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. :)
The world is a church A church which has welcomed all From the petty thief To the grand liar From the hungry pauper To the ambitious climber From the true worshippers To the hypocrites If the church is shaking silly And its winds are turning murderous Let’s empty our stomachs and kneel As we pray […]
There really is a twitch To this notion of a witch There is a reason witch rhymes with rich When hardwork flies in hands Of those we deem less in capabilities We develop lenses to magnify their flaws Making goodness turn evil My oh my! There is a reason witch rhymes with rich So calm […]
We embarked on this journey on November 14, 2015. We took off at 5: 20am and reached there around 9:30 am THE HISTORY OF THE CROCODILES OF PAGA NAVE (NAH-VE) Paga’s patriach and founder Nave’s story goes back more than a dozen generations to Timpela in Kampala in present day Burkina Faso and begins with […]
Greeetings ooooo Finally, finally the D day is here. To give thanks and praise to God almighty for how far He has brought us, we are holding an online church service. Here’s the order if service please. We know it might take a life of its own but this is to give it some structure […]
I think I know there is a God But why do I mostly feel His rod? Does He not know it makes me bored To all his lack of helping hoard? How can He whip our linking chord And give me pain I can’t afford? When He really knows I have no sword And all […]
In this lonely cloth Are the fingers of cold The channels of heat of when I will be sold By the price tag society has placed On my determined mind II In this cloth Are thoughts playing pi lo loo Only without the happy giggles Shrivelling the grounds of peace III In this cloth Are […]
The ant that thinks to bomb its kind Forgets there exist danger which needs battalions What is the cause of murdering minds? What is the payment: Of sending souls Into the dark Of crocheting minds to think so dark Of mirroring deaths without a mark Of rearing dogs to hunt same dogs? Sad sad sad […]
You turned into the swaying shrubs Which stood at the mercy of the mastery air And waved so wild like a crying child At the debris of my speeding vehicular air II Sad they have no mouth as you To convey a message involving us two To clap in happiness or shout a boo At […]
My ears woke before my eyes In a night whose journey was neither here nor there Hoping to hear songs of beautiful-voiced birds Who sang to souls for eyes to search for their star selves Instead, they heard weak chirping complains Of a handfuls of pest-like sort of birds Accompanied by a feeble taunt Of […]
Suns have been pimped by light In courts of riches no matter how high Once upon a time Suns were the only eye leaders The only dry heaters And the only tools of light wherever So they were named after gods II None wanted to see suns frown “Of what use are frowning suns?” They […]
As the midget looks at the tallest being Like the heavens he wishes to be The tallest in turn feels the pain of bowing bones And wishes to cut a little off to perfectly fit At the same time harbouring fears of bone breakages When his remains needs to be returned To the belly of […]
There is a weak voice Coming out of your lungs without choice Squeaking overwhelmingly like a mouse Which has found itself in a mad house But your love for me is highly aroused II. Your eyes tell it all Your pains through your fall Your confusions through my call Bottling in transparency, making you dull […]
I have a dream A dream to erase labelling With a thought eraser A dream to render all colourless With a fairy love charm for all colours I have a dream II I have a dream A dream to mash all weapons, Like colour inks, into words Words for discourse in misunderstandings To spare the […]
When those end words’ long legs Walked through the gates Which resuscitated my breath When it travelled to passionate need I knew it was time to terminate it all All the captured thoughts And wipe them clean like an empty CD To make way for a new memory gig But every thirsty mouth Woke dead […]
As the wise Asante studied The creative spider at work for shelter And wove the beautiful kente Which has become the Asantes pride I will study the rainbows of heaven And carve the most beautiful colours Study the brightest of suns And tap its light Study the most innocent of darkness And create for you […]
I know if heaven is real You are having that feel Because your life did seal That difficult sinless deal So I know you are healed You who lived the pain of being tagged brainless You who lived through the eyes of loving shame Shame from those who loved your pot only in unnoticeable corners […]
