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 […]
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GO KILL JESUS
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 […]
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GREAT GIRLS, BULLY BOYS
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 […]
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THE NOISY AIDE
Godon godon godon, gong gong godon Apatampa godon, krÉ›kÉ›tÉ› godon, kon kon gudon, krÉ›tÉ›ke godong, apatampa gudon, É”nwam atikÉ” pÉ” firi suantie twÉ›deÉ›! 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 […]
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YOU NEED A BAAAD GIRL
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 […]
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EI ABAYIFOƆ YI
Yaa I Abena- BoÉ” is a mysterious being, I swear! See, just last week, Maame Ama’s cat Escaped Efo Dzakpasu’s bÉ”tÉ” 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 abayifoÉ” yi! ƆbayifoÉ”, É›nÉ› deÉ› w’ahyia! By the time […]
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THE NEEDED AWAKENING
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 […]
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I WILL GIFT MYSELF TO A CAUCASIAN
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 […]
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KINDER WORDS
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 […]
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YOUR JESUS
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 […]
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IN A DEVIL’S MASK?
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 […]
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MIRROR MIRROR ON OUR WALL
“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 nsÉ›nsÉ› You are abro a apÉ›nsÉ› Marked to be harvested by mouths whose […]
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INTIMIDATION STORY
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 […]
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RHYTHMS OF HOME
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 […]
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THIS STORY OF CAPABILITY (Crazy Stanzas)
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 […]
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THIS KINKY MESS
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 […]
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CAN’T FOLLOW
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, […]
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YOUR TRICKS
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 […]
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A HE IN A SHE
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 […]
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TO THE BLACKS UPROOTED
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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CAGES OF AGES
As cages of ages in the past which now turn to imprison minds Become old for a sold Future children are being killed in present wombs Through manipulation of present minds To keep our knees on the piercing gravels of the ground To maintain the posture of our heads So we look down with our […]
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BLOOD THIRSTY
Hearts now jump from chests into hands At the mention of byes Luggage shivering at commuting thoughts On bloodthirsty baits Lying straight or curved Clearly smooth or rough Bearing tombs or pools With gluttonous teeth in wait Crying for attention and getting none II How many more ghosts do we need as barriers At every […]
Ladyboy Are you not under the umbrella of pressure Having to hide your he in clothes of a she? II Ladyboy Do you not feel the pain of your cracking ego When you lie beneath for a pounding Hounding your rear hole? III Ladyboy Even with lubrications Your rear might have altercations with pain Oh […]
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THE STATE OF FATE
This is the state of fate Where every second hang foot-wears and paths For naked and blind feet to step into Knowing nothing that awaits Not thorns nor sticks Nails nor smooth roads Trees nor shrubs Rains or sunshine II This is the state of fate Where every day holds spectacles for unsuspecting eyes Who […]
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BEASTS IN FLOWERS
Only a devil will push his tail in a nation Forcefully Only a pig breaks into a temple to leave prints of dirt Happily Only a coward chases to have what is not theirs Possessively Sit, take out your consciences Polish, clean out the monstrousness And put them back If you can’t, just cut that […]
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APPEALING FOR MURDER
There is a cave deep down this mountain of chaos Sewn with stones at its entrance by the thread of greed In there are tears of the broken In there are the songs of those dumb by fear Therein lie the youth of troubled children Oh in there lives the hope of the poor Their […]
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TO THE POINT OF GUILT
This space This space beyond fear This space drained of tears This space with no claws of penury This space where different colours of freedom pimp my ride This space opened to curiosity of carelessness This space where arms of start-overs stretch This space debtors slip off to their far falls to a never rising […]
Not every bee around honey is its producer Some look to steal, acting among Not every raised hand is for praise Some are up to act as trap cues I can see the mischievous fans Hiding murderous intentions in fanning While parcelling love with smiling Oh you fake fans! You can try all you can […]
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CRACKING THROUGH (For the depressed)
