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. :)
The stance of an eye And its distance Determines the visions thereof Like plants in the different pores of the earth We stand in view of a portion So how can our mouths be in judgement seats Audienced by other eyes and ears In marking right from wrong? II God may appear in different beings […]
Stars have their spots When the curtains of daylight fall There, they shine brightest There, they sync well in their work of lighting This body, is like your sky of darkness Take a tour and know the star spots II Your fingers are like combs for a reason Planted hair needs its massaging fertility To […]
How do I find my way? In this jungle of life Where fangs chase on this careless mother earth As claws chase in the indifferent sky? II How do I find my way? When hurtful thorns are ever ready to butcher my skin And have them on their necks as conquerors? Hisses with poisonous spittle […]
The butterfly which sits on the tip of an uneatable leaf In hope of a wind taking it to the flower with a nectar cup Without lifting its healthy wings in direction Is bound to blame its God For the sluggish crime of itself II The mosquito which sits on a pore for long, Like […]
If historic eyes had seen this future Where a kitten mounts a lion’s seat They sure would have cemented their feet And stopped the clock Before seeing their shadows fall II How can a kitten paw fit into a lion’s? How can a kitten rule over fierce tigers? Golden fishes? Huge elephants? Fearsome crocodiles? Mischievous […]
Our breaths have been marked Marked for the roars of freshness And the silence thereafter like that of toothless dogs II Our sad songs continue on world stages But why do sympathies sit uninterested Sipping their “serves you right” wines Even as our hurtful passions sync with their instruments? III Could it be the need […]
I know you are a perfect piece Parts carefully fitted into a whole Just as the sun completes daylight, You, in this time complete me Love is a vehicle, ridden through the test of time With prompts and bumps and tips and dips Bringing me to my favourite parts of you II Your hands which […]
The dark is a cool place to hide But a cruel place to be Every leg can boot, step on her Every spittle can fall on, bathe her Every phlegm can plaster, plaster her Every urine can shower, shower her Every fecal matter can smear, smear her like disgusting pomade And no sweat can be […]
Once Kwaku Ananse met a Baboon One who was fetching water with a basket from a river At the feet of a mountain Into a drum at the pate of the mountain Out of pity for an artificial brain tiring a living body He stopped to help He called on the Baboon to use his […]
Every teacher is a potter One who digs the clay of the mind And gives it moisture Amidst pounding and kneading To get the right texture Setting it on the wheel in direction To mould the right item through heat in finality II Every teacher is a farmer One, who prepares the land of all […]
I have known rivers that have run out Their sleeping places weeping on blame of thirst But you in your small spots On varied chests, feed the world From vacant suckers to the teeth full II Not only do you subdue man Into knowing his forever child-like nature You give women the pride of shape […]
In your scented garden You left many flowers Maybe for your precious lavenders Maybe to heal foul scents Maybe to sooth the thirst of precious birds in their prime Maybe to multiply and beautify the land But the harvesters of scents have been harvesting the nectar Before they blossom to bless the temples of noses […]
What does it mean to be my friend? Is it the whispering rumouring Like naughty airs being tossed by blocking walls? Or the sharing of secrets Which are kept in our brainy books of memories? Or even the taste of our handkerchiefs At the sips of our overflowing eyes In the heat of sadness? What […]
This class mask Is it not a daunting task? This heat of a task Does it have a dawn and a dusk? Even chameleons tire of stealing reflections So why model your deflections? II I see a whore in clothes of virgins An unscrupulous you modelling pious clothes Why is a pedophile rocking a priestly […]
A mother’s spectacles Is like a fairy oracle Her love, making her a congregant in her children’s tabernacle In them is her miracles So in their diabolicals, she gets no logicals Even their unfunny jokes act comical On a stage most find horrible Oh her love is so adorable! II Who forgets the stretch of […]
Kokrokooooo! Gather all ye unhappy hens From the coops of your watching owners Gather, ye who need chicks to follow their cocks Come all ye aggrieved Water has lessons to show II It tastes heavens and licks the earth It knows the hearts of mountains and The feet of the earth It convenes to carry […]
