Tit bits of hits …have bitten into cultures so deep That even animes have become enemies …gunning down innocence So guard hard your planted …lest you grow the bad to live in a mad place …where consciences are without traces II Choosing to …house …inner monsters …locking learning with freedom …damning the good to pat […]
Nneɛ ɔkaa sɛ bebia abɛ bɛtɔ biara yɛ mprɔyɛ mu no …yɛ ɔbadwenba a adwenehare kyekyere n’aniso adehunu kakra Efirisɛ abɛ bi tumi tɔ egya mu …ɛhye Abɛ bi tumi tɔ ɛboɔ so …ɛwo Abɛ bi ti tɔ fɔm ma mmoadoma we Abɛ bi tumi tɔ nnɔti bi mu …ɛmmim a y’ɛnhu n’adwosuo koraa …na […]
Brushing rotten teeth …bleeds out rotten blood Fire roasts minerals …to burn out hidden beauty There is no great results without tiresome beginnings Same goes for development II 1. Results 2. Obese 3. Exercise 4. Fitness III For the 2 to attain total 4 There is a need for a rigorous 3 Which comes with […]
The cable of trouble …ably enabled by labels and gambles …which wobble legs of the stable …even on a comfortable table …is no fable to play with like a colored bubble II So sit …seek …study …store …to strengthen your senses For the land of temptation is like a slippery slope Every feet is susceptible […]
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 […]
Preacher – If my mama couldn’t reach me And my papa couldn’t teach me Please don’t preach me …and turn around to act leach …to bleach my pocket into tatters Ib If you need a socket to charge your pocket …bribe me with no locket For I am a rocket which blasts such pockets If […]
Lisa thought she had gotten a visa to riches By wedding onto a comfortable bedding Her bragging and doggy greeting with fingers acting pianists in the air …could be seen even by the blind Driving all spinsters mad with bad jealousy II Hers was acting boss to clean …and taking off dross to dance for […]
Na ɔmama abɔ mma …ama ɔnam a, na n’abati ɛɛto ahantan nnwom Efirisɛ na obu ne ho okukudam N’ɛnso wɔn a wɔhyɛ n’ase nyinaa buu no okuku-ɔdamfoɔ nnyɛ nɛ II Wo bisa sɛ ɛdeɛn ntira? Ɛneɛ tie ɛ Ɔde suahunu ɛkɔtena suatera dua ase …de pia pia nsukɔnoma kɔ dua no so Ɔfaa nyamberansɛm yi […]
They met daily on Facebook And shared jokes via Twitter They saw each other on Instagram And chatted seriously via email While walls were their only distance A walking sadness on unfortunate path II And so the child grew by the teachings of the net And fell into its reckless bet with life His fingers […]
If you’re still ill in will, with worries piled bills The pills in quills will still your will …so find words waiting in closed books They’ll give you thrills which will shrill your ills …and fill your chill with goodwill Just kill your ills of daunting hills with stories Waiting to shed your worries II […]
1. Priorities 2. Honour 3. Patriotism 4. Double Standards 5. Groveling 6. Sovereignty 7. Oppression 8. Expression 9. Impression 10. Favour 11. Saviour 12. Behavior 13. Cages 14. Slavery 15. Justification Ib 1b. Knocked up 2b. Fucked up 3b. Strapped on 4b. Preposterousness 5b. Cracked in 6b. Searched 7b. Wiped out 8b. Sanity 9b. Nonsensical […]
Ia Stories……Interest…… Needs Worries……Filters…….Deeds Ib I heard the macho had come to town His history hopped out from the past …flipping itself like an interesting script …in the library of my mind Forcing smiles long on vacation …to return home to the mouth of my face Mischief playing dondo, mpintin and atumpan in my head […]
Clothes to shada so all can yada Hair to pair so it can fata Footwear to match so atanfo can shiver Makeup to fit, to look the perfect diva God’s temples have turned runways Agyawaadwo! II Whispers tiptoe within church walls And turn bold talks after with shouting balls “Did you see Awo Yaa’s duku? […]
They all scream to title the next …in my head’s nest Hatred screams on love Love adorably stares As heartbreak rears it’s head …to force love to close its eyes Religion calls for sanity But sins stamp their ink on their leaders Politics reads its provisional manifesto But disappointment laughs loudest …shutting in all screams […]
