In blooming, A Bacchanalian orgy is exciting A farther travelling of our times Make it a soggy living. Partying tiredness sets in As we near our holes of eternal rest A noise we jumped with Becomes an unfunny scare Thoughts of fun no longer feature showing off Tranquillity is peace not freedom uncensored Every […]
Walls climbed walls At her order Pride joined beauty at her table, Made her an unmatched princess And froze her thoughts of age Inside a wall without an opening Age minded no frozen thoughts And walked through to his territory Taking hold of her skin like wild fire Making mirrors her enemies As […]
Whatever you see Comes with a fee But the hand that pushes into the earth Takes no fee You can turn You can burn You can sit, spit and kill You are bound to be slaughtered like the hen So much for good living When a fall causes land seeping Let’s open our […]
Chances popped With me on your table To prepare as you pleased Be with as you pleased And eat as you pleased But you decided the dustbin was my home Mouths surrounding were indifferent Knowing not my worth but staying safe in case… The housekeeper looked and picked me He decided I was too […]
I stand and watch As the show goes on Beautiful drums drum. When the drums drum themselves, The dancers sit. When they stop drumming, The dancers dance their hearts out. The audience are appalled The dancers are seething with anger at the audiences’ ingratitude No one seems to know what is going on I see […]
An oven when the sun fumes A freezer when the rain spews Chaotic battlefield when tempers rise Pauper worshippers without shame in the light But true serenity stays in Tamale Strong muscles dazzle at work Loud voices call for customers Angry consumers get into their own way Fuming and cursing the patient ones But affordable […]
It’s a man’s world It’s indeed a man’s world Although we give them life But let’s face it, We give them the maximum offerings There are those of us who sell for pleasure Without measure Their treasures There are those of us who covet Without regret What our peers have, an open secret […]
I need us to sit In chairs that will fit And speak abjectly Because I am bereft of happiness And I can see the clouds of sadness hanging on your head Forget the pain And think of what we stand to gain We’ve cast aspersions, loathed for public viewing We’ve sat in wild silence […]
When eyes gaze into nothingness Mouth opens unconsciously Ears shut its doors to prevent its neighbours entry And the heart trots listening not to the head I know I’m in the beautiful land of Daydreaming There, I need not pretend I am me all through and through I dance naked in front of whoever […]
In the chambers of my heart The rain of tears which flooded Heats on its way to self evaporation Thanks to the fire you spark In the garden of my thoughts The cloudy weeds of sadness which grew Now wilts and flee like its met its enemy Thanks to the potent weedicide of trust […]
The junk, joined the filth By the sweeping of the broom With the power of hands Which I loved Sorry to say I was in there Somewhere between the filth And the junk She saw me She looked and swept dust Into my pleading eyes When we were gathered, We were thrown into a […]
The hair on the skin cry out The hair in the nose freak out The hair on the head pouts out And armpit hair ask why? If it is being bombarded with scents It has its fair share Being hidden and suppressed It has its fair share Apart from those who live in the […]
Someday, I’ll walk my life away I’ll be seized from seeing day Somehow, I’ll shed this skin and bow I can no longer chew my favourite cow And These bones, these knuckles These stones will come off This water These nails This blood will dry off Some day It will all make way So why […]
The winds which blows Knows no greens It takes the yellow And angrily pluck the greens You my dears are being plucked unfairly But you are gallants Who will be hailed The fevers burn So does my heart Your blood boil and flow through facial holes Eyes which watch cry in pain We’d love […]
I am no tower Which wishes to on you tower I am the river which wishes to flow into your sea I do not wish to charge you any fee I am stagnantly on bended knees I don’t wish to take over your movie I am no fanatic of a movie I just want […]
My friend turned foe? I planted in sweat what can’t grow? Welcoming teeth fill my vision Hungry angry claws appear In front of my eyeless back? Not fair if you ask me Why can’t you be in front of my camera? Why hide in darkness If bitterness watered By the water from my stream grew […]
Wherever you walk Connect with me Wherever you are Please make me see The dreams of you Sometimes feels like flu It goes and comes Or like the chameleon blends with its host Straining eyes to see this sight Is making these old eyes weak It may not win its fight If it […]
The sun rises light But it does shines bright It works with all its might Until time for rest is right We won’t forget the clouds They mostly come with the louds They can interrupt the sun But time makes them run I am the pretty sun Who wants to have fun I […]
Ebola, Gloves on my hands for ebola A mask on my face for ebola Skin curving in for ebola But I still shiver Lord don’t hover Rain with your meds to sack ebola Thrash it to extinction; ebola Help your beloved from this ebola We are helpless Helpless, hopeless, Prevention failing We call, […]
They hear “fuck you bitches You ain’t shit, damn you bitches, am ma fuck you” But clad in skimpy clothes And shake their properties As overdosed dopers slap squeeze them like unripe mangoes How can you betray your kind, Insult them and brand them useless By dancing to your insults and theirs? Tears of disbelief […]
It is a day of creeps Trees want to climb the climbers Guns want to hold the hunters Hoes want to hold the farmers As if that is not enough; Songs want to sing the singers Preachings want to preach the preachers Television wants to view the viewers As to why? Defiers they say abound […]
With tears you pleaded For something I thought I never needed In suspense of what the future holds I conceded Little by little, to love’s call I heeded When you shouted for issue sharing I yielded When I doubled my steps your voice made me receded Together what seemed like a beautiful cupid farm we […]
There is this deadly eater Which eats through even sweating A sneeze gives it sharper teeth To chew the human from inside Merging blood is its travelling aeroplane Pleasurable kissing its smooth vehicle We’re lucky the air begrudges it Or it will wipe us all out Lovers must be shunned When they are caught […]
