tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73359629863879503372024-03-13T03:04:44.919+00:00believes in extending the writing into homes and homes into hearts “And now each night, I count the stars.
And each night I get the same number.
And when the stars won't come to be counted,
I count the holes they leave.”
― Amiri BarakaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17338516171224846433noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7335962986387950337.post-30242353911100967622013-04-06T14:14:00.001+00:002016-07-12T22:28:38.759+00:00BUTTERFLY BEAUTY<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">i meet her at half onto eight</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she sits for a half pollen plate</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">felt goooooood!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">but hey! what's in a kiss stays in a kiss</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she spreads her wings across my span</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she rests like sunshine through my crown</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">if I had stomata they'd grow faster </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">like food fulfillment does stomach archs</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she takes photos of my synthesis</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">her colours of kaleidoscope magic</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">keep eyes fixed, memories elastic</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">like her tongue</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she tells me stories</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">about how she has no fears</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">about how she flirts with the atmosphere</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">leaving her hair strands in the cloud's care</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">her knees sink into the abdomen of earth</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">her time ticks like drizzle in splits</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">her wisdom tooth bites </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">into thin air</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she tells me her dreams</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">enveloped in blue screams</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she retorts about days she went deaf</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">when no word of the world she wanted heard</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">stories</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">of how she needs her space</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">and believes in her lonely pace</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #4c1130;">sometimes</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she stays patient</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">"dzigbordzi"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">that kind of patient</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">her beauty blooms, inbred</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">like yeast in bread</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">that's how every heart she conquers</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">yields</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">totally a natural thing</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">like a baby straddling the tired mother's back </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">perches.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">earth is where the hurt sits</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"> offer that timelessness</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">"abotare"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">here</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she perches</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">her stories too</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">etching</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">the breeze eavesdrops</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">pretending to tease</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">flee, hop, the sun leaves </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">memories in the tree tops</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">and returns ah yellowish cheese,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">divided into half eh night's dark lips</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4c1130;">i meet her at half onto eight</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she sits for a half pollen plate</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">time</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">halved by moon</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she flies away as quick as amnesic memory</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">every flower she visits pollinates</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">you can't tell if she'll return again, ever</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">though these flowers for a moment </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">she stirred </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">so bloom..</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">(c)KW 06042013</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17338516171224846433noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7335962986387950337.post-72341615570910455332012-03-14T11:48:00.000+00:002018-01-06T12:49:35.902+00:00THIS PIECE MIGHT AIM AT YOU<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
ICON:::<br />
<br />
I guess we need to overdose on the red pill to escape the unreal/<br />
You know its gotten bad when people think reality TV. is real/<br />
But in a world where we chase fortune on a wheel/<br />
I hope my appeal to feel, does not go unnoticed like an in-between meal/<br />
These days, originality is wrapped in obscurity/<br />
Lies are garnished with insecurity feeding people with raw stupidity/<br />
They say by hook or crook you gotta get that cheque/<br />
The urge to imitate the façade leaves morals not in check/<br />
But u need to be careful how you get it cos when your victim says “Nyame betua woka”/<br />
Rest assured one day, God will pay you with a “reality cheque”/<br />
So somebody tell these cats you aint gotta go behind bars to spit bars/<br />
And tell Kojo he doesn’t have to steal credit cards to escape chasing trotro cars/<br />
It’s obvious the hustle is local but the struggle is global/<br />
Your reasons for doing it is what I hope you think through/<br />
Esse Quam Videri!!…..to be is better than to seem to be/<br />
This is Icon and KwameWrite telling you not to let your integrity be maimed for fear of being called “lame”/<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
KWAMEWRITE:::<br />
<br />
This shoe might fit so prepare some socks for it/<br />
