Now the world lives in our handsSo long as we have eyes to touchLegs can restBodies can restAs fingers search to tell…with eyes IISo none can feign an unknowningTo neglect the plight of a neighbourNone can feign an unseeingTo neglect the cries of their people IIINow cities live in handsVillages live in handsA box of […]
Adafianu and Agavedzi are being swallowed by KetaWhich has turned into a python swallowing homes wholeAdafianu, Agavedzi and many in Ketu-South are being devoured by KetaThey who have no legs to run stand like morsels to be swallowed whole IISurrounding villages watch in frightened modeNeighbouring beards burn, and their eyes seeSurrounding villages know they’ve lost […]
Ekuba’s mouth was busy“A woman who disrespects an ex is like a spoilt mopWhich was used to clean him upA man who has seen your nakedness deserves the highest respectAs for me, I will honour my manCurrent or ex as God instructed” III looked on like a non verbal toddler whose words have been hidden […]
Mr. Antwi’s burning car was between the Addos and his houseOn the same street as those who filmedThey feigned shock and sympathyAs the man run from his bore hole to fetch waterNo one thought to helpAs they were busy answering to comments on their phones IIThen it caught onto both housesAnd Mr. Antwi rushed to […]
When my life reaches its westIn nature’s bid for an eternal restWill my deeds reach their questIn a nod for all their best? IIAs life’s tides sway in fearAnd some hopes dash to jeersWill my will stand to bearAs my pride faces hooting cheers? IIILove runs deep, it also cuts deepAs I enjoy its fluttering […]
You make it difficultYou make it difficult to write poems of heartbreaksEven though I’ve walked through the shadows of pain…and have felt the taunting tortures of disdainAfter love lost IIYou make it difficultYou make it difficult to remember the feelings of those timesThose times my hopes stood at the junction of zeroAs I cursed those […]
A poor man is like a cat…grandma saidCuddly, affable, loving and obedientBecause money, like meat, is not in sight A poor man can act a fool…grandma saidJust to make you a financing toolLet the world open up to himAnd you’ll see the lion which hid in the cuddly cat You can be chasedYou can be […]
I am here looking at your shockWith a face which can’t even find a space in this ironical mockTell me again your kind of stock IIYou sit at home all day like a handsome sofaWaiting for my hustled body and sweatTo come clean cobwebs, compound and cookAnd afterwards wash your dishes and your hands? I […]
“Growing upA girl was the company of a motherSmoke in eyesErrands on fleekSubmission tutorialsAnd ginger with pepper suppositories when a mistake repeatsNeed I talk about the slaps and whips and insults and curses? IIThen we grew into teens and blood reared its headDays of pain and grossness and segregationAfter that, household errands multipliedAnd chains of […]
Once upon a time, aboa AgyinamoaLived with Gyata under the same roof in KoramoaThey were the loved pets of a womanAnd did everything to please her IIOne day, Agyinamoa saw Gyata…devouring one of human’s nguanHe went straight to her and reportedThe humans were livid because their nguan kept getting missing IIIThe humans chased Gyata into […]
I will plant and respect trees like my missionAnd clean gutters for all to envision I will keep clean all water bodiesAnd push for recycling like a living truckI will live a life worthy of natureAnd have respect for its mothering structureThat is the worship I know…will please my Creator IIFor He can’t rest easy…knowing […]
There was a world many are pushing to be forgottenA world where the old lived the privilege of teaching as the young learnedA world where the skilled lived their experiences of leading apprentices and the latter learnedA world where morality had its defined parameters and the world compliedA world where love acted primary in marriages […]
As Pakistanis break the code of Kenya’s friendshipAnd France act roarers fearing a Russian takeover in MaliAs Ethiopia sacks UN representatives for meddlingAnd Ghana battles sensational and degrading newsUganda’s coffee people cry for a pull out…from world tradeWhat is happening to our world? IIMerciless rainsHot headed sunWicked windsVile volcanoesNo one is spared of nature’s angerYet […]
Horrible is a stage which brands all equalFor tongues varyWhile some speak in tandem with the mindOthers are held by emotions of the heartWhile some are used in the teaching of the massesOthers are used to feed off the shine of great classesOh how horrible a stage of equality IISee as ignoramuses challenge experts like […]
When a woman loves a womanShe knows the import of a no…just based on how it is utterered IIWhen a woman loves a womanShe knows the meaning of her tears…just based on how it is shed IIIWhen a woman loves a womanShe knows the sensations in her body…just based on where it hurts IVWhen a […]
He walked like a giant with a presence He looked like a perfectly made cartoon with an auraHe gave great vibes and had all heads turn…at his sight IIHe wore black jeans and a hoodieStopping all breaths for secondsUntil the pursuers surrounded himHe looked around, saw the sticks, machetes and dangerous faces …and raised his […]
Sometimes we scratch ourselves without bitesGetting sores unwarrantedSometimes we push ourselves to slip and fallWithout a soul chasing our causeSometimes we act like lions without a jungleIncensed by none to act like foolsSometimes we sit on needles without a forceWounding ourselves IISometimes we run to tire without a reasonAnd breathlessly lose our sensesSometimes we stage […]
