Not every bee around honey is its producer Some look to steal, acting among Not every raised hand is for praise Some are up to act as trap cues I can see the mischievous fans Hiding murderous intentions in fanning While parcelling love with smiling Oh you fake fans! You can try all you can […]
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. :)
If there is a fire that lights the path of mistakes Surely, fear is its lighter If there is a wire that electrocutes dreams in pregnancy Surely fear constitutes its positives and or negatives If there is a chair in hell Pushed thither in swiftness Fear surely has a hand therein For farfetched fumblings felt […]
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CRACKING THROUGH (For the depressed)
Winds of confusion snake through unseen corners of minds Throwing dust on enthusiasm in the darkness of loving eyes Breaking dignities and will to live All the while working from within to without like a bomb in a living being Without showing signs on bodies So let’s beware II Look beyond smiles And listen through […]
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THE AMMUNITIONLESS WEAPON
Aminata thought and thought Is she to give her youth to this brown leaf Ready to fall off the tree of life And watch her green Musa in another’s arms? The thought brought shivers down her spine But which weapon of a mouth does she have To stand on the battlefield of parental war To […]
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THE BARE BRUTALITY
(Written at the Genocide Centre in Kigali) There is a bitter taste in my mouth Sitting here Here, where spirits of innocent Tutsi’s fight back tears of their loss Here, where their few leftovers go and come Like struck sheep Still knocked out by degrading shocks Even after years are nearing their thirty steps Only […]
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THE PENSIONER-TODDLER
We are here A stop from the suppression there Like the lost freshly liberated We are here Knowing not what is fair Like a set of fowls in hungry-hawk-city II We are here A hop from the crying square Like bloodied and maimed warriors We are here Still fumbling and walking bare Like toddlers III […]
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A HEROINE’S WELCOME
Mark it You, you and you Who have used my most precious thing As tool to shoot my pride Your hands will clap at the rebellion of your heart Soon, very soon When the world asks that you stand To give me a heroine’s welcome II Mark it You, you and you Whose teeth jubilate […]
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INSENSITIVERS
“Eii w’ayÉ› fine o Wo body no aba kama” Whatever parcels of meanings you hide In this sentimental showdown I’ll have you know That I didn’t fetch an angel from my land of pleasure To label him burden Unfortunate are the years of toil Unfortunate are the years of struggle Unfortunate are the years of […]
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ON BEADED WINGS (18+)
On this beautiful day, I come like a knightess, to defray your pickle Oh be in the mood for a tickle For there will be a suckle That will call for an enchanting wriggle Summoning many an amazing giggle So let afrukuto, all-fall-down, azuikoto, som-ma-me-nyÉ” with patrikotum mingle And shame days that documented you a […]
Expectations hide in this day When hearts hide wishes dreamt about in telepathic conversations Maybe Valentine needed bars on his emotions And not his person II There are those who wear beautiful handcuffs applauded By society as crowns Hiding fountains of tears caused by deceptions unmentionable They may be paraded but with their hearts silently […]
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EXPECTATIONS
Give me a stone and I will see the glaring message “Heart of mine, trip all you can, I will be here to catch your falls” Give me ordinary sand and I will smile at the sweetness of thought That says “Even if we turn dust, this heart will you belong” Even the stinking end […]
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ONCE IN A LIFETIME
Overflowing Blood of hearts merged and urged by fate In there, everyday models Valentine’s deeds Harvesting laughter in serene happiness Many are in the embrace Eating from the plates of love with the fork of contentment It makes me turn Michael Bolton’s tune into a question Are you the one he sings of for me […]
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TIME TO COOL OFF
There is nothing wrong with a break After a tsunamic life shake After all, it takes time for scared fishes to travel through rivers Back to their sea after explosive shivers So you in the mirror, take time to cool off II Eyes close take time to open After a whirlwind As its dust takes […]
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TO THE GREAT DAGBON
There is no ingenious cultural counting That Sikaman will undertake Without your number up the charts Your beautiful fugus on your lovely leather foot-wears Your beautiful skins worn on your humble floors Speaking of bravery unseen to all eyes in meet Your fierce and baffling tongues Which leave foreigners in lost realms Oh your many […]
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THIS HOME WE WILL ALL GO
Heads buy thoughts from many sources As to how it is beneath, ha! Untrusting, fearing, praying Souls shiver in spirits which scare bodies But we know the trip is imperative No matter our standing II I know death is an animal unseen That whose teeth tire not in chewing That whose hunt never fails That […]
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THE ME OF YOU
Don’t you know me? Pluck the sun to see my face I am your future Waiting patiently for your present as it comes through your past II Don’t you know me? Buy a moon to look very well I am your final back Which would be seen by all No matter the faces you may […]
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DEVELOPMENT HOUNDS
