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. :)
You are twirling like a circle in vibration In a river with fishes and sharks You are calling attention so deadly Hey Konkontibaa! Hey Konkontibaa! Hey Konkontibaa! II You are dancing like flowing water around parched throats In a river which thirsts for water You are begging for a swallow like Jonah Hey Konkontibaa! Hey […]
Why do some cocks crow at midnight When darkness is no closer to dawn And can never go back in time? Is it for mischief? Fear? Miscalculated time? To signify trouble To wake nocturnals Be accompanying voices to troubled minds Or tell the world of its insomnia? Oh wonders of the night! II Crowings in […]
A little wind blew On a sandy ground Shaking the foundation of its building The shaking fell the building Instead of falling back on land The ceiling got in between like grass In an elephant and grass-land fight Now the land and roofing stifle the ceiling And society watches Doing little but talks where much […]
I have seen and read miracles But never like the ones you do In your unknown frame II I have walked and talked Never heard non as powerful As you Odomankoma III You give rains in dry season And give dryness in rainy season You crack in summer Only to soothe in harmattan You really […]
Cotton splattering Gay air dance with scattered parts Eyes watch them keenly No hand reaches out to save Destructive journey ends, sad Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) October 8, 2016
Mirrors show all Beauty, normal and wrong But can’t see the colour of their back Just as path makers see no back crookedness So is a soul like mine Without back eyes Please walk into the light And make clear The wounds inflicted from my walking boots II Fallibility is my right by birth Reflection […]
In bright daylight Dark clouds have formed Blinding eyes and raining heartaches *E*ven the dust was preferred *V*astly over this daylight blindness *A*dÉ›n? NukejÉ”? Maaba? Mini sani po nÉ›? II Death has bitten into a delicious mind One whose pages were enriched With harvests of higher learning One whose ink had so much And was […]
(In honour of National Poetry Day) When responsibilities piled on trucks of childhood And stuck in mud of helplessness Forcing my fragile pate to hawk its heaviness Struggling through days into adulthood I met you II While walking on coals on peak heat Whipped by rains head up In harmattan of rejection With walletless pockets […]
“Asomorofi dwo a kraman nhuru gya!” No hawk challenges an eagle in hunt for fowls! Show me a hawk who dares And I will show you how its bones Will lose the taste of land in passing II “Abirekyie nka gyata ntokwa” The goat who dares a lion Knows its hole resides in a lionic […]
Fight o fight Fight like soldier ants at war With bullets of minds Firing ignorance of thumbs Thumbs which vote for ethnic clothes Devoid of bodies therein II Fight o fight Fight Ghanaman fight Fight like bombs to burn to extinction The exchange of thumbs for gifts To see the dawn of change III Fight […]
Breath die every second From the comfort of noses and mouths Just as breath is born every second Through the same channel Such is the gift of life II Nothing is given for free Everything comes with a fee To live calls for the payment of death Happiness needs the fee of sadness Strength needs […]
He who fears the thorns of beauty Gets no nectar nor colour Bravery is catalyst to warriorship Initiative precedes success Ask legends of the land II Ask legends of the land How their feet stood in history To create spaces for their memories Ask legends of the land How their sweat were smoked by fears […]
A great tree has fallen A tree that hosted many tired Sick and confused birds A tree whose fruit fed all who hungered A tree whose shade Shaded all in bad weather Sad for a tree heavily rooted on the Savannah land Ah Mad Doctor! Why do you lie instead of standing? II You were […]
The skyline hosts no bars And no power to entrench clouds Passing clouds rule only for a while Fading or falling as rain To be consumed or swallowed by the earth II Reigning clouds Be not proud You have but a shine away To vacate the premise of the sky Look not down on struggling […]
Nana Pokuah I went to the market to buy fruit I bought water melon Thinking it green through and through Only to cut and see how red it was within And how cumbersome its many seeds clung to its bleed Little minds are like watery flour mix Only heat can harden them to feed I […]
I call on Onyankopon Twereduampong The craftsman with no challenger One who seived darkness from light And gave them realms to rule One who moulded common clay like a masterpiece And gave it thoughts of superiority One who created a universe that even great minds can’t its steps of creation fathom To come for his […]
Lazy hands, no mouth fend So says the sage in scribes Hands do bend But be no end So you can this house defend In the pot of crises Many will help their teeth to sing Only few would like to lend With a collateral greater than hearts For tongue-shoppers to shame clothes mend When […]