So he gave the head for thinking Strengthening it outside for carrying And he gave the eyes for looking Looking at everything, no discriminating He gave the mouth for talking Giving it a hose for eating And he gave the ears for listening Listening to everything, no discriminating He gave the hands for touching Touching […]
Many people find it difficult understanding poetry, so they abandon the subject and conclude that poets are “confusers”. Some poems are straightforward but not all of them share this feature. Some poems twist our minds to make us dig deep to find meanings. With poetry helping me through many of life’s challenges, I have realised […]
When I sniff and sniff I think I stink and stink When I blink and blink I think I’m blind an blind When I listen and listen I think I’m deaf and deaf When I walk and walk I think I’m a crippled cripple When I touch my hair I feel I’m bald and bald […]
I have always dreamt Of having beautiful features To fly close to places in the sky Where my eyes’ lovers lie But my mother Always told me Fishes swim They do not fly No matter how I flapped my tail Bobbed the water and jumped, I reached no further than deeper my waters My […]
In my tired dream I crossed a vast stream And saw Love gleam I caught a hold of its seam And asked that he had a chat with me, I can’t tell for sure if his sure was a beam “I am not a dog To do all your bidding I am a servant […]
Three friends met to play But none had anything to say Toothpick suddenly begun complaining That his work always leaves him nauseating Toothbrush told him to stop the whining As that is his itinerary every morning and evening Cotton wool cleared his throat And asked if their suffering exceeded his Toilet roll who was passing […]
I bowed head To fight my thoughts And closed my eyes To shut the void Only to feel a tingle On my leg What alien snake Aims to bite? I turn on my senses And see the commotion It is that borrowed Brazilian hair Things alien Need some getting used to. Amoafowaa Sefa […]
I have lost my way I saw Ama And I didn’t know what to say She took Yaa’s man and made her single Could it be karma at play? She had her lips and cheeks Soiled with blood And her eyes blocked With divided whiskers of rats Her hands disabled With claws of a tigress […]
“What beauty! The worldly materials they fancy I must be among So I can also belong” Now I see my mistake I sold my freedom For materials I cannot take When I enter the pores of the earth I have been tied with ropes of demands Which tightens at my failure Where is […]
Papa, I don’t know what to learn When you say I should learn, I can’t say know They say “cell” is not “sell” “Bank” has different meanings But has no tag for differences They say soul is not sole That you can see one and can’t see the other They say sort is not sought […]
Stillness, In the land that was shaky is stillness Which floats in the cold, this stillness Abounds It was trust It was trust which caused this stillness Trust for respect on corruption In this town There was merriment There was merriment when he won, No wonder, disappointment sits in stillness And weighs […]
We are children With clean big slates And long white chalks We will write, write and write Until we get life right We will see it all And will heed when there’s a call We will rise when we fall. We have play in store As we will have work in store An important […]
Now in the arms of money Lies the fairest of beings Kwaa Attah, being a bird Whose wings have been clipped by The sharp teeth of money What will be my fate? I watch as perfectly painted beaks, Claws and faces saunter like Angels in perfect outfits walking on rainbows into arms of apes […]
Symphony, Your breath and mine are in harmony So going in different paths will be a felony Blimey Asking for more will be pure gluttony We, even in a desert, will form a colony Isn’t it an irony That we lived like cat and mousy And now our union is branded as […]
Charley Pee Come and pee Don’t you pee On your hot pants Cos your mum Will never find it fun Do the right thing And be free Don’t cry out Don’t you pout Just sit here And learn to grow Cos your blessings Will fall in that way Good, good children Love to learn […]
You were my friend I never disrespected you Your instructions I carried Your worries I quenched I thought you saying goodbye in your sleep Meant your instructions have ended So why are you stuck in my head Criticising everything I do With a whip of conscience? Please show your face And stop haunting A whipping […]
The love story of the sea and shore Pushes me the fore The sea met the shore Merged and formed the sea shore They went for many tours Aiming to extend their territory They shared their all; The sea cooling the shore, The shore being the chair for the tired waves They held hands […]
You are the reason I live […]
You are the reason I live […]
Words shout and clang In a bouty bang […]
I have developed this habit Of watching you sleep Because you have made it my habit With your peaceful countenance in sleep I think I’ve forever found my sleep In your pretty beautiful land of dreams And if you so much as deny me entry I am positive my nights will be jail Like a […]
Atia the tailor met a sailor On a dreamy angry shore He made his scissors his siren to call The coiny pocket of the sailor who toured He got what he wanted And won the contract Of an oldy tattered shirt He cut away the hands in broad day The sailor saw he […]
In my weakest moments The ant always has the greatest comments; Take it as a stage Or a story and hurry the page If only I had the mouths to spill My horror stories will the world fill A tooth that will break, does not need a vigorous shake It can embarrass […]
I sit here Sorrow eating my judgement Pity nursing my hurt And shattered pride killing My thoughts My perfume of dejection Has taken over the town The salt in my tears are Being extracted to prepare Commercial and home cooked meals Which body do I wear on this soul? Which face do I […]
In fear’s arms panic cuddles Feeling safe and on top of threats The lovers push their victim to the wall Crushing it with their hands and teeth Ofori never knew their trick The fear of ebola drove him mad He took to his heels and run frantically Into the opened arms of fever […]
I am from here But I’ll not hide it under a sneer The Africa to detest Must be detested by all Under the bright sky, A lone traveller walked Time beating him As the moon kept him watched My continental people saw he was vulnerable And thought of what their spiritualist had said […]
Never meeting its production, A machine lied cold Disobeying instruction And its defiance showed All productions went in the way Of other machines which were ready But this machine had nothing to say And looked keenly but had nothing to study Its master got angry And stopped its oiling And told all and […]
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