APED-Prompt 46:Shadows

Penned for A Prompt Each Day. Inspired by the photo below:

Shadows

I

flicker of light

the shadow of a spider slips

out of lantern chimney

II

the adowa dancer

she rims her hair with a halo

 of lantern soot

III

shea butter mixed with soot

granny calls back

her days young

IV

flickering lantern

the length and breadth

of our shadows

Copyright (c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, 22/7/15

In the Event of My Demise

When my heart throbs to a halt

I hope to have shouldered a cross worth a cause

Lived and left an imprint undimmed by another man’s course

When I’m gone

Like Gandhi will find peace in my grave

To have put myself under the tutelage of words

Learned to string them at deep dawn

When the lazy bone basks in his wet dreams

When I am gone

Wish some things never remain the same:

The learned heads who should have known better

But fiddle the strings of tribalism and

Put on a spectacle of myopia in the name of partisanship

Tightening the nation’s purse-strings to build lasting hegemonies

When I expire

Let them know

I was also vexed with the doyens

Who had ‘their heads abroad and anus at home’

Leaving no gardens for the budding bards to grow

Upon my exit

I will be glad to have left no dreams deferred                                                            

Saw the world as a page where every man must drop an ink

And gallantly defended Poetry as a cult

Even if it never paid me much 

Copyright (c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, 21/7/15

Done for Akita International Haiku Network

Leafless Tree

leafless tree-

lifting a cup of nest

to the  sky

Winner of Akita Chamber of Commerce and IndustryPresident Award, 3rd Japan-Russia Haiku Contest, 2014

Copyright (c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, 21/7/2015

Penned for Carpe Diem

Full Circle Haiku Challenge as July Guest Poet, 19 Jul 2015

Cloud

swallowing
every star on its pathway
moving dragon cloud

Heaven

I

in search
for heaven’s door-
a rainbow

II

an unseen
doorway to heaven-
rainbow

Credit: www.ilikewantneed.com

Fountain

fountain side
the laughter of kids encircle
a peeing cupid

Desert

finding comfort

in the shade of camel's hump

desert heat

Jazz café

jazz night
the thin line between
sax and sex

  

Duke Ellington

surrounded
by maidens of daises
duke on castle rock

Hill

uphill rock 
drawing the sun unto himself

the red head lizard

Credit: ngm.nationalgeographic.com

Ancient Road

ancient pathways…
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves

Copyright © Adjei Agyei-Baah, 21/7/15

Penned for Carpe Diem as July Guest Poet, 15 Jul 2015

Credits: shika no ko (fawn) 

Shika no ko (Fawn):

I

a walk for my soul

this fawn she carries stars

upon her back

II

how needless

to cage the fawn that wear

a skin of stars

III

in search for my star

 the shimmering spots

of a fawn

Copyright © Adjei Agyei-Baah, 21/7/15

Penned for Carpe Diem as July Guest Poet, 13/7/15

Weeping Willow

no sign of tears

to prove your name

weeping willow

Time Glass

wearing us back

into the sands where we belong

hour glass

Copyright (c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, 21/7/15

Penned for Carpe Diem As July 2015 Guest Poet, 13/7/15

Rainbow

rainbow:
the rain and his so-called bowl
little kids argued all day

Summer Waves

caked lagoon

migratory  waves-

home again

Waterfall 

silvery curtain
on a mountain wall-
waterfall!

Fountain

first sail...
inside his paper boat
the weight of water

Straw hat

riverbank
in my hat's shadow
a fingerling

Copyright (c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, 23/7/15

Penned for Carpe Diem As Guest Poet ,7 Jul. 2015

Credits:Butterfly

Butterflies

folding

and unfolding

the silent clap of a butterfly

Summer morning

beach sun

all in her eyes

the ocean, sand and nudity!

Rainy season

May rains drop

the bamboo fence

free from termites plaster

  

Rainbow

rainbow:

the rain and his so-called bowl

little kids argued all day

Copyright (c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, 23/7/15

Penned for Carpe Diem As Guest Poet 1 July, 2015

I

shoreline pebbles...

a reminder of how far

we have come

II

preparing

daddy's delicacy

taking stones out of gizzard

III
stone temple
leftover boulders
add to reverence

Copyright (C) Adjei Agyei-Baah, 23/7/2015

Five African Haiku (Afriku) Pt. 3

Credit:www.environorth.org

I

dry savanna

the dotted castles

of anthills

II

hometown

the open arms

of palm wine

III

a clucking hen

combs to lay an egg–

silent compound

IV

late scavenger

a crow, raking through

my refuse

V

noon heat

two lizards in a battle

of tails

First published @ Anansekrom.org, 29/06/15

Five African Haiku (Afriku) Pt. 2

I

lunchtime

more protein in my beans-

weevils 

II

dawn affair

purrs from my neighbors’ cats

assume a human voice

III

rumbling thunder…

the thought of God

being a rolling stone

IV

household barrel

the secret bathing

of the moon

V

dawn rivalry

a rooster

and muezzin

First Published @ Anansekrom.org, 16/6/2015