Many horrors, like shadows hide In unseen corners of jungles Waiting to jump at dangerous intruders So even hard hearts hide their zones Aren’t they protected somehow? II The mouth chews to soften And is a tool sharply shaped When hands are tied It can bite into suffocating hands To freedom Strength of the head!!! […]
Breath lures greed In hope of immortality Food lures need in hope of eternal satisfaction Money plants demons In hope of more into much In the hands of all pockets Stirring the pot of vanishing only to outlast 1b. For pleasure shovels and accomodating holes Beings build mental castles To chain targets like goats in […]
Many animals live in the jungle With varied sounds Sounds counter annoying But what can they do When each has its place therein? II Lions roar but hate the hooting of owls Owls hoot but fear the roars of lions Varied birds chirp Surprisingly, they internalize their hatred Some complaining pitches high Some accusing bass […]
Shadows wake tall To shorten to tall Begging clocks to save their height But tick tock Is a rhythm unbreakable Its heels sing to break many hearts II To beg time Do beg yourself To hop on its speed Like a good passenger To reach destinations in time To dance to its chime Life is […]
Rains are digging trenches On needy benches Stirring the innocent ground To interrupt the vision of itchy mouths II Suns are heating water Waking vapours to the loiter Generating sweat on tan crazed fans Who parade on crowded shores III Thunders have lost their lanes Cracking stomachs in their mains Forcing belching to lose its […]
Too many branches Are weighing it down Left, right, up Around and down Other trees are branchless And tall they grow These branches are heavy Heavier in vow Bees, birds, flies The tree doth sigh II Birds sit to chirp Birds fly to play Birds build their nest in Their droppings getting a mapping As […]
I am a hunter A hunter who hunts a hunter But this hunt haunt hunters As fiery hunters hunt their game II I met a fisherman in hunt He made a bait And an imaginary water And placed me center stage Loving my swim as fishes swim in nets When caught with no escape II […]
If only I were your mirror Showing you your reflection You will see the beauty right here And extinguish your fears As skilled firemen kill their dangers II I wish you see The bold you Who like Sampson Battle the lions of every breath The fearless soul Who like David Conquer all Goliaths With just […]
Kola and cowries and water and seats Fight against our moving beats A little for one A call to many Culture cheats as misers feed II If all buttocks that seats do carry Treat it well to make it swell Its dirt would diminish as its bones get cover But ‘adjeiii’ its creaks Sing in […]
They were once fruits so green On trees so powerful in thought Feeding to be fed Decorating to be watched Thoughtful to all Until age wiped their memory discs Leaving their computers empty tins For scrap dealers and legs of children Now you watch like your comedy Drawing conclusions in spiritisms? II No one knows […]
Most cocks walk comb high As hens dig for worms When they spot a hawk And crow for cover Their wings become gods of shelter Ordering for variety hens in roosting Why? Why can’t cocks lay few eggs? II Why can’t cocks lay few eggs And sit hungry to heat to hatch? Why can’t cocks […]
It is our belief That like a being hiding behind a partition He hides behind the sky II God It is our unconscious belief That he holds a potent telescope Watching all deeds at once III God It is our odd belief That He has a path to his abode Paths solely definite from our […]
Your feet move in bounce Like rains ascending and descending the realms of heaven Your hands weave unseen webs As the spider skillfully weaves its home Your body rhymes with apt chorus And you sing like one whose vocals Have been declogged by the almighty Satan As other hands beat the sounding hell out of […]
Laughter boils on fires of pity When mice speed in armyhood In support of the enstoolment of cats Forgetting they are their edibles II Don’t thoughts, like farmers Dig their reasoning farms To grow fear on trees of their scatterings? III When planted promises Knock on my ears I wail in happiness Don’t these mice […]
When winds run errands of whispers To pores of unattached Hairs bare their fangs Like dogs in attacking mode But goosebumps give their protected out Cold wins in its test of need How sad II Cold has released its lions and lionesses To pounce on needs in this upper zone And ravage unowned lands Hunting […]
Eyes see no shine in closeness Noses smell no purity around lotuses Hands feel no warmth in bests Distance is like the catalyst of awareness Oh how vengeful time proves to be! II Kwasi said she was like a board Any posting on it was seen to Ama said she was a t. roll Which […]
You sit like bloated bread With cuffed fingers in the air Calling attention and claiming hold Of a healthy hottie breed Are you the only hungry fish in the sea? II You have paid hands to wash and clean With instruction as your only deed Who but a fool will serve a flu? Wake your […]
