted not the roots of feuds in life So I can see hope like a star in lead And follow until I reach my sky II Tell me the […]
It was a song she sung One she sung that so stung And freed blood that turned dung Manuring pain which bitterness sprung Oh I curse her tongue II I sought for the strong But clung on straw which was not strong And water longed but fire belonged I swept but wept and kept the […]
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