Just a simple Ghanaian trying to find the best in our society. I may be fun, I may be interesting, I may be funny, I may even be foolish or intelligent, but it is all based on the mood in which you find yourself. I believe our minds make us who we are. Know that, pain, no matter its 'unbearability', is transient. Unburden or delight yourself for a while in my writings please. And all corrections, advice and opinions are welcome. Know that you are the king, queen or royal on this blog. :)
Once upon a timeUnfairness with a republic did rhymeBlack coloured people were considered donkeysAs pink coloured people held their whips…hitting and calling them monkeysWhile making them work on everything including building chips They tampered with many brown mindsAnd reduced them to brainless findsUntil one brown mind broke through the windy tortureAnd got for them a […]
1a.Who says the meaning of poems must hide…in layers and layers of confusionsSearched for with vague illusions Hurt brains in mock contusions…in order to understand? 1b.Who says a poetic theme must live far in meaning For thinkers to travel far in fetchingForcing minds to work hard in stretching…in order to understand? 1c.Know that universal poems […]
There is a joy in picking own fruitsWhich have rolled into territories of brutesWho step on them like nonsensical crudesAnd so a thank you is in order IIMahama’s Okudzeto did rightSensing the chasing frightIn a senseless heightAnd bringing his own with great mightA thank you is in order IIIFor he sees and listensWhen fearful sweats […]
There comes trouble when mice think themselves cats…tormenting catsJumping here and thereThinking all is fairBut we see We see the holes in empty headsAnd know your foes are yourselvesWe see the vacancy in yearning heartsAnd know the foes are what you areWe see the horrors in your spiritsAnd know your foe is lack of soulsYou […]
Nsuyire yɛ kɔkɔbɔƐsan nso yɛ awudibɔNsuyire te sɛ abufuw nkitiwa …bebree a ahyia ɛreyɛ nnyɛdoa Wo ne me nneyɛɛ…ɛna abɔ mu ɛrekɔ yɛn ɔsɛyɛɛ Enti kaeKae sɛ nnwura kora basabasa Gɔta mu bɔɔlahyɛ basabasa Nsuwansuwa mu adansie basabasaNyinaa ka bɔ mu …na esi nsuyire Enti nya nyansaNa bɔ mɔdene fa wo nsa yɛ adwumaTi wo […]
You were like fresh rainCatching dust into a worldly drainYou were like a pretty flower…hidden beneath a dirty showerYou were like fresh air…that many share without a careNow you’re you in an abstractForcing many tongues into many a talking contract IIYou…needed the praises from those you touchedYou…needed the love from those you matchedYou…wanted to see […]
There is a fountain of maliceWhich has forced an Alice…to throw a cheating ball at a Mr. ChalysBreaking down a marital palace Now a Chike…is a ChokeStepping on the necks of community pen issesWho are fighting back with angry cursesWho is crying? It is a revolutionA revolution of power dissolutionEvaporating into the heads of womenTheir […]
I got a peek of you in Tamale, at Alex’sYou stood for all the good yesesYour brightness, decorum and patience…shone through your nurturingI saw the love in my brother’s eyesAnd knew you were a sister-mother like me Whatever wind blew your soul uphill…to your makerWe challenge it notThrough this painYour family reminisce the gain…which made […]
A bright star has fallenIt did not have a sudden fallIt was shot and torn to its coreIt got visibly so soreBut none, for him, tried a rescue Many long hands did see it struggling in the skyNo finger tried to touched itNone saw it fitUntil he hid behind a cloudEven then, others could have […]
Like minds, there are only a set of workersWhose work do not have breaksThey can’t also be shirkersIn their resolves, there are no shakesThose workers are mothers 2.They are medicine vaults…protectective cults…sleeping cots…discipline slots…food plots…cleaning tools…entertaining bulls…prayer warriors …with hearts of battlefield warriorsThey are mothers 3.They battle sicknesses on emotional groundsThey battle bullies like life […]
The terror that did them drainThe horror that caused their strainThe stupor that made them insanePossessed and gave them not even a grain of brain Now Nightfall in Soweto has its daylightWhere every neighbouring Black is in frightJust a meeting causes a beatingMaking every day a dreaded diseaseFor who knows who would be deseased? There […]