A mentality we lack behind, we should be swimming where Michael Phelps frolics/<br />
Just like an Ashanti shy to don Kente designs in public/<br />
Let me pepper my poem for that might incur vomit/<br />
Over-sized BLING-BLINGZ only remind of shackles from slavery days/<br />
I feel for that brother, why not wear a whip instead of 20 chains?/<br />
Over ourselves we've lost Ctrl like lacking that momentous key of a notebook/<br />
A blind eye asks an ugly eye,"which of us is denied a good look?"/<br />
The media feeds off profit from propaganda..term that PROFIGANDA/<br />
They took down the 'politician of pampers', one too many politicians we often pamper/<br />
Never been afraid to say what's on my mind like Em and Jay, renegade/<br />
We ventilate not our system if we disallow this air of correction a chance to penetrate/<br />
Let the forest men in timber-lands bootleg this/<br />
Let Somalians pirate it for it needs to spread like a flu exists!!<br />
We sweat to pay taxes but the streets we drive on look like the 'Oware' game/<br />
This is KwameWrite and Icon telling you not to let your integrity be maimed for fear of being called “lame”/….PEACE!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17338516171224846433noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7335962986387950337.post-14822817224060490262012-03-13T09:44:00.000+00:002016-07-13T10:21:49.634+00:00REWRITE [collabo- Ozionn, Namoji Obese and Kwame Write]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
[O'Zionn]<br />
<br />
Rewrite the scenerey of politics<br />
With integrity as the pen and developments as paper,rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the mentality of Africa<br />
Let Africans take responsibility for their own actions,rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the prescription for health<br />
For the true cure lies in the mind,rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the tome of racism<br />
It has nothing to do with colours or the rainbow,but hatred,rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the history of human beings<br />
For we are torn between sides of a great war,rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite that part of our culture<br />
Where elders of the society refuse to accept their faults,rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the essence of education<br />
Education is the key,but what is the door? Emancipation,rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the verses of poetry<br />
Reverse into the past and learn about it's origins,rewrite<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[Kwame Write]<br />
<br />
Rewrite, political divisions with missions to break democratic existence<br />
Campaign for champagne, pockets are sockets resources plug in, clueless citizens, rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite, stories lost as told through the shadows of time from our forefathers lips<br />
New world of screens, our kids are fast-cooked like 'indomie'; foreign to cultural gifts like 'obroni', rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite, Sewage a smudge, electricity breaks now and then like strings of ethnicity<br />
It's a pity clean water's not reaching every city, where your patriotic ink be? rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite, bloodshed of independence would not be libation on earth where things go amiss<br />
Don't just be pissed, act out like 'Ghana must grow' is first on your bucket list, rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite, students need this tear of incite, sweat from insides, at a dead end looking to the rear<br />
Till curricula are geared not like cars on a one-way road to a stop sign in the clear, rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite, the way we eat, food genetically manipulated, packaged with chemicals to preserve<br />
KFCs now Killer Food Communities; spicy, oily or fructose-filled junk served, rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite, contracted marriages without consent, particular ethnic groups merge, some don't relate<br />
')d) mide car no b3 ma wo' is what she wants to hear before the date, rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite, till Ghana stops importing more than exporting, covered with the western mist<br />
Till we use our herbs, HBP , diabetes and worst of all, poverty will be our script, rewrite<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[Namoji Obese]<br />
<br />
Rewrite the news, let it be known that the CIA killed Nkrumah<br />
And the US and Belgium have stained hands in the murder of Lumumba<br />
Rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the history, make the governed governor,<br />
The colony colonial masters<br />
Rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the state of mind that made the Caucasian better than the niggar<br />
And the niggar better the African<br />
Rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the syllabus that killed my creativity<br />
So my son can explore his world of fantasy<br />
Rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite the folk songs, crown Ananse king,<br />
Make Jata his vassal and Akura his Obrafour<br />
Rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite Shakespeare; make Romeo a lascivious womanizer,<br />
Juliet cheap whore, see if their love breeds war<br />
Rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite my story; tell of the civilized savage,<br />
Coming out of bondage to reclaim his lineage.<br />
Rewrite<br />
<br />
Rewrite an unconditional pardon, for the Nazi's, the Bolsheviks and the KKK,<br />
Tell them religion has killed more people than all of them combined.<br />
RewriteAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17338516171224846433noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7335962986387950337.post-9329193578202994642011-08-28T10:44:00.000+00:002013-05-21T18:45:18.124+00:00>>BLACK BRAINS>> (Collabo by Kwame Write & Dora Icon)<i>KWAME WRITE>>></i><br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Black grains germinate from the rich black earth</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Remember Yaa Asantewaa's days! Anokye's birth</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Osei Tutu II of Asanteman with the burning black
blood<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The backwards-walk from Notsie signaling
forwardness was due</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Maya Angelou, an angel who pitched the art at an
angle new?</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Black brains!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Black rains trickling off Robben Island prison roof</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Plucked pains patiently, Mandela is living-proof</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">46664 embroided on his uniform; On his memory!</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Remember Soweto sang for 18 sorrowful years,<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">How apartheid, like a thunderstorm wipes off cheers</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And Desmond Tutu calmly clad with God's cloak?<br />
