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. :)
Imagine your feet on no solid ground Your ears, no tree in sound Imagine your shelter in a hanging And life without farming Now follow the reasoning II Dress not the earth in your mess Even if you are a pig thinking it a sty For you live in the borrowed And should leave it […]
Just as socks are made for feet Hats are made for heads This night, my apparel is beadly My walk, a gracious call in passion’s voice For our touches will be sparkly Under these sheets II Clear your eyes For every step will be a language Every shake pointing to treasures hidden beneath pores Clear […]
Culture is like a cloth Washed for its stains only to develop other taints Time has travelled to see it merged like “nsaasaawa” Making living confusing in acceptables Making flaws contorting in reprimands Time has washed the myths of trousers Now shes freely live therein II Days which picked females like banku And dipped them […]
Here I am A hair on this blessed earth With weak roots Being played by winds like a piece of kite in the sky And watched by eyes as to how far I can go II Here I am In a fearful storm Blinded by the dust of pain Shamed by the clouds of need […]
A pen never acts manly on an oily sheet And true, both okro and cucumber may share a knife But should never see themselves as equals For the slime in the former makes it a cook and eat And the plainness of the latter makes it an instant chop Well, an “anyhow you want it” […]
As wisdom drowns amidst time’s wheels And integrity gets tied to death’s heels Many are the ills that like eels walk in heels On talking tiles mocking our helplessness Weird huh? II Gone they seem, those days when caterpillars were peacefully left to turn butterflies And tadpoles were left grow into frogs Now very young […]
I write this letter in mock reverence of your time You whose mountains of problems hang thorns and stumps On the trees of your dreams Making the closure of your eyes nightmarish And the mattress of your bed hellish Yet find time to look keenly at my strides With eagle eyes when your hawk eyes […]
Blessed are the pure in spirit They are like the cleanest water in a tormenting desert They surely will be there for all Discriminate against none And hate not on any It is a day to wire bells of empathy for a lifetime II He who said broken seeds feed not Has never known hunger […]
Days have travelled to a weary feet And now pulls its shocking seat Of time with all its surprises Of change so strange in range II The cross’ significance sit in revered history Of the old and few committed But serve as archaic artifact for many Whose pleasures outweigh biblical interest III Drunkenness in coital […]
There are many fruits which fail to mature On their mother trees Mama, I don’t want to be one of such fruit I need to be sheltered when storms break Need to be covered when the rains come in Need to be pampered when good air visits And to feel the matured company When the […]
There are clawed fingers Which scratches the core of the heart of loving souls Plucking out happiness and planting sadness Leaving the future bleak and eyes red II They come in their horrid varieties Slow or aggressive And take over the senses in helpless lenses Take over muscles in fearful pulls Take over shame with […]
Daring was her nature Beautiful was her stature Much talent was hosted in her bubbly frame The head of youth popping out of her character at every juncture Defying norms and soothing ears Representing her in the past tense makes me tense Yet a greater hand has beckoned Who is this mouth to ask why? […]
This Face we book Has many pages to flip Beautiful pictures to look Opened relationships to zip Different recipes to cook Vulnerable seams of souls to rip Many addictions to hook Many tears to in sympathy drip II In its town, many a secret sit naked Many a bomb lie unclothed Many a lonely heart […]
I came to you straight from life’s hellish oven With a soul brutalised and so very grief shaken I came to you like a tired lamb With my neck in offering On feet so rebellious because of needs and pain’s whips You held me, soothed me, and magically mended my callouses Like a gentle ice […]
There is a reason beauty was given to most flowers Along with their fragile nature and protective thorns There is a reason they are nectared to feed many beaks and winged livers Amidst the storms, rains and suns And through their bruises, beheading and rots I wish the creator spells it out II There sure […]