Do you know why KÉ”ntutu has a kÉ”nkuku?Once upon a time, aboa KÉ”nkuku…was a normal AkokÉ”He lived like a king until his parents turned into Bronya nkokÉ”Sad and dejected, he decided to kill himselfAnd so he went to buy a rope for that cause IIHe tried first to hang himself on a duaBut his owners […]
When your life is hardAnd your hard work’s luck seems badKnow…you’re a soul to glow IIWhen your mates live easyAnd your best’s world seems messyKnow…you’re the one to glow IIIWhen you trip where others flyAnd you fall where others stand tallKnow…your stage will call IVIn a happy sad worldAnd a painful sweet worldIn a win […]
If my shiny lips rub on your libidoMan so loose, check yourselfIf my bouncy breasts wake your monstersMan so fickle, hold yourselfIf my wriggling buttocks crack your jackMan so indiscipline, punish yourself If my short skirt forces you to sinI have no electric wire attached to youNeither am I a socket with a gun to […]
What is in a sin seen by the masses?Do immortalities have classes?Do we see our reflections when we stand with pious glasses IITell me the ingredients of a sinI thought it all landed us in morality binBut it seems the disgust of many is a castigating ginWhich drives many a drunk to commit just sinsAnd […]
Once upon a time, aboa AponkyeLived his life disrespecting his wife by not even giving her akyeHe cheated on her, insulted her and disregarded her as a real aponkyeMany advised him to desist from his behaviourBut he insulted and asked them not to be her saviourUntil he got lost one day due to his misbehaviour […]
Young woman newly on love’s shoreYou see those eyes, that do you adoreWill find in your frame the morrow as a haunting choreSo slow downIn this love town IIFor you’re a flower and he is a beeHe wants your nectar and you seek foreverOh he is a hunter who wants to seeYou in a trap, […]
He walked from Makola to CircleAnd tried to charter a taxi from Circle Station to Circle Station Many who heard him laughedThe drivee laughed too and answered“You’re in Circle Station my brother”He then looked around and felt smallHe wondered how he had wandered to his destination…without noticing his movements IIThen he walked straight into the […]
It was slaps that got her attractedIt was bites that got her hookedIt was restriction that got her swooningIt was choking that made her a worshipper…worshipper of any dude IIShe loved to be instructed to act shallowShe loved to be banned from touchShe loved to be whipped to conformShe loved to be pinched in her […]
Once upon a time, aboa GyataRuled a jungle whose systems to all É›fataThough everything was going well, some animals haboured anibereSo they plotted and waited for their emereAll the jealous animals consulted AkuraFor ideas to, as it were, overthrow Gyata IIAkura told them to set the jungle on egyaAs that is the only thing that […]
Is there a dayYou’ll look at me and say“I detest you and I in stay?”Is there a dayWhat you and I feel will decay…chewed by familiarity, time and many a friction?I am wondering…just wondering IIBecause I see the twinkle in your eyesAnd I feel like believing in the forever many think a lieI see how […]
Kwaku Mankrado will cook for Obroni baaBut will not lift a spoon to stir food prepared by his own bibini baaKwaku Mankrado will wash the pioto of Obroni baaBut will not try to take things washed on the dry line by his own bibini baaKwaku Mankrado will happily sweepAnd humbly obey when told to sleepWhen […]
When super powers become duping powersAnd new nations riseTheir powers fall and are played like a diceOn a bounceless ground IIAnd so they plot their comebackThinking not of mouths which wait to feedSo they plot their retentionThinking not of stomachs which await their fuelAnd so they plot to keep their slotsForgetting the sick, the weary […]
Needs are like prayer beadsOne comes after anotherSo in your quest for a miracleCheck your strengthsAnd be the God of another IIBless with what you haveTo open the gate of your prayer in anotherBless by givingTo have the blessing of receivingBless by being a blessingTo make worship a believable thing IIIFor when thoughts are clearedAnd […]
Sometimes live coal needs air to keep its lightSometimes cars need a little push in order to startEven balloons need air for their forms to showSo when the going gets toughAnd times get rough…allow youTo get the nudge to help you move on IIFor you’re a being…capable of getting tiredFor you’re fallible…and capable of self […]
They are what grown men clutch to suckThey are what can shine to blind eyes to cause accidents on roadsThey are what children seek to suckThey are what some men watch to riseThey are what fill a pleasure cup with treasuresThey are what shape a chest to teaseThey are what shoot from the skin to […]
Dear frogYou can’t hide in gutters…under shrubs…in holesTo croakAnd call my daylight chirping a nuisanceCompare a nightingale to a frogAnd rate the pleasure of their audience both in sight and sound B. Dear frogI know you’ve wings because of your Chinese delicacy platformBut if you are smart enoughYou’ll know your crunchy legsCompareth not to my […]
Once upon a time, aboa ƆkramanBecame friends with AkokÉ”To spite aboa Agyinamoa because the latter claimed their target had no subanSo they were bent on going to places that Agyinaoa ntumi nkÉ”To alienate him completely IIThis was because AkokÉ” said she knew Agyinamoa to feast on ne mmaAnd felt he could hunt to kill her […]