Which is the right way? The rough route with sharp stones The smooth route with the slippery oil? Or the cool road built with a painful patience? II Which is the right way? Rebellion to conquer slavery Battle to kill desires Or dialogue to smoothen seams? Which is the right way? Which is the right […]
Lord God Your fallibility tool in the living Is a great disservice to you Yet magnanimity is one of your gracious parts You sure are the only thumb Without whom no rope can be tied The I am that none is Jehovah! II The crow of a cock in the day Might be complaints but […]
The beginning of bad thoughts Marked the end of harmless nakedness That I know II The beginning of birth Birthed the beginning of death That too I know III The beginning of want Dug the endlessness of need Well, took a while to harvest that on the tree of thought IV Greed is sometimes a […]
When rivers stood in their dreams They forgot of days they acted as streams And tasted filth, felt the sharp teeth of stones And travelled miles in the lone They, now in pride, bloat As they on top of seas float Blocking streams and rivers Who in need of strength shiver in quivers Forgetting tsunamis […]
The fascination of Ghanaians in watching the Mexican, South Korean, and Indian soaps has gone from ridiculous to worry. It is laughable to see a country once colonised, in the process of development, and still bemoaning the loss of most of our cultural values sink so low, aided and abetted by the media which has […]
Improper waist beads Shouting in least bumping Your thread tears in fears of tear Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © September 12, 2017
We are like trees Problems are like our earth Each can’t be If the earth refuses entry Roots are like our will Meandering through sand Around rocks On worms and running rats Hunting water and food II We know God is at post His all seeing eyes watching his little garden Knowing the roots making […]
I know not much I am no Methuselah as such But I do know whatever war touches Does with chaos marches II Like monsters of the night, hurtful words hold no soothing balm In their flight to the land of any mind Like terrorists on their site, bullets have no hearts, hands or eyes To […]
There are many roots beneath a single tree Yet it needs many others to break winds There are many brooms running and breaking free But their strength in numbers, all fear rescinds II Sometimes, even fecal worms, do space need Sometimes, even water, do drops be But a sea stands more chance of waving at […]
One day The mist of this pain will blur As the reality of this living clears Minds will think of me as a cloud Which fell in a moment to give the thirsty rain Not as a thirsty whose tears quenched the dryness in other throats Under the drought of helplessness II One day […]
In celebration is the key Of seeing you and I as we And learning to in harmony be Like a mighty flock of bees II In solemn prayers is the need To all intimidatory sins, like bothering weeds, weed Making sure all mouths feed Giving respect to all living seeds III We are a living […]
I see the money weather Even after the taunting shower That led to the punching rains Which bloated your opponent’s treasured eye land I must confess you tower More like the Everest of fists In this generation II Left fist like a power volcano Right fist like a bomb slap Speed in punches like a […]
Many sicknesses walk On the body of my motherland Causing it to walk naked on the global market Every pore battles an unhealing sore Sore of greed concreting each founding ailment Why doctors are like its grim reapers I am still sitting under the sky of reasoning Trying to catch a raindrop of understanding Which […]
Me I no know wetin man go give me Wey I go be like im sick chick moder Going to scatter to bring him choo to fill im bɛllɛ When im hands dey lie in perfecsion If I no heaa anyting for elder person im mouth koraa Ino be hand dey go, hand dey cum […]
Once upon a time Our land was a loamy rhyme Our airs sang for happy trees to chime A bite was meant to tease tongues from lime But all that, now, means no dime II When the cloth of colonialism Met the scissors of independence And freedom apparels were carefully tailored by hope Little did […]
It is like the best servant of mankind It is like the humble air holding our precious lives It is like the great explorer and traveler When it is given its due II Time has travelled to a place Where many things imprison this saving servant To think river channels lie in even mobile beings […]
