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 […]
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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TOO MANY BRANCHES
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 […]
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THIS WEIRD HUNT
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 […]
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I WISH YOU SEE
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 […]
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ALZHEIMER FOR WITCHCRAFT
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 […]
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KNOT ON OUR NOTS
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 […]
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THAT HURTING SOUND
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 […]
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GAME OF BETRAYAL (Crazy Stanzas)
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 […]
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WHEN COLD WHISPERS
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 […]
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SLIPPED THROUGH FINGERS
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 […]
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BLOATED FOOTBALL
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 […]
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OSAGYEFO AFEHYIA
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 […]
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AT YOUR WORSHIP
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 […]
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NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS’ DAY
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 […]
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WAKE THE DEAD
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 […]
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DRAMA OF MINDS
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 […]
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GOD THINKS US GOLD DIGGERS
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 […]
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GHANAIAN DELICACIES
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 […]
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THE LOVE THEY SPEAK OF
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 […]
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TOO SPECIAL TO RUN
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 […]
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TAUNT LOVING THE DEAD
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 […]
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PIGS WILL BE PIGS
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 […]
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YOU WANT WHAT I HAVE
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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WHY I READ
Walking through this book of life Which flips and turns in love and strife How can I the best’s wife be If I read not of kings doting on skirts of their shes? II In the read Hides machetes which tears ignorance in shreds Kwaku Ananse’s morals Which walked the spoken of the sages of […]
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CANE OF GOD
Quack quack quack The voices of ducky deceits sing Like a choir in symphony In temples haunted by God Monies from impoverished pockets Cry for their owners From bellies to clothes To shoes to watches To cars to perfumes On parodies of preachers II Ghosts of stomachs haunt houses of worship Pernury taunts clever minds […]
Amedzofe. In biblical terms that would be our version of the Garden of Eden. In Ewe language, this place name means “the origin of mankind”. In a sense, that makes sense. The town is not only the highest human settlement in West Africa; in this part of the world, it is also the closest place […]
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I PRAY FOR YOU
It is a machine We, rolling to end up drawn Like lotter numbers As seen and unseen souls jubilate But a win today Expires tomorrow A loss today Heals tomorrow II There is nothing too awful Some live like vultures Not that they crave not for belonging-beds But misfortunes have housed them into vultures Always […]
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GIGI FOR CHALE WOTE FESTIVAL
This Saturday and Sunday, #GIGI will steal the show at the #ChaleWote festival. Everyone who comes to the fair wearing #GIGI will leave with something exciting. There will be a draw, and winners will get FREE #GIGIs (show up at the WearGHANA stand in your #GIGI, drop your card or name on a piece of […]
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PRIESTS OF THE gODS
Dancing in possessionisms ‘Akom’ climbs the seat of Christiandom Veiled by the all Powerful Holy Bible Hiding the powders and poduas And straw skirts In suits, and clothes sewn by modernity What is the name of potent but failed gods hiding in alien myths? II When did Atwea house abosom kokroko To get legs to […]
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TAKE ME TO GOLD COAST
Take me back Back to gold coast Where salt and mirror Beat the price of gold II Take me back Back to Gold Coast Where naivity was bliss And minds suckled from the breast of nature As none cared about the peak of stature III Take me back Back to Gold Coast Where snow so […]
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CONJUGAL CALLINGS (Adult Poetry)
It is a weird night A weird night where hens Open their traps of bliss In contrast to the merry go rounds And dizzy spells penaltying for the goals II It is a weird night Even femme frogs block the commercial street Hoping to pay off buyers After giving off their best goods for free […]
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INDUCED HELL
Skies of the throne of Freejustice Rain to ruins Like ships draining their seas while at sea At high fees The waves that keep them afloat Are divided into three II The blind waves Which push like donkeys even in drought The on-fence waves Which would give their lives Than lift fingers to right any […]
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GOD ON BOARD
I know God is on board the human ship On this wobbly twerking worldly sea He is the air that blows so fair He is the water which quenches all thirsts He is the myth that saves data of our minds He is the breath that engines our moves The question Why He hides in […]
Ghana is a country blessed. I say this not because it is beautiful, has many mineral and agricultural assets or living conditions are better, but because we have the crown of peace. Of late, I foresee chaos as many decisions we are making today are like terrorists of our peace in the near future. Why […]
The annual 2016 Ghana Association of Teachers of English has been held in Tamale from Sunday, 7th August to Friday; 12th August 2016. The conference held on the theme: The Falling Standards of Teaching English, The Role of Teachers of English took place at The Tamale Polytechnic at Education Ridge, Tamale. On Monday, 8th August […]
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STILL THE LAND STANDS
If the winds destroy the umbrella And the elephant finishes all the grassy trees And the cock pecks all the worms and crumbs And the eagle eats the cock Do remember Still the naked land stands II The naked land will stand Disgraced Like a queen caught by prostitution law Of an unforgiving god As […]
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IF GOATS WERE ELEPHANTS
The creator wove his world Like Kwaku Ananse weaves his web Carefully Giving unto each gifts to fend I can’t fathom the choas in chimes If goats were elephants Can you? II From the hair of the sky To the toes of the earth Everything in and without Would shiver and hover At the visit […]
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INSAMADEOLOGY
Over pampered knowledge Is now climbing the staircase of madness When it reaches its peak Many movements will germinate Like strong weeds Which fear no cutlasses, hoes Let alone mowers II If fingers break through Eyes of the expired They are sure to call a battle for their eyes On the grounds of hallucinations Where […]
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DUNGEONS ON DEATH
A decade ago I was a decade less from three My leaves as fresh as the morning dew My stem as strong as the odum tree My roots as firm as the nim tree But here I wilt Into the dungeons of death II My voice was as sharp as the sharpest sword Cutting down […]
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THAT FIRST TIMER
Koo Kum anticipated and anticipated Like a villager promised a city tour His crown being his foolish grin When he thought of his awesome spin On top of the heavenly angel Whose beauty had consumed All her gargantuan flaws In his eyes II Mere fantasies made him drool His perfect words Manly looks Controlling initiation […]
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CEASE FIRE
Fire for fire Hired by sires Like rains univited Kills desires II Every mouth with a sound like a linguist Yearns to be heard Every head with a mind like a king Yearns to be studied Every heart like a die hard fun supports its products A look down on one Pumps out disaster From […]
Last year, two Ghanaian writers Kofi Akpabli and Nana Awere Damoah gave themselves two targets: to do regular (preferably quarterly) public book readings and to extend the reading sessions beyond Accra. Last year the duo held two readings. But could not go outside Accra. For 2016, they had the same objectives and so far, they […]
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IN THE BOTTLE
Kwabena Amoafo lives in a bottle A bottle too small even for his hand A bottle whose scent throws more punches To noses than the best boxers alive But like a diminished grasshopper He lives in what he blinds Putting pressure on his people II What at all is in the bottle That has the […]
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OUT OF CONTROL
Pleasure rains are falling Funny how many drains Need to reign Red stockings Beautiful and wicked heels With a shameless mask On a cute angelic face Hairs stand guard I am out of control II Out of control The chariots are heavily decorated Flowers with pouty mouths Daring to be plucked Hearts on fire Calling […]
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