South Africa is now a falling zoneReady to pick many a boneWith other Black nations which pushed their traumas to be sewnInto the free terror they’re now for known All Black nations must expell their seedsTo push them on one string as loving beadsTo rot in themselves in order to regrow So they can learn […]
Sika yɛ atwitwideɛNe mpanpan frɛfrɛ akoma apɛdeɛ …afɛfɛdeɛ…awiwideɛ …anumnumdeɛ…akumkumdeɛƐne nsɛmpɛdeɛƐwɔ nnuraho a ne su ne ne ban te sɛ akyɛdeɛEnti yɛ ahwɛyie B.Yɛ ahwɛyieEfirisɛ wo wɔ aburo a nkokɔ nyɛ wo naNanso wo funu nyɛ wɔn sosɔnaWo wɔ nhaban a nguan nyɛ wo na Nanso wo nni hɔ nɛ…wɔn akyidifoɔ bɛsesaWɔ wɔ nnuane a …ɛkɔm […]
Life is like unknown spaces poorly sewn…with many happenings so duly blownI cry you in whose presence I’ve grownAnd all the very yous my grown has known For you would be my stories’ tellDo a good and I’ll write your tellSpin a bad and I’ll write your yellBe the worse and I’ll be your sellBe […]
There is a thing to love as your beliefSelecting one to love in reliefNot a one to fan your chiefWith a mind you wish to thief How could you a mind in your aweIn a body your core finds chore Preach to me a thing as your lawWhich places pans, laddles as my moreAnd still […]
Why are men in high placesHoarding tadpoles in their embracesWhile grown frogs are in their faces…hoping to get in their graces? IIWhy are ripe fruits hangingAnd respectable hands go a-throwingHuge stones for the unripe’s falling?When the ripen will go a-rotting? IIIIt is a horrid attitude so rudeThat handcuffs must go a-chasingIt is a happening so […]
Emotional vultures are feasting on my timeDevotional cultures are beasting me in slimeDivisional structures are beating me in rhymeIt’s an occasion testing my prime IISo I pleadFeed me with your resilient seedBead me with your precious creedLord lead me like your following deedAcross this time on this slimeTo stop fatigue from my sumptuous feedAmoafowaa Sefa […]
Once upon a timeMadness wearing the body of beautyLived among humansBreathed among humansAnd was sent to be with humansIn a law abiding structure All looked and saw a beautyBut she did things contrary to the normShe claimed her hair untouchedBut braided hairs even pain would wince to haveShe defecated where she should notUrinated where she […]
There were times flutters asked loyal questionsAnd head backed her upThere were times you were too good to be trueBecause of many love untrueTime has tick-tocked to todayTo brand you a mountain and a fortressTime has crawled to todayTo brand you a dependable mattress There were times doubts modeled on mind streetBut as time walked […]
A million tears can’t bring you back Real regrets, can’t turn back time Worries and wailing can’t change your fateFor you’re now the caught of the death hawk I knew you from the tears of Nana Dansoa NuamahSeeing that happy girl so broken…broke my heart into piecesBut at the same time, it spoke volumes…of how […]
I sit here, like a tiny dirt…being refined by youIf you were breathable, I couldn’t even touch your shirt…let alone youBut you stand at one placePregnant with knowledge anyone can embrace You give to millions in years uncountableBut none is to you accountableMany of your tiny dirtsHave gone on to become people with untouchable shirtsYet […]
The afternoon seems like a stormy day with a bright sunWhy the clouds keep moving close to the sun rays…I understand notMemories of you keep flooding As the static news of your gone staresYou were my premier boss in a formal wayYour just tantrumsYour quiet waysYour soft reproachesYour little to sayYour regal self in fugu…keep […]
Prayɛ afutuo Adwumadene ntutuo Nkoasom abufuoNfa nnipakuo nkɔ sereɛ nkoguo Ohia mfuturo Prɔyɛ mu tuo Kɛtɛasehyɛ ahuro Y’ada akyɛre nti etire ne akoma nyinaa mfom mpuntuo B. Efirisɛ Ghana abɔ aberewa Nti ɛnyɛ nufutaberaba afɛ ne babunu bogyina …na w’ayɛ mfomsuoɔ akɛseɛ ama ɔdɔ aniwa agye no de afa so agoro ne ho D.Enti nnwuma […]
Abofoɔ-abɔfoɔ de nkokɔhwideɛ ahayɔ ako guAma nkokohwideɛ a wɔn ntakra mu yɛ den…adane fie nkokɔ wɔ amafoforo afie afie mu Afei abofoɔ yi mpɛ nkokɔhwideɛ-Nkokɔ yi wɔ wɔn afie afie mu Nso nkokɔhwideɛ-nkokɔ yi werɛ afiri sɛnea wɔn tu Ama wɔn ntakra adane papa a erehuhu wɔn wuranom ho Nanso wɔn ebuomu ɛrehyehye Ɛwie a […]
Nea onim ne nkyi…nhweri n’animuonyamEnti si nketee sɛ…bosome yi, Wo bɛ di Ghana aduaneAhyɛ Ghana ntaadeAbɔ Ghana ho dawuro pa …akyerɛ amansan Ma wo suban nkyerɛ yɛn wo nnipa banMa w’ahofadeɛ nkyerɛ yɛn w’ahoɔfɛMa wo dɔ nkyerɛ yɛn wo nnipa suoEfirisɛ, yɛ yɛ asomdwoe manYɛ yɛ ɔdɔ manYɛ kyerɛ ahofamaYɛ bɔ yɛn ho yɛn ho […]
