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. :)
Words are on the field of deliberations From high heads dripping with opinions from perspectives dynamic The question which is like the ball on the field? Was Castro a dictator? II Castro was a dictator! Obama is a hypocrite! Trump is the ish when it comes to the bible’s wish Trump is truthful His eyes […]
Who thought the chased tadpole Would grow to be a toad And outwit all snakes and predators To walk with own legs to the city of death? II Who thought a struggling soul Would be a David to topple a millitary Goliath And open the gate of enlightenment For many whose swords were metal to […]
As many leaves fall to pave way for new So do humans fall for space for new Many leaves have fallen in this harmattan Which winds uprooted the strong root Of a great palm Shaking the grounds of the unshakeable Ashanti Kingdom? II Hunger has no bluetooth But the elders say Only a mother feels […]
I wish, I wish, I wish! I wish I had a day To travel to the mind of man I would want to explore all his caves To know the wires that touch To electrocute some senses Into forming actions gargantuans To horrify my sisters and I II I’d first love to be a tourist […]
I am a product of a nation Which was stung by the bee of slavery That I am But that is centuries ago I was never a slave I acknowledge the pains of my caught brothers and sisters of my ancestors That should not drag me Into caves of self sympathy Wallowing in the dirt […]
I pour this libation From my free but poor calabash Which knows hunger as a happy sport And not an opposing wrestler To let dreams fall into sleep of all To see fierce and hunting war In chase of ones whose preferences Became their bait of horrid fate II I pour this libation from my […]
When the sound of the trumpet Is rejected in echo Like a ball thrown to a wall And it finds not the hole and the mouth Which gave it life for the errand It falls into vanishment Like little dust in overflowing gutters Let ears hear the sound of tolerance II When the cock sings […]
I have a voice But no matter the loudness of the noise I vote Ghana! II I have a choice But no matter the decision I will rejoice And vote Ghana! III Never will my blood boil To break the pot That hosts my waters of life I vote I vote Ghana IV Never will […]
Ghana is almost sixty years old and any human being at sixty is almost close to his grave. All expectations and achievements have been realised. Only (excuse my language) a fool will bank all his hopes on lottery at sixty. If life is important, our country Ghana is more important because it is the property […]
There is a cloud forming on clouds The sky of red, gold, black star and green Has arms wide opened to mean It can take all the dance on court floor, even the mean And awaits personalities who will fall into shrouds II Amidu holds the reins And just got Woyome as the horse Hoping to […]
In Ghana, the sun always sets Now elephants, coconut trees The cockerel, the sun All battle to topple the umbrella II Some call it the leaking umbrella Which has been bribed by nature’s delicacies To cancel its safety obligation Some call it the weak emblem Blown in shame by winds of corruption Some call it […]
When the gods speak into mouthpieces Let the people get their earpieces If the street listens to beats Legs get massaged by the rhythms Who are legs to complain? II Generations die for generations to live A kiss in the dark in some archaic moments Sex on the street in contemporary times Leafs of innocence fall […]
On this ground of uncertainty Look my way Hold my hand like a crawling toddler Heal my feet And hold me up II I am but soul on clay I am nought but your weave I am nought but your grateful robot Help me step to you III Where the world flaws Give me holding […]
When you feel him drifting Heart races in sad palpitations Fears roll in high doses Pain slices deep in soul But what is a woman to do When his heart drifts? II Pain is the reluctance to chat Harm is the secret of neglect Murder is the hidden other Hiding, and cheating Tactfully dismissing Skillfully […]
How did this happen? A bull dog winning a battle with a lioness? How did this happen? Trash beats motherly breasts to become a tap of filth? Who will filter this? A demon has penetrated through the gates of peace Will the peace cease? II A massacre of thoughts Marrying chaos like disaster Emphasising pain […]
A lioness battles a bull dog In a scary, dark and thick fog All name calling like betrayer and a hog Will be flogged and caught in an end clog II A gentle soul begs for thumbs in whole Competing with a monster from a hole Whose drift would be smeared in coal And who would become […]
The beginning of love Is like the beginning of creation I am sure God’s heart raced As he created it all His joy sat in a celebratory palanquin Developed wings and danced like an all powerful ruler Hailed by satisfaction as a look upon jubilant When all was done Chorus: My ears can imagine his […]
