Referees of secrets are like death bellsTheir names act siren which panic yellsTheir smiles act warning which threatens to tellTheir anger act arrests which yell a cellAnd their frowns tell stories of a fallen spell IIThat’s why some power pays to uproot their rootsThat’s why some power cuffs their suspicious bootsThat’s why some power cuts […]
When the police are paws on leaseā¦purring and punching to pleaseAnd politicians are paws which trick nationsWhen the media are minds in “theirs”And citizens are seats of zones and beesWhat can the helpless do? IIWe will all sit and take our turnsOnly to have us wait for the returnsOf our fair share of unfairnessAnd our […]
It is the licking of a small sparkWhich ate some best farms of some greedy spiders…in moral tales into soot blackSo I deal no rumour riders IIAma Antwiwaa has diedThat beautiful damsel with that sweet smileShe has really diedWith her fashion talent making many cry in painShe has died in her twenties’ greatMaking many hate […]
The legsā¦which carry your body,The thighsā¦which support the legs,The waistā¦which balances the body,The spineā¦which holds the body,The stomachā¦which fuels the body,The genitalsā¦which sanitize the body,Ribs and backā¦which wall the bodyThe chestā¦which houses the engine of the body – the heart,The handsā¦which swing and run errands for the body,The neckā¦which holds the head,The headā¦which houses eyes, […]
In the winds of sorrowIt seems there’s no tomorrowIn the rain of despairIt seems there’s no repairAmidst the storms of lossBitterness or self pity acts bossBut clouds which refuse to rain…faze IIIn the hollow of sorrowOur thoughts, by worry, are borrowedThrough deserts of sadnessMany a pain gain a harnessAmidst the discomfort of dejectionAll help seems […]
I watch hypocrisy play on the field of common senseAnd watch the ball of truth being dribbled by nonsenseI see birthed hatred referee our former peace and harmonyNow respectively called foe and cacophonyAnd I cringe at the audience in and on their fenceHailing the fracas through their foolish lenses IIYou’re fanning little fires amidst wooden […]
(Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers! Sending love and cheers for all that you are.) You can say mothers are like seasThey are combinations of many emotions…flowing through so many heartsAnd act roads to ferry many to safetyEven when one drowns in the love of a motherThey’re revived as great versions of themselvesSo you can […]
You can’t call your mother a gutterThat should cause the gods to give you a slaughter Because she traveled through nine months of tortureAnd suffered a most excruciating rupture…of one of her most prized body parts…to have youSo you can’t call your mother a gutter IIYou can’t call your mother a witchIf you live and […]
People dey here dey talkTalk talk be all una knowPerson no fit tink for una presenceAs rubbish con sweep from una brain…con scatter minds IIYou dey here dey talk say Africa go uniteThe same Africa where countries no fit fit for oda placesAs jealous citizens con kill…fry and burn persons wey dem say take thema […]
Sometimes I am my own foeI see fire, I see ice, and I see a combinationBut I choose a mono with my toeMy eyes roaming somewhere in vague inspirationBurning or drowning my aspiration 2.Sometimes I am my own downfallIn a tricky climb, my thoughts roam on groundsJust at a sound of a bird, I fallBreaking […]
Some years pastA man who thought himself heaven was reduced to dustAfter traveling to a world with no gender rolesAnd acted like the king of all pleasure holes IIShirazu was appalled when he saw his fellow man cookFor a mere woman to eatSo he shouted his disgust, flung his bookGave the man a seatAnd went […]
If you don’t feed meYou can at least let me be meMy sex bowl should not be your tongue twisterAnd my empty womb should not make you turn into a tricksterSelling convincing words to lazeaboutsTo glove them with hatred to hold me in ridiculous bouts IIIf you don’t feed meAt least you need to let […]