A.Ahuoɔfɛ te sɛ ohuruyɛƐbɛ huhu wo…akeka woAhuoɔfɛ te sɛ yareɛ mfitiaseɛAbusua ngyigyesoɔ da mmere soEnti na me nfa ahuoɔfɛ nyɛ aduane…mpo na me de abɛdane nsuo B.Ahuofɛ adi m’abrɔƐde akoma bɔne bebree agu me so…ama m’atiti ahwe anya ekuro bebree wɔ me kra-nam hoAma m’abrɛ…aa aama me ahumeAma m’asu a ankyekyere me wereAma m’aniwuo…aa anbue […]
I want to be lovedI want to be lovedBut you’re the walking red flagWearing different shades of selectivity IIYou live in a world of fantasyLooking for a real person to give you ecstasy Height is your bannerOn complexion, you always hammerWealth is your loud speakerClass is what’s on your radar IIII want to be lovedI […]
Here, Gaza sleeps and snores in peaceThere, Gaza has no eyesHe is a shred of dirty clothes torn to piecesMany are asking the whys IIIt’s amazing how peace stems from eachBut one’s chaos can cost OTHERS their peace There, in Gaza, drums of blood flood floors of each houseMillions of unlived lives and unsaid vows…lay […]
5.Oh AbibaLeaving your young man for BabaI wish you could be money soberSo you’ll see burdens on your future shoulderAs the poor fourth trophy of Baba 4.Dear AbibaPlease tell me, how old is Baba?Who has seen your beautiful flowerAnd has used his many one dollar…to so on you towerDo you know burdens on your future […]
The University Of Cape Coast Department Of English and the Creative Writers’ Club invite students in Ghanaian Tertiary Institutions (colleges, universities and polytechnics) to submit original work for the inaugural Prof. Moussa Traoré Poetry Prize; honoring the Head of English Department at the University of Cape Coast whose work is constantly shaping African and African […]
Rains of sadness! Atmosphere of queerness!Feelings of soreness! A Ghana of weirdness! IIShare beds and push us downShare beds and run us down the drainy townWe are what you’re describing in deedsYour actions are our feedsBe apostles, be affrontsJust ask minds all’l lolAt this public joke you term as a taskOnly to come out with […]
This is a realm where eagles, trying a walk…are regarded fowlsThis is a realm where cocks clocking a talk…are regarded bias-noisemakersBut I’ll be a fowlAnd an avid noisemakerFor I see the laws that should be…being birthed to be III never thought these eyes will live to seeAccountability dancing in one’s own potOh I never thought […]
This is a place shielding manyAnd a place knowing manyThis is a place coaching manyAnd a placeWorrying manyThis is home refinedWith duties and responsibilities well definedThis is a battle well confinedWith soft-competitions with egos well combinedAnd I’m one of its small leavesIt takes care to not be one of the leaves IIHerein, there are vultures […]
Dear Thandiwe,It is with love that these fingers…have found words on this ringerYour beautiful head with your beautiful perspectivesFooled me to think so high of your nativesBut misunderstandings need clarityJust as quick judging reeks ignorance IIA sage once told meYou look to see…when your mind sees the strangeYou don’t talk in a see…when your mind […]
We’re like trees…and their leavesWe are beautiful until we’re notWhen the yellowish tinge gets our slotWe look at the swaying vibrancy of the youngThe respectable names hit us like beautiful insults“Auntie, Madam, MaUncle, Mister, Pa” The respectful manners fall on us like lovely assaultsBeing offered seats when busses are fullBeing offered help when your muscles […]
Mine has been a classroom blessingHaving so many amazing teachers find meAnd so many angelic hearts lifting me…to this stage IbMine has been an amazing lessonThat a teacher’s work is not only in booksBut also making and unmaking young souls 2aYou’ve been in my corner…from the beginningYou’ve acted a ladderEven when I knew not I […]
Dr. Issaka is a struggling birdShe is like a beautiful bird caged in academic metalsShe flies from the bar of teachingTo the bar of supervisionThen she is blown to the bar of examinationLocking her emotions with a key of frustration IISee her lovely self shockedAbout Amoafowaa’s unspecial topicsAlebia’s fine but no essence topicBrempong’s shockingly disappointing […]
Love is not noisyIt is like fresh waters flowing from uphill into an oceanSo calmSo coolSo refreshingSo excitingIt is amazing how I had to travel here…to find itAmoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © January 26, 2026.
