The unmade poet
Is a born lunatic.
Like the Atlantic,
A flood of ideas
Undulate in his mind
And burst on his tongue
Like the waves of the shore
At the explosion of his thoughts
In the city avenues even!

Ordinary eyes
Judge him abnormal,
But wise ears heed his counsel.

Little brains
Grope with his words,
But evolved souls
Grasp his thoughts;
A scientific madman indeed!

He uses the philosophers'lab
For his lunatic researches.
He rushes to the mystics'asylum
For his dramatic experiments
And only few taste
His poetic philosophy.

Worthy brethren,brethren,
Cross the Man poet you may,
"What a lunatic being," you'll say!
Right or wrong you may be --
Why not seek ye first the key
That reveals the poetic will?

Mawutodzi Abissath
(Black Ideas)

SWIMMING AMONG THE BEAUTIES

How beautiful
It's beautiful
To be beautiful
To beautiful people
To meet beautiful friends
To share beautiful ideas
In a beautiful fashion
For a beautiful purpose
In this beautiful world
So as to beautify
The beauty of beauties-
And that's swimming
Among the beauties!

Mawutodzi Abissath (Black Ideas)

SUCH IS LIFE

Oh life! Wondrous life!
Life that operates
Under instructions unknown,
Such life is full of wonders.

Life that turns mountains of today
Into valleys of tomorrow,
Such life is full of wonders!

Life that changes masters of today
Into slaves of tomorrow,
Such life is full of wonders!

Life that turns judges of today
Into prisoners of tomorrow,
Such life is full of wonders!

Life that turns lovers of today
Into bitter foes of tomorrow,
Such life is full of wonders!

Oh!man of vanity, man of obscurity,
Be cautious in life;
For,life is full of mysteries!

Mawutodzi Abissath
(Black Ideas)

A Ghanian journalist, writer and poet.