UNITED NATIONS @ SEVENTY-ONE

America, Britain, China, France & Russia

The five veto-power nations of confusion

Inventors of weapons of mass destruction

Is war your cup of tea?

Do you swab your hands with human blood?

Can’t you hear the cries of innocent souls

Of Palestinian offspring, Syrian kids of oceans,

Progenies of Libya, Somalia, Yemen, etc., etc.?  

UN @ Seventy-one years of male chauvinism

Ten UN Secretary-Generals without a woman

Where there is no woman, no humanism

Little wonder the world is in turmoil

You’ve done well; yet too gory soil

What a civilised world of “paradoxity”

 A world full of worms of hypocrisy

Where wars become the rock of Peace

Yet Peace is not the dearth of wars

Where anarchy becomes the womb

That gives birth to harmony

Yet harmony wedges not the tomb

That consumes babies of wars

UN @71, do something before you die!

A POEM DEDICATED TO UNITED NATIONS  @ 71 (1945-2016)

BY Mawutodzi Kodzo Abissath ©

(Black Ideas)

24/10/2016

abissath@gmail.com

THE VALUE OF EDUCATION

Daniel Webster once said:

“Education without the Bible is useless.”

You may or may not agree with him

It’s worth listening to him nevertheless

It’s better not to have been born at all than

To live in 21^st century without education

Beloved youth of Africa, especially Ghana

Please place premium on your education

 Your parents’ ordeal in search of school

 When you fail to get your first choice

 Offer them your first gift of hypertension

When you enter Senior High School

Stop blocking your ears with earphones

Internet should lead you not into temptation

Rather a vehicle to your academic destination 

In class listen to your teachers with rapt attention

Put Facebook aside and grab your textbooks

When you graduate you can swim in the sea

Of Facebook, twitter and Instagram until

You enter the kingdom of heaven!

“A word to a wise …”

A POEM DEDICATED TO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

By Mawutodzi Kodzo Abissath ©

(Black Ideas)

21/10/2016


abissath@gmail.com

GHANA’S “KPOKPOBLIBLI” ELECTIONS

Adorable Ghana we know

Affable Ghana we know

Amiable Ghana we know

Beautiful Ghana we know

Blissful Ghana we know

Delightful Ghana we know

Calm Ghana we know

Cool Ghana we know

Serene Ghana we know

For over 20 years or so

Elections have come and gone

Elections will still come and go

Ghana’s 2016 Elections

May be “Kpokpoblibli” Elections

Yet, they will always come and go

Humble sons and daughters of Ghana

Noble sons and daughters of Ghana

In the Lord may you remain faithful  

 “Kpokpoblibli” elections shall be peaceful!

By Mawutodzi Kodzo Abissath ©

(Black Ideas)

17/10/2016

abissath@gmail.com

THE ACADEMY OF PEACE

Africa’s Academy of Peace is Ghana

Birds of heavens

Beasts of forests

Fishes of oceans

Insects of flowers  

All migrate to our Academy

To quench their political thirst

With our calabash of hospitality

African heroes from Far East

African heroes from Far South

African heroes from Far North

African heroes from Far West

Almost all journey to our Academy

To procure models of wisdom

To administer their own kingdoms

If we, royals of kingdom of wisdom

Infest our canals of peace with freedom

If we deploy political "galamsey"

To poison the milk and honey

Of our Academy of Peace

We should not blame the Master Jesus

If we fail to enter the political kingdom!

By Mawutodzi Kodzo Abissath ©

(Black Ideas)

16/10/2016

 

abissath@gmail.com

THE POWER OF 26 SOLDIERS

<Je suis à la tête de 26 soldats

Sans moi, Paris sera pris>

“I am at the head of 26 soldiers

Without me, Paris will be taken”

Soldiers are famous for their bravery 

Solders are celebrated for their valiantly

 Entirety of human academic foundation

To rest upon the shoulders of 26 soldiers

Is a feat beyond human comprehension

The whole Bible is made of 26 soldiers

The encyclopaedia Africana of 26 soldiers

The encyclopaedia Americana of  26 soldiers

The encyclopaedia Britannica of 26 soldiers

The 270-Pages “Little Mawu” of 26 soldiers

All thick and thin volumes of 26 soldiers

Oh beloved 26 alphabetic letters

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N

O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The scholarly world is grateful

And thankful to you

For your magical powers

World poets hail you 26 soldiers

As heroes of science and technology

Orbiting in the firmament of Poetry!

A POEM DEDICATED TO 26 FRENCH & ENGLISH ALPHABETS

By Mawutodzi Kodzo Abissath ©

(Black Ideas)

 15/10/2016

abissath@gmail.com