Did the gods foretell your birth As Jesus’s was foretold in Biblical words? Did your pa, like a dragon Ride the night of blessitude To hatch a fruit so fiery to lead? If love loves the love it gives This Ghanaian house loves the day The mouth of a blessed whale Vomited you onto its […]
What do You not see at your worship? Fancy clothes hiding tempts Who boldly stand as vying angels With mischief in wallets of their hearts II What do You not see at your worship? Skillful and hungry pythons Acting like prophets bitten by the famous holy ghost Of course, how else can they get the […]
Have you volunteered today? Let’s #volunteeringh for #NVDay. September 17, 18, 21, 24, 25, etc. There are various activities happening in Ghana. See them @ volunteeringh.org. You can also find some via the @GhanaThink Foundation’s Ghana Volunteer Program page and the Ghana Volunteer Program group on Facebook. @volunteeringh on Twitter. The hashtag is #NVDay16 Have […]
 FOREWORD- SECONDARY RHYTMS “Her head did not fall within the norms of beautiful heads, it had two chambers and a frontal porch, (something far from the round head society deemed beautiful) and her physique was nothing to write home about. She was skinny to the bone and those bones were glaringly conspicuous. She raised […]
There was a time When stories, like scary whips Ruled the consciences of growing heads Declawing the roaring Un-canining monsters Lighting dark hearts Strengthening the weak Shaping faults into saintly vaults Spirits in story clothes! Did we leave them for myths undecipherable? II Our ancestors were wise So wise in most That we could actually […]
Explorations of the past Led to greedy seeds sewn like monster plants Monster plants which grew to take what it never owned Cruel “beela” traps were set up In black hunt Aims of strength harvest causing mean arrests As molestations manifested in attestations Ah! Chained beings turned to dogs Were forcefully pulled to hop like […]
Drama queens! Drama kings! Great script writers! Writers of comedies! Writers of tragi-comedies! Writers of tragedies! Melodramatic heretics Minds! You are all that and more! II How can you analyse the un-happened? Quantify the unneeded? Conclude unwritten stories? Conjure nonexistent characters? Stage ridiculous battles And conquer the bravest in abstract? III You are the most […]
There is a reason Muscles grow on breakable voices There is a reason Chests flatten in hardened choices There is a reason Chins are visited by weeds Which can scare or be trimed to call for care Onyankopon Tweadeampong is never a slack His creations never lack tact II How else would there be hunters […]
Fickle are hearts that need With no desire to feed Fickle are wayward deeds With no forming change seeds If humans see through acts And like judges, conclude diggers and real Who are you to deceive God? II Most prayers are like one way streets Ones asking vehicles ply Never a chance of showing hearts […]
My tongue is pampered Like a mushroom on an anthill Crowned by the fertile farms of mother nature Ghana, my motherland! II So much do they give Plants and trees Leaves and all Yam boils to accommodate many My favourite; “potogum hwiegum” Led by the great garden eggs With koobi as angels at post Add […]
I need, need and need The love they speak of I want to be a cassava And meet a plaintain, yam or cocoyam And together be pounded In the mortars of life by its pestles And blend in the perfect fufu II I need, need and need I need the friction of missing Photographic memories […]
There are men And there are Men But there are also MEN MEN are the real juices in all fruits Men are the “mmotromodwos” That state abhored by even the heavenly father While men are the tins of milk without content Drop them from the mountain top And see how they will battle the stones […]
There On the threshold of my fate Lie the perfect gait Calculated steps Fitted shoes And keys to answers to puzzles tricky And ready to block in lock I know And rush not For I am too special to run II None knew Agya Ananse In its fragile and slimy state Could be the star […]
Black and red Mate to date for the fate of the late Like soldier ants in warrior parade Faces varied in smiles, frowns and indifference For the fallen whose journey goes beyond eyes’ foresight II Songs with “we have a living God” lyricals Taunt the fallen with many misconceptions ‘We live like dead swervers Because […]
Once a pig was born in a sea Making fishes bring it up to fish be When the pig was grown and wise It broke chains to be on land II All the dirt was its to take All the gutters was its to shake All the dumpsters were his pool so cool That its […]
You want the Olympic Gold But you don’t train for the gold You want to stand on the podium With a year’s training For a year’s event You want the fame of the game But not the pain for the gain II You want the life that I live But you don’t work the work […]
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