I know, …you know …that I know your blow Which is seeking the dark, to get me, your ‘foe’ …to make me kowtow So – …my magnanimous bow …scares when your closed eyelids go …to sleepland, in many an avenging arrow throw But what do I do? Your target line toe? II I neither bought […]
Let them come and sow …protected by their arrows in bows Let them call us foes …punching with their mental blows Let them finish and go …calling all to behold in lo Let them laugh as we tirelessly mow …and puff to our succeding’s no II Let them shoot their pricking pos …until their hands […]
There is a change seeping into the land Strange change that promises to derange …even from a range, …it sips from the cup of hope …and trips our peace on a dangerous slope Ah! II It started like a bad dream, now it burns like overheated fire… Take us off the fires of fear …simmering […]
Frights …hiding in furs of goats …are seen as follies …even in their fearsome jumps II Wounds …itching in wombs …are felt by none but the in-hidden-hawker …no matter how much they bleed III There is a world within this world Which knows what you carry And feels how you try A world within this […]
Mrs without kisses Finger ring in a fury ring Trusted bird …on a thorny bed Boss lady …on a bruised loving You say wetin? II You can wear smiles of satisfaction all day long Writing the happiness which you belong Annoying all in your jealousy gong You think that would make you – …look strong? […]
Pastor Dédé worked all week and Friday nights With all his equipping might Electrocuting others with his noisy frights Threatening complainers of his God’s bite Afraid, …every mouth closed its door …after his warnings II Then Nii-mei and Naa-mei put their ban on noising Pastor Dédé puffed and registered his shunning That night, he started […]
Roaring roses! Barking bosses! Placating pines! Swiping swines! Weird wires – …worsening wars II Fine wines line not in dine Bay hay gay not in fire rays Desires are not sure acquires in liars Fix consciences, as mechanics, to fit justices II For we are passing Not just sitting in staying We are shedding Not […]
Mothers – …ministerial makers …nature’s natural nurturers …open-armed oracles …psyched psychologists plannedly prepared …quintessential queens …rough risks remediers …serene sirens Honourables of hearts! II Mothers – …trouble truncators …umpires of under-weathers …vines of victory …wondrous wayfarers …xylophonic-voices with xray-eyes Temples! III Mothers – …bridging bars- …of livers and leavers Caring castles – …daring daffodils …exciting […]
Writers are like doctors Delicate in their line of duty A little inky mistake can break souls Destroy personalities and Unleash wars fiercer than lions on nations II Writers are like operating doctors Just a failed full stop can send many wise heads In a needless chase of sleeplessness Running after ghosts non-existent III Writers, […]
A lion – …leapingly lusting A hyena – …hysterically harping Leaves – …lurkingly listening Air – …airingly arousing The moon – …markingly mooching Fireflies – …flatteringly flipping …through light and darkness We – …wettingly whetting workings …willingly whisper whistling …wispingly whipping wishes …and merging II Cotton – …cursing our cravings Roses – …rising rousingly in […]
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 […]
Ya Allah …prepare the grounds of bellies …to stand hunger rallies As your sons and daughters fast …to feel the pain of the outcast II Ya Allah …quench all future temper …so they can’t this piousness tamper As your children prepare …in humility, to with the poor, pair III Ya Allah …tie the catastrophe of […]
When you wake up Owura, …see her like a lover you see hand in hand down the aisle One whose thoughts bubble down your belly – …warmth of promises born and unborn One whose smile gives you the strength – …to sacrifice yourself for her every need One you can hunger – …to satisfy One […]
Hate her! How hard the hoe hits heads of hes Hurting hearts heated for her! Hurt her! Her hammer hardly has hands Here, heavens help hes So hiss and heap hatred on her! II She said sorry Shocking sheroes sharing shivers Sore somberly soothed, She shunned serpentous shepherds’ serenades, As she still searched a similar […]
Ia Flutters, butters, smiles, miles …………….shatters…………… Cane, pain, madness, sadness Ib Play songs …about heartache Which my soul so longs As this heart turns in a bellyache Knowing not where it belongs I assure you that I know its every alphabetical word And I’ve been in its every exploitative shed Oh I have felt its […]
Perspectives are all we have Where you stand differs from where he stands How you act differs from how she acts So you’re free to draw me From the pencil of your view In your artistic tone II Your steam might be showing my form in anger Her steam might be showing my form in […]
