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Piano In My Head

Piano In My Head( how I met my partner)

As Paapa and Koo Bentum sat 
Under the sacred Onyaa,
Sipping the little pito 
Left under the breasts of the calabash
Lamenting over the passage of Bruwaa, 
Her golden strip plucked my eyes! 
I could feel it down the bows of my heart 
Striking the keys on my every piano 
Making my pink sound 
Turn into a great white sound- 
a classical music!

Flashbacks had it rumours of Kwansima, 
Parading its paramours 
Of how we met after that funeral. 
My heart felt at rest, a calm sea
For it found its right rib
Dancing abogya in my caged chest. 

For this period 
I've gotten to know the real you 
An enchanting damsel, whose love tales 
Shared the little ampesi of Maame's abom with me.
Like a poet of love, she changed my last name 
Into a contagious rhyme verse 
Making my heart wallow
In this pool of love in ebusua kuruwa…

Copyright © Joseph Taylor | Year Posted 2016



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And They Cry

She left home 
Leaving calculus of tears
Encrusted under the eyes of her children

She left home in blade of sorrows 
Leaving her children in suspense
But participated in a ghost congress
Our souls were left like aw in the skies
Pending cries under the eyes of I


Home was left devastated
And the sun deviated from the east
She left home like ember
And silence curls up in her lap…

Copyright © Joseph Taylor | Year Posted 2016

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Nothing Seems Wrong

Slow I wail on the road of no return 
Like a soul that departs from its body with no respect

Silence I talk to get
To soothe the pain I didn’t prepare


In the jungle of no trees I sit
To prepare for my last breathe I take


Mother! Mother! I cry 
Thunder storms that wawl

Slow I speak
but distance death drags me on


Help! Help! Help! I pull
But in the midst of no where I creep

My last respect they give 
But silently I sit to weep


Very well they wish I match on 
But poorly I know I live on

Mansions I suffer to build
But in the coffin I didn't prepare to live 

Nothing will ever seem right 
In this game of no fame

Copyright © Joseph Taylor | Year Posted 2016


Book: Shattered Sighs