There are many words buried in many heartsThan bodies buried in the groundBecause cowardice locks mouthsHatred confiscates opennessFear suppresses willAnd anger flies submission of tongues to Prideland…barring them from speaking IIIf heads open the mouths of heartsTo walk through mouths on bodiesTransparency will walk through chaosTo appear at an understandingWhere humans live their truthsTo get […]
There is love which is hatredAnd hatred which is loveThere is kindness which is crueltyAnd cruelty which is kindnessThere is strength which is weaknessAnd weakness which is strengthThere is happiness which is sadnessAnd sadness which is happiness There is care which is wickedness And wickedness which is careThere is hardwork which is sluggishnessAnd sluggishness which […]
Each and his flightEven if it is not alrightSomeone’s flight will be a hospital bedSomeone’s flight will be a homesteadSomeone’s flight will be a a carSomeone’s flight will be at a normal barSomeone’s flight will be a roadSomeone’s flight will be an abodeEach and their flight to deathDifferent from our path of birth IIEach and […]
How did our generational grooming become so tough?How did our great games become not enough?How did our growth go broke and rough?How did our cues granted bearly through coughs…become unrespectable stuff?We sure are in abnormal times IIWhen the skies change, the world must adjustLet’s not be like clouds which never thought earth their restAnd darkened […]
There are many GodsSitting atop the only oneTo grow balls of smartness to outsmart humanityForcing worship in place of crueltyThese Gods sure have lived and have been servedNow their holiness is in a curve IIHe who is slapping sleeping soulsTo see the horrors of deceiving soles!She who is waking weary wombsTo birth the wisdom of […]
I have no jubilation in summer lightFor summer is the house of my homeI have no battles with coldTo have my body taste painful foldIn instances where I must be bold 2.I have no business shoveling snowOn streets whose main flaw is dustOh I have no business shouting at winterWhen harmattan acts mild to help […]
I’ll seduce your successAnd produce my excessI’ll confuse your accessAnd reduce your recessIf you make me the headlines of your life’s news III’ll cripple your dreamsAnd fipple your screamsI’ll stipple your creamsAnd ripple your teamsIf you make me the headlines of your life’s news IIII’ll crumble your laughsAnd rumble your gaffesI’ll tumble your staffAnd bumble […]
You believe in a worship in which you dressTo impress and stress on hiding sins when you, in your codified holiness, digressI believe in a worship in which I serveThose who needs have reserved but life holds onto because they so deserveWe’re both worshippers of our beliefsSo why push me into a make-believe foedomJust so […]
We’re hereWhere we’re dragging our egosAs the air of change blows across the sex oceanWith many notions spanning across emotionsIn a continent dug deep into debts by corrupt commotions IbWe’re hereWhere questions walk out of fear…of rears steering exits as their known entrances…disgust thoughts outAs taboos write boldly on moral boards“Man cannot equal manWoman cannot […]
Sometimesā¦drums talk to let the world know their soundsSometimesā¦bamboos cut to let bodies know they biteSometimesā¦rains floodā¦fires burnā¦airs killTo let the world know they can be mastersThat’s why I ask todayDon’t you know me?Now you want to know III am that vagina which fucked societyā¦to birth my own freedomā¦making it feed on my breasts of […]
You see wen dem say experience fit teach person well well? I cum find story wey ring im bellI dey my corner with my boboWey I be with sotay years cum dangbeleshi like sokoWey certain obroni cum dey attract amSotay e lef me for am IIWen bobo open e duna wey act mof tell me […]
Listen to the lyrics of lifeLittle lessons lurk in languages…lit like lampsTo light your liver’s lookFor a longer and luckier lap IIListen to the language of loveLittle laws lurk to lubricate your lensesTo loosen the lividity of lossIn the lust of leers IIILook at the list of levels Learning lurks like leaching labelsLearn to lose […]
By all meansKill the mosquitoes which sing to disrupt the sound of our means…but get the rats which feed fat on our storage…without looking into our future’s hunger hostage IIYes, by all meansBreak the crabs without heads at our shoresBut do get the sharks, with minds, killing the purpose of our captains…before they reach our […]
