NERVES AND AWAKENING IThere is a feeling so unsettling…that crowns my thoughts with unrestThere is an emotion so deeply nauseating…that churns in my spirit and chestThere is a fear that threatens to dismantle…the self that once stood at its bestA formerly towering self is now cowering…afraid to put courage to the test… frightened that my […]
When the pleasure clears from your eyesI hope you remember your lies…after being caught for stepping off…with sellers of the waistline and calling my bluff I might be here or down or up…caring not about the echoes of your shut up III was good to youSo good to youI thought you were the truth and […]
If you feel abused… confused …and used Refuse to bend to the showers of self -blameFor the shame can’t be same …for the perpetrator and a victimDeduce from thoughts the mastery of abusers’ seduction So you can uproot self -reductionAlso muse on the abusers’ short fuses in hues…and know the clues Do forget the gossips’ […]
A fish will think itself a crocodile With thoughts of living on land and in watersIt takes only a flip…and a yearning for water…to know otherwise I have been served I thought I was specialSo so special…that I lived chewing his name like a gum…basking in his love like rumThinking our resources would become a […]
1.Houses are personalizedSo much so none goes into that of another…without permission Stealing is a sin coined as a word…to claim justice for breaking that boundAnd sometimes, just the loss of two cedis…costs lives 2.But girls and women…are now walking invitations …owned like wild fruitsUndressed as one removes the peels of mangoes with their teeth […]
Dear HeartYou were dealt a blowWhen your trust was left nothing to showAnd your love was axed to shredsAll your dreams were burnt in dreadsThat day, you thought you wouldn’t surviveI wonder how you did revive So you revivedBut days turned into thorns of unhappiness Your past held sign posts of no futureStarting again was […]
Silent treatment is like a monster baby It grows from a small disagreement …develops angry teeth to bite…grows audacious legs to kick…builds bitter muscles to harm…and moulds pickaxes in the brain to uproot consciences Just to plant killer instincts…to force the heart to chase horrors IISo know before you blow hot and coldKnow before you […]
L.I have travelled with You from birthLetting You ride as a passengerYour messenger’s voice reaching my stubborn earsYet never letting You near my steering wheel O.I wonder why You have stayed with me till deathAlways revealing the futures that concern meNever acting like a strangerAlways saving me from dangerAnd shielding me from hearts that find […]
AKofi Sam is hawking self hate…on a dirty slate but feels he has a better fateEi!Kofi Sam, whose favourite food was aprapransa,And who once played with the akɔwensa,Travelled one day to an abrɔfo-land…and came back boasting of eating only suaasat from GreenlandEi!A rumour follows him from town to townHis newfound stick-like frame, they sayComes from […]
LTime did me in with this oneEvery little tick tocked me into thinking…hands would be held into agingEvery tock ticked to heartbeats rhyming to heart’s veiled certaintyAnd every cell in my walled shell…sang songs filled with “the one”If only I knew OIf only I knewIf only I knew this time will arriveWhen my very heart […]
I lived in the pocket of empathy…always wearing spectacles of sympathyI wore the clothes of a mother…as a child, and paid all bills like a fatherFrom the stone quarry to street hawkingFrom a maidservant to chop bar cleaningI did it all for sixty toes…without seeing foesI’m now at the point of solivance III choose meThe […]
I will kill the greed in my father…and kill the brag in my motherI’ll assassinate the wants in my siblings…and shut-down the expectations of my nibblingsI’ll call the curses they hide to stand…and make them sing their hidden thoughts naked for all to understand…that I am the debt they wished they paid with care and […]
1.Awoyaa Eno, I concede to youYou won fair and squareYou have a slender waist…and I have an old wasted waistYou are tall and sway like a graceful tree…when you walkI am so short and roll like a football…when I walkYour beautifully bleached body…is nothing I have to be called a shoddySo I concede to you […]
