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Archive for January, 2011

Why Did You Decide To…? – Strictly Spiritual

31 Jan

This post was birthed from a conversation with one of my most edifying friends; Joshua.  It’ll edify you, so don’t read if you have edification allergies.

Our lives are marked with decisions; every day we make dozens of them. Like right now, of all the things you could be doing, you’ve decided to read this. If in the end, it turns out to be full of inconsequential nonsense, you’ll feel like an arse for wasting your precious time. But if it turns out to be the most fulfilling bit of your day, you’ll commend yourself for deciding to.

What’s more important than the decisions we take, is what guides them. Why you would decide to return a carelessly dropped purse tells a lot about you. It could be that you weren’t brought up to pilfer. Or your current financial breakthroughs mean you don’t need someone’s cash. Or you’re afraid of being caught and called a thief. Or because you think the one it belongs to might need it crucially. As good as all those reasons are, they really aren’t good enough. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Naked!

28 Jan

This’ one of those poems you think you have all figured out till you get to the end, where its full meaning and beauty blossoms. I love it because it describes our vulnerability to that special person only after having related with him/her for a while. When we’re game, and can only do so little about the situation. Arrgggh, these swirling emotions!

Naked!

Today, I stood before the mirror naked.

I turned around slowly, watching every inch

I studied every bit of me; from toes to head

Then I noticed something extremely strange;

A very essential part of me was missing.

I searched all over, but couldn’t find it. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Guest Contributer Seth Hassan:The Great Mis-Understanding!

26 Jan

Tele’s pieces are always a fresh addition to the goldinwords collection, this is no exception.

When I first read this one, I was like “Gosh, all girlfriends (mine inclusive) must see this (& bfs too, if you insist). Because if guys spoke French and girls spoke Hausa, then this, friends, is your translator. I think this piece may perhaps just save your relationship; the one you’re in, or about to get into. Tele, we’re all ears…

(A long one, I think…but I hope you enjoy it as much as I did just writing it.)There’s pressing news in store for you here. Bad news: Maybe…for some. Good news: Definitely…for some.

Over the past few days, I’ve had conversations centering on this with two young ladies, friends of mine. They were two totally different individuals with markedly different outlooks on life, but they both were not aware of what I’m about to spill my guts on (at my Muse’s insistence, of course) to you reading this. During my different conversations with them I gradually came to a conclusion that had previously been arrived at by far greater minds than mine: Misunderstanding is the Number 1 Relationship-Killer in our world today.

Today, this piece is directed at the ladies, mostly. Fellas here, observe and back me up if you understand what I’m getting at. And listen when I drop something your way.

I’ve been advocating that most of my female friends find, and read, a book which helps a lot in attempts to ‘figure out’ the opposite sex…and might even lend some insight into their own persona: John Gray’s Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. When I become rich and have my own TV Show, it’s definitely going to be a favourite of my Book Club and I’ll add it to my annual Favourite Things hamper every year! lol Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Immortalized In Me

20 Jan

I liked a girl once…I thought I did. More than her, I liked what the emotion birthed in creativity; this is one. I thought she was ethereal and in my book of poems I decided to immortalize her.

The end of the story is not as glorious as the start though, lol. Because the beauty of these words has outlasted her and all those emotions by far. I still love this piece dearly. I’m sure you will too.

Immortalized In Me

I’m trying to do the impossible;

To write about all the glory you radiate,

About a nature beyond vocabulary description.

I’m trying to explain in words

What both my mind and heart can’t fathom

I’m trying to write all that in ink

And tell it to you in words.

Sometimes it baffles me;

How a mortal body is able to contain you.

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You Know She’s From Gey Hey If…

18 Jan

If you are or know any Gey Hey girl. If you’ve gone out with one or are actively pursuing one, then you’ll enjoy this.

I was doing a lil digging into my archives and came across this nugget I penned a couple of years back. It was a very easy piece to write because the whole lot of my cousins went to Gey Hey. By some stroke of… (i dunno sef) majority of my girlfriends went there and to top it up, it’s the alma mater of my first-love ;-)

You know she’s from Gey-hey ….

1. If her favorite line  when she’s getting pissed is “I’m not amused” Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Noodles Girls vrs Italian Spaghetti Girls.

12 Jan

This post is about the valuable nuggets for girls gotten from a conversation between two heart throbs about the women in their lives.

Some time back, me and my good friend; Yaw were having a conversation about the women in our lives; from the teenage years till now. All guys have that conversation with their kiths at one point in time or the other. It usually starts like this;

Me: Chaa you wont believe who I met at Oye’s wedding reception last Saturday.

Him: Who?

Me: Mandy, Mandy Stalker.

Then I delightfully watch the expression on his face morph into an unintelligible expression of feigned indifference.

Me: Chaa what was good, is a lot better now o. We even took a couple of pictures together. I’m telling you man, she is the one girl that if you had gotten to marry like hhmmn…

Him: What?

Me: like when the reverend says “you may kiss the bride” I’ll subconsciously plant a quick kiss on her lips before coming to the painful realization that I’m not the groom.

Him (laughing heartily): Are you serious? Read the rest of this entry »

 
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The Lesson Abudu Taught Me.

10 Jan

Yesterday on my way to church, I saw a boy’s life slipping out of him like a woman out of a night robe. It must have been asphyxiation or something related, because the Kufuor bus he had been in was stacked with more people than a matchbox is with sticks.

His father and some elderly men were trying to resuscitate him the best they knew how. Screaming his name “ABUDU, ABUDU!!” like he could hear them if they raised their voices a notch higher. Like all that was wrong with him was a hearing disorder. Another man was smacking the soles of his feet and yet another was shaking him vigorously. I felt their fear as I stood by in my crisp ironed black trouser and neatly tucked in grey TM Lewin shirt.

Another man managed to stop a taxi. Fortunately the North Legon Clinic was only a few minutes away. In an instant, an unknown random taxi driver became the bearer of the keys to a little boy’s life. His rickety Opel Astra and his untried driving prowess didn’t matter so long as his horns blared loud enough and the car moved fast enough.

As I watched the taxi-turned-ambulance screeching away, Read the rest of this entry »

 
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