Saturday, 15 July 2017

In The Darkness


In the darkness
I hear screams of
A man whose house is on fire.

A snake with two heads
Two tails
Is leading this kingdom

Hypocracy is nothing new
To the chamelion
And bravery is no stranger to the Lion

When the bush is on fire
Speed can never be a threat
To the Cheetah

In this river of sand,
Swimming is of no use to the fish
And cowardice is no shame

To the lion fleeing from
The hunter loaded
With guns and bullets

The jungle has become
A kingdom without a king
And the lion,

A king without a kingdom
Sits the crown on his knees
Leaving his head naked

When hell unleashed
Homes broke
And ashes become dust

We never dreamt of heaven
Here was a perfect Paradise
Until hell unleashed

Tuesday, 11 July 2017

THE OLD EFFIGY; A Poem by S Kojo Frimpong & PK Addisu



S Kojo Frimpong

There used to be a man
Standing still in front of my school
He was motionless but he reached out to
Every student when they are fast asleep
In the darkest hours of the night
He wore an old rickerty cap and haboured power beneath him
For he had knowledge under his feet
He stood with his one leg
Positioned on a pile of books
And the other hanging in the mid air
Like a cock afraid of loosing a leg
As he darkened the whole school
With a torch in one hand
And a collation of chaotic heavens in the other
With the demons trapped in the moon
Dancing like heathen inviting Hades to dine
By tormenting children.
What a father he became!
Because he was believed to be a protector
A model to look up to
No wonder we woke one morning
Only to witness him fall
And break into pieces
He fell with such great might
That the earth trembled and heavens roared
In so much pain that the earth was flooded with tears
Because his fall was something never thought of

P K Addisu

Before the Assembly grounds,
Stood this figure
A man of history with a broken arm and legs
His frozen arm held high the torch which never shone for decades
And history could not recall
How long he stood strongly on a leg
Yet he never gave up
He had the spirit of a soldier But failed his one purpose on earth
 He never made his light shone
He looked very weary and scary
But He was the only Image that beautified the school
On his dooms day,
The gods descended into one mighty man,
Gave him the weapon of Thor
Which landed him in one strong stroke
Oh what a pity! to witness his fall
It took the messenger of Zeus
Dozens of blows to befall mighty Hercules
He was treated unfairly
Like he was a cast out of heaven like Lucifer
And his mortal remans remained
Swimming in the deep gutters constructed by erosion
That was the only memory left of him
On the path that led to our mystic well
Right in front of the teachers bungalow