Once upon the time There were no claws to lazy rhyme All heeded the call of work in their prime And corruption gained nothing, not even a dime But now even steering banku has become a crime As dead foods do the fresh ones mime II Once upon a time Cotton flew and danced with […]
From all corners Strong arms throw problems Like they are in some form of javelin match Into the dumpster that I am Expecting me to wash them clean And return their dirts in gold forms Funny, how they bury my dreams In the trashes of their problems So much so, hands of God fail to […]
Saddled with worry? Sorry There comes the goodness lorry To take all that is gory From your story II If only you had eyes Which see past the dyes And … Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Cocks have combs Lions have manes Beings have beards Most have marks seen But all have marks unseen And almost all need their “weak” counterparts In order to save themselves from extinction But their strength breeds cruelty In the pots they need to eat None must be silly enough To bite the hands that do […]
Kwaku Amponsem is mad He is mad of a tag He claims makes him feel like a rag And so calls the taggers bad And is threatening to open an evidence bag In hopes of getting a tagger to gag And make a scape goat to honour his dad The tag? That he carries a […]
Oh eyes with laser twinkles Mouths with flapping tongues Ears ready to hear the sounds Of my heart’s eruptions I have one question Have you ever loved? II Have you ever loved? So hard like the balls of a mating bull? So wild like hell fire’s senior in a rage? Wider than the ends of […]
Good soil can grow the weakest seeds Amidst the threats of fearsome winds, Angry rains, Scorching suns, And cruel pests II Good seeds can be killed by bad soil Despite the help of the bounteous air, Gentle rains, Reasonable suns, And thoughtful pests III Farmers have influence but Can use all tricks in agricultural bibles […]
I see through the forest of no tree What I am and have always been An eagle born to fowls Fowls as cunning as Kwaku Ananse So have tied my legs with thick ropes of problems Causing… Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Many cry of ingratitude Many fight against some attitude Many push in fortitude Almost all forget That even corn on the cob Are never on a level The pest corns are prized The stronger either bowing to bowel spewings Or helping fire to stand An all fair world, I know, will be a tree of […]
Many are breath holders Many, like any, are death scared Whereas fowls clap for themselves In foot’s flights And birds prostitute on normal trees in average flights Eagles battle the skies for space Knowing their strength need fierceness of bravery In order to show Breath holders like vultures cheat the dead Cowardly are their generations […]
(I need to go away for a few weeks. Will hopefully come early next month. My body just needs some rest. Thanks to all followers of amoafowaa.com. Keep following, keep reading, blessings.) Deep within each pod of a heart Are fires and ice Are hopes and dreams Are fantasies and hallucinations Are love and hatred […]
She is a writer, a community development worker and a social entrepreneur. She became the first Ghanaian to win the prestigious golden baobab prize for picture book in 2014. She is the eldest of two children and the founder of the African Youth Writers Organization which seeks to lure children to read and write through […]
I met Odikro in a storm Couldn’t really make out his form He kindly led me to my dorm After our bodies somehow thundered in our clingy uniforms II He took my number and always did call And rushed to catch my every fall But I did see Odikro’s racing heart ball And felt my […]
Imagine Nicki Minaj’s face Which goes at Beyonce’ pace In a skin like Yvonne Okoro’s in sun With a height like Naomi Campbell’s in chase Which goes with Joselyn Dumas’ shape With a head like Michelle Obama in mode attentive Which goes with Adwoa Sarfoa’s mind With a Nadia Buari like smile And eyes like […]
Whine as I shine Dine as I work in line The great palm tree That knows not its importance Dies with whipping clothed broom Which yearn to sweep the earth’s dirt Or help farmers carry things No matter its ungracious ending That same tree is bitten by palm worms Which yearn to live to be […]
When the dog barks at its owner In a fierce and ugly manner In a mind that is in order It risks losing its comfy shelter And might sweat in an angry slaughter II Even if it barks in sickness It shows its feared weakness And risks being the red meat Which east and west […]