A woman like me…unassuming …portable looking…fragile in framing Might be malleable in your dream tamingBut you can’t be further from wrong III am the woman that I am…built to last…emotions like iron…devotion like gold…commotion mostly zero One who reads your thoughts…before they form words to model through tongue caves…to bless or curse in soundsI am […]
A mouth is only efficient…when breath added to sounds is its co-efficientEars are definitely the tunnels…to the soul and help greatness sink in through its channelsMany a great men have fallen without praise…only for many praises to rain on their gone…as though it could form their “raises”A very unfair phenomenon…not a good harmonicon IISo I […]
It was a beautiful journey A beautiful journey filled with many memories as sweet as honeyBut it has come tumbling down like a chaotic bursted ball…at your character flawAnd though I feel the pain of the clawI don’t even feel like crying IIFor you told me in words and in deedThat your waistline banana needs […]
The drums are silent tonightIt isn’t because the rhythm has ended…but because a great life dancer has laid his two hands on his chestOlu Jacobs, son of the stage Performer of stories The eloquent tongue with the deep powerful voiceOne of showbiz’s big iroko trees …under whose shade many actors found shelterHas slept on his […]
Afia Brago says men are like pigs…touch them once and you see the rigsThey will steal your soul…and turn you into an empty bowlThey will drain your peace…and send your happiness to tormenting beesAfia says a man connection will swallow you wholeBut she lives with a manShe forgot the “some” in her banSo is Akua […]
In these timesYou’ve been the river…and I, the blessed plantWe’ve proclaimed our can…been each other’s fan…had our courageous runAnd have completed the first lapYou’re a blessing 26 gifted to cancel my can’t We’ve had funBe it Bush Canteen fufu or tuo zaafiWe’ve had our backsAs helping hands and happy carersWe’ve been for each other…fresh air, […]
It is not everyday that big trees fall…heeding to the giant not-coming-back callKilling hope and needs of living things depending on themGhana has lost such a gem! It is not easy for Asanteman to go so quietThat even tears fall from the skyMany will so neglect their diet…in a begrudging hurtful byeYour roots which fed […]
There are many white sturgeons dented in plagiarized mudBut are not considered badAnd are still in rivers with their schools…not being considered fools But a skirt tetra who dared to join the streamAnd had sprinkles of muddy creamAnd dared to join their schoolMust be made a tool to call his species many a foolFor it […]
A RED PILL man is a walking red flagHe is like an insensible soldier holding a war flag…with no real love badgeHis motive is to dominate and not to motivate His thoughts are to conquer your surrender His attitude is like a sword to your self love annihilateHis love language is to butcher your smiles […]
We areWe are naughts in daydreams of future someonesWe areWe are naughts but lies desperately wrapped in tearable truthsWe areWe are naughts but cowards putting up brave fronts …in shivering unsuresWe areWe are terrified skeletons…hiding in dark cupboards …hoping none finds the keys to openTo open us up to eyes whose other parts hide…hide in […]
I’m livingGoing places, leaving many tracesCaring not about frowning faces Scandals?I wear them like sandalsFor I am refinedI am definedI am crudeI could eludeI am ghetto I could go GrottoI am shameless I could be harmless I am a headI could be a tailThis me is successI could be a fail So sail on this […]
As akɔnɔ-bɔne rears its head…asking to be fedAnd this big bed brags side coldness…in a tormenting sadnessI feel like plucking a commander on a power tree…to whip him for my emotional fee IIWhy? I sigh!I too need securityAnd I have one with a surety So why hold him with impunityOn a night when this weather […]