Akasa akasa bebree yi fapem ne sɛn? Yɛse yɛse mframa ɛɛkeka ammodin dɔ ho asɛm Bɔyiɛ! Ib Ano jejejeje bɔ awerɛfie Sɛ sɛbi, yɛ nto ɛdan akyi pono mu Paapa, …ansa na wo bɛ bue w’ano no Hwɛ hunu sɛ Wo dan akyi pono mu ato danwee Efirisɛ ɔdɔ mu akronfoɔ kyere woa …ɛɛdɛ sene […]
I stand here and turn back To look at the you who fell into the rot of poverty From a pot that needed you not …and a rain which only fell for pleasure …and fled to hide into some small pores on the earth Today I marvel at your strength II I stand here and […]
You say I’m selling But you are yelling Calling for customers sleeping and traveling In a badness of madness in searching my shaming When I’ve never signed any contract of marketing …with you What is your own if I am selling my toklo? II While you light the fires of gossips And pour your sweats […]
There were dead men before us Oblivon was a hunter who had all the games of life Not anymore Not in our lives II For our present can be frozen like ice To locomotively flow like rivers On a save-forever realm You think I lie? Google Mugabe Google Maya Angelo Google Atukwei Okai And they […]
Old voices die amidst young voices No matter how loud or shrilling They are like plantain leaves …no matter how beautiful their stretches …they dry up and fall only to be replaced by a higher new With every height of the plantain tree …comes a new sect of accompanying leaves Such is the moulding of […]
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 […]
Let’s import sanity from the past To distill the madness going wild in our present Because humanity is falling fast Empathy, mostly absent …in our daily must II Order has now climbed a long tree Hiding from the guns of chaos Respect paying its antonym exorbitant fee What has turned hit songs? Conversations formerly aos […]
An unfairness dipped her heart in hatred As vengeance taunted her pride Voices pushed for drastic actions Until she took the spear of bitterness II She flew on its handle Like a witch whose magic wand has been stolen And drowned all calls for calm …in the stream of anger Until she reached her target […]
When some winds …whip my wins And some suns …shatter my stock When some rains …wreck my rest And some dust …render me blind I let my being …shed the tears As I, like the statue of patience …wait II For though there be unmerciful winds …there are kind airs There are cruel suns …still […]
Each day, Many hunters abound in frames of humans …of spirits …of souls …of animals Looking for who to feed on Be no mopoke For cries of unhappiness travel far …fetching pests of doom to zoom and room …in souls of criers II Troubles are like bubbles They are dicey at conception Fearful in flight […]
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 […]
These artificial storms Made, so eyes in fear of dust …will close to the modeling wrongs …shamelessly walking on the carpet of the present …to the anals of history These artificial storms Evoked To battle fierce criticisms …in the boxing ring of infamousness These artificial storms Made without a thought As to the loss it’ll […]
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 […]
Like stainless skies Every being is born without a blemish We fall from birth into ignorance …with abundance of opinions Some trashy …others great Days help us sift the good …through knowledge seeking Until we reach near perfection And are able to note that labels …are for uncouth and lazy learners II We grow …through […]
He owns diamonds in silver And claims he deserves it because of his wastage of saliva …on his make-believe podium Now he selects juicy apples to crack on his mat in hues …to mark to live above sin …as his following Johns look and join In an open revelation awaiting the original Revelations Still, the […]
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 […]
There is nothing painful Like hope dangling by the minute …followed by uncertainties the next minute …then fear of loss in another minute Ah ɛnanom, agyanom ne anuanom …mo nnue mmowai! II It was such a long scary road …in the vehicle of despair It was such a heart wrenching journey …and you were served […]
