ThenIt started like an unfairnessAnd graduated to discipline-shamingIt did reach a point of divisive awarenessAnd rose to naming and shaming NowYoung seeds act as fruits in bloomingSkipping steps in growth to life’s horrid distress They are brazenly leaving their trees and fallingRotting either close to their mother tree or far far in their rollingAmoafowaa Sefa […]
Listen, those days are goneYes, goneThe days when wives were stamped “good materials”built to bend,to break,to weather every storm you called tradition… are gone Now they rise…equal imperials,Leveling the pig-like habitsyou passed down like heirlooms of ignoranceThose days?Over! So stitch yourself a new mind like a tailor with skillSail yourself a new course like a […]
I heard him saySay he was jealousJealous of the eagleEagle flying freely in the skyAnd I frozeThinking he is overlooking something Something so deadly IIThe sky, to me, is the most dangerous placeWhere weathers are unfriendlyExperiments are dangerousIt leaves you naked to the eyes of manyMany with cruel intentionsYou’ll know not where will come a […]
Majeed Ali called me “Mr. Mum Cee” todayThat was the first thing he had to say…to me early hours of todayAnd I am still processing itThat stubborn Dagomba boy in the position of manFelt I was too strong to be called a womanCome to think of itIsn’t he too boyish to be called a man? […]
You don’t disturb a tree of bees…and complain of stings from angry beesYou don’t annoy me like a fly disturbing my nap timeAnd give me guidelines as to how to react IbDish and be quiet on that unknown slimeAnd let the served choose how to react IIIt is only an inhuman who can drive a […]
I am the polished version you hoped forTried to account forBut failed to even make sense ofI was like that maths test you always failedYou see me newAnd wished you saw some of these traits, even fewBut time did take its time to work on meThat’s the luck of the one you see with meSo […]
This is a lesson learnedTo not be eager to help one so in needFor those are people who have earned…many mouths acting far helpers of your dying feed IIThis is a great lesson learnedThat you’ll become the broken beadEven if your back burned…to be the soil for a needy’s needed seed IIIBecause minds choose to […]
I did tell youYour weight was like a coupWhich would wait for no time to oust youFrom your throne like a foolWho antagonizes his servants…and loses their trust in an internal rebellion…which he will see not until his ending But you told me you’re big bonedAnd your strength was carved and droned…by a hand which […]
You have lived and livedThrough the fires…the storms, the fair weathers…and the aftermathsSo we mourn in gratitude IIFrom shadowing one of the progressive politicians…like an eagleTo acting like a national prayer warriorRight to wanting a political seatThrough to your defeatAll in a body so beautiful…that it looked forever youthfulWe saw a woman whose needs and […]
There are friends like relativesWho can do it all including changing the narrative…of shame to gloryThis is the image Dr. Gbormittah carries He won’t stand to see any of his own shamedHe won’t stand to see any of his own defamedHe won’t stand while others are apatheticBecause he loathes ends which are patheticThat is Dr. […]
This sadnessThis sadness of seeing a different you…smeared and draped in gold…down to leanHas drained some life out of me This sadnessThis sadness of seeing you aloneOn your last bedAs a show for all who wish toWhile adowa dancers and drummers display Has left a gap deep down in my soul For you were and […]
I have many flowery words I can use…to confuse and abuseI have a bubbly personality which I can use…for many to me choose to lay a cruiseI have a head which can trick…for hearts to on me stick without a flickBut I chose to teach…and became one who looks like I poverty-preach IIIs that not […]
Abena mɔborɔwa, ewiase bɔ me pusaWɔn de awareɛ danee aban-kawa guu m’anuonyam nsa…twii no kɔtoo aniwuo kokomuMe de ɔyiaw ne amanehunu firii mu no,Wɔ san de awoɔ bɔɔ me kwaadu wɔ amansan asɛmdibia…ma me dii nkuguo pɔtɔɔMe de apiriapireɛ woo ba baako pɛ,…na wɔn san de ‘ba koro’ suboɔ bɔɔ m’ahweaseɛAfei wɔn reka m’anim sɛ […]
There are many droplets which make the seaI dare an eye to claim to each know and seeEven witchcraft has its boundsBecause they have many houndsSo when you stand on podiums to talkKnow your generalizations do you mock III hear those who claim women feel good by talkingImplying there is no introverted womanI hear those […]
I am the one from a poor family…not youI am the one with many benefactors…not youI am the one who chose to live for the rural poorSo you can serve nationsSo when you bloom, feel the sunBask in the wetness of the rainAnd breathe the best that every air can giveBecause I am living like […]
Whoever births a greatnessWho shone in the arts and businessAnd stands as the lioness…protecting a constituency bigger than mostIs worth the honour post IISo as you shed your human bodyAnd joins the ancestral bodyWords need to be arranged to show you were somebody…somebody who lived and shone and gifted us a she…who does more than […]
In the clouds, where silence weeps,Eight brave souls took their final leapsAbove the earth, in skies so wideThey soared with purpose, hearts full of pride Men of courage, each one uniqueWith lives woven in stories they lived to seekFrom bonds of hardwork, they drew their strengthIn every heartbeat, in every length They answered the call, […]
