The Executioner's Dream By Kwesi Brew
I dreamt I saw an eye, a pretty eye
In your hands
Glittering, wet and sikening
Like a dull onyx set...
Breaking
Poetry
The Vultures By David Diop
Anonymous 2017-02-10
In those days When civilization kicked us in the face When holy water slapped our cringing brows The vultures built in the shadow of their talons The bloodstained monument of tutelage...
Poetry
A Call By George Awoonor-Williams
Anonymous 2017-02-10
She did not call me by name Not by the name my mother gave me She called me by another name A word I have not heard it before Yet I knew it was me. Will you come under the cashew tree beside the ceme...
Ghana
The Executioner's Dream By Kwesi Brew
Anonymous 2017-02-11
I dreamt I saw an eye, a pretty eye In your hands Glittering, wet and sikening Like a dull onyx set in a crown of thorns I did not know you were dead When you dropped it in my lap What horrors of hu...
Ethiopian Proverbs
One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem. ~Ethiopian Proverb
Anonymous 2017-02-10
One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem. ~Ethiopian Proverb
Ghana
The Way I Would Like to Die – R.E.G. Armattoe
Anonymous 2017-02-10
This is the way I’d like to go, If you must know. I would like to go while still young, While the dew is wet on the grass; To perish in a great air crash, With a silver ‘plane burning bright Li...
Poetry
The Lonely Soul By R.E.G. Armattoe
Anonymous 2017-02-10
I met an old woman Talking by herself Down a lonely road. Talking to herself, Laughing all the time, Talking to herself Down a country road. Child, you cannot know Why folks talk alone. If the ro...
Poetry
The Vultures By David Diop
Anonymous 2017-02-10
In those days When civilization kicked us in the face When holy water slapped our cringing brows The vultures built in the shadow of their talons The bloodstained monument of tutelage...
Poetry
A Call By George Awoonor-Williams
Anonymous 2017-02-10
She did not call me by name Not by the name my mother gave me She called me by another name A word I have not heard it before Yet I knew it was me. Will you come under the cashew tree beside the ceme...
Ghana
The Executioner's Dream By Kwesi Brew
Anonymous 2017-02-11
I dreamt I saw an eye, a pretty eye In your hands Glittering, wet and sikening Like a dull onyx set in a crown of thorns I did not know you were dead When you dropped it in my lap What horrors of hu...
Ethiopian Proverbs
One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem. ~Ethiopian Proverb
Anonymous 2017-02-10
One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The Way I Would Like to Die – R.E.G. Armattoe
This is the way I’d like to go,
If you must know.
I would like to go while still young,
While th...
The Lonely Soul By R.E.G. Armattoe
I met an old woman
Talking by herself
Down a lonely road.
Talking to herself,
Laughing all the time...
The Vultures By David Diop
In those days
When civilization kicked us in the face
When holy water slapped our cringing...
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