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. :)
I saw a juicy fruit On a very huge tree One said to have fruitful seeds Making “kwaa-brefre” stand at ease II Its smell, so potent Its colour so attractive A youthful and ripe look I stretch but can’t fetch Its tree holds it so high Why? III Thorns are hired to it protect Leaves […]
A fish with parched throat Afloat the vast ocean waves Gets no mercy cries From a flying bird right up Drought in flood is deceptive II A bird in flying Can never show breathlessness Let alone be saved By a sheep walking the land Can minds be blamed for thinking? III A sheep in sweating […]
Flapping wings In anger slings Break down Even in centre town Let’s forget it all With beers and cheers II The naughty spider Hides as a hurtful rider Must we chase and chase and chase? Let’s forget it all With beers and cheers III Dogs fancy their backing Licking their lovings Scaring their foes Let’s […]
We See To be II We Tea To plea III We Fee To flee IV Me Thee Are fleas V Stings on strings Ringed on strings Breakable things Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 6th August, 2016
When the shores of sleep Wash dreamed souls Into immobile bodies At the first crow of the king of cocks Let not the waves of stench Give away the carcasses Slaughtered by fantasy horses Who fled and led their opponents To their chambers To take what souls they deemed needed II When tears from priced […]
All in slumber By the crow of cocks Wake and line by your street Especially those with itchy ears Busy mouths And gossip eyes Abena Gyantra I will be seen passing II After working my pants into tatters Messing my hair into dreads And working my waist into a cripple That should add to your […]
His ladle is busy Stirring them together Seeking harmony where hardness reigns Don’t they hurt? His arms? II I am a watermelon I see some mango And oh! There is an orange And ah there lies some banana All shedding their juices Hoping for a common ground Look at how that apple struggles to blend […]
Heed peace’s call And stand tall Or fall Look what just fell in your court The option ball So don’t be dull Gather all In the thinking hall And strengthen peace’s wall II From the days the cock crowed On the Ghana throne To these times of the umbrella We have kept it strong No […]
Tongue When you taste the sweet Savour the taste And dance to its beat Like a queen who has conquered in war II Tongue When you taste the sweet With bitter pinches Hold your reins Like a great warrior at war And follow the trot-rhythms Of your cherished horse III Tongue When you taste the […]
What is good about me? I am a pen Who shines bright in sadness Selling my pain As traders sell their goods With and without shame II What is so good about me? I am a pen envied in happiness Selling success as the sky gives rain Standing far and untouchable Receiving bullets of curses […]
I am a fruitful tree In my season I fruit in magnanimity Knowing no difference Between beaks, hands and rot I feed them all II But years have painfully schooled Codifying I have been clearly fooled Even by those I thought I’ve cooled As my fruitful season has hosts Hosts greater than any audience From […]
Listen Listen like the blind left behind For hidden in the caves of soft sounds Which creep in the midst of chaos Is the way to decay And the way to today Hearing none Calls for monsters in human butchery So listen! II Look Look hard For in the midst of the sea Lies drinks […]
Each being is a problem A problem with a formula A formula which stands as key To unlock at appropriate times For all to see So I am studying hard II Like maths There are those like simple sets Those like easy fractions Those like intriguing surds Those like scary simultaneous equations And those like […]
He who threads on the insurer’s path Sees the ghosts of profits In the clutch of misfortunes And wears a protection charm Always praying or exorcicing II He who threads on the path of danger Plays with anger Making happiness a stranger One to be toyed and slaughtered Even under the umbrella of blessings III […]
2016 Barcamp Tamale came off at the GNAT hall in Tamale on 30th July, 2016 with over 200 people in attendance. The motto was as usual “Vim” and “More Action, Less Talk” with the theme “Empowering the Youth for a Productive Nation”. Â Many mentors from Agriculture to Humanities to Aeronautics mentored participants who left satisfied […]
I was the happy mat Glad to be stepped on Honoured to be lied on And like the lifeless Where legs kicked Was my happy home II Even when my seams strapped I waited to be stepped on Refusing to rise Acknowledging no horror eyes That mirrored my plight And pleading mouths Who sang my […]
Dig the foundation Like a mason with the strength of a bull Let me shovel Like the strong apprentice Loving her vocation Hoping rains of the future aid To mix our cement of need With our sand of laughter To solidify our foundation of love Smile, no matter how tough Even ants build huge anthills […]