Your friends are not the wires which aid faceless faces…to write words which you love to embraceYour friends are not the clicky followers…whose unknown footsteps brand you an ambassadorYour friends are not the click baits and the false fansChallenge and call them to realityAnd see if your shadow will meet a shadow from the net […]
I rememberI remember our conversation like it was yesterdayWhen you told me about the medicinal capabilities of cassava leavesAnd the strength of your wife…even in seed-keeping III remember telling you to do a check up once in a whileAnd you laughing it off, encouraging me to turn to our local herbs ratherAll the while fixing […]
She, the whole family on her shoulders, carriesShe, all her people, good and questionable, about worriesShe is the fountain of emotional strengthHer presence in the family is an immense wealthLose her and you lose the light and laughterAnd many good traits go to the slaughter IIShe takes a house and makes it a homeAll in […]
Your “I’m fine” is heavily coated in worryYour “I’ll take care of it” is drowning in doubtYour “help” is always frying in sorries of selfYour “I’m glad you’re happy”…is always deep cries for helpWhy do you do it?Just why do you do it? IIYou love everyone but youBut God gave you yourself before any before […]
1.Like a weaving cobwebThe mind is always under constructionEvery encounter reforms it to fit a growth…or an ungrowthEvery lived encounter murders Making people we meet murderers;… good or bad murderers 2.There are good murderersWho can kill ignorance to birth knowledgeThere are revered murderersWho can kill doubts to birth loyaltyThere are great murderersWho can kill hatred […]
You are one of the many souls we need on this fieldYes, this field of politics to help buildTo help build Black spirits who were brutally killedThrowing development into a coffin firmly nailedBy corruption, destruction, greed IIYou, are;The workable TRActor which is leveling and overturning the corrupted landTo the point of finding game-changing ORE to […]
01How can you murder ethicsOutdoor its skeletons as hens parade their chicksAnd expect moral teeth to wine and dine to your tricks? 04How can you destroy conventionsAnd expect traditions to applaud your convictionsWhen we all see your naked intentions? 03You’re a vulture with a dove structureA dog acting hogYou are a disaster with a moral […]
When you do it wrongWith a conscience so strongYou’ll feel you don’t belongAs rumours ding dong IIWell, your vigour will fallWith integrity on the floorAll below will use you as a ballAnd your respect will out the door IIISo your power can’t towerYour right orders taste frightYour aura runs lowerAs night sleep takes flight IVSo […]
I look at you and can’t believe my luckI ask myself which of life’s hack…I successfully used to get youJust by a lookI know I was made through you III know I was made through youFor you feel my emotionsAnd love me with such devotionThat the intense love pollution…which nearly poisoned my very coreHas evaporated […]
Once upon a timeThere was a lion whose personality did not rhyme…with many others in its jungleThere were many who wanted to it strangleBut this unlikeable lion rose and took power which it did dangleIn front of all those who wanted to it strangle IIThe lion uprooted respect with fearAnd made many live with at […]
Those standing left and those standing rightCome, let’s engage in a destructive fightLike two elephants at their destructive heightWhen we work for power…and see ourselves tower IIOh come and let’s fightLet’s destroy all that past toil did buildAnd go right back to the nothing fieldHoping to use weak minds as many a strong shieldTo push […]
I know no one can taste the fruit of this treeAnd not yearn for it daily by their soul’s decreeBut once this tree cuts you offYou need to see all your feelings offFor you were tested and failedOur ship sunk after we sailed IIYou were not the right tenderYou can’t now be a menderYou failed […]
I dream a dream we cease to screamDivisions and blames oh so extremeAnd tend to the land we collectively ownSo corruption and lies will be overthrown III dream a dream where elections endAnd all the parts form whole to defendThe Motherland which needs all our working careFor life for her children which she holds so […]
When the stakes turn in the lowsAnd leaders become foesMinds thought dumb fight egos thought highestGhana’s pulse beats as a political conquest IIBut we wait with held breathsFor freedom in life or socially horrific deathsOh we are still in greyAs we can be led astrayIn a corrupt decay and gagged say IIIFor we walk like […]
Like market sellers, you can sell your thumpsAnd like poor passengers, you’ll feel the rough bumpsIf you recklessly cast your voteThere are many things you have to noteLike not electing ones who will themselves devote IIThere are many buying your peace with future chaosWearing angelic wings to cover their true apparels so deviousThere are those […]
Dear God,When times are rough and I can’t be toughRemind me that I am enough…faults and all IIDear God,When times I need are times unrightRemind me that You fitted times to be right…even when I dread a fall IIIDear God,When I feel pressure before a treasureRemind me that all great things are yours to measure… […]
I look at herShe who was thought uglyNow nearing a time deemed wrigglyAnd I can’t help but her beauty unbearWhy ugliness stood out of her beauty…is something age is yet to answer III look at herStrong from many broken piecesOne who lived under losses as bossesAnd walked through chaos to find peaceStill struggling from sudden […]