<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Much gains!</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">We still eat peas Tetteh Quarshie sneaked from
Fernando-Po<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Busumuru Kofi planted potent peace on the go</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">From Charikar in Afghanistan to Fort Washington.</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tell my kids of afrocentric Selassie I and
Osagyefo Nkrumah</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Muse Marcus Garvey and Okamafo M.L.King Jr.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Remind me of Barack Obama when the world changes!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Black strains</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Abedi Pele has a goal like mine, we're on the same
team</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Caster Semenya bears those resistant black genes</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">On the Jim Crow bus, rode Rosa Parks into future's
park</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Black Mike Jackson, like Neil Armstrong, did the
moonwalk<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And since three, Oprah Winfrey’s talks have been
of<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Black brains!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To tell how it tick tocks</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My grandnana uses the sun's face as her wall clock,<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Black brains!</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Fela Kuti's music's too sick for AIDS, that's
naked truth</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">We should enhance ours or end up as a black cancer</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And that's as fake as a Black Santa<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Shed those black chains you strong sons of slaves!!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Let them know you've grown with the sun's face!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<i>DORA ICON>>></i><br />
<br />
Let me take you way back....<br />
<br />
When black brains fertilized the intellectual fields<br />
And black names specialized in correcting ills<br />
Before the treasures of Kush and Egypt<br />
Were taken to the backyards of Bush and Blair<br />
The damage is clear, the dark past cannot be lightened with peau claire<br />
<br />
It’s a history torn apart<br />
But tell Napoleon Bonaparte<br />
He failed to hide the blackness of the Sphinx<br />
Even when he ordered its nose to be blown apart<br />
<br />
Because Black brains!<br />
Are still going strong like iron<br />
Even when they came "robben" like Arjen<br />
Sold us lies we're no longer buying<br />
Black names! stand out like osei kuffuor at munich Bayern<br />
<br />
Did u know Hippocrates mastered "babadie" in Imhotep's class?-Black brains!<br />
And "Jul)" Ceaser couldn't help but steal glances at Cleopatra's ass-Black beauty!<br />
<br />
Black voices still sing for joy like Makeba we feel pata pata<br />
Though they do us basa basa<br />
No need for kasa kasa<br />
Cos with black power! Like Yvonne we go do am chaka chaka<br />
<br />
You don't have to be asking why<br />
Resistance is in our genes, X and Y<br />
From the determination of Kunta Kinte,<br />
To the rebellion of Joseph Cinque<br />
With pools of sweat and libations of blood<br />
Black pains! laid the foundations for us to build on<br />
<br />
So let’s not leave our culture to rot only to preserve the Elmina Castle<br />
That symbol of oppression in my opinion was designed by a moron<br />
Because building a chapel ontop the slave pit is an architectural oxymoron<br />
<br />
Feel this in your black soul<br />
Our rise is inevitable like grandparents and back pain<br />
We give but gain!<br />
Awaken the black names<br />
And let their memory be forever etched on your black brains!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17338516171224846433noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7335962986387950337.post-28513216928784192282011-08-28T00:26:00.000+00:002012-02-02T02:50:28.996+00:00STAND OUT (collabo by Kwame Write and Princess Naki)<i><br />
PRINCESS NAKI:</i><br />
<br />
I stand out like the elongated neck of a giraffe,<br />
You can spot me with binoculars while on an African Safari/ <br />
I stand out like a Soprano hitting any octave<br />
Stand out so much that i'm the source of everyone's topic/<br />
I can't stop this the way your eyes wander or your eyes ring and wonder <br />
"Who is this Black Star" burning bright atop a flag pole, watch me wave as I heal souls/<br />
I stand out like kenkey and tilapia on a menu, select me<br />
Digest my words slow down your esophagus, wash it down with some meditation/<br />
I stand out like bleach stains, predominantly destroying ignorance, <br />
Let my words turn you from deaf to hearing/<br />
Stand out like an unusual snow shower in mid-April<br />
Stand out like humidity on HELL.../<br />
I will burn you igniting the fire within to fuel the next generation/ <br />
Stand out like the black star in the middle of gold,<br />
Red above, ever-green below, Let my poem unfold, do not fold, stand out BOLD/<br />
<br />
<i>/BRIDGE/</i><br />
Not that I'm odd or feel to get even <br />
But that's reason enough to believe in the meaning of me being me<br />
SO stand out not cuz you're odd or feel to get even <br />
But that's reason enough to believe in the meaning of you being you<br />
<br />
<i><br />
KWAME WRITE:</i><br />
<br />
Stand out like a peacock pride of feathers<br />
Painted with rainbow kisses, spring out even though spring weathers/<br />
Be the light like equatorial sun of day, be full like the moon that brings wolves out to howl for prey<br />
I stand out like Tetteh Quashie with pockets smelling of raw cocoa<br />
Like Yaa Asantewaa, when warmen become remote, control!/<br />
This is no narcissism but genuine gusto to be adamantly prominent, conspicuous like a sore thumb<br />
In a crowd of oppressors, I stand out like non-silent chants from raw gums/<br />
There are more church goers than Christians each day<br />
There are those who bear palm branches each given Palm Sunday <br />
And others who view life through the holes in the Son of Man's palms, both sing the Son of Man's Psalms/<br />
Stand out like a unicorn horn, like a bright kid with tattered uniforms on but has good grades<br />
His Grammar was learnt in good faith by stroking a piece of stick on wet clay, a baobab tree offered porous shade/<br />
Like Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Olympics 1986, when they wear cuffs of silence keep your hands out<br />
Stand out like John Sweat Rock’s afro hair, like Mohammed Ali’s dare before a boxing bout/<br />
Stand out like the black star in the middle of gold,<br />
Red above, ever-green below, Let my poem unfold, do not fold, stand out BOLD/<br />
<br />
(C)2011Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17338516171224846433noreply@blogger.com1