Make all the ruckus You trees in windy chorus Cutting tool echoes II Every Osama Awaits his own Obama To bring a hammer III You stand held by ground You rustle with hurting sound Tools seek your flesh pound IV When your doom nights fall As the machines make the call Where will your doom […]
Winds! Connive with earth To overturn existence Making the sky threadable And the earth the heavens II Winds! It would be good For the earth to house all sky beings For the sky to house all earth beings For a change III Winds! Please imagine Travelling in the sky-like fog Without dust finding […]
Trees placed bets on shoots Which promised to climb their world Still the young shoots aimed But many died being crashed by The feet of rain and hot sun II One tough shoot remained It climbed the biggest, tallest Tree among the lot Which bragged it was the greatest But the shoot held on too […]
The sun’s claws of heat And the harmattan’s beak of Cold are different but Their similarity strikes They make lovely cute dawn cry II How two enemies Can step on a meek lady Is like the ladle Which stirs fear in my mind’s pot I’ll make no bones about it III But dawn loves its […]
I The bald lonely tree Gets no sympathy from birds Even when it is in pain II Birds chirp in dancing Flying here and hopping there No weather bother III The tree sits under Be it hotness or coldness No deliverance IV Who sees its hot tears? Who knows its coldness and fears? Who can […]
When the leaves leave The fans will not fan The winds will wind and wind But will find no sky toys And will have to make do with down rooters Who will never be pawns In their playfulness Dust may do But won’t the wind get bored playing with just one? Just watch Play the leaves […]
Light is opening its heavy gate Body guard darkness and its late dawn Open slowly as jealous dawn cries Ready light sits in its highest throne Waiting to its subjects lead As they move about and seek to feed It leads kindly its precious […]
The earth sat millions of years ago And ruled that he won’t take part Of the competition between beings And plants And she resolved to watch Then, the plants ruled Their pests hunting beings down Their trees killing beings instantly Their leaves poisoning to depletion […]
Streams sleep sad Skies sit straight Lands lie loathing Our unthoughtful usage Trees’ talks tell Birds’ boos bell Air actually angers At our insensitivities We destroy Without thoughts, Kill Without planting, We pollute And laugh Thinking We’re superior To them “Beware!” They say Their renewed anger May turn to collapse mankind. Amoafowaa […]
Exhausts venomously deplete I cannot stand many’s tune as they fashionably compete Unseen fumes from coolers happily maim While inventions to revive crops have a common aim Of hurting the rivers of my eyes And changing its colours with their respective dyes Bones of machines lie on my flesh and heavily pinch The little hair […]
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