There is an irony in sight Where vision is concerned That part where the blind looks forward to tomorrow Despite all the sorrow That part of the mind which no one borrows No matter how shallow Is the lid of hope So why will I mope? II Even snakes, dwelling on their venom Instill fear […]
Alien things are swallowing ours Their gluttony making them relegate their teeth to the background As their tongues fold to push Through the mortar of their mouths Everything with an African tag II Civilization first removed our eyeballs And replaced them with artificial ones Making seers the abominations they abhorred Banishing themselves through shrines they […]
Poisoned hearts Holding rifles in monstrous hunt Heavens watch without words Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) August 14, 2017
The sounds of nature stamps your existence Your bodiless presence calls for some insistence Of evidence of your presence Despite many testimonies of the taste of your essence II You are who you are Though we know not when you were But are dying to share In your kingdom at any fare III We wish […]
I do not know Who carved the show I do not know Who gave that blow That a girl was an animal Not a tigress nor a lioness Not an elephant nor an eagle Not a dove nor of love But a sheep which needed its herdsman Or a hen needed to hatch or be […]
I know many of us are everything but perfect Sometimes assuming positions of trouble prefects But life’s ink Has risen for all who sink And it makes me think II I see all live in gardens of flowers Bathed in many praising showers But like dead wood in a king’s court They feel not So […]
The mind is a scary part A part which houses and nurses all it is given Be it in light of good Or in doom of bad No ripe orange on a flat ground Falls far from its tree And a rotten palm nut amidst the many Carves vampire teeth on the others Even after […]
Everything atop seems supreme Many pant to climb to mountain tops And jubilate as winners in the end Many eyes look up to the sky in reverence or solicitation Even though legs mate the earth So why do you sleep naked on this Ghanaian floor Regarded as the pauper of the nation? II From Yaa […]
In the wake of this take Make me windbreaks that will all hurdles absorb Be like the unbreakable bubble surrounding me Even as rains of drains seek all grains of sanes II Ahonu-abobirim! As a mind which descended from the stairs of a sage I lay my body before thy feet Burn the evils in […]
UGCC born August 4, 1947 – died February 8, 1951 – the day that music died. The so-called Danquah-Busia-Dombo (NLM/UP/PP/NPP) – DBD Tradition and its spokespeople like Paul Adom Otchere fail to take into account the mass factor in the nationalist movement in the history of Modern Ghana. The adherents of this DBD Tradition tend […]
Birds know they own their nests And love the inn eventhough they know the existence of hunters Bats love their standing trees in the midsts of tree cutters Worms mate the earth in style Even in places pickaxes dig Why won’t our elders say None uses his left hand to point at his father’s house? […]
This chest feels so stuffy Threatening tears which would drown these eyes puffy Giving an uncomfortable holiday to the mind Making this bed frown at the night load Which fails to heed to the call of mobility II Cloud of our end looms As a frightening beginning, in fast speed, zooms Whips of pain of […]
I know the throat can nag And force a king to lie on a rag When its demands for water through its pipe is not met II I know the stomach can thunder When its bond with food is put asunder Giving in to any bet III I know eyes close not When their vessels […]
The sky has many eyes Because of its strength Its face is like a park without an owner But it still remains firm II There are passing clouds Which never succeed in wiping its beautiful blue There are heated suns Which never get to melt its clarity There are the moons backed by stars Which […]
None chastises those who time has dealt a blow As that like dead roots, will be low None blames the Frankenstein monster For attacking its master For that, like a pie in dust, will be disaster Oh deviants of the norm! As the slave of “knowledge prostitution” I say “due” II When the world was […]
A new whirlwind blows And its dust shows Not a soul knows That it is a blessed wrap housing many foes But I see its claws through its wings II It is like the god of love’s enemy Unleashing on its host its fiery army Sucking fun from blood to blood dealing Making robotics the […]
Some say I am a flower A flower with mining nectar A flower which tower When the sun sits on its shining stool And wilts when the sun sets Hey! I am what I say I am! II Some say I am many in one Hair like an oasis which holds current’s pores Eyes like […]
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