It was so real I had an easy feel Sins were so few That my tears were like morning dew II But now I see the waters sweating sins I see the trees chattering sins I hear the air snaking sins I hear the birds chirping sins Oh mountains echo sins Plants pray peculiar sins […]
Sea tortoises …living in their sea in body, soul and spirit …loving their sea as silver lining love their sky …working to clean their sea like lotuses in mud Are worth celebrating – …when Asaase Yaa chooses to honour its builders Shikaman bii, oyiwaladɔn! II Strong eagles …watching and protecting …as normal eyes sleep Stamping […]
Creation in nations had stations of rations Odomankomah so made it all Fitness in unfitness Unfitness in fitness A completeness of complementations II That is why – …there are talls in fit of shorts That is why – …there are fats in fit of slim That is why – …there are fair – …in fit […]
In this horrid sadness …you left behind Amidst this painful lifelessness … I live in bind I think of it all …what I hoped for ….for you II Even in my hunger …I hoped for your fullness …choices of delicacies on an optional table Even in my anger …I hoped for your peace …a calm […]
When you want to tell it To an audience unreadable Your tongue becomes a football park And ‘it’ becomes a slippery ball Dribbled by your will Coming as far as the tip of the tongue And speeding back as far in as the end of your throat II When you want to tell it Knowing […]
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 […]
Use every will to work Frown on all those who shirk Till we all our flaws impeding growth bury We need to be in a fair hurry So our feat will be seen So we’ll get out of this sore hurts we’ve been II Let all who laugh with smiles At our snail pace growth […]
This is a world where strong sentiments …need stronger spirits This is a world where stronger hurdles – …need the strongest souls This is a world – …where conflicting battles are fought with emotional swords This is a world – …a world where a little inattentiveness spells doom So dig it- …your sword of smiles […]
So I brought my wife from Ghana and got this fine Montana My aging lovely wife Is my soul, heart and life I didn’t want to lose her Undoing Montana wasn’t fair So I invited her home and introduced them as such; “Owusua, m’adumamu ni ni o, Montana meet my lovely cousin” Language alibiing in […]
Go kill him, your Jesus And wake him after your playing recess Go kill him, your Jesus And resurrect him after your prayers access And continue the eternal cycle Always a unicycle II Start by arresting him – …with charges of your creation Saying the son must – …suffer for the Father’s nation Start by […]
Great girls- … Bully boys Regal layered, local- …national, internationally pushed A stampede so brutal- … Egos lost through negligence still seeingly unseen Oh there’ll be Bronya dresses … And overused chalewote to match Catastrophic catastrophe – … Who says? The seers say! II The winds, before, pushed down lasses Down dream hills Making them […]
Godon godon godon, gong gong godon Apatampa godon, krɛkɛtɛ godon, kon kon gudon, krɛtɛke godong, apatampa gudon, ɔnwam atikɔ pɔ firi suantie twɛdeɛ! Godon! II While the sounds lift Even the heads of mouths in ground dancing Close doors stage worst nightmares To be covered by dust made through the dance of the crowd How […]
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 […]
Yaa I Abena- Boɔ is a mysterious being, I swear! See, just last week, Maame Ama’s cat Escaped Efo Dzakpasu’s bɔtɔ And found an opening in her window So decided to find some protection from its assailant In her room All we repeatedly heard was Ei abayifoɔ yi! Ɔbayifoɔ, ɛnɛ deɛ w’ahyia! By the time […]
Let’s open our doors – …of deeds And sweep out – … silly sulkings Gathering the dirt – … of daydreaming Adding the garbage- … of grumbling To throw into the incinerator – … Of servitude To see the cleanliness- …of a start-anew II Let’s dust the sands- … of dawdling Fetching and filling our […]
I will gift myself to a Caucasian Than have me be the back decoration of an Afrimuffin Who left the embrace of his mother To serve at the feet of an unkind master II I will gift myself to a Caucasian I will so gift myself to a vulture looking Caucasian Than be one of […]
Exhume the words from the soil of the past And dust the hurts which nailed the heart At the crossroads of good and bad Making it take the latter To reach the hell of uselessness In the vehicle of bitterness II Kinder words would have nursed the seedlings of morality In beds of role modelling […]
I will ride on your rea– …soning I will sit on your su– …ffering I will brake on your brea– …kage I will soo clout your ca– …ring And will lick your lear– …ning II Let me hear the drops of your tears in torrents Ko, ko, gidim gidim, ko, ko, ko, ko, gidim gidim, […]
