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PRETEND ON

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 […]

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​EBONY DRAINS BUT STILL REIGNS

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 […]

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POSITIVE VIBES

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 […]

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​THAT CHAOTIC FUTURE

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 […]

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​THE LAW’S UNFAIR AXE

“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 […]

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TRAITS OF A LEADER

​ 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 […]

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​CHILD OF MINE

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 […]

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​AT THE BRINK

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 […]

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​IN THIS POEM (CRAZY STANZAS)

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, […]

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​WHAT YOU DON’T SEE

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 visit 

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?

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IF I HAD LISTENED TO MAAME (CRAZY STANZAS)

​ 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 […]

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​IF MY TOMORROW NEVER COMES

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 […]

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INSPIRATIONAL INTERVIEWS

Meet One of the Youngest Social Entrepreneurs in Africa: Mirabelle Morah

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, […]

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​ANGEL OF HIDDEN GOOSEBUMPS

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 […]

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WHEN HIS PANTS ARE DOWN

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 […]

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DEAD CANES IN KUKUBALI

​ 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 […]

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IMPOSSIBLE FLIES

Buzzing flies In anger cry Until half baked foods call from their tables Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 16 2018

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BE THE LIGHT

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 […]

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AT THIS CROSSROADS

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 […]

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THE UNSEEN

Furs in sweat Fishes in tears Heavenly misconceptions In watchful eyes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, 2018

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​THIS GLOBAL VILLAGE

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 […]

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​INSECT TOWN

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 […]

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Happy New Year People

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.

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​THE REFLECTING WAKE

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 […]

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​THIS SCAR OF MINE

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 […]

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​ROYAL SALY

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 […]

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​CHRIST IS BORN

(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 […]

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​ON ACCIDENTINOLOGY (CRAZY STANZAS)

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 […]

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​CROWERS AND PECKERS

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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​LET YOUR KINDNESS WALK

Let, let your kindness walk In sneakers on these slippery tiles of need Let, let your kindness walk In knighthood in this festival to feed Let, let your kindness walk Like Santas who give to goodness lead Let, let your love walk the talk of giving II There are bodies living in nakedness Walking in […]

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​CUNNING SMILES

Eno Bowaa, Akusua Duku, Ama Afarewaa eeei! Kofi Amoabeng, Opare Kusi, Agya Obuo eeei! When the sun travels east in settlement each day My thanksgiving becomes as tall as fading shadows For your smiling teeth which held daggers in the dark And worked on a battle with my back II Is it fair? Is it […]

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​HONOUR THIS PRAYER

You know the spine of every palm frond Holds it firmly  Even in the slaps and blows of the wind You know a seed holds the future of its fruit You know divinations of norms Twist paths of stories I am on this drive which the winds of life turn Abrempong mu Obrempong Lead my […]

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THE UNFORTUNATE CITIZEN

These eyes still have their seals Primitive living Oblivious of a world on wheels A cup for mouths and animals Like Abels in a Jesus world They live laughing in loving misery II I have seen anuses feeding their soil At the full glare of many As flies chorus the pushing I have seen the […]

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SEARCHING 

​ Many a steps are forced by need Many a man’s need suffereth from greed One’s seen need is another’s goldmine I am that hen Looking for the feet of the mythical hawk Stepping on the wellbeing of my chick II All many eyes see Is the flower with different colours Standing tall in the […]

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KICK NO FALLEN

The fallen is like an egg You kick with an intent of destruction Variety in lacking, is perfection of His creation So let your feet be kind II Consider the legless and help the hopping Consider the struggling and help the ill Consider the suffering and bless the helpless Please let your feet be kind […]

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​FOR LOVE AND COUNTRY

No grass-cutter will ever use Its own hands to light a fire In a grass hole which houses its muse Or its own loving empire So why abuse your living space? II We are all sailing to leave to here gift Like leaves on a running river To those who we sift Into this world […]

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​DISABILITY: A DIFERENT FORM OF ABILITY

