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. :)
You think and see how strange it is It is no mirror It is no body It is just a cast of you mostly longer than your form, sometimes sizeable, other times shorter Sad they can’t be touched Horrible they can’t be hugged Annoying they flee your advances to mould Yet they are your shadows […]
I need a very tall ladder To climb into minds holding the reigns of our national horses I need a very good lift To the core wiring of these great minds sift! II Which fishes, drink the waters of their own sea Sell them for cheap to greedy drought Kill the clouds of their sky […]
In every bird in flight Is a fear of fall The mark of the unknown Dents histories of the flown It could be a stone from a catapult A hit from a stick Bullet from a gun Lightening from the sky Or even a scare from a thunder Need I mention a sudden breakage of […]
There is a reason those shoulders were built broad There is a reason those chests are made flat There is a reason strength flows freely in those veins There is a reason many lives live in the balls of your guns Men! Bosoms where many a love begins II No matter how imperative the fetching […]
Through the mud and through the gutters Through the fears and through the tears Through the doubts and through the hounds Through the taunts and through all beatings You have been here Here with me shadownically Quietly pushing Masterfully weaving Powerfully watering me into fruition Ahunuabobirim, aseda nka wo din! II Thank you, for nurturing […]
Many pots go to the stream and return Pots and water intact Why did you have to go all the way to the stream Fetch, labour to carry Walk nine moons to reach Pour the water in its rightful barrel Only to take a short stroll to shatter into unpieceable pieces? Many might comfort themselves […]
Dear cyber bully, Why do you hide your face Behind some chaotic wires? Are you a grasshopper hiding in the grass of an elephant? II Dear cyber bully, Why do you hide your fist Behind some poor poor keypads? Are you an armless coward in the family of an African king? III Dear cyber bully, […]
I fit into stars I fit into moons I fit into suns oh high and low I fit into waters I fit into fires I fit into earthquakes oh mild or deadly I am the she that I am II I can Transform from an ant into a lioness Metamorphose from a nodding lizard into […]
Under the same sun Beliefs vary in many a man Whereas some in nature shun Others build myths like webs in the sky Where none tries to look as it’s so high There are those ghosts caged without a bye Bruskotoed on oh day and night! Still there are some believing all a fight A […]
Nyane, nyane Takyi And pluck him from the dreams of illusions Which has painted a heavenly innocence For his troubled reality II Nyane, wake Takyi The mythical evidence that muatia in Ghana did bless actually worked out there In metamorphosis into disgrace Sad it still had a metal hand for slapping III Nyane o, wake […]
Maturity is like an imperative armour That everyone, for it, must clamour In all gutsy candour Dirty linens can drown the best skins And burn integrity of its kins Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 30, 2018
We Don’t need to fight In broad day and night About who fits the spotlight Of the human might 1b We Don’t need to kill In a battle of wits and will To bring living to a standstill Just so a faction can after chill 1c We Are on this common ground So why do […]
Clouds of wishes mostly fall from the sky of dreams Funny how they mostly land in far seas Sending echoes of their ovations and screams Breaking hearts of wannabes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 27, 2018
It started like child’s play As you listened to the naught I say It started like a fake dream A soothing balm on hurt scream Oh a snail’s pace would have won If it was a competition started by a horn But you did creep in, somehow II Now I am left thinking Whether the […]
Once there was a lion Who chanced upon cats in their Zion It saw the fear his picture booked And thought if it could scarily be looked Then surely forever it would reign So its roaring, was day and night’s rain As day walked into a frightening week The cats shivered but noted its weak […]
Happiness is always an art Using the senses to break hurdicular fences Happiness is always within Waking smiles even in painful miles II Happiness is seeing the beauty through the filth Hearing the rhythms through the chaos Feeling the air through the hurricanes Loving you in surrounding hate Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 22, 2018
Maybe my engine of worship needs oiling Maybe I have, like Satan, been alienated By blasphemous thoughts which have walked miles from my past Throwing the bitter dust of yesteryears into my spectacled eyes Maybe I am a stranger in a manger of convincing But why me? The smiling sky with fair air Is not […]
