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. :)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bouncing conflicts Dancing frustrations Fishnets of successes and failures Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Nov. 24, 2017
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Whispers of the air Majestic walks of the sun A sign of life’s ticket Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 17th Nov. 2017
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Day has broken from the clutches of darkness Aiding eyes, like a pathfinder To see all in clarity If breath stands at post And health is on wealth’s coast I say “anyame mu Nyame” Nhyira nka wo din! II I can see hens leading their chicks And cocks looking for stocks Through the warning of […]
Let mouths allow eyes to roll Instead of calling sounds in heels To defile lung’s peaceful siesta What is “ayoo” today Might have been “bue!” yesterday But will be “ahaaa!” tomorrow Harvesting ovations on all stages II New things raise brows Coming with scares which snake into veins like poison But when they simmer Minds […]
Present winds cuddling sands Current stars in time’s vehicle Into past destinations Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © November 9, 2017
There is a volcano of needs Needs which fill not the belly of satisfaction Instead dig bottomless needs Which gobble time needed to look Look to love Love to smile Smile to laugh Laugh to live Live to write memories on our beloveds’ minds Spank our senses Lest we forget our paths Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
We Carry burdens like abused porters Forgetting the immobile end Which for few moments trends Only to turn garnish on memories of the past II We Cloud our emotions to rain our eyes to drain Forgetting life’s refrain is transiency Gathering rubbish which may outlast our taunting gibberish III We Sit with thoughts that over […]
The gate of another day opens With varied happenings written in the future slate of fate Like a marathon, we run with enthusiasm Hoping our baton would reach our target But if we hurt ourselves Or have our breaths arrested by tiredness You who writes it all Change the script to fit our emotions! II […]
I bless that day When a whirlwind swept me from serenity into doom Only to be rescued by your light Like a Samaritan Knight from hell’s pot II I bless the day When words meekly walked with shaking legs Out from the private street of your tongue To plead for a table in my heart’s […]
Tongues taste to determine Hands touch to feel Legs walk with destination marks And so it is that life does rock II The painful part of mortality Is losing one whose feet never touched life’s dock The saddest part of motherhood Is imagining memories that never hatched The saddest part of parenting Is wishing […]
In the heart of truth lies an ocean of despair Flanked by trees of fear For the rejection of abnormal normalcy In a sea of friendship II In the heart of truth stands a tent of loneliness Where each greedy finger points like a gun With intentions that can form spiritual bullets To kill the […]
Legs take crowns to ordered places To taste the grounds of its worship Hearts engine dreams To feel the pulse of success in the end Tongues channel foods to intestines To sip a taste from every bite All the above with pinches of truth Our elders did us in with some wise sayings You lick […]
I am from a land whose hair is gold Chin is salt Stomach is petroleum And feet are rocks I am from the heart of the strong II I am from a land boxed by colonialism But with a strength which broke free And stands in the wrestling ring with corruption A country whose women […]
Our Guest Post for today is Oppong Benjamin Clifford, an engineer and writer. You are welcome to amoafowaa.com. CF: Thank you, dear. I’ve been following the good works you’ve been doing in the literary circles of Ghana. And I give it to you in strong terms of recommendation ever to continue as such. AMOAFOWAA: Thank […]
The sky lies emotionless Far from pates of the helpless Who like dead wood, are visibly drowning in seas of sadness I know your heart bleeds for all your seeds Lord of the earth! Rain your favours! II The earth sits hard in a sky battle Uprooting supporting trees Breaking bones of all fallen Whose […]
If I knew I would bury my seed And feel the rot which my happiness bought And rock the cot which cries of cold I wouldn’t have bothered in its plantation II If I knew the ways of death And of its throat Which swallowed more than pythons In a realm where my eyes can’t […]
Worship is in a sea of destruction Being torn apart by most of their sailors’ deceptions Shot by sins which once sat In front of their potent rifles Their congregants scattering For fear of lions of confusions And bugs of distrust II It seems those days are cutting their rope ties From the chariot of […]
(This poem was written in memory of all those who have lost their lives due to defilement, all those who are battling complications, battling stigmatization, battling injustices due to defilement, and rape. You have done nothing wrong, you are just unfortunate souls caught in the traps of the wicked. The wicked who one way or […]
As I wait patiently for you Counting the marks on this pleasureless ceiling While lonely canes whip in these dark nights Anytime sleep goes on its rebellious demonstrations Are you thinking of me? II As I walk these days Carrying thoughts of you in dilemmahood As to your existence or nonexistence Chased by flies of […]
There are flies born on a sugar plantation And like blessed tongues live entirely on the sweet There are eagles born to hens And like accursed birds, live taking instructions from their meals Luck is the stamp of fate II When the wind blows rain water into the sea It does it good Can same […]
Weeds in prized plants Mouths of hoes and cutlasses Hunger for your weeded selves Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 25, 2017.
My breaths are best in your flow My heartbeats are best in your machinations My steps are best in your architecture My will is best in your seal Oh Odomankomah! My redeemer! II You are the river of blood in my veins You are the air of life in my daily keep You are my […]
Stories in high heels Walking on tiled consciences A loud night club in serenes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©October 19, 2017
There are many with flies from the past Singing in their ears In a chorus of success Blocking out lyrics of routes Driving off trains of talents If only they can find smoke to ward off their flies II There are many being chased by bees of the past Stinging dry their peace of mind […]
On this dining table Sits gluttonous greed Whose hunger, all the food, in quench, unable Connivance knows but stooges for crumbs Forgetting the coming with roaring bellies Whose eyes may never see the feast Forgetting the frail Whose bodies can go nowhere near the monstrous Greed Forgetting the children whose growth Depend on the nutrients […]
There is this air around mine That many of yours claim is fine But to get through most streets there is a whine Of how many legs in us must dine II Our mouths are like toffees in thy eyes Our cheeks look like handkerchiefs in thy sight Our breaths sound like tickling airbags in […]
As hands in drowning wave Do, mouths whose garnished promises flee, call To the destitute save Lest we all fall II As needs outweigh our feeds Do all, in patriotic shed blood, call To drive the spirit which on our minds feeds So our confidence will stand tall III As green spirits are being, from […]
Any comfortable visitor Who fails to thank the landlord Is worse than the worst of sneaking snakes “Otwereduampong! Ananafo mu Nana! Kokromoti a yensan wo ho mbɔ pɔ” I serve my thanksgiving in the plate of my being II You built these bones as builders use stones You laid these veins as plumbers lay […]
Sitting on the chair-like forget-me-not You promised to keep our love hot To the hearing of the inquisitive air And all nature that is fair I remember the clouds turn up In their darkest colour And sent their rains to record the promise Many months saw not the veil of a year But here I […]
Citizens are protected Protected by the laws of the land Laws which beat and lock and kill to fill voids How is it that the nation of love has no laws? II When disappointment hovers around its appointments Chaos hides behind its partitions of glitters Pain waits in chambers of the capital of its royalties […]
Mobile breasts Marching on breast cancer day Pickaxes of manly tubers ***************************** Locomotive breasts On horses of varied chests Beautifully nectared flowers on the go ********************************* Heads in weird rhythms Sip from advocacy cups Not sticks of naughty passions Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©October 13, 2017
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