Lock it Even if it takes chains of thorny discipline Lock it Even if it needs nails of suppression Lock it As king Agorkoli locked his subjects Supervising mostly to strengthen its walls Lock it And tie the red host of trouble For left ajar Trouble plays its romance Like magnets do pins Lame litters […]
I need a Jesus black as coal One who protects our seas And grows its trees Paying land fees for fertility II I need a Jesus who lived through a black maiden Probably from Krobo One who had not gone through dipo rites And was not struck down by Nzuleizu gods Or an Akan who […]
Hunting dog in the wild Never think you are human child When the hunt clears And its game fulls Bones will be your portion II If the hunting zeros And games turn tables You will be the first to fall As your master flees Forgetting you were a part of the whole III If the […]
Introduced by Onyeka Nwelue and forwarded by Chris Worla Essikpe, Secondary Rhythms is fresh on Amazon. Dr. Mrs. Philomena Yeboah, Lecturer, KNUST English Department had this to say about it: “Amoafowaa’s Secondary Rhythms captures the daily battles of her protagonist Abena, who fights against the emptiness and squalor of her family and personality, using diligence […]
Dawn is a path finder Of what days, in cloth hide While many losers fear to morning face Accomplished men can’t wait to greet its palms Still, the vigilant cock crows Kokrokoooo To alert them all II There are cases and there are cases Humans who walk on toes And those who walk on foes […]
If I ever truly love I will love many in one And the one in many II If I ever truly love I will love a lion in frame and half heart With eagle feathers With the prowess of cat in cuddling One who has some bit of dog’s servitude Mixed with some pride of […]
Jacob joined Jack Jamming joys in Jack Frost Jackals joked of jackpots Jackets of jackasses just by Jack Robinson Joined the jungle Jamming the jaunt Jehovah’s jet rejected the jigs Leaving the jitneys to journey On their joy rides Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
Odomankoma the wise Craftily hid it in all things That we may look Look and think Think and link Link and create And so it is That man created pipe The source of his urine as inspiration Well, so I think II Odomankoma the all knowing Did wisdom in all hid Thus herbalists looked Studied […]
Even the most disciplined of famished cats Cannot be a meat security Neither can a hungry toothless dog Resist the temptation of licking a fresh bone Like cats, men sit in conundrum When “Akosua-kuma” calls II Let lions roar Signalling their return Into dens they occupy Minds intoxicated by “Akosua-kuma” Will hear them as bells […]
When a queen flees It is not for lack of wealth Her stool might be a hell of fire Though it digs jealousies in damsels Her crown might have pinning pins or thorning thorns Although it hunts greed in ladies Her robes might house termites Or soul’s small poxes, Even though it looks devine in […]
There are those who fear beings In colours different than theirs As mice fear cats There are those who fear corpses Knowing it is a state unskippable As what the air receives without balance falls But there are those who bath corpses Thinking them mud II There are those who fear ghosts As rats fear […]
If I were a Fulani begger With no future to chase With no desire to change I would take my womb To the tomb Never letting it taste any seed Let alone bear fruit II Why will I another create When the tree of begging lies in me? It takes shame to be lame It […]
My second publication is finally on Amazon. Thanks to all followers and well wishers. High school is a level by itself. It is the stage where teens grow into adulthood and elites seek to better themselves into tertiary. Secondary Rhythms tells the story of a girl who goes through it all; poverty, bullying, jealousy, challenges […]
In the beginning of creation Sicknesses were the greedy hunters of death They poxed Boxed Layed their coughs They shivered Angered Boiled and ached Then taboos added to the list Until death added a new recruit War II War was planted from our greed The land which owned We sought to own The will for […]
Time sits Immortally charming on its throne Wondrous like flower of the holy spirit Tasking suns to open morning gates Caring not for celebrations Mournings Or indifference Nor dawns thrown rudely into the past II Suns advance to bosshood As time progresses Melting the weak to flea for cover Heating the poor to cooking Just […]
Times have travelled Travelled far But what the seers see In closed eyes Even the tallest man alive Will never see with million eyes wide opened So they speak not in plains II Poetry is not naked words For thoughtless prostitutes Neither is it naked wires To shock into reality fools with no eye thoughts […]
