All venture high schools …with tertiary or a universal goal in mind It is a climb whose turn takes the whipping of a soul Used-to-taste, unmaking itself is like skins in a knife peel Blood differ …so check yours before pushing it into a suffering …of poisonous suffocation Drugs brag their highs and hide their […]
Author: amoafowaa
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. :)
THE PRESSURE OF RELEVANCE
This virtual world …which has made for all a stardom stage Has gifted a curse II It’s hard to watch …as shadows struggle to drown eachother …to get into the light meant for all A pull and a push …a blast and a clap back …hatred and betrayal …nakedness and its madness …sins and their […]
POLITICAL PAWN STARS
They used to come in cat forms …burying their wastes to kill distrust in their trusting Now they live like goats …caring not where their fecal balls scatter Why is their world growing to crude through rudeness …and forgetting the polite in the politics? The “e” surely shouldn’t have hidden in the riding Oh political […]
FROM THE EYES OF THE SITTING ELDER
Child those who hurriedly opened their gates beneath them …to eat from the first fruit of Adam …to tear open their innocence End up killing most dreams with rushing diarrhea Becoming ghosts to success II Child A young heart needs time …to grow saucepan of maturity …to fit onto the fires of love So as […]
TO THE COMPASSIONATE
If you do love …a struggling being And have looked above …their unfortunate scenes Here – …A HUG OF WORDS II If you’ve spoken …for a voiceless mouth And have broken …an unfairness mark Here – …A HUG OF WORDS III You are eyes …to a blind walker And a shield of lies …of their […]
KISS AND TELL
0 A kiss and tell is a bad spell Which sells a yell of a sad pearl So bell out a tell of your kiss …to stop the hell of disgust’s tale a A kiss is a bliss Deserving no hiss to piss …off A Mister or a Miss …in a shaming gist b A […]
Yɛde nwomasua ɛɛto tsatsa Ama ayɛ tesɛ ekro aa aprɔ sɛɛ pachaa Asresɛm ne sɛ …yeemia no wɔ akrɔkrɔ kwan so Yɛbɛyɛ dɛn atu mpong? II Obiara nim sɛ nwomasua yɛ y’atwideɛ a …y’ehia de afiri ahohiahia yi mu …akosi mpuntuo kro mu Enti deɛn nti na Ɔmama bɛ to kɔ benkum …na Opreman ni […]
WOES OF A BROKEN SEEDED MOTHER
It is hard When it dawns on you and your sky turns dark It is bad When you look and see that a difference does mark You can never park Even as the world chases you to the ends of the mad Oh woes of a broken seeded mother! II Even in acceptance struggle Pointed […]
THE FATE CROW
The fate crow Tore and flew a con That fear creeps Traumatizing folks like crazy Tell the farmers in crew Their forces need to close II As skies turn mask for the heavens And Satan turns mark of deceptions As sorries troll more for the hells And stories trick men into dominion Tell the fate […]
SYSTEMS THAT NEVER WORK
Imagine owning a sun that never shines …clouds that never rain …air which never blows It is like systems that never work II Imagine having a dryer which never heats A piano without a sound A guitar without strings A spoon which cannot fetch a thing They’re just like systems that never work III What […]
THE LOVE EXPERIMENT
Sometimes when two hearts stand at a sharing junction They become an unparallel duo The more expressive …the less retaining The less expressive …the more retaining That is why hurts stay longer in the latter …in an abrupt end II They are like sand and clay Although water quickly seeps through sand Clay takes its […]
There is a trick to know the sick in the quick So leave no traces with temper II Obsession and aggression can’t always equal cantankerousness Competitive possessiveness …and by force need to top …aren’t always traits of conceitedness When a human acts lion in a sphere where even …a cat trait can easily win Put […]
MOTHERING A MONSTER
Mothering monsters must make merry mournful …in memory II Mothering monsters might mock most …who moved mountains to make money …to mum those many moments III How does it feel To watch as the world Brands your beloved as unfeeling steel Armed with justifiable evidence? IV How does it feel To watch the world Rightfully […]
N Need is what you’ve made yourself I ride on you …like a cross on a horse And you gallop my thoughts …to caves that save words to pave awesome ways …for my muse And create pain for my body’s abuse Never nested in a nauseous novelty like yours I Interesting is your silence Dark […]
ƐYƐ W’AKOSUA KUMA?