(In honour of our fallen Tiger Eye journalist Ahmed) You there wake the one napping there Let him wake the one snoring there So we can stand here and wailingly shout Don’t ask what about Haven’t you heard about the loss of a touch in this muddy sea we live? We are shouting to the […]
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YOU’VE BEEN ATE A LION’S EATING
You’ve been ate a lion’s eating Your pot licked clean like an asanka of a famished seer Even the veins in your womb have been drained of blood Which shares your hope to other parts of your emaciated body Why won’t every child come sensely vacant? II You’ve been ate a lion’s eating No wonder […]
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I OWE YOU NOTHING
There is a laughter building up in the grounds of my stomach Laughter which needs thousand voices of lionesses To bring its intensity to ears Whose mouths are shamelessly asking Asking for a family building when they know I just arrived from a war after losing a castle A castle which was bombed after a […]
Educate your root to groom its tree For the tree will in turn groom its flowers And the flowers will bloom fruits in the grooming II A strong foundation is the trusted seat Of a good building So dig well with best pickaxes Clear well with best shovels Mix well the foundational mortar A good […]
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I AM A WITCH
I am a witch! Yes, a witch! That witch who flies on the broom of hard work Through canoes of the night Paddling with rumours of the bored On rivers of the covetous Hoping to reach the sea of success Without your sweats of bother So hide not in calling II I am a witch! […]
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CHICKEN AND BILE
You love my life But hate my strife You abhor my stain Yet love my rain You loathe my strain Why love my gain? In every chicken resides a bile Definitely, the sun comes with its light and heat Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, 2019
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MENZGOLD OR MENZZERO? (Crazy Stanzas)
There has been a huge rain of evidence Spelling FACT in bold Of the rot that pilolo as myth in this nation What does it take to buy the land? Stamps of high stools bought by currencies without solid roots! Pictures of first personalities whose camera is set By fundings whose stem dazzle to blind […]
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MODELLING UNSEEN PAIN WITHIN
I look at the grieving me in any mirror And see the monstrous horns of horror I think about the remaining you in the cold In between the teeth that earth crush in fold Then I remember I was told There was a concrete with cement sold To the mouth of the earth through the […]
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NOTHING MOTHERING ALL THINGS
I have been following your mythical silhouette to find its owner Living like a leaf carried by air in the sky of uncertainty Anger mixes frustration and disdain As something seems like anything All in the can of nothing But then again Nothing is the mother of all things Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, […]
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WONDERTROPIS
We have crossed the seas of wonderment To the shores of no surprises Overlooking waves of bizarre shocks whose lost electricity Have turned bubbles, foaming tongues of the ever licking waters, flirting with sands And succeeding only to open and close onlooking mouths Without waking any sound from their belly beds II This is an […]
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REMINDERERS
There are sounds which are better not made There are scars better left under skirts of decorum Just a stick prick, and an infection occurs Old songs of sadness are best left unsung II Care is knowing the hurt path And leaving it to grow weeds of forgetfulness Love is seeing the painful clothing And […]
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WOMANOCOOLTASIES
There are many noisy drums humming definitions of women Abena Amoafowaa Jemremedua My ears have turned bigger than that of the biggest elephant Hugging the ground in listening As oceans of chaotic banter battle winds of infuriated ears. Some define a woman as a bottomless hole meant as a collection bowl by Odomankomah Nana Nyame […]
We have crossed a bridge of a year onto another Another which needs no bags loaded with problems Dragged into its realm Another whose slate can accommodate no old news Let alone entertain old sentimental views Shed it, we’re birthing ourselves anew II Our past can only be the fertilizer of our present The more […]
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CHANGE IN NEED
I am shedding my clothes of sadness Here I am Standing stark naked Awaiting your layers of seconds to fix scars of yesteryears Your minutes to fix heartbreaks of your predecessors Your hours to act as underwears of success Your days to fix all premature greys Your months to put on me clothes of dignity […]
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PRIDE TO DEATH’S FALL
The fingers of days have connived with that of months Joined in by hours and minutes, seconds and nano-seconds Crowned by years to selectively Choose the best part of this heart To dig foundations of pain Building storeys of unforgettable loss through grave deprivation But I tell you today You will search from my hair […]
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A CHRISTMASLESS CHRISTMAS
The Eve was a scarecrow of leaves Pushing hurtful carols through monstrous throats of uncertainties Blood on white background, garnishing taunting bodies Whose teeth in laughter are marks of cannibalism Battling hurts on unfair stages Oh Tearstained Holy Night! A birth garnished by sadness! Foods of fear sit on plates of impending years Burning wines […]
