There are mosquitoes singing tunes many abhor In rooms detested There are bed bugs battling bodies For blood on beds many hate There are many fighting animals like people with consciences Just for rivers and foods and places and growth Through it all We sleep soundly II Sons and daughters of the earth beg […]
Nana Pokuah I went to the market to buy fruit I bought water melon Thinking it green through and through Only to cut and see how red it was within And how cumbersome its many seeds clung to its bleed Little minds are like watery flour mix Only heat can harden them to feed I […]
Many animals live in the jungle With varied sounds Sounds counter annoying But what can they do When each has its place therein? II Lions roar but hate the hooting of owls Owls hoot but fear the roars of lions Varied birds chirp Surprisingly, they internalize their hatred Some complaining pitches high Some accusing bass […]
I am a hunter A hunter who hunts a hunter But this hunt haunt hunters As fiery hunters hunt their game II I met a fisherman in hunt He made a bait And an imaginary water And placed me center stage Loving my swim as fishes swim in nets When caught with no escape II […]
Drama queens! Drama kings! Great script writers! Writers of comedies! Writers of tragi-comedies! Writers of tragedies! Melodramatic heretics Minds! You are all that and more! II How can you analyse the un-happened? Quantify the unneeded? Conclude unwritten stories? Conjure nonexistent characters? Stage ridiculous battles And conquer the bravest in abstract? III You are the most […]
Fickle are hearts that need With no desire to feed Fickle are wayward deeds With no forming change seeds If humans see through acts And like judges, conclude diggers and real Who are you to deceive God? II Most prayers are like one way streets Ones asking vehicles ply Never a chance of showing hearts […]
My tongue is pampered Like a mushroom on an anthill Crowned by the fertile farms of mother nature Ghana, my motherland! II So much do they give Plants and trees Leaves and all Yam boils to accommodate many My favourite; “potogum hwiegum” Led by the great garden eggs With koobi as angels at post Add […]
It is that time When ability matches agility And humility fears no fatality Kicking strength like a football Marking sanctity where banality lived II A rabbit has won Won a wrestling match After defeating a lion Its weak paws gnawing at its strong neck Lion furs aiding its strength Horrified eyes look Begging for their […]
Things are knocking things Making humanity more laughable If spiders build human houses And dogs build webs If ants stay in caves As lions stay in anthills I guess creation will turn upside down II Here we are Drawing many a bar Some hens pretend to be cocks Some cocks pretend to be hens As […]
Dear rains Weed the clouds And form a clear path in my sky I need its lovely blue To stay strong III Dear lightenings Shut the loud mouths Of your thunders To stop their roarings like hungry tigers My ears plead for peace III Dear Moon Appear like a knight And clear the dark To […]
If the sky had no earth It wouldn’t need the sun to shine Nor the moon to brighten Nor darkness to necessitate invention of light Mamas!!! You are the earth Which take what the sky gives And work to make them worthy For recycling To keep creation going II Like swans you love to shine […]
When flowers bloom Many groom to be grooms Working their magics To get their nectars II Only few seriously need And dedicate themselves to a flower Hoping to water into fruition Hoping their fruits ripe to feed For their seedlings to continue its cycle III Many hover to steal With no water to nurse for […]
When you see guinea fowls whispering Hiding the pitchy voices they use in irritation Know they are cooking an abominable meal Using the absence of an unsuspecting As their ingredients To throw at them indirectly Through the most cruel of ways After all animals in the kingdom Have tasted its bitterness II When you see […]
Mum Cee