In this very wake Some elephants are uprooting grass Like angry farmers battling weeds Under their precious crops The only difference Is they don’t turn back To gather, eat or mulch All they desire is to pass and kill with no apologies II In this very wake Some antelopes feel their boneless grinds In the […]
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. :)
Under starful skies With many my mindless sighs And many a boozing sessions He looked into my eyes Touched my cold cheeks like his goddess And with a strained voice Confessed “I love you a bit tipsy I see no building of intimidation Which craves for bombs and guns to break I can come close […]
LET’S HAVE THAT DANCE
First, hold my left hand And let’s together stand Pull me like an egg on a little plate to you And with your right hand Feel my heart Close your eyes Think of your heartbeats See if you have or have had the same rhythm Put on your sage hat And let’s dance II I […]
A hand of the mind in the hands of the holy A hand of the mind in the hand of the devil All eyes see is a tranqil and cute creation A catalyst of oppression helping the latter A loser of conscience backing the former I am a chaos in storm A weak pillar in […]
SKIN OF THE EARTH
We are like a little herd of land Parading ungratefully on her face Spitting, digging, rigging and deficating Into her mouth Looking down upon her toil Slapping many parts to spoil their coil Heating parts to mostly boil As many animals use them as foil Soil II We erupt volcanic hurts Caring not her skin […]
A TURKEY FROM TURKEY
I know a turkey from Turkey Who thinks Thanksgiving and Christmas are red and dark Their final destinations are so murky That they find no way to their presence mark II The turkey complained about usurpers in Turkey And how they colonised them in charm And threw their beauties in the murky To spice their […]
TIME ON WHEELS
I am just a visitor thrown to tour  I want to use patience to view and store The beauties of life and feel its happiness to the core But time’s wheels come to the fore II It runs like hell’s flame is in a craze Leaving me like a hawk in an eagle’s daze On […]
PAN AFRICAN ANGST (EXCERPT)
There is a Pan African anger Which has created many an avenger So much they want a changer With one body, they work like a fate arranger They curse the foreign endanger And say their faith is our freedom exchanger And our old gods imprisoned for their baby in the manger Who is a complete […]
GOVERNMENT PAYROLL, PAIN STROLL (EXCERPT)
I have never seen a being Walking proudly on a head Well, not physically And I pray I get no eyes to see the spirits In their special motions II Never have I seen fish nets Arresting little fishes As huge ones slip through Like huge clothes being skilfully discarded … Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
When right frights take flight Bright heights fly like kites Great mights see nights and know plights As their unrights fly in sight seeking to be upright Causing stomachs some tights Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Picture credit: Google images)
WHEN THE TRANQUILS ARE TOUCHED
Lying cool under the shaded sky Like the almost dead who knows no pain It gives no clue as to what is new Until the sky sends its tears by Not only are her eyes detected Her hands and legs kick As their complaints are heard from far Oh what can happens When tranquil waters […]
WHERE LOVE HAS BROUGHT ME
Eno Adwoa-Okua Please cross the ancestral line And put your sleepy buttocks On my shocked seat And listen I am so interested in what you will have to say to this one II An Adam claims I am his Eve Says something about dancing in front of the naked skies Drinking the virgin dew of […]
WHEN HARMATTAN STRIKES
When harmattan strikes Most trees are barbered As seas stand still As though their god’s national anthem Is playing through a Sharia law-microphone with hidden cameras II When harmattan strikes Ovaries of trees are cleared for fertility As their foetuses battle For the waters of life In order to live their seasons Caring not about […]
CRITICAL PRAYER
Ye gods of the land Open your hidden eyes And take these feathers Almost stripped of its skin To distill your ears To hear the prayers I pour Through the ‘nsafufuo’ my meek calabash has to give And help the land respond ‘ewie!’ To all the points of prayer II Let the evil fishes in […]
ANGELS (PERSONAL CINQUAIN)
Asabea Asihene good, kind and intelligent beyond measure giving, loving and guiding she makes feelings like treasures Sexy Yaa II Shirley Banafoe strong, loving, forgiving shielding from the biting ring of the world’s cold bringing warmth where fear breeds Naa Agowa III Dr. Arthur soft, feminine, pleasant guiding in matrimonial heritage bringing hope where stubbornness […]
MONDAY (DIAMANTE)
Monday discipline, anxious starting, hurrying, working first-born, Â neatness, orderliness, composition Annoying, boring, running wonderful, powerful “Dwoda” Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Picture: Google pics)
