THE EARTH IS PREGNANT Odomankoma, creator of the universe Your wisdom espoused the Earth and the spirits Chief ghosts of our ancestors Why do fishes thirst in travelling rivers? Why Ankobra and Bosomtwe, do you not quench out thirsts? We are disgruntled tongues; send down drops to make us an ocean Your daughter, Asase Ya, […]
TATTERED HOPE T ommorow talks tough A sking all already answered T ackling today’s threshold T hrough time’s turf E voking equable emotions R oundly rocking retentions E verlastingly entrapped D uring dreams in devastation draped; H elplessly hiding O doriferous oddities P ushing perplexities past purpose’s E xtensively eroding ending First published on Facebook […]
HEAVEN’S QUATRAINS Shall you too dump his grace and flee, And be ungrateful as the wretched flea? Or shall you now take up his plough And follow in faith, long as breath’ll allow? … Turn away from sin, let your heart not falter For His Salvation awaits on golden platter. Open wide your troubled soul […]
Airenovboise Airenovboise (goddess of love). tonight too, seems foggy with hatred and remains of yesterday’s blood. what shall we do when the goddess cease to hear the cries of corpsed glories voicing pains in the silented room. we call you, Airenovoboise, hear while we cuddle your name with the soft palms retired from the crushing […]
HOLY–HOLY Pastor, You mesmerized us with talks of greener pastures, Gold paved streets and treasure-filled mansions In a place, beyond the skies above us. But you own a Lexus and a Rolls Royce Phantom; Your daughter just turned 18, so you bought her a RAV4, Yet 3 square meals most of your members can’t afford […]
ELEGY TO A BELOVED Lioness you were, when the leopards raged Thrusting your love – no will to be revenged Bare-chested, you took the bullets of beasts You conquered, went down with unshaken fists… Infant, yet a conscript in kindred war Gender constrained but with courage you tore The barriers of hate and stood like […]