There has been a crawling baton Since Nkrumah’s power run In leading change Still, we live through the smiles of moderation In the ills of corrupt adorations Gunning for greed in place of fertile seeds Hating on whistleblowers in place of their hailing Accepting crumbs for much sums Never calculating the future’s profits in kind […]
They claim if a woman buys a gun, it is kept in the room of a man. Nonsensical nonsense! I feel the men who lived in those times and still exist in the now need refurbishment of brains in order to see where their “waatonkyene” vehicle is now parked to gift them a clear vision […]
If passion’s flicker did take liquor And whispered these many trials That hang on every life’s tree To flower into fruition To be plucked or pecked, fall or rot Only to reach a cut, break or an uproot Many swim fighters might have failed in competition Intentionally II Yet a real excitement Like curiosity, hanging […]
I live With the body of a lioness But walk At the pace of a snail The earth; a cruel boiling The air; a slapping heat On this road, are monstrous feet And on the sky’s face, is an annoying grin Even the dark seems dangerous As legs with no intent join targeting ones in […]
“You call this a gift? To think I thought you sensitive and thoughtful!” Afiba gathers her strapless mermaid-like red and white gown from the floor to get it away from her red stiletto heels in readiness to leave Ato’s room and probably his life. Ato holds on to her, locks his door, takes out the […]
Varied colours of bees, birds and flowers Will dance under Cupid’s showers With soaps of gifts in parcels of hearts Many in heels on tiles of public stages In fantasies of crumbling perfect sheets In the arms of secrecy Others in sneakers of dignity On woolen carpeted back staged floors Hoping their hearts’ arrows Will […]
Flow with the snow and alienate your rain Giggle in shivers of winter and act coy with thy harmattan Mate summer and pretend its sun is all you’ve seen You melaninos pretending to be dark albinos In strange strange spheres II You are they who hold erasers of the past Cleaning footsteps as they go […]
This morning tastes sour Making the sun frown at its bitter luck In throats are melodies which water sores of heartbreaks A blooming voice has muted Pressed by deaths wicked fingers How I wish death’s father lived in the physical For her soul to date in his hate II The sensuous figure that worked so […]
A flower of smiles In a hand so warm A massaging sun waving from miles In a sky of no harm Greets your morning from the land of my mind II The land of my mind In which I farm happiness in weeds of strife Throwing stumps and thorns into dungeons of past’s behind Carving […]
I can see a time standing far up on a future top With a sea-like feet sweeping this shop Acting like a white elephant cop Watching as beings intensely flop And animals, their tamed rights hop II There, I saw a wolf publicly loving a being All fangs and claws in daylight are seen All […]
“Case number 566/7 The state vrs Akosua Twumasi.” The clerk called out. Many people started hurling abuses at her until the clerk shouted “Order in Court!” as the gavel of the judge pounded loudly on his desk. I just looked at the weak and feeble woman in handcuffs who was being pushed into the witness […]
​ A knot needs fingers to be Just as groups need a head for sanity As the earth looks upon the sky And the sky cries and shines upon the earth in fertility So must the relations between a leader and the led The leader built by positive sides of great animals II A leader […]
Baby mine Do not, for the attention of these storms pay a dime Life in suns and rains rhyme So let’s let these storms, their time chime You beautiful sun of mine II You were picked from the world of passion With wishes of building for you a happy nation Breaking backs to give you […]
I see the hollow hole At all sides How even this air turned mole And the earth dug all my sides Makes me feel like one who stole From Satan’s slides II The mouth of defeat sings piercingly Being cheered on by the drums of fear The laughter of failure resonates across the dept of […]
On this dead branch Carried by water, I thread Each step, a shocking surprise Interlaced with fear But like a blessed cat with nine lives The soul carries this body in moving on II My only cocoon is you This poem, where my bed of peace is laid My only home is you This poem, […]
A skeletal build
With veins of neglect
Blood of stress and thirst
Meat of hate and pure hunger
Skin of punches of cold in a harmattan visitÂ
And bowl of heat in sunny days
Nails which have tasted the hammer of many quarries
Eyes which have joined the run against death
Legs which have collapsed and been whipped by need to a wake
Why do I see them so well?