Gates of life are on shes Fact! Hammers for carving those gates are on hes Another fact! But birth births death And hides in sicknesses Accidents Suicides Cruelty Old age Always conniving with time To blow forgetfulness On its mischievous handiwork How cunning! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Dec. 26, 2018
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UN-SYNCING MOODS
When life’s fog, blocks future light And a hopeless log, locks all might Special days become accursed II Celebratory mourning Confusing laughter Hurtful toasting I’m here, rubbish being thrown Into a heap of a year by a cruel dying other What is there to see? II Surely, white dresses repel this heart wearing black Oh […]
You’ve been on my mind everyday But today, I feel you sitting on the regal stool in here Aduse-Pokua, how is your “Hanoa”? II I remember it like yesterday You saying only a jump was left for you to reach Hanoa I remember them like yesterday Our chats and laughter, fallouts and tears I see […]
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THE OFTEN UNNOTICED BLESSING
A great friend is like a clean river In days of drought A good friend is like the most delicious meal In days of hunger A good friend is like rain When you, like the earth, scatter in dust, They fall to piece you together II A good friend is like thunder Giving shortest light […]
You won You won the draft you forced us to play Putting your novice mother under your orders “Tell me what is in your heart” I am sorry – “For going hungry to buy my drugs?” I am sorry – “For roaming so much to look for my cure?” I am – “You’re sorry for […]
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I WAS WRONG
I was wrong I was wrong to try to tear this mud house Into a palace of comfort For a future I knew nothing of II I was wrong I was wrong to move you to the best place I thought possible Knowing not I was pushing you into a dangerous dungeon III I was […]
Sleep, I need to dump insomnia So please visit my chamber You’re that husband who deserted me years ago And made me a guard of unfortunacy II Sleep, I weep for your keep Please possess this tired body I am sure an angel wishes it And pain of eyes scream it III Sleep Sorrow follows […]
“I love Kay Kay loves me We are one big family We’re one great family With a great big heart and a kiss from me to you…” I won’t beg you to love me now II I am singing this song to keep your wake I am keeping this wake on your sound sleep Baby […]
My eyelids are sounding nightmare bells So I am afraid to go to the school of sleep Do you see the sea of tears built by the pain of your gone? Do you feel the statue of agony built in my mad soul? Do you hear the crazy footsteps of my ache? Do you know […]
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YOU’RE IN EVERYTHING
It seems my eyes are set on your fantasy stage I see your face on every page I can’t detach from all the rage Words don’t help, not even of those of a sage I am in an anger cage II You’re on my bed Watching my eyes which are so red You are in […]
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FORGIVENESS
Odomankomah Nyankopong Totorobonsu is the ultimate judge of our lives We have no stools in lives of others To sit like judges and condemn souls The mock ones in life are just for protection; justice and fairness We are not qualified to throw stones In mistakes of others Because fallibility is a natural cloth on […]
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STORY OF OUR LIVES
People write stories They write stories in my story They write stories in your stories They give pages in their stories to your stories So we each have stories upon stories within our stories And we have stories in stories of others stories An interconnectivity of stories II We own the ink to any story […]
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HIDDEN MEANINGS UNDER CHURCH SKIRTS
There are so many meanings hidden Hidden in songs ridden Ridden on vocal cords from the bottom of burning intestines Intestines locked away by flesh of stomachs II Rising like sunrise and stabling like burns A heart fluttered to die and resurrected to live like a ghost Scar of pain gathering guts to form sounds […]
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VAJAYJAY ILLUMI-NOTHING
Vagabond Alluring, Gamer In Nothing, Ashtray! Who served you onto the African woman in this modern world? Who made you a begging bowl on the street of love? Who made you a trap to catch skillful players on this park of coupling? Do you have a connection to brain cells? II I am tired Seeing […]
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YOUR WORKS: OUR LIVES
From the suited to the naked Stools to foot mats From the loving to the hurting The active to the sluggish No mouth can sit idly for days Without showing the absence of your handiwork Why? Because if we are vehicles You’re our oil If we are skies You’re our silver linens If we are […]
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THROUGH THIS STORM
I know That this land on which you stand Shakes you into no understanding As to how these clouds got onto your sky I know your space and how you pace Even when you stand in just one place II I know Right now, nostalgic feelings Fetch memories, happy memories On screens of uncertainties Begging […]
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WHAT IS AMOAKOA TO DO?
What is Amoakoa to do? There is a tuber of cassava growing in her mound A tuber which hid itself Like a thief hiding under a vehicle In the depth of her mound Failing to stand in the way of flow To be pictured into a capture Swerving Amoakoa and beating her to winning II […]
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MARRY A MAN
Marry a man Marry a man and not a boy Marry a man as fair as the sun in judgement A man who looks at you like a myth, a beautiful myth Which is like wealth he can never lose Marry a man who feels no pangs of failure in your successes And has no […]
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