"doyen" poems
The growing day has
Handed over the doyen
To the dawning evening,
Yes, it is the
Responsibility of the
Father to make the
Sacrifices for the son,
Ask the son to wake up
Early on his soul day,
In preparation for the ceremony,
For Ntikuma has exposed
Kwaku Ananse once again,
Perhaps, it was our fault,
For Boakye Danquah has
Gone to the village without a cause,
Now, sprinkle the divine water
From the calabash,
Three times on him,
Oh yes, on the son,
And ask for the Gods blessings
Right after the libation,
Indeed, anyone who does
Not know the drums or horn
Message of his chief,
Gets lost in any dispersion,
Joseph Boakye Danquah,
The true father of Ghana,
We are debtors to your soul.
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Who is this father?
Ask him to use the three
Fingers between his thumb
And the smallest finger
To smear the mixture of white clay
On his forehead, chick and wrist bone,
For Boakye Danquah has
Gone to village without a cause,
Ah, Boakye was born
In the period where
The stormy rainfall causes
Small ***** to abound,
Hmm, the nations have drunk
The water of affliction
And have eaten the
Strange bread of adversity,
Was anyone there,
To quench his throat?
Was anyone there?
To drink his blood and sweat?
Was anyone there?
To witness this transfiguration?
Indeed, the horns cannot be
Too heavy for the head of the cow that
Must bear them,
Joseph Boakye Danquah,
The true father of Ghana,
We are debtors to your soul.
© PRINCE NANA ANIN-AGYEI
Email: [email protected]
Apr 8, 2013
Apr 8, 2013 at 5:57 AM UTC
Fancying the finer Atlantis
A doyen of may prey mantis,
A fervor of astroflight afterlife
A stone to the throw
Insidious pipe!!!
Ayahuasca peyote foray
To exude her plop top blush
A rhythm to all Einstein theory
A broom flyer of must!!!
Predilection
Tis
I do seek
Where the barn door feeds thy hungered
Where the cold is warm cut beamed
Ado of amanita muscaria seeing's
Wherein two worlds make one meaning
As the seam's rip in leather gleaming
By the kratom like capsules to uproar ourn compassion!!!
Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 10:17 PM UTC
Africa's venerated literary
icon with words of eloquence
esoteric to the blind.
Distinguished in letters
for ages infinite.
Unparalleled in intellect,
and a gadfly of constructive
dissenting views.
Soyinka,
You are indeed a priceless
asset to the black race.
The wise grey-haired doyen
of literary geniuses,
whose ingenuity is in a century
once seen,
and in a Millennium, ten times.
Jan 20, 2018
Jan 20, 2018 at 8:34 AM UTC
Buenos días American virtuoso doyen's.
Buenos días English poet's between and around london.
Buenos días African designer's of the untamed poesía,
Buenos días Asian wordsmith's all over new and old Asia.
Buenos días Spaniard men and women of spicy descent
Buenos días to the rich, young, old, poor, to those who don't make rent.
Buenos días to the Arab's in dusty sand's, also those not Arab, just middle-easterners with a pen.
Buenos días to people's not discovered, lost-clans unknown to men, though with their pencil markings on walls- we will discover.
Buenos días to you who are in agony, may that agony leave.
Buenos días to those who smile, continue to be happy.
Buenos días to the hip hoppers and rappees. Freestyle for me.
Buenos días to the country music makers, play the acoustic please. Buenos días to the rock stars, drum a verse and sonnet,
Buenos días to the jazzy's play a saxophone so **** I can't forget.
Buenos días to the bluesies, drop a baseline of the fifties.
Buenos días to the poets in big, large, tall, small, or no cities.
Buenos días to those country, with that southern honey charm.
Buenos días to the east coast, York-jersey-maine-all around, where the city lights take away Your stars.
Buenos días to the Midwest, heart of the land-
Buenos días to the west coast, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, all of you, especially the cali-forn-i-ams.
Buenos días to all of you, and a Buenos días for the next day.
Buenos días for the world of poetry as a whole.
Buenos días I'll say.
Mar 5, 2016
Mar 5, 2016 at 9:04 AM UTC
Thane of the Glamis Arena
Doyen of constitutionalism
Chikara che Zanu
The villager who dared to challenge,
Hope-monger, democrat,
Courageous fighter,
Patriot to the core,
Always leading from the front.
With intolerance on the rise you stood up
When incompetence grew you spoke up
When inflation turned to hyper you jumped in,
and tamed it.
When fear became the air,
you eyeballed it.