​ If I had listened to maame I won’t be stuck in the middle of this road of life Carrying a burden that my shoulder breaks One that has taken over my sanes Farming bloody rains around my once starred eyes II She did tell me not all that glitters are metalsmithable And adviced I […]
If my tomorrow never comes And my end’s vehicle lands Will I, like a legless eagle with broken wings, soldier across To my ancestral land with a smile Or throw tantrums and be dragged there like a prisoner? II If my tomorrow never comes What will I be on tongues of others? A chewing gum […]
Today our guest post is one of the youngest social entrepreneurs I know. She has used social media to tell untold stories, emboldened so many young lives and healed people from their nightmares. Let’s welcome the bubbly and beautiful Mirabelle Morah AMOAFOWAA: You’re welcome to amoafowaa.com MIRA: (Laughs) Thank you so much Her Royal Majesty, […]
There is a summer hut On the roof of the moon Which all prying eyes cut Waiting for us to swoon So do those problems shut II We need our hands threaded in symphony Our feet running in a perfect dance To tickling sounds of harmony Our eyes writing our thoughts in each other at […]
Worms wriggle Dogs bark Cats mew So be careful of birthed promises When his pants are down II I know of flowers who have lived on clouds With plucked stars and moons Bedding in chariots of all their fantasies Dancing to the tune of Cupid’s best Only to fall as rains Into a hell of […]
​ Sitting in the past with the wrinkled As my time’s stars stood in the greenest twinkle I heard of eyes, potent in closure Even in most secluded holes Seeing hectic moles who fates stole In the near tomorrow The near tomorrow which garnishes my feet today Yet I laughed like a wise soul hearing […]
Buzzing flies In anger cry Until half baked foods call from their tables Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 16 2018
In this cave of pain Where insanity is in rain Planting needless disdain Like that felt by Cane Be the light in my train II You know thoughts which sit in the main Driving me insane Oh God of my brain! Break these haunting chain Which my good waters drain Can’t you see I am […]
At this crossroads Where good leads to bad And bad leads to good Stands the whip of fear At all ends II At this crossroads Righteousness begets pain While cruelty begets peace Yet conscience acts judge With a gavel of suffering III The lioness in me battles the sheep I am The tears in me […]
Furs in sweat Fishes in tears Heavenly misconceptions In watchful eyes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, 2018
In the wake of this breaking Where the world lives a touch away There is no need for a shaking Of wits and hurts and hate to stray For the world goes round and round II Today the best sit in an earthquake of disagreement Tomorrow a small island Might hold the reigns of power […]
There is an insect town On this beautiful living lawn But all passersby see Is the beautiful grass and its fee Yet night planes their insecti-flight And day takes them from sight It is like sweat in a fluffy wool Or vampire ants in a crown stool II What is seen may not be Once […]
Happy New Year to all followers of amoafowaa.com. thank you for being here, thank you for your encouragement and all that you do. May this year see us better, bigger, with apt entertainment, great moral lessons, and sizzling interviews. Blessings unending.
I saw your birth And I feel your dying heartbeat You are a babe who came with the birth of many ambitions And like all babies, you had your needy conditions II The footsteps of time has seen many changes From many ranges Plucking down hopes like ripe oranges And hanging hopes like fake bells […]
I am like a peacock Feathery in coloured beauty All eyes see is the pride that hides my painful ride All mouths rap are rumours in parcelled fancy About my stretches which naught fetches for their eyes Most ears love the sound of my wrong in the spit of a tongue None sees the scar […]
The ocean blankets your very warmth The trees serves the gentle air on plates of satisfaction The flowers wave in beautification Giving smiles like that of a gentle sun Even the thatch whistles your modesty in luxurious melodies In a realm where breathing in and out is a Messiah’s gift Who dares to breastfeed sadness […]
(Merry Christmas to all! Have the best of the season) We wake with will of a win Cling to the song of Christ’s birth Flinging all that carries burdens in a bin His birth signifies sin’s death Oh Hallelujah, the king is born! II We whistle with warmth wherever Knowing our lows will never flow […]
Many minds have different layers of thoughts Superstition leading their mental institutions Abena, I believe in human fallibilities We are mostly like stubborn goats Pushing to the very places whose whips Still lick their mouths From the burst skin they plucked from our bodies Why? II Some drivers have turned fishes in alcoholic seas Driving […]
When the crowers of today turn peckers at dawn Feasting on feeds of hens and chicks While time walks without turning back Their future in saucepans of history will be painful As the only spices on their bodies would be pepper of frustration Ginger of hurts Salt of under development Tears of penury And cubes […]
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