Serious basket sent to the stream of ambitions To fetch heads which sync with hands In hardwork to weave the nation Suddenly developed comedic holes Posing pictures of ridicule In a nation whose teeth can’t afford a smile Talk less of laughter II Fishes flawed and thrown out Have majestically managed to catwalk Into the […]
It is only in the house of politics We find blinding smoke without fire Its finances, like confusing qualitative thesis, lacks mathematics Its words flying with no hands to tame to collate II Tongues of tongues are begged in hire Hands with corrupt cash magnets Get to be called sires Brains with guttered tricks Get […]
Travelling air Uncaring stare Pinches for feeling is all the care Not fair but what is fair When noses murder without prompts Only to be buried in plants? Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
We are our illnesses We, golden children Conceived painfully and graciously By Asaase Yaa, the goddess of nature How can we heal? II Our legs flirt with fine dust of deceit Enthroning it to build mansions In our priced noses Distributing coughs of fear Digging pain of panic Blinding us and Developing weaknesses which deepen […]
Sigh The infra dig man-cue For flowers of honour Is not part of the deities I worship II Sigh Bombastic preachers Robed in cover of their leeched skin Can’t make me sleep No matter the soothing of their evoking lullabies III Sigh Mouths which work in the dark And mute in light Can never move a […]
The Ghana Poetry Festival is set to take place from the 10th – 12th November, 2016. The festival whose first and second editions have nurtured young poets into successes will take place once again; bringing together poets from all regions of Ghana and its suburbs unto one stage. ‘Values for Life’ and the W.E.B. Dubois […]
Pushed by loving winds from my home tree Onto dead leaves I have smelt much unpleasantness Tasted rot Been blown here and there A pawn of the air II I have searched deserts And felt the pelts of sand Barely made it out with visible holes all over A poor little leaf like me I […]
Fluffy bubbles are at play Tickling hormones with apt display So if you wish to stay Our creator will melt our clay Into a being in two II It is a brand new day No matter what time of day And the smile of the sky spells hearts of gay For even snakes which hide […]
Many have thoughts of society Making fem effete Tonight, I will defray your machismo And lock your manpower In my power packed handcuffs In preparation of doing you II I need no hands on you I need no legs on you Touches of electrification To numb all, will wake my thunders to work Tonight […]
This heart Wears a hat Dodging difficulties In mythical thinking II This head Has an umbrella Covered in blessed rains But seeing its fall III These legs Want to be in congregation Why then do they Feel no move IV I feel you are there But eyes have no proof The proof of mind Cancels […]
If my voice strokes your choice And my moving cells you ensorcell Come Come get me II If my yoke in another makes you broke And my charm causes you sweet harm Come Come get me III If I am the witch who burns your bitch And the flower which scents your shower Come […]
There are mosquitoes singing tunes many abhor In rooms detested There are bed bugs battling bodies For blood on beds many hate There are many fighting animals like people with consciences Just for rivers and foods and places and growth Through it all We sleep soundly II Sons and daughters of the earth beg […]
It was at the gate of fate That one Osei Tutu’s grand daughter Who is chief security Barred some legs from stepping onto The stage of prestige To look for thumbs whose power Could push their buttocks Onto the highest seat Of the coveted once upon a time Gold Coast II Political Methuselah Aka […]
As the waters flow Under loads so low As tree leaves dance In higher glance Stop the hawk and sell All sympathies quell Ring happy, happy bells CHORUS We are fire Here on hire Our greed is desire Which is pain’s lair We are birds Without beds Flying to doom Oblivion, oblivion is in […]
Excuses are the mucus of falling Helping hands of failure to receive many favours If you are a favour so slimy Let your tongue walk your work As your legs cross to slide Downhill Where failure waits impatiently for star meals Giving fun to mouths whose eyes keenly follow Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
The farm is a farmer’s livelihood He lives in toil, defying sweat Battling insects, birds, all pests When harvest fully blooms Lazy papers eat best Crumbs for hands toiled Callouses Heal not Growth Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