There are many who have pushed me hereHere, where grace seems nearBut I still stand on fear IbThere are many who have helped me to hereHere, where looking down is scaryAnd I can only on this ladder carry IcSo I thank youFor holding my handAnd helping me standSo I thank youFor leading with hopeAnd helping […]
Once upon a timeThere was a Kwaku Ananse…who lived in AdanseHe was agile, calm and had a great familySo he rose to be part of the elites in his nationHe was loved at firstHe was revered at firstHe was praised at firstUntil it startedHe started eating into antsThen went into fliesThen he went into even […]
Today, I was called a bush womanBecause my eyebrows are not drawn like a caricature and paintedMy nails are not fixed long like talons and paintedMy lips are not coloured like a blood soaked suckerMy cheeks are not red like a scared White personMy buttocks are not loose and dancing kpanlogoMy breasts are not peeking […]
Who calls others beastsAfter killing innocent beings for feasts? How cruel!You price yourselves highProjecting wokeness and equalityBut you’re shielding criminal youngsters in realityYou train your young to see their skin as superiorForcing their young minds to grow to think others inferiorGod the creator is watching IIYou think your citizens worthyAnd hope they’re all healthyBut you’ve […]
ThenIt started like an unfairnessAnd graduated to discipline-shamingIt did reach a point of divisive awarenessAnd rose to naming and shaming NowYoung seeds act as fruits in bloomingSkipping steps in growth to life’s horrid distress They are brazenly leaving their trees and fallingRotting either close to their mother tree or far far in their rollingAmoafowaa Sefa […]
Listen, those days are goneYes, goneThe days when wives were stamped “good materials”built to bend,to break,to weather every storm you called tradition… are gone Now they rise…equal imperials,Leveling the pig-like habitsyou passed down like heirlooms of ignoranceThose days?Over! So stitch yourself a new mind like a tailor with skillSail yourself a new course like a […]
Hardwork must count for somethingSustenance must count for everything They are like our pipes of livingThey are those whose sweats work for our savingThey’re what we eatSo why do we them cheat? Pay for what you takePay for what they makeFor your fashion and teaching and doctoring and ruling Are nothing without their dirt and […]
The high school students failing in some core subjects has a lot of people talking. I have heard a lot of people who have no business talking on some platforms doing so in such bizarre ways and I marvel at their shamelessness and applaud the bravery with which they spew ‘horrifics’.Madam Janet Nabla of the […]
A smile forms by itselfAt the thought of our time togetherIt was history by itselfAnd I enjoyed myself altogetherFrom the lessons in lifeTo your drive through striveFrom our adorable keep-fit sessionsTo your loving and poignant questionsYou are a blessing I’ve come to knowAnd at the thought of it, I glow IINever have I ever felt […]
They sent a flat chest to save the landFlat chest caused chaos and duped the landOther flat chests did try to workThe more they showed up, the more responsibilities they did shirkUntil you cameSolemn, promisingUndying hope rekindlingHonouring and appealingUltimately satisfyingLoved and praisedUpon the land…until a race showed your caseNot knowing you were a samia …which […]
I heard him saySay he was jealousJealous of the eagleEagle flying freely in the skyAnd I frozeThinking he is overlooking something Something so deadly IIThe sky, to me, is the most dangerous placeWhere weathers are unfriendlyExperiments are dangerousIt leaves you naked to the eyes of manyMany with cruel intentionsYou’ll know not where will come a […]
Majeed Ali called me “Mr. Mum Cee” todayThat was the first thing he had to say…to me early hours of todayAnd I am still processing itThat stubborn Dagomba boy in the position of manFelt I was too strong to be called a womanCome to think of itIsn’t he too boyish to be called a man? […]
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