Nana Nyame Totrobonsu …nyansa sene ade nyinaa nti na …obi Akosua kuma nnyɛ obi anum no Enti neɛ ɛmrɛ atukwan abɛduru wɔ nyansa mu yi …a kwajo hoho adwene gu so te wo nyansa so yi …wo nhunu sɛ, sɛbi, nkwaseɛ nwansena ɛɛguro wo nsɛmka ho? II Kyerɛsɛ Kwame Asikuma …bɛtumi asi n’agɛgɛ mu …agu […]
AN OUTCAST
Ia Sparkly stars in close proximity …force eyes to close …with threats of blindness Even the intensity of a fire’s heat …determines the space between skins and their flames Higher souls suffer because their tougher spirits overpower all Causing the plight of most outcasts Ib He walks through the whispers …with unknown sources And tries […]
THE TRUE RULE OF POWER
As you swing your power sling …like a king with no end strings And enjoy as your people sing As you treat them like your mere things Remember, the bells to your tenure ring And time will fling you off no matter how hard you cling Because power’s wings fall off a shoulder to the […]
GROSS DEFENSIVENESS
It is laughable When a hand throws a ball to a wall …and it bounces back to hit his face to a fall Only for the hand to point at the wall …and curse a cruelty! It is gross …when one builds a bed of thorns …and is made to test its softness with his […]
THAT LITTLE BIRDIE
Clouds that hang and never fall …block the shine of the sun …monopolizing the sky in a catastrophic doom So – …bullet that bothersome birdie …to break the ills that speed …with the air into people’s ears Causing suspicions left …right …up …down …and scattering the center with its mass weapon …of breaking trust II […]
ONE AT A TIME
Amonu used her two eyes …to look into a bottle …and saw nothing Abochi used an eye …to look in same bottle …his other eye closed And saw its content Greed breeds seeds unfeeding II There are beautiful sights we lose …when each eye roams at will …this looking left …that looking right So focus […]
BLAME GAMES
i. Armed robbers ii. Citizens iii. Entrepreneurs iv. Politicians v. Ghosts i Dem dey claim we be murderers! …Satan im workers! …wicked foks! …society demma bother! …trɛts? Na wetin be dat? Ha! When we be the sad football wey dey dis life field im top Ino be life every one wan live? Wetin free for […]
THE COMMUNITY GOOSE
None asked how much the moon’s death yielded …him None asked his needs None even asked how he fared All they needed were theirs …and theirs …and theirs Adding anger to his fears …of stepping on toes …with his tired words II He was the community goose …a gander given a womb of provision …to […]
Ei! …Mmɛnsɛm tumi de takashi furo nyanberansɛm …ko si adefokrom …ɛma akronkronfo nante kɔ tɔ ahohiahia kokomu Agyawaadwo! 2 Hwɛ sɛ abirekyie akɔka ɛgya ato obi fie mu …afa ne ho adi …ama odwan akɔka obi nsuo agu …ama abaa atu ne honam sɛɛ ho …awe! 2b Hwɛ sɛ ɔkraman adi abaa yiaw …ɛnam efi […]
I’d like to be a vein in your thoughts To see what sadness for you has got To know what your weeping soul has bought …for your many thoughts II I’d like to be in your thoughts To hear the horrors in your heart As the call for casket closure booms Do your hurts now […]
A CANDLE IN THE DARK
Here we are, in this camp of Burma Again, pushing the left overs of the human hawk Into the dust which waits to blend A lover in the whirlwind of emotions, wife in utter strife Family in the turmoil of loss Friends in the loss of laughter And onlookers …wrapped in thoughts of their ends […]
ODOMANKOMAH’S FAIR CHECKER
Tell the rancher Forcing that horse to the river That he can drag it there But the keys to its throat only lies within it Will is the fair checker of Odomankomah II Tell that problem Dragging you like a sack through pages of mockery …right to the stages of taunts That it can drag […]
This bloating This bloating that makes me feel like a floating ghost Gifting mouths weapons to attack my over-trained being …forcing me on a mental battlefield Is far worse than a broken heart II This expansion This expansion which builds on me a worry mansion …without gates Gifting legs the permission to carry their mouths […]
BRANDING! BRANDING!