For a few years now, Nana Awere Damoah and some of his friends have been putting together awards for traits worthy and satirical for the Ghanaian populace. This is by far the winners for 2016. (Updated 23 October 2016 (still in progress, some key categories – such as the voted for ones – still in […]
Ye who wove minds As spiders weave their nests Can you war bar Pushing love in its stead? II Ye who made binds As donkeys serve bests Can you push afar Equality in superior stead? III Won’t your ingredients vanish As your name tarnish Calling your presence to banish With war recurring, making insults your […]
Visitors are blind They walk and bump like robots Going round and round A forefinger is their dream A capable forefinger Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
Hearts are like magnets Their station, determinant of attractions A sad station definitely pulls many to hover Depression being the lead II Just as rivers find the sea Just as rains find earth Just as hyponyms know their hypernyms So does depression force a stay III We are masters in our ships We choose those […]
Time walks in a rush With no ears for stops No eyes to turn back No mouth nor stomach to stop and feed No breath to feel tired let alone pause to rest It sure is the creator’s robot Set like a watch man to impartially measure us What tough scrutiny it gives! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
He had a harum-scarum youth His life an apotheosis of a moral-less soul He thought all advisers nudniks Who could blame him when his blood sat in a heating pan II He had no life mirror In his living workable paradise So wore the stains of faults like happy robes Until the legs of his skin […]
Our God Is so alive Like lightning to protect He leads without worry to clear Our shield II Our Lord Is our captain In this raging hard storms He navigates even the storms What’s fear? III Defeat Will work madly But will defeat itself For it is a foot-mat to us Thanks Lord! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
In the wake of politics, many rise to show their true colours. I know it is a battle, politics, we humans made it so, but it shouldn’t be. Choosing a leader for the common goal of development and security should be no battle. We are first of all human beings who can never live forever. […]
Time has put something new On the tongue of my muse Funny, how what attract is what is They have mouthpieces A few numbers dialled and most are connected They have ears Just close to the ears or press to impress And every connector hears Human phones! II They are breakers Couples turn singles with […]
I feel like a fly Who hovers in a try To steal with smile sly And I feel so dry II I feel like a bird Without a good bed I figure the least said Is best in this shed III Newbies and greens Mouth closed Eyes open Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
Be the man of my days Leading like bobo on a dark path Make visible all hidden traps Scare harmful insects to flee Be the warrior leading in happiness So others follow suit A man is a breathing being with a touch of humanity Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
I have felt the sting of mosquitoes Felt the bites of ants Felt the bites of snakes Felt the claws of eagles And stand with huge unseen scars II I have felt the slaps of crows Pecks of wood peckers Hooting of owls Reminding crows of taunting cocks About the speed of time And still […]
In this depressing robe Which whispers the fears that sadness stole I open the gate of sanity To tell you to mark the days II Mark the days as teachers mark their registers Until this robe comes off by itself As the carriage of happiness lands on your shore And the crown of laughter graces your lips […]
Hajj is one dream all Muslims have in common; at least, so Ghanaians have been made believe. A person who goes to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for hajj, washes away all sins and if that person dies thereafter, after notable rituals (worship), he or she is said to go straight to heaven. The puzzle of […]
Possibility is an accomodation in impossibility So I will not take an absolute ruler To evict it from its rightful place But none accommodated Is given more than a room No matter how many there are Unless blood binds or money massages palms of ownership War is no friend to us War has no money […]
Blessed are they who host nature’s milk For theirs is the kingdom of cuddling The creator has created many things But I bet the two mounds Down the neck of the petty lands Which stand like strong soldiers at attention In their young years after riping And bend gradually to be in sync with time […]
Another day pulls down its curtains Sending ghosts of nature To shepherd in flocks of day Into terrains public and private As a private candidate Eyes see the bed which cries out for you The bed which complains Of the wasted space many are dying for The bed whose eyes have lost Visions of two […]
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