You chose, You chose the flapping and slapping ass And the beautiful big brown eyes You chose, You chose those breasts oh so walky-up-and-downing voluptuous And those beautiful long legs You chose You chose the toffee-like mouth well painted And the milky-coffee-like-skin well bleached I didn’t matter then I don’t want to matter now II […]
Your Jesus whose name is a whip you pull out Whenever your anger turns into a shout On building a house into a home Was he not lonesome? II Your Jesus That name you spit out Whenever you seek from me a man in the moral stout Did he ever let his pestle pound fufu […]
Feuds hide in curtains of days past To make monsters of grieving cast On stages of new days How did I come to wear a devil’s mask In mirrors of new eyeballs? Did you so mix days with nights to win wars of the past? II You drag me through the slums of hunger Arrange […]
“Mirror mirror on our wall What are we at all?” Lions swallowed by cats swallowed by mice All trapped by hyenas You are ebonies lost in fake pink and on the brink of a sink You are porcupines made up like rain-whipped nsɛnsɛ You are abro a apɛnsɛ Marked to be harvested by mouths whose […]
Once tortoise befriended a snail And they embarked on a loving tale When storms did visit, tortoise snail shielded When cars did bump, tortoise snail shielded There wasn’t a thing in harm that could tortoise get Snail just looked and began to fret People sang of the great tortoise’s strength And went ahead to shelter […]
I feel it That yearning that won’t fit That unsettling that won’t sit That dream that won’t quit Dissatisfactions that always hit All those feelings threatening to wrestle me into doom’s pit II But when I, like a snail, the boarders cross I feel like I’m carrying a loneliness cross Wearing heaviness and a sense […]
We have lived Lived through the dawn of our rise, To the morning of our victory And got stuck Between the morning of our victory And the growth of our rise Why? II Blessed with suns unrivalled I wonder how we’ve still not gotten there There, where the suns of growth shine fair Blessed with […]
She is a she from a she through a he She is a sea made of rivers no mouth can name She is a sky with lightning and clouds With suns and moons accompanied by stars even in rains Her hands are healing Her bosom is a comforter Her shoulders strong to take in Any […]
The porcupine walked like the kqueeng of pride Tongue-macheting and butchering lion “You are like the foolish baboon Who stays only in the thighs of trees Pouring promises like rain In an action of zero Let me be Let me be the kqueeng of this jungle And see the change and peace and light and […]
This kinky mess Can turn one in many and many in one This kinky mess Stops blood in its painful oozing Oh medicine on a head! This kinky mess Is a dress in the cold And a disciplined disciple which listens to hands of its comb When dressed, respecting scissors and making it easy for […]
You have been like a shadow Haunting in my follow Daunting in my sorrowful hollow Uncaring even in my Jonah-like-swallow Call me shallow But I still can’t you follow II I can’t tell whether you’re farther or a father I can’t tell whether you’re a monster or a mother I don’t know what you feed, […]
They are boiling, boiling like angry waters From the pits of your stomach right up to the lid of your head II They are boiling, I know they are boiling That rejection water I served in the calabash of your ego Burns right through your throat And is raising monstrous hatred Boiling you unwholesomely whole […]
1a A he is in a she as a she is in a he A she is in a he as a he is in a she Yolk and water, a blending cooker So why can’t we all see? 1b We have been long in this shuttle of prejudice Which drove us through deserts of […]
Sisters and brothers turned strangers in the strange! Mothers and fathers left lonely in old gaols Sons and daughters growing in deserts of hatred Think not you are cursed Lament not your dejection For if time will peel history backwards It would reveal your mountains of love Turned pain and sadness in your grand ancestry […]
Pen them Pen your thoughts and stamp them as norm But legalize them only in your world Not the one we all share For your thought’s rights cancel not that of mine Nor his Nor hers Nor theirs Even elephants as a set own not the jungle And lions as a set own not the […]
I see I see sameness in variation One in many and many in one If only minds will see same II I see I see blackness in shining armour Swords of words and words of arrows If only hands will use III I see I see colours weathering on same skies In a bond that […]
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