Where love is kingYour opinions must sit where it made its formFor the moment its negativities ringMany will, in your gossip column storm IIFor to loversEyes see affection where even rejection reignsFor loversEars hear a soothing where cacophony reignsFor loversNoses smell roses where rot reignsFor loversBodies feel love where destruction reignsIt is a charm whose […]
Dear OdomankomahThis humanity that parades my soul…is weak from hair to soleSo build me like a malleable treeTo bend where need beSo as to live a life worthy…worthy of you IIYou see, I build my expectationsAnd I impose them on others hoping for dedicationYou see, I live my truth…expecting others to bear the same fruitYou […]
You lure me in with your phantom wealthTo study my formYou use my weaknesses to wrap me around your fingersAnd use your colourless twines to make me your robotForcing me to sell my own…to help you build your estatesYou starved and whipped…and wounded and killed my blood beingsAnd had the effrontery to blame them for […]
Fist clenchedToenails coilingTeeth grindingBody curledShivers hold the centre of my beingIn this bearable cold Odomankomah gave…to cool us B. And so I wonderI wonder how weak bodies thrive in snowAnd so I wonderI wonder how those people think us poorAnd so I wonderI wonder how they can leave their poorest…to tend to our poorAnd so […]
Once upon a time, aboa AdankoLived proud and acted as though the world hosted É”no ara nkoAnd so he disrespected ƆwansanAnd refused all admonition of atwesanThinking its cuteness above all B.He woke up one beautiful day to roam only to find for himself an adukromWhere he thought was a blessing like Eden tromAnd so he […]
“Golden ringsNew IPhonesPerfect heelsHot handbags Branded clothesWonder watchesGlowing sunglasses”I will buy no pressure for myself please IIAs long as my ordinary clothes can cover and protect…and fit to walkAs long as my advanced yam can call and text…and post and readAs long as my perfect eyes can duck the sun…and see to walkI won’t act […]
Composure is easier done in an audience seatNot in the ahenema of the angeredBecause the blood which boilsAnd the heart which flipsAnd the head so toyed with…do not extend to the onlookerSo be cautious in the seat…in the seat or stand of the onlooker IIFor you might slap where the victim insultedYou might maim where […]
As the earth wheels to times unknownWith its anger so visible shownThrough its disasters which we term overblownLet us take a cue and work to help it calm IIFor Cornflowers have seen droughts and floodsBunchberry has seen a heatwave killing manyThe Golden Wattle has burned in catastrophic panic and destructionAnd now The Red Carnation suffers […]
Once upon a time, aboa SonholiSaw KÉ”ntutu and spat in a town called FoliSonholi went on to insult KÉ”ntutuTook a basket and made sure he did it butuAnd went ahead to taunt it IISonholi called KÉ”ntutu atantandeÉ›Citing her hairless neck as ahuhudeÉ›Taunting it until she wept kro kro kro kroSome NkokÉ” advised him with empathetic […]
Long life has taught me to give thanks to my maker…at my lowest IIMany temptations have taught me to exercise enough patience…at my lowest IIIHurts upon hurts have taught me to wait upon a viable solution…at my lowest IVLife which burns has taught me to wait for quenching rains…at my lowest VCowardly situations have taught […]
In your heartbeats are songs of peace…some my gait uses to walk in happy harmonyTo chart the course of fulfillment IIIn your heartbeats are the chorus of tenderness…the verses of care…the quotes of loveWhich root me in you IIIIn your heartbeats are our vowsUnspoken but writtenUnoutdoored but knownTried and trueIn white and blue IVIn your […]
There are people fishing in the sandThere are people molding in riversThere are people walking in the skyAll bragging about their future achievementsWonders will never end There are people singing with their rearThere are people eating with their hairThere are people thinking with their thighsAll in love with the idea of productivityWonders will never end […]
Public opinion is mostly like the wavesThey push so hard forward…only to recede when they hit the dockAnd it is so so frightening IIThey can cheer a deathAnd turn around to condemn itThey can root for a talentAnd turn around to boo itThey can criticize a thingAnd turn around to okay itThey can detest a […]
Afuti Yibɔɔ is prayingPraying for good things to happenAbla his daughter is also prayingSaying great things must happen IISir Richard White is workingHoping great inventions will happenHis daughter Penelope is watchingLearning and helping for great inventions to happen IIIGod the judge watchesAsking why some of his created brains are callingGod the Master stretchesWondering why some […]
Remember when I wore body hugging clothesAnd you complimented me?I wore it because I loved how it looked…in my mirrorNot to please you IIWhen you looked at my lipsAnd loved the red hot lipstickIt was flattering but I did it for meBecause my mirror clapped…and showed me photographs of a beauty IIIWhen I wore my […]
Hajia, when a Muslim man tells you he’d marry multiple wivesBelieve himLive not in the hope of a bluff to feel the tips of jealous knivesWhen his promises rain to your perfect love dim Hajia, he told you no lieHe spoke from the prideful praise of his fatherHaving lived through the quiet storms of his […]
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