#Barcamp #Tamale is networking the best of Tamale on #July30. #Bctamale is a day of learning, sharing, networking and mentoring. What to expect? Mentoring by professionals or entrepreneurs. Networking with likeminded individuals – you could find your business or project partner Celebrating some of the best of Tamale and beyond Breakout sessions that you can […]
(To all followers and readers, due to some personal problems, I am taking a break from blogging for some few weeks. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Thanks for all your love. I leave you with this) Sold souls saunter like savages Screening sabres Sacking strange sailors Screaming and sailing Silencing in sarcasms Stealing […]
Can I hate the cold And its mother rains? Can I? Like horrified frogs Eyes will pop to see the demonic words Walk majestically out of my mouth Why will I? They would ask When the kind rains nurse the earth And mate seeds to grow To feed all Including the ungrateful me II I […]
You are my cock for the night One I will hang on my cross When desires creep out to lust site My ropes, you will come across Tied in hands, legs and sight I will fire your feathers, not to your loss But your gain in high right For then, I will be your boss […]
In the land of dreamers Beds and pillows are horses Sleep; reins Which trot them to all their desires Their only set backs are When nature calls And when hunger and thirst pinch II The neighbouring land of dreamers Is fantasies Whose work tools are immobility And imagination of wishes Like magicians They get to […]
To the devout Christian When the Islamic cock crows It is noise unprecedented II To the committed Muslim Sounds of claps Loud voices of prayers Stomping feet in Satanic battles Are like disco songs In their tired beds Unnecessary noise III To the African traditionalist Muslims are parodies of the alien Mohammed (SAW) Their laughable […]
It is difficult for a cat To look at garnished meat Without a reaction from its throat and tongue I guess II It will be difficult For a fowl to live with edible grains Without pecking Very difficult I guess I thought humans differ with minds III Under the warm sun And in the presence […]
Angry rains Slow drains Causing flooding In innocent crowding Why? II Little fire embracing an Airy empire Causing burns In flowery forests Why? III Check your grounds To choose your battlefields Check your drains To pour your rains To eliminate fires on your conscience Where you reside forever Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
Weevils find ways to get into grains As clouds find ways to assemble in the sky When pianos lose their sound They become scrap for rubbish collectors Gather your strength As needy fingers gather nuts And like a mangetic force You will attract it all All that were created just for you Just be you […]
Event Highlight for this Weekend 📖 Nana Awere Damoah & Kofi Akpabli host a Book Reading dubbed, ‘Tickling the Nsempiisms’ today in Ghana. 25/06/2016 @ Vidya Bookshop, Osu @ 4:30pm. Admission is free. **Directions to Vidya below. It is located off Oxford Street opposite SSNIT Hospital and next to Blue Royal Hostel.
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It is that time When ability matches agility And humility fears no fatality Kicking strength like a football Marking sanctity where banality lived II A rabbit has won Won a wrestling match After defeating a lion Its weak paws gnawing at its strong neck Lion furs aiding its strength Horrified eyes look Begging for their […]
The reins of reigns is slippery Like a smooth skinned fish In slimmy waters A firm hold is no mandate of ownership As many interruptions await Hand in hold might get tired Or be hit to lose Or even be cut to fall Coups abound in crowned seas And the waves differ by each day […]
Things are knocking things Making humanity more laughable If spiders build human houses And dogs build webs If ants stay in caves As lions stay in anthills I guess creation will turn upside down II Here we are Drawing many a bar Some hens pretend to be cocks Some cocks pretend to be hens As […]
It stirs the pots of love On bright fires of happiness And takes out the juiciest meats Leaving soups watery with their crumbs II When death hurts It swoops down like a hawk And arrests the most promising chickens Leaving its family too stifled to weep III When death hurts Tears hide from eyelids Fancying […]
If I fall like a tree And my physics lie not me Like a sky bird, fly free You fragile soul in a mortal bowl II Look for a world so free Where the sun, air and clouds agree And the moon in every darkness will be Like a gallant soldier on guard duty III […]
I killed you In my dreams When your flaws burnt bright And I lost my way in fears of screams II I killed you in my creams When your texture dried And my skin lost all moisture As I, all the seas of tears cried III I killed you in my dims When your light […]
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