Long Kofi Poems

Is there no place for us ? 
In this world of work and fuss ?
We came to fulfil our dreams
Leaving our noble motherland with goodbye tear streams 
We are prisoners of a dark dank cell...

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uncle sam took a moment to sit down
at the diner counter & shove a couple more
doughnuts down his gullet,
but don’t you worry,
now that Kofi Annan has thrown in the towel,
the big ****ing bully of the...

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Envisions of a new world order
Have infected
My ideologies
Concerning political parties.

Apathetic to the suicide bomber
Clutching his holy scripture
As Jesus is turned
Into an aborted fetus.

Starving for liberation,
Feed us.

The refugee diet
Is to die for, try it.
Stomachs bellow
As anxious...

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THE REPLY FROM THE PRESENT TO THE PAST
            (NO TO XENOPHOBIA II) 
With the paper on my hand 
I wondered what to do as...

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Alien Nation

I come from a place of 
Transformative
Sights
Sounds
Inquiries,
Amour
Tranquility
Reverence

I sought an
Odyssey
Inspired by
The Man on the Moon

I wanted to be 
On top of the World
Like the North Pole
Lifted

Experience universality
Unities versatility

Thought I’d farewell…

When I arrived
My axis
Equilibrium
Shifted

Gravel unraveled
Charred to...

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Unsung on the world stage
Heroes of the African continent
Diverse lingo, diverse souls
Capture minds capture hearts
Most unappreciated
Their rhythm echoes
Their wisdom ancient
Music unconventional
Yet heavily intoxicating
From Papa Wemba "show me the way"
I gyrate to Kofi to Fela Gola...

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3:33 am and my eyes feel the same open as they do closed

(I wonder if this is how she felt?)

Front teeth smother
Bottom lip,
(Except when I cough)


Stress stains my cognition.
Red drips and green strokes.
Acid spots
burning through
Solar...

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Amongst the prevalence
Of audience,
I'm in my Element.

Paradoxical mix of
Energy and
Peace.
Intense blissfulness.

Pulsating and Profound
Chorus of
Harmonious sounds.

Six billion on the ground
The only spotlights
On me now...

Conciousness ceases
To exsist
As the galaxies stars
Have made me rich.

The orbit of a Mystic.

With...

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Africa!Africa 
My Africa
A proud land of our forefathers 
Africa my jewel 
Your recipes of courage has been pass from generation to generation 
A continent carved out of glory 
A land blessed with fertile soil on...

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MY NEIGHBOR KOFI
LOCATION: Mazamaza, Lagos, Nigeria:
My neighbor kofi, 
The computer scientist
At 34,
He crisscrossed, jetcrosed, redcrossed,
And hobnobbed around the globe:
Kathmandu, Acapulco and the Galapagos 

He dined and wined
Like there was no tomorrow 
He dined and wined...

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In order to form these words,
you must start by being unsure.
from comforting warmth, to a artic discomfort
switching to fire and ice again.
Temperature like a predator
in the Sahara desert dusk.

Sit on your porch at dusk, 
watch...

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I know it, I know it well
Its to pleased myself, the lost part
Hanged in the neck and cuffed on the wrist
Whilst long ago father lived at peace, he was him
And here I claimed intelligence
Intelligence with...

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I’m heartless. 
I don’t know where my heart is.

Hateful, 
I’m looking for my happiness.

But I can’t move, 
I’m footless. 
Grounded feeling low 
like the ground is.

I’m guideless. 
and I’m eyeless,
but I can see the pain...

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The Empty Scrolls of Time: A lament for the Unlearned
(The boy who regrets not valuing education)
~Jamuel Yaw Asare 

Kofi’s eyes once gleamed with mischief and wonder, but now they dimly reflect the what-ifs and if-onlys...

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after Odumegwu Ojukwu
after Chinua Achebe 
after Christopher Okigbo 
after Dele Giwa
after Kofi Awoonor
after Kwame Nkrumah 
after Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
after Nelson Mandela 
after Wole  Soyinka 
after Leopold Senghor 
after Flora  Nwapa

I am part of...

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"How I became blind"

I heard the cock crow so i had to open my eyes,but everything was black instead of white i found it hard to realise why everywhere looked dark instead of bright so...

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THE MAUSOLEUM OF ALL

Africa is the burial chamber of many,
Millions of men and women rested in peace,
The deepest hole full of important bones,
The bones of Homo sapiens are in the graves.
 It is the cradle...

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On hearing your death
What creep in my head was
Akon's Pot of Gold
Its melody within heart
You have served your purpose
So Rest in Peace
Born to Love
But it enslaved and betrayed
And onwards you pressed
Your foils nurtured your old...

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Am eye wrong for
Befriending the blind
And dedicating hours to
Describing the colors of an
Aurora Borealis

Am eye wrong for
Prolonging sleep
So for when I fall into
Hibernation reality
Morphs in a seemingly
Endless lucid dream

Am eye wrong
For watching the
Daisies longer
Than the...

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I am alone 
This is my life 
I live and sleep on this hill 
A hill made of it  all 
From grace to grass 
And on this grass I feed in delight 
For grace...

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Kofi Amed & Dominic Amozimi

Tonal shaded selfies behind open mural walls
We were but performers in art galleried halls
Between submissive embrace and crazy calls.

We danced our way into realms of falling roses.
On sullen floors of marble...

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O' Mother Ghana 
O' mother Ghana, how proud am i to be your grand son
My skin so black from the burn of the sun
For a woman to head a country shows your bravery
You won us...

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The battle to the skies
As two invisible entities
Clash

One dashes
Shoves all in its way
Yet smooth
And angelic
In its deameanor

The other
Mellow and
Gentle
In its attack
Keeping all at bay

One howls and
Knocks at my window
Seeping in through
The crevasses
Making its presence felt

One...

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Success is not about Excess rather Access
Day and night, Day and night.
Life is on, Life is off
take a Step and die
than Standing dead alive
the idea of a Classic example
is know where near Perfection
man's Crave sees...

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an Eagle's flight is no fright
rather a height to fright all prey
You always stand tall
when you discount sky heights
Standing on the tallest Mountain
does not make you fly,
for your soles the Earth behold
Indeed the Universe occupy...

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