You see those beautiful mansions …built with beautiful words …painting surreal pictures? In there might be single rooms with leaking roofs …or roofless huts housing humans and rats …who compete for space So put out your jealous flames …and let your sun lead you …with its free air II What is a name without essence? […]
COME FOR COMFORT
What are those tears …unmasking the fears …that the soul bears? Hurts and uncertainty? Pain and disdain? Feelings of you being in that blue …so you could save a beloved? Come Come to the bosom that has seen it all …and still blossoms For the comfort that time conceitedly tick tocks …in a bridal walk […]
Pussies purr plainly …at the parish’s pulpit Pleading for plucks to play …parts of public’s power Why will Pinky’s pecks pull Paul’s plugs? He should know the club is a garden …where all hands try a plucking of the catchy II Ask guards the grounds play before an entering Auction no action whose reaction you […]
NAME CALLING
What is this fog parceling hard work …and aiding shirking? What is this anger hanging tribes …making nationals strangers …and causing looming danger? Name calling? Agyawaadwo! II There is a beauty in even insults That is, …never will they stick on their bearers like tags …and they never hurt those in uncaring shirts Still …what […]
Just as models take the shine of designers, Actors take the shine of writers Pretenders in pastoral clothes …are taking the shine out of your powers Don’t you see? No, ahonuabobirim, can’t you see? II I thought you were the driver And like mates …your prophets commune knowing they are just a tribune …so fear […]
AGE RESTRICTIONS
“You talk too much And nag as such You ask and ask Are you an ass?” II “Young one, This time which makes me your ass …and baths you with sass Has a reversal in your wait If death’s hawk spares you its weight Because this here crass Was a time past’s sass Wait till […]
ƆDƆ NSƆKƆ (20+)
Yɛse ɔdɔ kɔ baabia ɔdɔ wɔ Enti me ti wo nne a na me ho afɔ Efirisɛ wo ho kɔm kɔm tesɛ atɔyɛ nsutɔyɛ Sei frɛdɛ frɛdɛ frɛdɛ wɔ ayaase asuɛyɛ Wo yɛ ɛta a me hia wɔ me sen mu II Wo sɛ etuo a me hia wɔ m’afuom Wo yɛ amaango a me […]
PREPOSTEROUS
All that were inter Have now been cast like nets In the sea of knowledge All that is needed is a search And a pulling and voila! There are answers So why …try …to cry …to sky? Why …sigh …to live awry? Bye a fie! II Why act like a learned beggar Who sees an […]
THEY SAY THEY SAY
They say Afua Kumankomah …called on Odomankomah ..to bless Kwame Ankomah For choosing her over Adomah In front of all the people of Kromansah II They say her back barked to scare the air …and even blinded eyes …before her thanksgiving Her chest was the prized home …all hungry emotions fed from in fantasy They […]
A BAD CYCLE
Her lies walked on two legs …and were hit by another lie on a bicycle Then yours, on a motorbike, cleared the lie on the bicycle And thereafter, his lie, riding a plush car …hit and put yours in a vegetative state Be happy knowing someone’s lie in a plane …crashed and killed his lie […]
Decision PATHWAYS
I stand at the crossroads of …a known path …and an unknown path Looking left Looking right Confusion playing my mind like an annoying xylophonist II The known road lies with its congratulatory beckoning And an ego whose mouth is widely open …to swallow whole my pride I see the line where my knees will […]
UNPLEASANT PLEASANTRIES
Heartwarming things are like rains in drought Ho ho ho ho, ha ha ha ha Can cancel some hi hi hi hi, eiii iiii yieeee, bueee! I know Still, …there are pleasantries that are unpleasant And register their disgust on minds …horrifying hearts …closing eyes …harming tongues Check your pleasantries to spare someone an unpleasantness […]
