Improper waist beads Shouting in least bumping Your thread tears in fears of tear Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © September 12, 2017
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Author: amoafowaa
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. :)
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GOD ON HIS THRONE
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 […]
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WORLD OF WAR (Crazy Stanzas)
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 […]
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SCARED OF LONELINESS
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 […]
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IN CELEBRATION OF EID
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 […]
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MAYWEATHER
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 […]
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CRY THE NATION
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 […]
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HAND DEY GO, HAND DEY CUM
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 […]
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SORROW OF THE LAND
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 […]
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WHEN WATERS RUN WILD
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 […]
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HOPE INTACT
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 […]
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BRAINWASHING
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
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SHOW US YOU
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 […]
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THE HUMAN ANIMAL
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 […]
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LOVING NOW
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 […]
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KƐTƐASESHƐ NE PRƆYƐ
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 […]
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KAWOLA? UBEISON!
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 […]
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GOD (CRAZY STANZAS)
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 […]
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YOUR OWN BI YOUR OWN
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? […]
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LOOMING DOOM
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 […]
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STRAY HANDS
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 […]
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BE LIKE THE SKY
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 […]
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TO THE GAY IN THIS RAY
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 […]
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SOCIAMEDIALISM
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 […]
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THE WOMAN IN ME
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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HUMAN POWER
We are what we need to be When needs to be, be We are who we need to see When needs to see, see We are our lions and lionesses Hunting this jungle in shadows definitive of us We are soldier ants Making our own frames walking anthills Creating holes which send invitations To passers […]
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LIFE IN ISEYIN WITH ROYALTY
Arriving at Iseyin in Oyo State for the Ebedi International Writers Residency was pure bliss. The house was located in a very convenient place. It had a quiet ambience with trees blooming with abundant fruits. Although power supply was nothing that could be compared to my home country, the administration provided a good standby generator […]
Your sword was glowing pink And you loved to slash with powerful ink I was your link To the seas of your power’s brink Oh Yohanne! Why did your boat so sink? II I used to, like an uncorrupted child, think That you were the perfect drink In that many an ambitious waters of zinc […]
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ROMANTIC GIGGLES
Screaming pores are appalled By the disco light-like mounds Which tickle in pinch mode Dancing to the whispers of air See the feet of seduction touch the skin of need The sky, today, is not fair II Peacocks hide themselves in their wings Shedding fowl tears of yearning Afraid to be caught by nightingales Eagles […]
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SOUNDS OF CHILDREN
Little children go to school To learn to use the pen as tool Guns and knives are not so cool In the careless hands of fools II When they count from one to ten They get the happy sound of a pen Which leads them from fools’ den Into the high wise stools of men […]
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HIDDEN LOVE
Hidden love Planted in a fertile heart Bomb soon to detonate Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©July 24, 2017
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THIS BATTLING SEA
Many voices Roar in this fiery sea Voices of rivers Whose feet have tasted different sands Voices of rains Whose bodies have tasted higher heavens Bodies of fluids Whose noses have smelt rotten foods Vomited by covered human gutters Bodies of sweats Which have explored varied pores Each lamenting like lost pilgrims In the end […]
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DARE DEVILS
Daring leaves Fingering passing clothes Pluck curse on invitational plate Amoafowaa Sega Cecilia (c) July 23, 2017
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MURDEROUS DRUMS
Fetch the myth that struck the bamboo And woke the sounds of chaos At a time when sleep is most sweetest In the royal palace “Ama Mpapahene ne fontonfrom retwe kora Wɔ nananom nsamanfo ahenkrom!” II Arrest the mice whose blood lured the teeth of vampires To our Bragoro festival And dug out rich “amoasene” […]
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A NEW OPENING
As hands of dawn open the rest cage Do consider this queer adage That hands won’t feed if there be no work And like the wisest version of Ananse Build us into a harvesting web II We are hens In worldly dens We are cocks Between some rocks We are comfortable tourists Who are blessed […]
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Barcamp 2017, Tamale
Barcamp Tamale 2017 is a free networking forum bringing people together for a day of learning, sharing, networking and dialogue on Tamale, Ghana and beyond. It will take place on July 29, 2017 at the Tamale Sports Stadium. The theme for this year is “Empowering the Youth through Innovation and Professionalism”. About the theme, the […]
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STRENGTH FOR THRONES
Let the ancestors listen! Listen from their working places Let them listen! Listen in their working gears Is this the vision for which they drained their precious body rivers? Is this the picture they offered their bodies To the human abattoirs like cheap goods for? Is it? Is it! II Ants are now known as […]
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IRONY OF ODDS
A dove has been bathed into a vulture A sheep transformed into a goat A wall gecko now lives like a cobra Which waters clean the clean into dirt? II A lion is now a cat A tiger living as the dog of a crab That eagle is now a “borla” bird Which airs travel […]
From the days of his seasonal stage play, This Family Is Not For Sale, playwright and producer, Kobina Ansah, has flaunted his brilliance when it comes to having good, quality fun on stage. His unique style of writing has carved a niche for him in the theatre industry. No two ways about that. However, his […]
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WHEN LOVE’S WHIRLWIND SWEEPS
When love’s whirlwind sweeps It moves fearlessly like a monster looking for keeps Pressing hearts into one until it, one sound, beeps II When love’s whirlwind arrests Every sour taste blends into milk like a newborns’ from breasts Making unfathomable ills honoured crests III When love’s whirlwind stamps Its desired sounds beat no ear-blasting amp’s […]
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SWORD OF THE MOUTH
Long ago In a happy hollow cave Peace reigned Except for the claps of teeth And the darkness in residence No toe of chaos ever touched its dust Until a soft meat-like towel became resident II Its presence provided inmates With a turning toy Introduced them to fragile bodies and blood And brought angelic sounds […]
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WHERE ONLY MOUTHS WORK
There is a reason hands hung Legs stand Eyes see Ears hear And mouths talk But in my home Mouths walk in talk And swing in fling Closing ears like clashing bombs Forcing eyes to shut in disgust II Little things turn typhoons Then tsunamis Covering bigger fishes to sail beneath national seas As small […]
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A ROPE IN A HOLE FALL
Once a vibrant bird fell Its pain and sadness was like hell Its chirps could pierce a tortoise’s shell But none threw even a healing gel II Its broken wings begun to swell And watching birds begun to sell Its sad state was the definite sell As many mimicked its sad sad yell III Rumours […]
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LOVING YOU (STYLED SONNET)
Do not grovel even in a hovel For each of our remains will taste the dig of a shovel Idolize your mirror reflections Even when you face constant rejections For you are a soul in a body And a spirit not at all shoddy You are like a myth in passing But a warrior on […]
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THE SMOKE WORSHIP
I thought only noses of the earth Drugged deep by rats and mice Caused hunters to rear smoke To sneeze out deli-meats Little did I know some heads are rat holes Hoarding abominants So owners light their mouths To sneeze their fall II How heads have turned “muchia” To cook brains into highness Bleach mouths […]
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INNOCENT PRISONER (CRAZY STANZAS)
Our elders ask Only one saw so who is the witness? I am a victim of circumstance One caught like an innocent antelope In an unknown hunter’s trap One set in a cage meant for an unknown One substituted by chance with a lucky being Protected well by a worldly antagonist whose apparel fits me […]
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