POETRY LOVE AT EHALAKASA

@LaudDePoet Mariska Kwame Write and Mamacita

So once every month poets and poetry enthusiasts meet to read and to recite their poetry most often than not it goes beyond sharing poems to sharing love both the young and the old meet and sit by each other stand by each other shake hands and embrace each other. the environment has been so for more than 6years as at 2013 and it was begun by by two people but there is only one man standing yibor kojo yibor a.k.a Sir Black the grand papa of spoken word in Ghana.. now  poets like LaudDePoet +Laud De Poet, +Mutombo da Poet, +Kwame Write Aidoo and #mamacita have a constant platform to showcase what they have

A PORTION OF HISTORY

THERE CAME A TIME WHEN THERE WAS AM INVASION OF BLACK MINDS OF WHITE SKIN OF WHITE SKIN IN THE LAND OF WHITE MINDS OF BLACK SKIN.
AMONG MANY WEAPONS THEY BROUGHT WAS THE WEAPON OF DECEPTION USED AGAINST OUR KINGS LURING OUR FOREFATHERS INTO LETTING GO OF THEIR POOR AND DAUGHTERS, UNKNOWN TO THEM,  THEY WERE GOING TO ENTER INTO THE HAVE OF NO RETURN.
I WONDER WERE THE WITCH-DOCTORS AND MANY ORACLES OF THEN, NOT ABLE TO DECERN.
THEY CHANGED THEIR BRACELETS UD CHAINS,
THEY CHANGED THEIR ANKLETS TO CHAINS,
AND THE BEADS ON THEIR NECKS WERE CHANGED TO CHAINS.
THEY GAVE SCHNAPPS TO OUR CHIEVES AND KINGS AND TOOK YELLOW STONES,
MIRROR TO OUR ELDERS FOR DIAMONDS.

OUR FOREFATHERS WHO WERE FORCIBLY TAKEN OUT OF THE LAND OF THEIR OWN AND THOSE WHO NEVER REACHED THE LAND OF COLD,  WERE THRONE OVER-BOARD BY THESE VERY PEOPLE WITH DARK MINDS HOPING THAT WILL STOP THEIR SHIP FROM SINKING WHEN THERE AROSE A STORM,
SOME DID NOT EVEN MAKE IT INTO THE SHIPS, THEY DIED IN DUNGEONS OUT OF SUFFOCATION, OTHERS GAVE UP THE GHOST HAVING NO HOPE AND MOTIVATION.

HOW CAN THEY SING THEIR LOVE SONGS IN THE LAND OF FOREIGN, WHEN ALL THEY HEAR IS THE SOUND OF GUN-SHOTS AND THE SOUND OF WHIPS INSTEAD OF A GENTLE "KOKRO-KOO" FOR THEM TO KNOW ITS MORNING.

WHEN THEY FAILED TO CHAIN THE MINDS OF OUR YAA ASANTEWAA'S AND OUR NAYA BINGY'S,  THEY MANAGED TO MAKE OUR KINTAKUNTE'S TO RESPOND TO THE CALL OF TOBI'S .

THE TIREDNESS THEY ACQUIRED FROM PLOWING THE PLANTATIONS FROM MORNING TILL EVENING IS THE PILL THAT PUT THEM TO SLEEP WHEN THEY HAVE WORKED SO HARD AND THEY CAN'T STAND ON THEIR FEET WHERE CHAFF TURNS SO WEIGH MORE THAN TEN BAGS OF WHEAT,
AND THE SPIRITUAL SONGS THEY SUNG, GAVE THEM HOPE FOR THE FUTURE A BETTER FUTURE, WHERE BETTER IS GETTING BACK TO THE LAND OF THEIR FATHERS,  THE LAND OF THEIR ANCESTORS, BACK TO THE MOTHERLAND.

THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE BLACKMAN TO TELL HIS OWN STORY THE VERY BEST WAY HE DEEMS FIT.

THE BLISS OF THE OPPRESSOR IS THE BLISTERS ON THE OPPRESSED.
THE SCARES ON THE ANCESTORS, HAS BEEN DESCENDED ON THE DESCENDANTS AS INDELIBLE BIRTH MARKS ON THE SKIN.
THE CLINGING ON HOES, SICKLE, AND CUTLASSES AS THEY WORKED ON SUGAR-CANE FARMS YET RELISHING NO SWEETNESS,  CREATING IN US A FIGHTING SPIRIT; THE EDGE TO SURVIVE NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.

I HAD A DREAM THAT ONE DAY THE BLACKMAN WILL BE THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA,
THIS WAS THE DREAM OF MARTIN LUTHER.

THE BULLET MAY HAVE THE ABILITY TO END LIVES BUT NOT THE DREAMS AND VISIONS OF THOSE WITH GREAT EYES,
LIKE KWAME NKRUMAH WHO SAID "THE INDEPENDENCE OF GHANA IS MEANINGLESS UNLESS IT IS LINKED UP WITH THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT".
THE REALISATION OF THIS LAYS IN YOU AND I,
IF WE CAN MOVE WITH ONE MIND AND LOOK INTO THE FUTURE WITH ONE GREAT EYE.

THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE BLACKMAN TO TELL HIS OWN STORY THE VERY BEST WAY HE DEEMS FIT.
~by LAUD DE POET @LaudDePoet

After we missed a show we were supposed to attend at the hush lounge because for some reason the trotro scheduled for Accra that time refused to move for reasons we dont have access to, even now...
Somewhere in Tema well kwame and I after taking a proposal to some few people who needed our service as poets. we decided to take a sharp turn and respond to the call of our rumbling bellies because it had been a long day,we ordered for Ga kenkey and some fried fish around community one casino,  we then caught up with this Tv personality and  as usual a "photogbee" like me; one obsessed with photography I offered him the opportunity so we take a photo together.