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. :)
How are beings of the land To see the tears of beings in the sea? How does the sun see the light of a torch at its peak? How can the fish feel an aching wing? Can a whirlwind listen to the voice of the gentle breeze When it sees its dancing mate? II Daughter […]
Dear Moon Ply your night Like the nocturnal traveller you are For your crown of brightness To be seen by earthers From the throne of your sky II Do not jump into day Like a greedy human star Trying to usurp the glory of a budding For sun holds day’s glory And will make you […]
Pidgin language rules this land As ‘danduruwa’ rocks their world The rough voices of fans Working like ‘nikanika’ Can be heard from all corners In kiosks and single rooms As their curses of blowing heat Chase their footsteps While illegal wires cry their heated fates Some night workers Whose market flopped have mouths like pigs […]
Cupidic clothes Wrap me up I don’t mind the stupid Make this heart clap I need to feel bubbly like a fulfilled girl Happy like a champion Busy in thoughts like a fancy day dreamer Peaceful like an unstired river Flowy like sea waves Giggly like a plugged Barbie And drive on wheels of heaven […]
Heads abound In this room like a very fertile tree With many fruits to show Young heads show their flowery leaves Some dark brown Some black Some heads are like paths to bush farms Very cleared middles Forest on both sides Others; like farms with uneven bush burning Ha ha ha ha! Agyeiiiiiiii! Some heads […]
Like the gates of life The heaven are fully opened Its crown solidly on its head Its smile nicely in place Its arms widely opened It takes just love in spirit To get one through II Like the paths of streams The ears of heaven lie Waiting to be reached no matter the obstacles All […]
Gone are the bright Saturdays Where pots danced on happy heads As giggles followed gay girls Like their shadows to streams And hot gossips coloured their tongues like “alewa” Now the streams mostly come to them Following their instructions to flow Oh Clever gods!!! II Gone are the anxious hunters Those who yearned for their […]
Oh stone angel! Born in the palm of heaven With coolness and serenity As servants and companions Beautiful abodes As her eyes’ bonafied properties Healthy trees dancing on mountain tops Her protectors and breath givers Like a free bird She was born to fly in dancing Watching the rivers snake happily down her feet As […]
It is a game of healing And gives great feeling An emptying so fulfilling Frees strength jailing II Knock your mind To knock your lips To show your teeth In a smiling pose Touch your stomach And raise a sound Ha ha ha Isn’t it a great feeling? II Laugh it out Rain out the […]
When furious winds wake Some trees are uprooted Others break in two Others break into several pieces Others lose their branches Others lose their fruits Others lose their leaves But the toughest ones are unaffected And all affected have faith of resurrection When blessed rains visit Their only prayers; not to be visited by fire […]
I saw the blinding light Which shielded the dark I saw not the hidden fight Which was on its mark Until the light retired to sleep And the dark did the fight keep Hoping to victory reap II So I fought without a weapon Knowing the light took away my eyes And if I, my […]
A doll Its god A love No knowledge A break A hurt A fix Its fitness All secrets No memory to store You are the odd lines I am the even lines My God Your doll; me Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
The butterfly envies The flight of birds in higher realms And thinks it will do anything Anything to be higher II What the butterfly does not know Is that there are birds and there are birds There are birds ugly and wild There are birds beautiful and vulnerable There are birds normal but filthy There […]
I need to swim Swim in the streams of your eyes I need to bathe Bathe in the rivers of your mouth I need to massage Massage the inner chambers of your ears Like a thumb massaging strings of a guitar II I need to fit Fit into the cave of your neck I need […]
Mid day consumes morning Knowing not evening awaits As evening consumes mid-day Always trying to blend with night Even night forgets there is dawn Which clears the path for the morning Cruel morning which carries mid-day’s bitterness Consumes dawn into its tears A chase and a chase A swallow and a swallow Even shadows lengthen […]
When I was told about publicising a Ghanaian movie on amoafowaa.com, I showed no interest but my friend Perez Dziwornu insisted I did because of a special surprise, then this caught my attention. “New York, NY USA: The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, today announced the first 55 films to feature in […]
Creator! Maker of me! Granter! Wirer of thought of me! Like a novice I did wire Together a thought that aims to pain fire Like a coward I stand shivering Anticipating things that will cause me quivering Like a rat I feel smoke In a whole hole that is my own Hold me firm Messiah […]