Yours is the courage of legions,
they will sing of your name for generations,
To your remembrance, they will build monuments.
I send a humble request to the heavens,
a whisper on the wings of the winds,
may the gods grant you more,
More health! More years! and More strength.
Get well soon Captain Courageous.
Jan 29, 2018
Jan 29, 2018 at 8:29 AM UTC
now that you'd had the vote for
a hundred years what have u
accomplished by voting for the dog
catcher; now that u can determine
the direction of the ship of state
in the UK & the USA drink up,
ladies, it's ur tab, it's all on u;
urchin match girls & orphans
begging in the street; twelve year
turned out to put food on the table
where there is bread & only cheap
wine but those little girls ******
get the hang of turning tricks when
it's a beating they go home to for
good or ill; mama threw the baby
out w/ the bathwater & the kid hit
me in the head; I sold it on Fifth
Avenue & now she's a doyen who
doesn't want her past talked about;
she's a suffragette & her husband is
a ***** & they throw lavish parties
beneath crystal chandeliers inviting
the leading lights of literature & art;
science & philosophy speaking so
erudite only known to themselves
that they were once of the streets;
surviving life in the ghetto & rising
u from the gutter, leaving the filthy
city behind for countryside estates;
now she's a suffragette married w/
blue blood in her children's veins
Feb 28, 2018
Feb 28, 2018 at 2:26 AM UTC
Your eyes flash like mirrored lightning
a fire that burns of drowsy desire
those somnambulant romances
heavy and damp
where hope grows in a meadow of whispers
like the alchemist and doyen of deconstruction
it echoes in twilight’s caress
willingly a bolt is unhinged
breathed out heavily between sighs
when passion ignites the plumes of incandescent liquid ash
and untethered silhouettes
find ease and comfort in the contours of shadows
transforming a dimly lit cabin
into a paradise of colours
and hastily made promises.
Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 12:47 PM UTC
Sonnet.
Lecteur paisible et bucolique,
Sobre et naïf homme de bien,
Jette ce livre saturnien,
Orgiaque et mélancolique.
Si tu n'as fait ta rhétorique
Chez Satan, le rusé doyen,
Jette ! tu n'y comprendrais rien,
Ou tu me croirais hystérique.
Mais si, sans se laisser charmer,
Ton oeil sait plonger dans les gouffres,
Lis-moi, pour apprendre à m'aimer ;
Ame curieuse qui souffres
Et vas cherchant ton paradis,
Plains-moi !... sinon, je te maudis !
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Le dernier coup de vêpres a sonné : l'on tinte.
Entrons donc dans l'Église et couvrons-nous d'eau sainte.
Il y a peu de monde encore. Qu'il fait frais !
C'est bon par ces temps lourds, ça semble fait exprès.
On allume les six grands cierges, l'on apporte
Le ciboire pour le salut. Voici la porte
De la sacristie entr'ouverte, et l'on voit bien
S'habiller les enfants de chœur et le doyen.
Voici venir le court cortège, et les deux chantres
Tiennent de gros antiphonaires sur leurs ventres.
Une clochette retentit et le clergé
S'agenouille devant l'autel, dûment rangé.
Une prière est murmurée à voix si basse
Qu'on entend comme un vol de bons anges qui passe.
Le prêtre, se signant, adjure le Seigneur,
Et les clers, se signant, appellent le Seigneur.
Et chacun exaltant la Trinité, commence,
Prophète-roi, David, ta psalmodie immense :
Le Seigneur dit... » « Je vous louerai... » « Qu'heureux les saints.
« Fils, louez le Seigneur... » et, vibrant par essaims,
Les versets de ce chant militaire et mystique :
« Quand Israël sortit d'Égypte... » Et la musique
Du grêle harmonium et du vaste plain-chant !
L'Église s'est remplie. Il fait tiède. L'argent
Pour le culte et celui du denier de Saint-Pierre
Et des pauvres tombe à bruit doux dans l'aumônière.
L'hymme propre et Magnificat aux flots d'encens !
Une langueur céleste envahit tous les sens.
Au court sermon qui suit sur un thème un peu rance,
On somnole sans trop pourtant d'irrévérence.
Le soleil lui faisant un nimbe mordoré,
Le vieux saint du village est tout transfiguré.
Ça sent bon. On dirait des fleurs très anciennes.
S'exhalant, lentes, dans le latin des antiennes.
Et le Salut ayant béni l'humble troupeau
Des fidèles, on rejoint meilleurs le hameau.
Le soir on soupe mieux, et quand la nuit invite
Au sommeil, on s'endort bien à l'aise et plus vite.
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