The St. Monica’s Anglican Junior High School is a school at Bonwire, the home of the famous kente cloth of Asantes. The school has 98 students  with two classrooms and one uncompleted classroom (a little above foundation level). It has no staff common room, no office for the headteacher and the most important things […]
THE POOR BEAUTIFUL ONION
She was beautiful at birth Plumpy to perfection With promissory juice And was as fresh as the morning dew Then it caught its owner’s eye He searched frantically for its DNA Which required he peeled her So he peeled And peeled And peeled And peeled Until it reached the bottom of its lifespan There was […]
DUMMY CHAT WITH GOD
God Please don’t be bored This chest does many questions hoard It is just time they show on your board II What do you prefer? Hymns like tall airs forcing deep roots to tap And heads of tall grasses to sway? IIb Or praise songs monster-gangster-like With clap like Satanic palms Slapping the cheeks of […]
THE DRINKING SPOT
Tables and couple chairs Host couples behaving like fake old clothes posing as new II Other couples truly bask in the shores of love Knowing not the sharks and snakes awaiting in the deep waters Waiting to give them a chase III Faces of the young feeding fat on pockets of orangutans Hide under gargantuan […]
SILLY SAGE
Love is the string Stuck is the ring Patience is the king And listening is the ding Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding II Anger makes a fling Partners make a sling Trust is the wing And helps for love to sing Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding III Ding dong ding dong […]
HIS LETTERS AND FLOWERS
They arrived made like electric Their touches proved to be eccentric But scored him a hat trick In a game whose thread I held to trick Flowers and words II Like unseen snakes They evaporated in my pores Like powerful rakes They gathered love to be stored Like powerful waves they whispered Sending shivers with […]
THAT I AM A FEMINIST
That I am a feminist Does not make me a lioness Asking for fairness with mouth Holds no threats of witchcraft Neither does it hold bullets for crucifixion Let alone bombs for company extinction II I know there are the kinds who want war And house machetes, arrows and spears Bullets and bombs of words […]
CORASON DE TELENOVELAS (EXCERPT)
We were content With Santo and the Mfantsi vocals In hilarious moral satires on screens They weren’t coloured Neither were they classy But they gave us “us” at our horribles and bests Until Acapulco Bay sailed in Sweeping almost all off our feet As carefully chosen faces displayed the fantasies of all Most ladies conceived […]
Many Me’s
Originally posted on Source of Inspiration:
Pantry full of food clear spring water to drink charming little house inside a floresta I am safe, healthy, happy. Another me lives in war-torn squalor struggling to survive the aftermath of bombs floods, increasing crime, despair. Which me is real are there more if so, where does one…
When I heard
Interestingly heartbreakingly beautiful.
Interesting review. Love the Professor already.
So close to Xmas
Originally posted on barclaydave:
I know Muslims don’t celebrate the birth of Christ, but if they come to a country which does then they should respect the traditions of their hosts. At this time of year we hear stories of people being told to remove their decorations as it goes against the teaching of Islam.…
We can never know The pure prayers of whimpering crickets No matter the force behind their voices II Like paintings with no colorful inks We can never know The real colours of clothes Worn by our forefathers As they stood to pose for the cameras Only glad to leave their images, no matter how bleak, […]
Smyrna, I Know…
Originally posted on THE RIVER WALK:
“I know about your suffering and your poverty—but you are rich! I know the blasphemy of those opposing you. They say they are Jews, but they are not, because their synagogue belongs to Satan. Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil will throw some…
ONLY A MEMORY
Originally posted on SUSANNE LEIST:
A fireworks display burns bright for a short time before flickering out. Leaving no trace of itself behind, Only a memory of its fading glory. Such is our time on earth. It can be short and sweet. It can be sad and painful. A brief time to leave our mark behind. We must…
Fact of the day
Originally posted on Globalinfo4all:
I love this fact. Much more to think about yet laughable. Globalinfo4all View original post
Hurt people hurt people (the book)
Originally posted on Akua Agyekumwaa:
Blood boils through your veins manifesting in the seething of your teeth whenever you see them because of the pain they caused you. The sexual abuse, verbal, emotional and psychological abuse that made you feel dirty and useless any time you think about it. Are you tired of going through…
We are like different trees On this planet earth Each family like a tree with one stem With same but dynamic branches Which have different same but different sized leaves Leaves which house and protect same but different fruits Fruits with same but different seeds Seeds with different destinies Some given chances to relive Others […]