Like the sticks which hit its drums, only you can feel the heat in your stationSo even if your words will break a mansionTell your storyAnd break the worry…of you being turned into a sorryAnd use the backlash of hatred as your lorry…to your advocating glory IITie not your tongue in fearThinking the subdued the […]
Many many timesLion ruled the jungle on crimesKilling smaller animals like no otherAnd always walking with huge shoulders with no botherNo call for justice made it shudder IIThen cat, out of hungerā¦hunted down a mouse like a low rangerPrompting others to brand cat a strangerAnd force it to taste its viceTo save the poor poor […]
Oh dearThere is a little girl hiding in that boyA girl who might have known how hard…it is to live a girl in these partsSo chose a male frame as a coverBut she will grow to learnThat she in a he is worse than she wearing her she IIOh dearThat girl is not doing enough […]
If you poison the waters…you poison its fishesIf you cut a tree…you kill its fruitsWhen you block the moon…you darken the world of many an eyeActs are facts whose guts…reality can’t hide IIIf you annoy the rains…you push its kill with flood or drought For its anger know of only extremitiesIf you annoy the sun…you […]
There was once a gloatWho was nearly found afloatAnd got saved by a gracious boatOnly to grow fit to turn into a goatWho wore only furs in ingratitude coatsAnd added horribly insulting quotesTo the she who only on him do her dotes IIHe knew not the eyes watching…were with the hearts he’d need in helpingShould […]
I watch her puff…in a manner so toughAnd see her desire…which did naught to retireBut her words were no bluffAs she did speak without a cough II“There are many mangoes on this life tree…you can pluckI am a huge tree which comes with a fee…one you can’t duckSo look and salivate…but don’t aim to cultivate…a […]
Great things, like all things, do pause for blendsI wish this truth is not part of factual trendsBecause I hope this weekend never touched its point in endsAnd the bond which honked in bends…of love and lust and the almighty happiness which fended…for hearts, play, laughter and knowing selves which in line agended Faced many […]
I hear your silent sighsAnd see your yearning eyesWhen lovers showcase themselves on media streetsAnd I know you want to dance to those beatsBut know, I’m a priestess who shows no love possession in publicBecause I owe only my muses and heart many a rhetoric IbHave you thought of your unbeatable handsomenessAnd your near perfect […]
Once upon a timeA lion from Zion thought itself in its primeSo flaunted dead hides of many an antelopeThinking it’ll make it feel dope IIUnfortunately for the lionMany animals knew its tricks even in its ZionSo they clapped and laughedHooted and laughedMock-praised it and laughedUntil the lion called all animals in the jungle frogsFrogs, hearing […]
She says in sorrowful sounds“I wish I had no earsTo hear him utter those fears…which shook my grounds and rained my tears…in torrential gears” III helplessly hold her haunted body…and listen as she shakenly says“Or maybe I shouldn’t have had eyesThen I wouldn’t have been attracted to his liesAnd wouldn’t have rained that much criesAs […]
In the sphere of the sunDarkness is but a click of our fingers…and light should be our canIn doses exceeding figuresDrifts are easy to catchIf workers listen and watch IIScience has taught us the wayOpening doors to solar floorsLife has shown us it worksAffirming deeds we thought impossibleRisks are but a turn…we need to take […]
Watching and learningAre the old age teachers of natureLearning and doingAre the old age workers of learnersA continuation unendingA growing cycle never to be broken IISo take these words as a tokenAnd heal these traces of fueling ambitions and many a brokenIf hearts, to evil cries awakenMinds must work to vanquish the evil…to cease its […]