Clouds are clearing in this dark I can see the hazy moon flanked by its numerous stars Light rays, with their toes, make visible many a mark But breakages have arrested almost all bars Shaking in collapsing Freeing hope of its masking II I can see in drying, tears of dawn I can see in […]
On this day I severe the placenta of care With the scissors of nonsensical ties Brought forth by atrocious idiocy Nevertheless, you are my baby in my heart II On this day I make you a trap A trap made for heads drunk with bitterness Living in a forest of no- sense Should they step […]
Creativity just walked under the shed of AUCC Re-echoing its bosshood in thought Embracing bosoms ready to blossom Announcing its determination to surpass the fertility its umbrella gives Time’s tongue is yearning to tell tales of Inventions, wordy and active! Visitations thrilling and impacting! Innovations interesting and glorifiable! Trains of goodness hide in steps of […]
There was a rock that knocked my senses To see hurled life stones Amidst wincing and weeping As materials for building in this storm II You were the ink that gathered my alphabets Even when my pages got wet With rains of my tears To gather for me a crowd of cheers III You are […]
Be in my day And have your say Plaster memories so coarse with happiness Tile failures so humiliating with greatness Paint tears with infectious laughter In my body temple II Be in my say And help cut my hay In this perfect sun Help me no downtrodden shun Cover my pain With the beauty of […]
So you are aggressively flying here and there When most of your heads are hanging Some in the hands of your owners As your anger of blood gushes out like angry tap water fighting through a small hose Masters, fly your last! II Ei! Look at the mould on your sense Disgustingly hairier than abandoned […]
Some whirlwinds come for admiration Some do come to blind I have watched you take your world by storm Conquering odds to stand tall through ridiculous gait With hooting superseding ovations Disgust overpowering cheers All the while asking Is all this for Trump? II I bet you didn’t think of the battle on your way […]
Are you a meteorologist of femininity Reading through its seasons to pick? Are you a weather so changing a blue Combing through skies to lick? Are you a fire, burning through seasons to kill? You definitely must be a chameleon, reflective of every passing colour! II You picked me up like sunny season Only to […]
Mr. says she is evil Who allows more than a pestle to pound in her mortar Mr. says she is petty Who uses the many mortars a pestle pounds into to act same His reason, pestles go whole and come not less Mr. says pestles always come to their original mortars After straying no matter […]
Mama, I have seen a miracle A miracle which walks eyelessly eyeful An inspirational walking miracle Whose tail has been held by life And used as bait to be placed in a jungle of hardships Mama, but you can’t believe how hardship hides from this soul On its very grounds II Mama, I am in […]
Let’s break the legs of abuse And force some heads to conscience use Let’s break hurt’s defying legs To put under sanity wisdom’s pegs For many walls weep in their keep And many wills break in their sleep II See the macho hounding a stick None will tell you it is a prick Its are […]
Boadu thought hard about his actions and inactions contributing to the tension in the palace. He started drinking heavily but could not vent on Nyamekye no matter how much he gulped down. It was as though even his reflexes were well aware of her stature now. In his stupor, he thought he had dreamt of […]
There are plants that grow not in certain soils There are plants whose nutrients are found in questionable soils My soil lost to you in nutrients And age has been a witness So I had to give you up II You might not know but I dug a foundation of hard work To lay bricks […]
An angered in a fear A hurt in a tear A love in a shyness Hatred in loving All throwing tantrums bodies can’t bear to show So model what suits We are many in one Acting ourselves within Chasing models without II If our feelings will show Like movies through our countenance It will be […]
Joyce Ati’isetue Aziabah popularly known as Jay is a 29 year old corporate executive and a budding entrepreneur. She is the founder and co-founder of Batakari and Notti Shito respectively. She is a native of Kandiga, a village in the Kasena/Nankana West District of the Upper East region. Jay, the last of five children, is […]
Fowls roamed freely in homes and outside sometimes daring to share meals with humans, always threatened and flew to throw revenge dust into people’s eyes. They defecated at odd places to give humans some work. As people prepared places for their roosting, water to quench their thirst, they killed some to prepare delicious soups or […]
