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. :)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hidden love Planted in a fertile heart Bomb soon to detonate Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©July 24, 2017
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 […]
Daring leaves Fingering passing clothes Pluck curse on invitational plate Amoafowaa Sega Cecilia (c) July 23, 2017
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The clock of change ticks Transforming in shockaholics Yet many feed after thorny pricks In places whose geography elude mapachronics Living healthily by the green waters of kontomire As others blinkardly gobble dead fishes in oily rivers II Gone are the days when elderly buttocks Filled seats before their young Gone are the days when […]
They say he who fetches water Breaks the pot So he who goes to sit under Odomankomah’s umbrella Enjoys the shade under torrential rains And is able to dodge the scorching sun But did I fall into an army of hungry ants Bathed with sugar? I went to the temple To listen to the gospel […]
When a yard is given Extending to a mile is a given Then some come in needful farm Regardless of the harm II When a gate widely opens Even mosquitoes can turn royals Dictating to owners when to sleep and what to keep Of course the malaria virus becomes a necessary tag III Draw a […]
This link is for the live streaming of today’s launch. Foreword to FaceOff With the International ‘MP’ “It is often said that we take ourselves too seriously, and do not laugh enough. If this description fits or suits you, then please stay as far away as possible from Rodney and his writings [scratch that!]: read […]
If you marry me You will be my sea And I your fish Preparing for you many a sumptuous dish Giving life to many of your wishes II If you marry me Your happiness, my wish will be I will be your warmth in the cold And your cooler in heat’s fold Blanketing you from […]
(In celebration and reflection on my birthday) As my years travel the world Questions act like soldier ants Who have chanced upon a loot In a land of famine II The biggest captain being achievements Co-captained by failures All curious as to the shrouded steps left To the hungry hole of endings III The frightful […]
Those days When light only came from the sun rays As fruits fed from their ripe stations Have no living nations II Those days When charms and pushing gays With domestic care so rare Were all a woman needed to be fair Have gone under As today, more need surrender III Eve was a blessing […]
Happy Father’s Day to all fathers. Enjoy this piece: Whoever said chicks follow hens Wash your faces with treated water And watch It is that day That day when some cocks act hens As some hens model in cockdom This world! II It is this day This day when the pains of motherhood Root firmly […]
I was glad when two gentlemen I knew from the Ghana Association of Writers contacted me and asked me to apply for the Ebedi International Writers Residency. The thought of a cozy place to complete works I deemed difficult, was very welcome. Then I thought of going through Togo through to Benin to Nigeria. Seeing […]
We cry your liquidated soul Which has been forcefully fried From your solidly mobile form We hail your gallant nurture Which prevented your strong nature To harm a hair of your enemies, oh you with good stature! We pray for your hovering soul Which stands on the invisible soles Of all that you hold dear […]
The code of souls was breached When I saw the gates of death Being torn by many who morality preached When their swords of advice wore their breath In hidden and opened quarters of their sons As they pushed me through by cruel runs II I felt the lighting slaps of hands And bore the […]
Pity our land A land arrested and tamed Into a free wild horse on its very habitat Sat on and dragged with so many heavy things Fed crumbs from our own pots Oh cry! Cry for our land! II Pity our land A land with so much yet thinks so little And was confined by […]
It is sad to hear that Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama was mistaken for a thief and brutally lynched on May 29, 2017. But I am amazed at the fact that this is just getting the attention of the Ghanaian populace now. I will not say it is a Denkyira-Obuasi (Central Region) thing but it is […]
In His Majesty’s quarters Women are flowers to be gathered Into an unharmonious bouquet From colours black to white II In His Majesty’s quarters A step calls for stooges in circled clichés Ones who see God when his shadow Draws in closer drawings III In His Majesty’s quarters The devil’s shed stands for evil check […]
A flying bird in troubled nest Can never have a needed rest A flying bird in a troubled nest Clearly may have no request II I flew from heaven to here Thinking I could find beauty in the road to steer But found a rope around my leg as the ground did cheer […]
Maame Mama Maa Ima The first pillar of contact The first room with the warmest of bedding The first breath shared like a sweet meal The first wall in a kick Maame Mama Maa Ima One who accepts madness for what she terms the blessing of motherhood And feels the pangs of her child’s suffering […]
It is amazing how the fourth arm Works with its arms From acting like robbers with arms To being eyes without qualms II These are the times Growth with accountability rhymes These are the times corruption bells must chime To wake sleepers who throw in their dimes To get fingers acting in mime to […]
Some questions echo and bounce Pinch and scratch Confuse and drain all morsels of words In the earthenware of my mouth One such is what is your favourite colour? II Red is the colour of my blood And is like the bridge from chaos to my peace It is the symbol of life’s fluid A […]
Try not to cry but fly You broken bird on a land so dry Try not to cry but fly The only right thing to get you by II Try not to cry but fly Manna falls not at the sound of a sigh Try not to cry but fly Like antelopes knowing danger is […]
With the arms of the mountains in protection Tell me the brooms that sweep nightmares into heads Show me the airs that aid their heads into homes Is it the calls of horny beads of widows for what fate has snatched from their sides? Or the rumbling stomachs of widowers for their gone lovers? Tell […]
When salt sellers hear of rain On open market days They flip and trip and slip to pray But a farmer waiting to farm gives praises to his maker II We are in a world where same buildings welcome infant cries And send off living souls A reflection of virtues and vices Staring eachother in […]
(To honour World Poetry Day) As the day spells your mention And the rays promise your distinction I bow to the holy minds Which brought you to bind With passionate souls To massage our tired soles From weariness of spirit Giving us breathing chits II You are in countless forms Giving us ready picks To […]
I am a student A student is I Who dresses like a brushed kangaroo With eyes of a determined eagle And the spirit of a meek sheep Hoping to be strong in mind like a blessed ant To grow in wisdom as giraffes grow in neck II I am a student A student is I […]
When songs of nightingales Hit blocked drums of infatuated cocks They cry loss but look hardest Cursing the hearing maker II When the ‘borla’ bird Dreams of cuddling a peacock It shivers at peck-like-axing One that can give away its intestines In a split second III Every struggling soul Like a beheaded fowl Kicks and […]
When sadness sits like a chief Brewing the pungent and ugly grief Siding with all words but brief Stealing a heart like a shameless thief Why do you say fate’s ladle is deep? II When this chick chirps as a bird And its mother finds it absurd As its rival families root for it as […]
We are farmers Farming our kind Tilling our lands to plant Selecting best and compatible seeds for plantation And when the earth houses the seeds We water, provide sunshine and air II We may give too much water When the young shoots emerge We may give too much sun We may even provide winds instead […]
Women The glorious beings of this worldly den The best hearts likened to hens The most gifted of all of life’s pens II Women are the flowers so bright They blossom for all but their thorns do fight Against pests in hurried flight Great agents who fear no problem of height III Women are wondrous […]
We live in the sought after gold Clothed by a land fertile enough to banish the barren We live on a land so expensive Blood so precious protect Only to make us free We live on a land so wondrous Black star lights to guide us through When did a blessed turn cursed? We are […]
I am a citizen A citizen paid by citizens I am like a chicken Fed grains to reproduce grains I am a hunter and the game My effort contributing to my gain So why should I rest in labour? Will a sheep pray for the blindness of its shepherd? II I am a citizen A […]
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