Poetic Justice Books publishes Oppong Clifford Benjamin debut poetry chapbook, Collecting Stars From A Night’s Sky

Dear friends, Fresh from Poetic Justice Books & Arts in Florida, U.S.A. and shipped from their printing press in the UK is my humble book. You can buy paperback copies at Poetic Justice Bookstore, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, Bookvoed in Russia and you...

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Midwifery love

a poem by Oppong Clifford Benjamin air in a room cold hair on my skin fold where my lover go? shy, almost timid is - my lover of yesterday. ajar my door peep in, my lover my naked body lay. lover of jealousy lover of yesterday my lover of an honourable profession  my heart, stab  and from a height, I fall in love I am dead happy death! wake me not, ye friends- who...

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TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO WHEN A BLIND MAN SINGS FOR YOU.

a blog post by Oppong Clifford Benjamin If a blind man sings so well that your skin reacts to the demons in the music by growing reflex erections like small-small pimples on the surface of your skin, don't allow an English man to put a name to your feelings by calling them goosebumps, no don't. Language has not even heard the right to describe your emotions because what you have become you...

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East Africa

East Africa   The waitress placed two Nairobis on the table. She shouted over the loud Reggae music to Kimbo, his girlfriend Joy and his mother that she would soon serve the remaining two East African cities. When the waitress bent to open one of the Nairobis, Kimbo noticed a white tag just above her left breast pocket which called her ‘Grace.’ Our three stars...

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