TRUE WORSHIP
Fellows finally find freedom …in feeding from fem-pots With no fear …of being tagged failures Loving their forms II It is better to show the “sins” snowing within …than wrapping it up …and tanning your outer with piety Real talent is eating from a good bowl …and licking it up in worship …caring not about […]
HARD TIMES
Tit bits of hits …have bitten into cultures so deep That even animes have become enemies …gunning down innocence So guard hard your planted …lest you grow the bad to live in a mad place …where consciences are without traces II Choosing to …house …inner monsters …locking learning with freedom …damning the good to pat […]
Nneɛ ɔkaa sɛ bebia abɛ bɛtɔ biara yɛ mprɔyɛ mu no …yɛ ɔbadwenba a adwenehare kyekyere n’aniso adehunu kakra Efirisɛ abɛ bi tumi tɔ egya mu …ɛhye Abɛ bi tumi tɔ ɛboɔ so …ɛwo Abɛ bi ti tɔ fɔm ma mmoadoma we Abɛ bi tumi tɔ nnɔti bi mu …ɛmmim a y’ɛnhu n’adwosuo koraa …na […]
THE WAY FORWARD
Brushing rotten teeth …bleeds out rotten blood Fire roasts minerals …to burn out hidden beauty There is no great results without tiresome beginnings Same goes for development II 1. Results 2. Obese 3. Exercise 4. Fitness III For the 2 to attain total 4 There is a need for a rigorous 3 Which comes with […]
THE CABLE OF TROUBLE
The cable of trouble …ably enabled by labels and gambles …which wobble legs of the stable …even on a comfortable table …is no fable to play with like a colored bubble II So sit …seek …study …store …to strengthen your senses For the land of temptation is like a slippery slope Every feet is susceptible […]
If cold winds can call your presence …from your absence ..to my presence And stop biting me with longing for you I will live better …without feeling the miles which knot like ropes …to hang our lust in our days apart II If nights will stop the frights …of the emptiness that this huge bed […]
WHERE DO I GO?
Where do I go from you? When your looks …book me confusion Your smiles …blind me in illusion Your hugs …buy me commotion …of loss in your warmth Where do I go? Just where do I go from you? II Where do I go from you? When you are the house …I hope to build […]
CHA TO CHA
Preacher – If my mama couldn’t reach me And my papa couldn’t teach me Please don’t preach me …and turn around to act leach …to bleach my pocket into tatters Ib If you need a socket to charge your pocket …bribe me with no locket For I am a rocket which blasts such pockets If […]
REST THEM BREASTS
Buy them breaks! Block not their breathes! Beast not their betters! Bake not their best! Rest them breasts to bless them chests! II You who stretch them …like wretches needing a squeezing assembly You who stand them Like falling plantain needing soldier sticks stands! You who suffocate them …like naughty twins needing mouths in cover! […]
LISA’S VISA
Lisa thought she had gotten a visa to riches By wedding onto a comfortable bedding Her bragging and doggy greeting with fingers acting pianists in the air …could be seen even by the blind Driving all spinsters mad with bad jealousy II Hers was acting boss to clean …and taking off dross to dance for […]
EGOPRIDIC GHOSTS
We are in this doom fence Nursing fear of separation With rains of vulnerability falling into the konkura …of our heads While our faces mask the opposite …in deviance II We’re in these emotional whirlwinds Digging dust to blind each other …in our troubled tracks When unspoken words ghost our unhappiness …with heartbreaking sadness How […]