Winds of confusion snake through unseen corners of minds Throwing dust on enthusiasm in the darkness of loving eyes Breaking dignities and will to live All the while working from within to without like a bomb in a living being Without showing signs on bodies So let’s beware II Look beyond smiles And listen through […]
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THE AMMUNITIONLESS WEAPON
Aminata thought and thought Is she to give her youth to this brown leaf Ready to fall off the tree of life And watch her green Musa in another’s arms? The thought brought shivers down her spine But which weapon of a mouth does she have To stand on the battlefield of parental war To […]
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THE PENSIONER-TODDLER
We are here A stop from the suppression there Like the lost freshly liberated We are here Knowing not what is fair Like a set of fowls in hungry-hawk-city II We are here A hop from the crying square Like bloodied and maimed warriors We are here Still fumbling and walking bare Like toddlers III […]
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A HEROINE’S WELCOME
Mark it You, you and you Who have used my most precious thing As tool to shoot my pride Your hands will clap at the rebellion of your heart Soon, very soon When the world asks that you stand To give me a heroine’s welcome II Mark it You, you and you Whose teeth jubilate […]
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ON BEADED WINGS (18+)
On this beautiful day, I come like a knightess, to defray your pickle Oh be in the mood for a tickle For there will be a suckle That will call for an enchanting wriggle Summoning many an amazing giggle So let afrukuto, all-fall-down, azuikoto, som-ma-me-nyÉ” with patrikotum mingle And shame days that documented you a […]
Expectations hide in this day When hearts hide wishes dreamt about in telepathic conversations Maybe Valentine needed bars on his emotions And not his person II There are those who wear beautiful handcuffs applauded By society as crowns Hiding fountains of tears caused by deceptions unmentionable They may be paraded but with their hearts silently […]
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EXPECTATIONS
Give me a stone and I will see the glaring message “Heart of mine, trip all you can, I will be here to catch your falls” Give me ordinary sand and I will smile at the sweetness of thought That says “Even if we turn dust, this heart will you belong” Even the stinking end […]
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TIME TO COOL OFF
There is nothing wrong with a break After a tsunamic life shake After all, it takes time for scared fishes to travel through rivers Back to their sea after explosive shivers So you in the mirror, take time to cool off II Eyes close take time to open After a whirlwind As its dust takes […]
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THIS HOME WE WILL ALL GO
Heads buy thoughts from many sources As to how it is beneath, ha! Untrusting, fearing, praying Souls shiver in spirits which scare bodies But we know the trip is imperative No matter our standing II I know death is an animal unseen That whose teeth tire not in chewing That whose hunt never fails That […]
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THE ME OF YOU
Don’t you know me? Pluck the sun to see my face I am your future Waiting patiently for your present as it comes through your past II Don’t you know me? Buy a moon to look very well I am your final back Which would be seen by all No matter the faces you may […]
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DEVELOPMENT HOUNDS
(In honour of our fallen Tiger Eye journalist Ahmed) You there wake the one napping there Let him wake the one snoring there So we can stand here and wailingly shout Don’t ask what about Haven’t you heard about the loss of a touch in this muddy sea we live? We are shouting to the […]
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YOU’VE BEEN ATE A LION’S EATING
You’ve been ate a lion’s eating Your pot licked clean like an asanka of a famished seer Even the veins in your womb have been drained of blood Which shares your hope to other parts of your emaciated body Why won’t every child come sensely vacant? II You’ve been ate a lion’s eating No wonder […]
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I OWE YOU NOTHING
There is a laughter building up in the grounds of my stomach Laughter which needs thousand voices of lionesses To bring its intensity to ears Whose mouths are shamelessly asking Asking for a family building when they know I just arrived from a war after losing a castle A castle which was bombed after a […]
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I AM A WITCH
I am a witch! Yes, a witch! That witch who flies on the broom of hard work Through canoes of the night Paddling with rumours of the bored On rivers of the covetous Hoping to reach the sea of success Without your sweats of bother So hide not in calling II I am a witch! […]
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MENZGOLD OR MENZZERO? (Crazy Stanzas)
There has been a huge rain of evidence Spelling FACT in bold Of the rot that pilolo as myth in this nation What does it take to buy the land? Stamps of high stools bought by currencies without solid roots! Pictures of first personalities whose camera is set By fundings whose stem dazzle to blind […]
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NOTHING MOTHERING ALL THINGS
I have been following your mythical silhouette to find its owner Living like a leaf carried by air in the sky of uncertainty Anger mixes frustration and disdain As something seems like anything All in the can of nothing But then again Nothing is the mother of all things Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, […]
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