Muddy minds may mar Clever courts can clear Devil dreams do drive But the sun won’t change its lane Not for your cause or mine II Bright birds breed best Cool characters can cheer Darers dare dreading details detained But note, the air won’t change its path Not for your cause or mine III Novices […]
Sing me no song of a tiger None of a lion None of a hyena For like a lost dove I can stand no scary roars II Sing me no song of a dog None of a bull None of a cow None of a goat Like the queen of quietude I can stand not […]
Night I loathe your footmat And fear your realm I dread your unconsciousness And pray away your time As I walk like a robot back and forth my dreams, The one your brother formed at his prime, His visions are like hell His thoughts; the heat that the Bible speaks of Where and how you […]
Hide and seek Is what they play The sun and moon seem very meek With a hide each slay With appearance they speak, freak, leak and peek Every second is their stirring day II We trust and curse as we seek They jump and hide as they play Hide and seek We dock, we clay […]
They plucked stars From their skies Like unripe mangoes from their trees And sent them to their dark earth To polish them in light One star after another Brought greed for more As pluckers turned merchants After turning some stars hunters of good stars Their own flesh and blood! II Parading bright stars on dirty […]
Headed by the indefatigable and hardworking Randy Sedem Agbodo and supported by Charity Batuure; the Autism Help Foundation got the full backing of the Wa School for the Deaf’s section of neuro disorders and the walk came off in the morning at exactly 9am. Some members of the community joined to lend their support to […]
April 2 of every year is World Autism Awareness Day and to commemorate this day, Autism Help Foundation organised walks in two regions, Northern and Upper West and partnered the Autism Ambassadors of Ghana to walk in Accra. The Yendi walk, with the pupils of Yumba Special School and Portia Dery’s African Youth Writers Organisation […]
April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day and for 2016, Autism Help Foundation is celebrating in style. It will start with us partnering the Autism Ambassadors of Ghana and other schools and associations in Accra on Saturday April 2, 2016 Then the Autism Help Foundation will move Yendi with Kampakuya Naa Abdulai Yakubu Andani to […]
This place of yearning Owns a churning As rain seeps through the pores of the earth And the earth cries in cracks for the thirst of it So does the yearning begs attention II Withering prime! Anxious crime! The bells loudly chime! Deeds deal not with dimes! Hold me in your arms Those strong arms […]
There must be a God for each! I believe there must be a God for each! Urging on their priced creations Breeding fierce competition Creating chances Being defeated Winning and cheering While they oposing losers cry There must surely be a God for each Creator of a model being to keep Programmer of every soul to […]
As time travels to my older soul I feel, in my mind’s palms, the hot coal Dreams are like lighted coals In an airy oven Situated in lairs of lion-like vixens Lairs whose entrance is made of the soils of thorns II Legs have to pierce in tears Eyes need to see their own blood […]
Miles with its wiles Have drawn a picture of longing Drawing mind closer to you Like a magnetic wave Pulled in by a metal wrapped in its interest II Glued in thoughts Separated in body I shake like a leaf in epileptic wind waves Eyes wide open and I fall Eyes tightly closed and I […]
In our ancestors’ future Culture was the path of security Of safety Of enlightenment Of peace Of protection II In our ancestors’ future We were clothed by culture’s silk Adorned by Odomankoma’s mental gold Given extra eyes by the seer of the sky To see distractors To teach and mould aliens to follow And not […]
In your shade I fear no fade When the devil, your presence, forbids As he, my happiness, lids I will be pushed by no defeat And will get, in your court, a seat For I know your enduring treat No matter the sad drum beat Your are my knot My beautiful time slot You are […]
Before Poku arrived in front of King Gyaas, Catcher told all the first cat family members present “I think we must find a way of not antagonizing them further to flee. Let’s find a way of making them understand that things will change and get them to settle in comfortably. Then we can appoint […]
Strange range Change arranges not emotions It scatters to litter in bitter happiness Or happy bitterness Like a painter who is colour blind Then carves familiarity like a new wife And makes all humans new husbands II strange range Wigs were once wicked spirits’ possessions Which needed days of emptied stomachs To deliver in heavenly […]
Like seeds We need rain Sunlight and air To bond with soil In order to grow II Like young plants We need your clearance Your guidance for endurance Your protection from legs and winds To grow in thickness to fruition III Like fruiting plants We need your protection From birds and pests To keep our […]
