Long Ashanti Poems

BILLY BOB:
This is ANDERSON WALKINHSHOES... 
Chorus:
Ooh...ooh....new life, new soul. 
Ooh... Ooh... Life on a good road. 
New page will be flipped after life shools me, we, they and you too.
Yeah, That's the truth.
Crazy what billie...

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I am of Maroon extraction, dear
My grandmother's grandfather fought
Without surrender or tanant of fear
And two times with Boukman caught
And twice unlike him escaped
To die in a rocky cliff, proudly brave
While the freed slave escaped
He held...

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I am....
An Ashanti warrior A Bantu dancer 
I am a Yoruba royal clothed in my Asooke 
Dancing Adowa and kpalogo to tunes from wulomei and masekela  

I am proud Masai 
Standing around manyattas, 
Jumping...

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SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ME WHEN I WAS JUST A GIRL
IT INVOLVED A BAD MAN, & IT RESHAPED MY WHOLE WORLD
A NEW SET OF DEMONS WERE INTRODUCED INTO MY LIFE
PAIN,  & SHAME, DESPAIR, ANGER, &...

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Wo P[(3)] Ny[(3)] H(c)! (1)

You, who forever will be so much bigger than just me,
Now our word 'Bigger' seems to beggar human greatest minds!
If YOU seemed just a star? (that man can hardly see) reminds
Of...

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Here they come the prancing drums and fife
That call the children from their village life
To run with glee and meet with fear horsehead,
Whooping bway or devil costumed in dread
And there pitchy patchy dancing for his...

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On the coast of gold(Ghana) where ethnic cultures intertwines like glittering and colourful 'bonwire' kente
A vibrant tapestry of diversity divine. 
Starting from the South where the powerful Ashanti real heritage
Tracing to the Fante coastal tales...

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On the coast of gold(Ghana) where ethnic cultures intertwines like glittering and colourful 'bonwire' kente
A vibrant tapestry of diversity divine. 
Starting from the South where the powerful Ashanti real heritage
Tracing to the Fante coastal tales...

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                              TWILIGHT’S OWN...

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My name is Abioye
Into royalty i was born
I stand here today
Lost, forlorn

But the time has come
For me to stand up for my rights
To return to my Kingdom
Watch my enemy run, take flight

We of Ghana
Are Warrior...

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On the bank of the James River,
Virginia Colony, 
a proposal was conceived to constrain the African fire.
The ploy, a real achievement in the West-Indian settlements.
In Rome, bodies were paraded along the byways, 
to make a...

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She is known as Honorable Queen Mother Nanny. The lady was so sweet as sugar candy.
Enhancing the fight, smiling with much delight, knowing her cause was right.
She was the awesomely true Westward Maroon liberation queen...

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I was taking pleasure in a rear view, 
watching a rump move to my heart beat – 
bum-giddy-bum, bum-giddy-bum.

Each time a man goes by my heart pounds faster
to the new rhythm of those mass muscles....

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Star-pod, Ashanti, all aboard ya'll!
We're penetrating space-time's inpenatratable wall
Floating & flying through space-time atmosphere
Where the unknown is crystal-clear
So all aboard, ya'll, it's the 2nd call to see
The mysteriously darkened space-time!
Come aboard, Ashanti, come see the...

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I notice u

do you notice me

As we pass by

i think u r gorgeous

do i catch ur eye 

i think to myself

could i be his type

ok, i could ask

no, maybe, well i might

let me think, maybe...

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Brilliant brown vibes curl around my neck,
drop down my spine and embrace my ribcages,
I am one holding the night
and command its flow to linger 
with anticipation.

Believe, the beauty of this woman
is a symphonic landscape on...

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In the fading august sunset 
I walk out of my mud house  
In my checkered coloured kente
And dazzling wooden slippers.
As the sounds of the drums echo behind
I dance to the tune of its melodic...

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A police officer,Inspector Ahmed Twumasi,has been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing his girlfriend in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.The police Inspector is also a member of the Ashanti regional police command’s Special Weapons and...

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