You’re roosters who have lost their crows To the snorts of pigs Who mislead your people Into wriggling in dirt You’re the roosters who peck on everything unimportant Leaving dire issues rotting like unattended sores You’re herbs which have turned useless leaves Failing to heal your nation’s sicknesses Yet demanding for undeserving ovation What is […]
Anger can push you from success town To the broken hut of a ridiculed clown Anger can make you slip from the apex of respect To the stinking feet of disrespect Anger has caused many to fall from the mountain of gain Into the ditch of disdain Fence well your anger …in a barn of […]
Sometimes clouds of sadness can form in our minds Sometimes thunders of fears will blast through it As Will lights to die in an ill lightning When you reach that point …SPEAK OUT II If you don’t The sadness will rain down your inner …and flood your body Drowning your soul and killing your spirit […]
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 […]
Ei akutia? Akutia a ɛmmaa nnipa ntatia …tiatia Kwaku Nketia anuonyam so …wɔ Obo Nkwantia maa krom hɔ nkɔnkɔn-mpete susɔ no sɛɛ sɔ sɔ sɔ sɔ …yɛɛ n’abrabɔ pasaa no? Abena Amoafowaa Jemremedua, Agowa dɔ ba …me mma no nka me kaba …na abɛka me sliiti Ib Ɛyɛ ɔbɔdamfoɔ na etumi ne mframa bɔ kasatwɛdeɛ […]
Ia Ogya de gya! …me de awɔ no! M’adi apagya! …me de aka no! M’atu mu dɛ …me de akyerɛ no! Wɔma bebree paepae ansa na wadro abɔ Agya-nyaneno ne ɛna-twimu ma me bebrebe no …nyinaa yɛ nsu brane …a ɛtɔ dum ayaase abaa mu gya So STOP it! Ib If your flex With your […]
Shea buttered melanic bodies display Scantily clad at the junction of stickdom Some faces needfully smileless Other faces hopefully smileful Some waists twirling Some hard buttocks twerking As I sing II I ring the ding to dong like a gong I am the tongue to bless with a song I need your wriggle to shed […]
She built an iron fence with jealousy In her loving fallacy She grew her beast with ecstacy To chase all potential rivals Her fearsomeness always trended to scare Filling the barrel of her husband’s hatred Even so, that horse was only driven to tame in days’ faces His pleasure whip got satisfied …every other night […]
Sɛ yɛ ka sɛ obi aben a Obimanso no …atitiriw fo hwehwɛ no …sua firi ne hɔ Nanso ɛha yi Amanfo hyɛ ɔtan wɔ aniberɛ kukuo mu …de si ahoɔyaw gya so …de homhom fi dane papa …bɔ mu sɛɛ huu huu huuu De gu abenfo ho fi II Enti yɛ bɛ yɛ dɛn aduru […]
Some shave …and their skins behave Some shave …and their skins rave …bumps …sores …scars Know your skin …the razor to use …and the hair to shed to curb rebellion …after its dump Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © September 10, 2019
The elders did say Those who host our hands in their mouths Need no hit on their pates In fact, I posit that Care routes must be taken To even tickle as a giggle can mean a bite It is a mess that dresses in a curse even for the blessed II To hit a […]
If you lose sleep to keep a hope …of my swinging slope …from deviancy to your earth God cope Then you need a potent dope If not, you’ll forever mope Because I will forever be a deviant II Show me the cross And I’ll turn boss to use it as seat For many to carry […]
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 […]
Men are made great when their …Upclimb shines bright under …Grave circumstances …Affecting the unfortunate positively, after …Beating tragedy …Emancipating all from a fall Ib You, like the promised, fell into this bracket You were like great eyes sent to a Samaria …to sanitize into sainthood But you turned water …which stayed in one pot […]
The fingers traveling through the Korley Gonno of the nose The hand weeding through the hidden land of the waist The finger sweeping out debris of the eyes Those hands blocking guttered whirlwind of sneezes from the nose and mouth Those same hands scooping sweats in rains to a skin dryness Ah the hands getting […]
With every tick of the clock The approach of your birthday Dawns and overshadows me Like a cloud taking over a warm sun Your deep dimpled smiles and giggles Acting background song Tickling my sadness Wetting my pillow II You wanted me to be a me Who smiles to let you see From a distant […]
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