Vessels of love! Beautiful houses of homes! Owners of completeness! Fertile lands of the earth! Faces of welcomes! Bosses! Clearer of loses! Visions of clearer choices! Hearts like springs of goodness! Plants with nutritious breasts of vitality! Skies with lighted suns and moons! With stars which work to train fireflies To replace them to lead […]
(As part of the International Women’s Day, I composed this poem to congratulate all women. No matter where you are, no matter who you are, no matter what you are going through, no matter your status, Happy International Women’s Day! Be the queens you are and rock your worlds. You are special and nobody can […]
At the mercy of the sentient being Whose breath was like mono gas With an elephantine emotion Which jumped like a servant at his command I croaked like a choked frog In his hidden gutters Gutters which obeyed their master In soundproofing, aiding and abetting the crime of pain II Daylight now flood the candle […]
They say life begins at forty A year to pension, what have you gained? Marriage to many lands in bonds of servitude? Knees kissing gravels to lower thy face? A broom to sweep your dirt under your tattered mat? A choir to sing your horrids as flourishes? A heart to collect unwanted scraps And use […]
With one mind All sought to find Freedom which in bondage hid to blind But none triumphed but one in a kind Kwame Nkrumah! Stopper of the colonial grind! II We have travelled a long way Graduated to adulthood so can have our say Way past our childish play Not so easy a stay But […]
Porcupine Poku was the chief of the porcupine soldiers. He was a gallant animal with lots of spears to throw. Skilled in armoury, the entire animal kingdom feared him. Coupled with the fact that he commanded great respect among his own people and could move all the porcupines, no animal dared look him twice in […]
Kwame Osei climbs trees Whenever he me sees He says he’ll pay my fees Then whine like bugged bees But whenever papa sees, he flees II Kojo Dzakpasu agbadza dances Whenever he me sees in his chances He, his muscles enhances As he my face glances Warning all to watch their stances Behaving like a […]
Writers Project of Ghana proudly presents the second reading for 2016, featuring Nigerian lawyer and writer Elnathan John. This event is scheduled for Saturday 5th March 2016 from 4.30 PM at Vidya Bookstore, Osu. You are cordially invited to join us for the reading. Admittance is free of cost. For more, visit: http://writersprojectghana.com/elnathan/index.html
Tears Falls Bruises Strength Weakness Frailty Like weak plants We are tested Some uprooted The un-needed weeded The favoured pampered Until we grow Shed our fruits into barrenness And are cut down to be replaced By needed planta or seeds Such is we who think in foreverness Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
You were beautiful Your coconuts’ early openings just wonderful Your need to lead Overbearing but powerful Why do you now look pitiful? II Most of your children now roam Roam the forest of doom Leaving the street of morals Because a cane on a skin Draws your judges’ hammer, Your youngs now fly with flawed […]
It has appeared Whether loved or feared Whether hooted or cheered Until the curtain of darkness appear None can actually clear II It will choose its mood Whether bad or good Whether confusing or understood Whether there is famine or food Whether estated or hooded Whether hanging or rooted III You can choose to remember […]
Ah! Ordinary fly I am too plain for you to strain So you sigh And look at me with disdain You love the lie And all those who like paintings live in colour Thinking not of any disorder II Chase the “real” butterflies Know their nectar taste and oh! Pray not for rain Fall for […]
The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) arranged with the Ghana Trade Fair Authority to host the 20th edition of the fair in Tamale at the Tamale Sports Stadium. The fair is on the theme “Two Decades of International Trade Fairs in Ghana: Exploring Business Opportunities in the SADA Zone of Ghana”, seek to harness the vast investment […]
It was a worried night One which caged all things bright II It was a worried night in a cave One which refused to behave And craved to be saved III It was a worried night One which croaked and roared in slow flight Like the ghost of a materialistic demon Forced to exit its […]
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A rosy morning sunrise prances… (In a delicate sunbeam ballet) Upon snowy February branches… A frosty-day-sparkle-melt-away! Spring warmth on winter dances; Quick encounter a seasonal play! Yearly rendezvous brief romances… Warmth of life leads cold astray! Icy dissolve nurture life’s chances, Green rises to overthrow all gray! Glitter-to-glint magnifies enhances, Hope-…
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