A TRAVELLER’S FEAR
A traveller’s fear Is to walk into his death trap With own feet And with no chasing from an enemy II A travellers fear Is to be bitten By the cruel teeth of vehicular bones As her buttocks cuddle its sofas III A traveller’s fear Is to be trapped in the nets of deceit And […]
BY HER GRACE
In the whims of the torturous wind Was I, a little leaf Onto the doors of your masters You looked and found a stem And got a flower pot For this random leaf Watering after getting the permission of your masters As I grew, you were there like ghost Unseen but always a feeling to […]
UNCHANGING
The airs of the piper Have no authority They flow at the command of the tune payer Giving power when power is needed Giving sadness when requested Going at the pace of dancing feet Who show their gladness by moving I know all that But the piper can turn tune payer After working like a […]
Nana Awere Damoah’s launch was a successful launch. The programme which took place at the GNAT Hall in Accra on December 4, 2015 saw the likes of many huge personalities in attendance. Guests arrived at 5:30pm and this was the programme line-up. 0600Â Â Opening Prayer 0605Â Â Welcome – MC 0610Â Â Introduction of Chairperson and Keynote […]
CHORAL CROWS OF IMPATIENT COCKS
As you crow One calling, others responding Know hearts are different And there exist the unfortunate As the fortunate bounces around II There are fears like a little soft cotton wool Lying gently without your air like crows Now you blow and they wake Rudely whisked to the unknown Stirring pots of bravery like “banku […]
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is for the thorn nest That turned midwife to my royal thoughts II Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is for the many broken and weak birds I came to find And those who came to meet my caring gaze III Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggg This is for the tiresome years I built a safe nest Which tore under our […]
CHINESE CHARACTERS
I see lines Lines parrallel Lines horizontal Lines creating shed-like boxes To hold other characters like mothers hold their babies Few arcs bend like willing prostitutes As other strikes act like working spears Crossing to mate like goats in the midst of their young What about the little strikes hiding like babies on the backs […]
WALKING INTO MINDS
Walking into the secrecy of minds Locked deep in wishdom I met yearnings of many kinds Hidden deep in needdom With huge parcels in binds Hoping for God’s grantdom As shy nails shout of their fears for giving ways II Minds who need partners occasionally sit and stare keenly Into the eyes of preachers Shouting […]
OH IF I HAD WINGS
Oh if I had wings of an eagle I would fly like the king of the sky Loving all to submission Protecting the weak Pecking the proud Honouring the swift And feasting on the notorious II Oh if I had wings of the dove I would rid the sky from demons and ills And order […]
MOULDERS OF THE EARTH
(In thanks to farmers on the occasion of Farmer’s Day Celebration) We are breaths and voices We are legs and hands We are hearts and minds Thanks to your sweats to fill our stomachs II We definitely see no blood When eating crops which you toil to harvest There are thorns marks We know There […]
FARMERS (DIAMANTE)
Farmers savers, lands working, helping, surviving cold, wet, fend, defend tiring, digging, healing, hurts, life Feeders
THOUGHTLESS
Like a sheep grazing a green field Like a lion fishing through much antelope meat Like hawks in the midst of wingless fowls Like a saint sitting on thoughts of God Minds wish for slates of perfect abundance With no thoughts of who gets hurts From grass to fowls All know feelings of pain Who […]
DIFFERENT LEVELS
As to why the hen Acts not like the eagle In feeding its young I have not the faintest idea II Could it be that Eagles are too strong so take on the search? If so, then how come hens hatch more? Isn’t hatching difficult? But even I must admit the strength of eagles’ wings […]
When poor brick layers Lay their bricks Many turn spitters Many; urinators Extremists turn breakers Only determined layers Those who foresee their buildings finish Work on through the hurdles Ignoring the shouting metaphors Like unfeeling bulldozers Discerning minds get the puzzle Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
SPECTACLES OF INNOCENCE (CRAZY STANZAS)
When I wore spectacles of innocence And wore the clothes of fancy daydreams When I walked the grounds seeking swift knights And had the smile of complete trust When I walked in authority Thinking dreams could be commanded When I had the shape of a perfect heart And had a mind untainted by bitter experiences […]
SEDUCTIVE WHISPERS
Whispers of passions Like voices of seductive airs Roam the streets charming II With gifts and curses Snaking like brown snakes in brown leaves Confusing their caught III Electrifying Are kisses known to be greetings Minds lose their thought zones IV Whether gifts of breath Or future centre shame Most actions, though lame, can’t be […]