Sorrows serenade to slay serenitySinging songs of strikes and surrenderSoaking sins in strong spiritsStripping souls of sight and selves IISo I share this self sitting on your shelfKnowing I’m naught but a small shellSlipping through slopes of a Shredded shroudSinking through sharks in their summer storesHoping to find a shine in a shrineLeft years with […]
A bird which loves the sound of its beakā¦on a stumpWill always complain when fate changes its stump into a live tree IISo don’t go asking happenings of dayā¦from the owlDon’t go asking the state of rootsā¦from mushroomsDon’t go asking how to keep hairā¦from a vulturePlease don’t go asking airā¦why cotton blows far off its […]
“Eiiii dabÉn na wo bÉ yÉ ayifrÉ” ĘhwÉÉ m’anim a pÉ na ÉkaasÉ Éredi agorÉSÉ mo aso mo afofroafofrÉ…na monim sÉ, m’abrabÉ nnyÉ mo agorÉ…yi deÉ, mma mo mpatri mmÉtÉ m’afrÉ…mu, mmÉgye adapaa asutrÉ B.YÉde agorÉ agorÉ saa …na yÉretÉn wo wÉ nsekuo man soYÉde” yÉnaware yÉnaware” saa…na yÉÉ pia wo kÉhyÉ nnipa bÉne bi […]
Once upon a timeA farmer saw two trees entangled in an air fightHe tried to separate them but ended up with bruisesThen he went to call other farmers to come help separate the fightAs boughs were snapping and hitting innocent animalsAnd many humans were hiding in their corners…for fear of being caught in betweenThe many […]
When music forgets its bedding is poetryAnd clay pots forget they come from the earthWhen wool forgets it comes from treesAnd houses forget they stand on earthWhen characters forget they come from a scriptAnd clouds forget they hang in the airThe sky, the earth, books, trees and scripts…will still be what they’reLadders without which flaunters…could […]
Akua Birago cries for all the monies she has lostShe now sees all little things coming with a costShe feels so lost IbKwame Atoapoma thinks loudly about his failed relationshipHe thought he had a great friendship…with her but ended up dumped over small swerved unplanned skinshipHe feels like a lost ship IcYaa Buruwaa says she […]
You can cull love from a common hateWith a bond which will look like fateBut when a twist calls for a changeThat so called love will turn so strange IIBecause the common factor breaks to begin an anarchyWhere friction shocks, breaking all empathySo where hate baited a common enemyWill start making friendship a standing frenemy […]
There is a time in all of usWhich ticks talks…and rides or walkIf you do stall in the hall of the slugYou’ll end up like a human ragKnow, do know IISo tick your tockIn a historic stockShow you rockTo quell all mocksGarner some flocksTill you reach life’s dockLive no life that will so pain shockFor […]
In this twirling realm called lifeWhich darkens and marks and is full of strifeOrder for me watchful eyesTo sweep to a burn all vile lies IIIn the midst of thoughts threatening a strikeOrder for me a mouthing bikeTo push my thoughts to ready earsWho can listen to thaw all my daunting fears IIIWhen my body’s […]
Once upon a timeStems of mushrooms were accused of many a crimeThat they are the cause of their own downfallBecause they worked not hard enough in their sunny callTheir umbrellaring covers taunted them with their protectionAlways saying they needed to be grateful for their attentionMeanwhile they sucked the sun and gave the stems littleThey absorbed […]
There is a death in deathWhich births dread and sheds hopeOf a revival, maybe as a punishment…for swerving survivalI dread your deathsAs I pray, touching on all cultural send offs…in my mind for all yous…sharing a big tombWhen the wombs which birthed your existence…knew not each other III smell your hurts in your stench…your pain […]
You peel off your thick skinAnd leave your vulnerable to face the binā¦of flies for cries of highsā¦when your beauty lies in the liesā¦of fairness?That is a downright queerness! IIBecause a tear can call for the wearā¦of your dead skin which can no longer its thickness shareBecause the sun can blast burnsā¦which in can take […]
You say it is dangerous to love a wordstressAs she can freeze pain to chaseAs much as she can paint happiness to amazeYou say a poetess can wrong to paint strong…her wrong to overtake all to in love belongBut you know not the greatness of loving a wordstressAnd the glory of defeating oblivion …just by […]
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