None knows how seeds form None knows how they’ll turn up Only Onyankopong Otwereduampong knows So let your tongue be with no meanness Let your eyes marry your mind in learning That disability is a different form of ability II Every womb loves its proceeds None is special than the other It transcends boundaries Class […]

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​ON THE EVE OF YOUR WORSHIP

You have cut the ribbon of shyness From our very eyes All contours leading to remorse Have been made comfortable From the slippery slope it was Why? Because sins grow into norms with time And you are the programmer of the dramatic brain Which engines us II I wonder if you peep through the anus […]

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​WHEN DAYLIGHT SLEEPS (Adult Poetry, 18+)

When daylight sleeps Prepare your foot to heed to the call of my beads For surely You must dance in my wet ground Whose rains began at the first tear of dawn II Mow your lawn And clean your gun Load it to perfection There sure must be a fat game of pleasure At the […]

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GRAINS OF BREATH

Bouncing conflicts Dancing frustrations Fishnets of successes and failures Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia  © Nov. 24, 2017

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GAOL

When chains police beings In hollow caves of innocence At the audience of  culprits Who like sheep giggle with eyes of a lionesses Fate sits on a slate of unfairness! II Sounds of feet with rifles! Sounds of breaths with struggles! Sounds of deaths which plant fear Watered by self mourning! Sounds of freedom of […]

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​BEST TO DO NAUGHT

Let the hen dance in the midst of hawks To the appeal of the vast sky Its bones would never fail to lie naked Before their beaks So sometimes, it’s best to do nothing II Let the snail run as fast as the rabbit of its fantasy In the angry survival of the hippopotamus It […]

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​THE SICK’S ATTENDANT

Many a pain holds no stamp on bodies Many a pain stems from sight and hearing Many a pain give no pleasure gain So place no insensitivity on this anger This anger you feel towards you II Every pain in your being plants my insanity Every stain on your life My very frustration Watching death […]

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ESCAPE FROM HARARE by Hon. Prof. Kwesi Yankah

Harare, Zimbabwe. Driving through any city is a joy, particularly if you are not the driver. That way you transfer unto the driver all your high blood pressure, and relax to observe in good detail the ridges and valleys, and the contours of all you survey: passers-by with mini bags tucked in armpits; neatly dressed […]

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CHANT ME INTO DISPOSSESSION (Crazy Stanzas)

Chant me into dispossession Ye who held my navel And crossed to the shores of earth As my voodoo watched your fragile steps With no evil stone cast II Chant me into dispossession Ye who fed through the clays of my pot In the dirty dust you now so abhor Deliver me from the spirit […]

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BEAUTIFUL

Whispers of the air Majestic walks of the sun A sign of life’s ticket Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 17th Nov. 2017

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​GHANA SUCKLEMENTS

When the same breast nurses many mouths  From stomachs of greed and or promises Milk evaporates and calls for the blood of the mother Showcasing paleness of her body Awo Yaa! May this portion of yours change for the better! II This building which has seen the palms of many masons And still suffers from […]

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​COME BACK

Videos keep playing Where you shyly, with roses In sweat, called Holy Moses  In proposing II How a perfect vehicle Zoomed into a thorny bush And saw itself in an empty desert Has opened my sky of tears III The video of you playing horse In the shore of peace Me, playing sheep In the […]

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​PROPHESY TO ZIMBABWE

Dust for powdered pepper Or powdered pepper for dust? Which blows now with the air of Mugabe In the Zim Nation? I see chicken to hawk, hawk to eagle In a devilish transition II Destruction sure needs some action From any faction with an apt reaction But the leg of time shortens celebration And or […]

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​HAUNTING A GIGOLO

Since age knocked its understanding tag In my infantile brain I was given a telescope Whose only visions were of the past A telescope which killed the zeal of laughter Planting in its stead a vile rage for revenge Watered by society’s hails at my target And its many chains of laws for my kind […]