PROF. SACKEY“Ignashoeees! Is Ignashoes here? Hello, are you there???? He’s gone. You think you can earn an Mphil sitting behind a computer?Cecilia, Carlos…”These have turned into bells ringing in my earsAs your demise fan my tearsFor I thought you were larger than life Untouchable, unbeatable, through all life’s strifeThis ladder to the immortal unknown …always […]
Whatever man entangles with force Will go through countless chaos and pause A reflection on the entangled …will cause a detangle Which will work temperaments from many an angle Relationships will be hammered, peaceful words mangledEventually, understanding will be strangledCutting sides holding the whole together Forcing the ties asunderThis is the state of usTo the […]
Sɛ ɛrehuro yi na ɛwɔ sɛ yɛnoa nokwareSɛ ɛrehuro yi na yɛ hia nokware ntutuoAto y’anibere nso nokware adani apopobibireA etumi patri ne somafoɔ ma no yira ne kahyireHwiee nokware to gu ma suban bɔne kɔso ara epia nsuyire Nsuo yɛ yɛn akoaNso ebetumi adane yɛn wuraNsuo som yɛnEbetumi nso akumkum yɛnYɛ nom nsuo, nso […]
There is a reason heart is in teacherCheer is in teacherReach is in teacherChat is in teacherHear is in teacherCare is in teacher There is also a reason why tea is in teacherEat is in teacherAche is in teacherCheat is in teacherAnd art is in teacher The art of care after being reachedThe art to […]
1.AS the rains punishAnd many things and lives perishAs several losses and things we cherishSpeed in floods to cause us anguishLet’s remind ourselves of the rubbishThat we dispose of in drainsAnd know this is one of its ‘gains’ 2.Let’s think of the water ways we won with deadly grudges…and punches…and lashes…and crashesAnd built on them […]
I lost a neighbor I didn’t love as myselfNot for not trying, but for the protection of my very selfMy neighbor was as prickly as the skin of a porcupineAnd gave abusive threats that sent shivers down my spineHe stole my wires and logsAnd threatened my sister with haunting flogs Even when I went out […]
A poor leader somebody cries at a little heatShe finds accountability a defeatAnd frowns like kakayi without win meatWhenever responsibility calls for her seatAll she knows is mouths drumming praises for her dancing feet 2.That poor leader somebody stands for none Knows no oneProtects no one And does nothing she can 3.She will talk noneFor […]
Once upon a timeUnfairness with a republic did rhymeBlack coloured people were considered donkeysAs pink coloured people held their whips…hitting and calling them monkeysWhile making them work on everything including building chips They tampered with many brown mindsAnd reduced them to brainless findsUntil one brown mind broke through the windy tortureAnd got for them a […]
1a.Who says the meaning of poems must hide…in layers and layers of confusionsSearched for with vague illusions Hurt brains in mock contusions…in order to understand? 1b.Who says a poetic theme must live far in meaning For thinkers to travel far in fetchingForcing minds to work hard in stretching…in order to understand? 1c.Know that universal poems […]
Nsuyire yɛ kɔkɔbɔƐsan nso yɛ awudibɔNsuyire te sɛ abufuw nkitiwa …bebree a ahyia ɛreyɛ nnyɛdoa Wo ne me nneyɛɛ…ɛna abɔ mu ɛrekɔ yɛn ɔsɛyɛɛ Enti kaeKae sɛ nnwura kora basabasa Gɔta mu bɔɔlahyɛ basabasa Nsuwansuwa mu adansie basabasaNyinaa ka bɔ mu …na esi nsuyire Enti nya nyansaNa bɔ mɔdene fa wo nsa yɛ adwumaTi wo […]
You were like fresh rainCatching dust into a worldly drainYou were like a pretty flower…hidden beneath a dirty showerYou were like fresh air…that many share without a careNow you’re you in an abstractForcing many tongues into many a talking contract IIYou…needed the praises from those you touchedYou…needed the love from those you matchedYou…wanted to see […]
I got a peek of you in Tamale, at Alex’sYou stood for all the good yesesYour brightness, decorum and patience…shone through your nurturingI saw the love in my brother’s eyesAnd knew you were a sister-mother like me Whatever wind blew your soul uphill…to your makerWe challenge it notThrough this painYour family reminisce the gain…which made […]