I turned into the devilSitting on necks of the pious with my evilForcing them to collect hammers from heavenTo hit me with an unsolvable burdenHow so? IIThey called heavenly fireWhen Saturday stood in front of a fading FridayAnd pushed a sleeping MassiahTo shut me down like a weevil with no sayWhy? IIIBecause I called them […]
It sucks the life outAs your inners like angry hippos shoutIt pushes your soul into a boxing ringAnd forces you to walk about…waiting for a heavyweight who you will fling…to your many hurtsAs shame with you flirtsYou feel more sadness than a clean lossAs your conscience do you tossPushing your head into a bowed positionEven […]
Never have I seen intelligence metamorphosing into dumbness…at a primeSo have I never seen diligence dressing down…in growth timeI stand in this mirrorTo narrow down this horrorOf me wearing a tag of dumbness…in my prime IICould it be?Could it be I’ve run out of knowledge…drained by muses into a sewageAnd standing as a sorry storage…of […]
Losing is not a sweet potionAs it is like a stinky river of emotionWhich touches sanity and causes corrosionAnd causes spirit’s demotionBut losing humbles highed-arroganceAnd gives humanity in heart a chance IISo I am taking off my clothes of winsAnd accepting my gaps as sins I am willingly sitting in the tutoring binAccepting critiques as […]
I always wondered what failure felt likeI now know what it feels likeIt feels like sitting on a thorn-spiked bikeWith the inns of your soul hollowWearing sad clothes of sorrowWondering how you can face tomorrowI felt this only under the umbrella of Guns III did know what those who failed looked likeMany looked like they […]
One will ask what is required to retire…as a teacherIt requires wearing resilience as an attireLiving like a pillar of strength…and a fountain of sorrowIt requires eating disrespect…and commanding respectIt requires dancing to the whims and caprices of studentsAnd facing the judgements of colleaguesIt requires talking, watching and listening…like a god who is always on […]
This is the taleThat it went to a dead mailThey didn’t bother to callAnd watched my spirits fall III remember my many a callOh they keep playing my emotions like a ballTelling me to prayAs that was all they could say IIIWhatever makes grown learners’ leaders workProbably pushes them to shirkWhatever makes learners’ leaders get […]
They watch in dismayAs I walk like an ox so gayFor I fell not into their pretentionsTo enhance their victorious intentions IIThey wanted me to have no legsThey wanted me to painfully begThey wanted me in a sickness pegSo they could hang me on their wordsTo show men the power of their tongues IIIBut I […]
Where did common sense goIn a knowledge bank which acts so slowAs real work stands at no showIn a realm which frustrates their own future? IIWhy are they chasing promotionsDetrimental to their charges’ demotionsAnd causing frustrations and commotionsIn hearts structured to fit their future? IIIIt is horrid, seeing birds frustrate their boarding treesIt is heartwarming, […]
The eyes are windows to soulsHow many of us enjoy their views?Now we live for virtual “lols”Neglecting voices whose needs are duesWhich we must pay for real “lols” IINow horns of cars don’t warnDrivers must conceive care and drive like snailsNow earpiece-chokes are bornTo block listeners from hearing horrid wailsOh how did we get here […]
Like a little child…I get excitedBut the past into the present makes me wildAnd put out the hope your appearance lightedThat is because of the umbrella that was shot downParaded, in the full glare of our townTime and time againIts political podiums have blessed us with lying tonguesWhich cast doom on our weltanschauungWill your tongue […]
To be a woman is not just a frameIt goes deeper than a burning flameAnd is more difficult that a lioness’ tameWith a tiredness that is oh so same…every day II.To be a woman is to have earsSharper than spearsEars that sifts its hearingAnd saves many from the tunnel of the mouth IIITo be a […]
Akwasi is capable…reliable…responsibleAnd can raise the output of any institution with his skillsBut many a rejection holds a machete which kills…his will and piles on him unpaid billsBecause jobs are for sale IIJobs are for saleSo Abiba has nervous legs which sit notBut shares letters which many officers claim they “forgot”When she calls to get […]
There were times I lived like a shellLoneliness making me taste a chunk of hellThere were times uncertainties did me sellWith panic of a lonely life acting in my head as a loud bellThere were times I was in a jealous cellEven as many saw me as a perfect pearlIf I knew my special home […]
In my search for lightCrawling through thorns of frightYou switch on a saving lightHolding my hand and leading me right…to a goal now bright IILet the world know you became my wordsWhen fear rooted me in my steadLet the world know you were my moneyWhen my torn pocket did laugh and acted funny…at my hard […]
This is your worldA world where words wear woolen wrapsTo cushion offenses hitherto known as crapsEmboldening culprits who should wear shame…on societal stages IIThis is your worldA world where perfection pushes people to make upsTo points where recognition hides in binoculars of the higher upsMaking natural beauty pale to those…who must wake up IIIThis is […]
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