Poems By Kofi Thompson

Title: ("Afia-Birgit Remembered")

She came into my life
Like a shooting star
Streaking brightly
Across the sky
Briefly!


Title:("Still love you!")

Alone with my thoughts on the beach
With elbows dug in the wet sand
I lie half-inclined
With cupped chin in hand
Gazing across the Atlantic
Lost in far-away thoughts
Pondering what might have been
I miss you
And still love you!


Title: ("Kano")

Kano
Kano
Colourful harmattan mosaic
Of distant sand storms
And towering minarets

Kano
Kano
Colourful harmattan mosaic
Of galloping white horses
And agile turbaned Hausa horsemen
Enveloped in great clouds of ocher-dust

Kano
Kano
Colourful harmattan mosaic
Of joyous dancing multitudes
Celebrating traditional African festivals of antiquity

Kano
Kano
Colourful harmattan mosaic
Of serried ranks of musket-firing African noblemen on horseback
And happy-faced cheering throngs
Of ample-bodied colourfully-dressed women in voluminous headgear

Kano
Kano
Colourful harmattan mosaic
Of tumultous crowds of distant swaying figures
Dancing to the rhythms
Of ancient Hausa drums

Kano
Kano
Ancient magical metropolis
A colourful African harmattan mosaic
Etched in the innermost recesses of my mind!


Title: ("The Philanderer!")

She was diabolical
And super-respectable
An ace liar
Hypocrite
Gold digger
Cold
Calculating
As well as a murderess (of her unborn child)
And a not-remorseful serial cuckolding Jezebel
Who has left a trail of devastated cuckolds
Strewn along her life's path, thus far
Shame on her!


Title: ("Enemies")

Enemies
Are those for whom
You are persona non grata
And who perpetually wish you ill!


Title:("Just where did time go?")

Beard's growing grayer
Day by interesting day
Reports of old schoolmates dying
Now more frequent
Whiles grandchildren grow so rapidly
Heavens
Just where did time go so quickly
I say, old chap?


Title: ("Titled and wilting!")

Gosh
So posh
And so dashing
And loads of dosh too
Plus country estate to boot
How lovely
How absolutely scrumptious!


Title: (Do Your DNA, Mr. Klu Klux Klansman?)

You believe you are God's gift
To the human race
As did Adolf Hitler
Who thought he was an all-conquering hero
But do you know your DNA blue-eyed blond?
Your American version
Of the Aryan master-race
Began with the story
Of the enforced coupling
Of your slave-owning forbears
And the beautiful
Black-African-Amazon-Queens
Whose forebears ruled the fabled Benin Empire
And whom your forbears enslaved and raped continuously
Mr. Klansman
You will find your DNA
In the blood coursing through the veins
Of your distant cousins the millions of African Americans you spit on!