A bright star has fallenIt did not have a sudden fallIt was shot and torn to its coreIt got visibly so soreBut none, for him, tried a rescue Many long hands did see it struggling in the skyNo finger tried to touched itNone saw it fitUntil he hid behind a cloudEven then, others could have […]
The terror that did them drainThe horror that caused their strainThe stupor that made them insanePossessed and gave them not even a grain of brain Now Nightfall in Soweto has its daylightWhere every neighbouring Black is in frightJust a meeting causes a beatingMaking every day a dreaded diseaseFor who knows who would be deseased? There […]
Life is like unknown spaces poorly sewn…with many happenings so duly blownI cry you in whose presence I’ve grownAnd all the very yous my grown has known For you would be my stories’ tellDo a good and I’ll write your tellSpin a bad and I’ll write your yellBe the worse and I’ll be your sellBe […]
There is a thing to love as your beliefSelecting one to love in reliefNot a one to fan your chiefWith a mind you wish to thief How could you a mind in your aweIn a body your core finds chore Preach to me a thing as your lawWhich places pans, laddles as my moreAnd still […]
Emotional vultures are feasting on my timeDevotional cultures are beasting me in slimeDivisional structures are beating me in rhymeIt’s an occasion testing my prime IISo I pleadFeed me with your resilient seedBead me with your precious creedLord lead me like your following deedAcross this time on this slimeTo stop fatigue from my sumptuous feedAmoafowaa Sefa […]
A million tears can’t bring you back Real regrets, can’t turn back time Worries and wailing can’t change your fateFor you’re now the caught of the death hawk I knew you from the tears of Nana Dansoa NuamahSeeing that happy girl so broken…broke my heart into piecesBut at the same time, it spoke volumes…of how […]
I sit here, like a tiny dirt…being refined by youIf you were breathable, I couldn’t even touch your shirt…let alone youBut you stand at one placePregnant with knowledge anyone can embrace You give to millions in years uncountableBut none is to you accountableMany of your tiny dirtsHave gone on to become people with untouchable shirtsYet […]
Abofoɔ-abɔfoɔ de nkokɔhwideɛ ahayɔ ako guAma nkokohwideɛ a wɔn ntakra mu yɛ den…adane fie nkokɔ wɔ amafoforo afie afie mu Afei abofoɔ yi mpɛ nkokɔhwideɛ-Nkokɔ yi wɔ wɔn afie afie mu Nso nkokɔhwideɛ-nkokɔ yi werɛ afiri sɛnea wɔn tu Ama wɔn ntakra adane papa a erehuhu wɔn wuranom ho Nanso wɔn ebuomu ɛrehyehye Ɛwie a […]
I want to be lovedI want to be lovedBut you’re the walking red flagWearing different shades of selectivity IIYou live in a world of fantasyLooking for a real person to give you ecstasy Height is your bannerOn complexion, you always hammerWealth is your loud speakerClass is what’s on your radar IIII want to be lovedI […]
Here, Gaza sleeps and snores in peaceThere, Gaza has no eyesHe is a shred of dirty clothes torn to piecesMany are asking the whys IIIt’s amazing how peace stems from eachBut one’s chaos can cost OTHERS their peace There, in Gaza, drums of blood flood floors of each houseMillions of unlived lives and unsaid vows…lay […]
5.Oh AbibaLeaving your young man for BabaI wish you could be money soberSo you’ll see burdens on your future shoulderAs the poor fourth trophy of Baba 4.Dear AbibaPlease tell me, how old is Baba?Who has seen your beautiful flowerAnd has used his many one dollar…to so on you towerDo you know burdens on your future […]
Dear Thandiwe,It is with love that these fingers…have found words on this ringerYour beautiful head with your beautiful perspectivesFooled me to think so high of your nativesBut misunderstandings need clarityJust as quick judging reeks ignorance IIA sage once told meYou look to see…when your mind sees the strangeYou don’t talk in a see…when your mind […]
We’re like trees…and their leavesWe are beautiful until we’re notWhen the yellowish tinge gets our slotWe look at the swaying vibrancy of the youngThe respectable names hit us like beautiful insults“Auntie, Madam, MaUncle, Mister, Pa” The respectful manners fall on us like lovely assaultsBeing offered seats when busses are fullBeing offered help when your muscles […]
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