Clouds hang, umbrelling the earth To lure the perfect air to lead To lead your gentle soul to rest The sun partnered in the sky In shining dryness, to warm To warm your beautiful spirit to leave To leave this venue in happiness Words form in the sky of minds In appellations to honour To […]
At all times, in all places God is aboard my ship Through all challenges, in all pain A rock oversees my dock A storm can overthrow my form A rain can drain all my strength to strain Many a mile can feed me bile much like River Nile But at the bend to the end […]
Nyamekye felt strange looking at the lively Kumnipa and happy Ama by her bedside. Boadu sadly looked on not knowing what to do. Nyamekye intentionally closed her eyes and feigned sleep, they had no option, they had to leave. Boadu could not hold it any longer. “Nyamekye, I know you’re not sleeping. Tell me what […]
A lie is “ei go and die!” on ordinary tongues But turns a pie on extraordinary tongues Boos, jeers and anger for the former Laughs, claps and cheers for the latter Smell it, the stinking rot in polished seats! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © September 9, 2018
When poverty chains you in life And calls on need to put you in strife Even in the chains do continue to bark Look and see even in the blinding dark II When whips plant on you some aching sores Which cease and freeze your airy pores Never kneel to your chasing flies Never sing […]
We have reached the tree of hopelessness On whose biggest stool branches sit foolishness Who order for your beautified abode After their worked thoughts rode In gains of power And a presence many will cower Odomankomah gye wo man! II We are wearing clothes of indiscernible thoughts Our minds with manipulations bought Advertisements of a […]
The Apemso warriors settled close to the Ahanta Kingdom. The seer poured libation, fortified them from harm, appeased the gods and gave them his blessings to pass through the evil forest. Many of the warriors were afraid. There were sounds of different birds but that of hooting owls compounded their fear because of the superstitious […]
Rains made sure to visit at least twice in a week. The weather was fair, with the sun having a great understanding with rains, causing the air to be what the people of Apemso loved. In a world where war and conquering gave more power than anything else; the conquered bringing food stuffs to the […]
Ohene Asaa sat by his daughter all through the night with the three top herbal doctors praying to the over seventy seven thousand gods and goddesses of the land to save his lifeline. At exactly thirteen minutes after four at dawn, Nyamekye opened her eyes. Everyone heaved a sigh of relief. The doctors checked and […]
So I craved a properly shaved Well chiselled face To be in my face and check my pace His fine red lips in loving sips His hairful hair In a fine trimmed dare I thought I had seen the perfect one Until he got under one bright lit sun Oh where is the half of […]
In this nest called earth Minds differ in colour of thinking As others sit to pray, plan and stand to tan Under the tough skies of hard work Some weave their traps like spiders To get hold of some hunting flies Others look for pliers to take out the knots on others barrows Okukuseku! Nnipa […]
“Even the gods are discriminatory. One needs wealth, a good family, extreme talent or fame to be well treated by them. Poverty is definitely the worse plaque a human can have” Boadu stood looking through the window pouring his melancholic words as Nyamekye sat listening. She was broken hearted hearing his words and knowing his […]
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Oh you tears Feeling like streams Because sadness feeds your source On this heavy pillow Think again Even your feeder tires in abusing II A sun will shine To dry you out Even rains from skies have their exits So be not prideful Your today can be erased by a happiness tomorrow Your stains can […]
Apemso laid like the regal kingdom it was, beautiful to outsiders, haunting to weak kingdoms, served by kingdoms it had conquered. Many village folks outside Apemso thronged to the capital city in search of greener pastures, leaving their hometowns to the aged, few drunkards and children. It was only during festivals that travellers went back […]
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Why don’t you show The frown you keep beneath your smile? Why don’t you show The fangs you keep and present as teeth? Why don’t you show The claws you keep as nails in my greeting? Why keep a friendly body in daylight And release your natural haunting shadow in my dark? II Fight squarely […]
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