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The skin that society dug deep The wound that society scratched to keep Is now free to heal For we have heard of its broken claws Claws sent in the direction of a stronger soul A soul which has severed society’s fingernails II Auntie Anti lived like a screen painting Her eloquence causing dreamers fainting […]
Naked tortoise sat and watched As its shell-loss-pain hijacked his happiness And kidnapped all his will to live So Kwaku Ananse took his sad cue And looked for ways to own what tortoise wanted gone II Ananse wove a dubious plan Like skilled Bonwire fingers weaving kente And draped it on tortoise’s body Whose spirit […]
Sitting under the umbrella of civilization I see no village sky I scan my brain but there’s an incrimination Thanks to technology patriotism, my mind says fie! II The beautiful sky with the virgin moon Which has many stars with no fornication to trace Just sank into disappointments as it lost its swoon To discos, […]
This world is filled with cats and dogs Cats with sniff-talents oh so strong Dogs with pitchy-voices oh so loud There’s no trace of worry They deem so sorry So it’s meow and “aoooooo wo wo wow” II Lucky are those with the many cats And sorry are those with the many dogs For their […]
Mud, although unrespected Begets lotus which fragrances the world I call out to you I call out like a saving bell To you whose face is in the mud As your back is made the footmat of supposed worthy legs Rise, and know mud is the clot which begets beautiful pots Take my lead and […]
If legs had eyes Coupled with mouths With internal brains On their stem structure like heads They won’t act kings Always being carried There are many a places They would have boycotted And many a thorns Would have tongues Which would have never tasted their skins Oh many aches Out of long strides Would have […]
Jumpy fruits Juicy fruits Shapeful fruits Twin fruits All made by our awesome God II Fairly warm Although they have no known fires So firm Although they are mostly forced into things Like huge balls of fufu squeezed into small earthenwares III I’ve seen the ones who murder crosses I have seen the ones like […]
He is a Playwright, a director who aims to heal the world through his art. He has done so much to help theatre arts in Ghana although he is a learned biochemist. He is handsome, down to earth and very talented. Our guest post is Kobina Ansah. AMOAFOWAA: You are welcome to amoafowaa.com KOBBY: Thank […]
His road seem short But his legs tell tales of tiredness His unkempt hair Ruling and hiding his handsomeness Forcing his eyes to wear a mask of the mocked This tongue had to beckon After a great mind made him up Plantain chips in a huge bowl is his burden Day and night A burden […]
We were little witches Those only mouths hooted As thoughts revered So got away without being murdered For fake gods who lived in the minds Of men whose egos were at stake II We are the stubborn ones Ones society uglies for the kingdom of marriage Too strong “Maame Gyata” Too opinionated “wo ka a […]
Goats are animals Animals with no known souls Animals who mate as they want Even so, growth is imperative So why must thoughts of superiority Sink so low As to create a cage To arrange such rage As forcing soft green leaves Into the burning sun? I won’t be a weak leaf If you push […]
Blooming flowers Refreshing scents Smile weavers We are like the lotus Which disinfect the world No matter where we grow We get the flow II We bloom in kindness to put out gloom Work to light all doom We run this world Weaving in crafting For this exhibition of humanity To continue III We are […]
Today is International Day for the Girl Child. So I wrote my sentiments while growing up. Thoughts that made me a woman instead of a girl. Thoughts that helped me see I had to work extra hard to break through the chains to have my voice heard. I hope for a future where girls will […]
(Picture by Matilda) Gone are the days When I was part of the flowery flock Which hugged the falling rains, Whispered at the straining sun Kissed the raging storms And played “pi-lo-lo” With nectar-chasing pests II Gone are the days When I was like the waters abroad Having waiters wait Hoping to have a swim […]
It started as a fantasy, to help create awareness of people with neuro disorders across the lengths and breath of Ghana, starting from the northern region. Now it is a reality, one that has gotten the attention of many including the Northern Regional Minister, Directors of Education, Lecturers and the general public. It took place […]
Our guest post, Reuben Griffiths Bekoe, is a determined soul with a heart of gold. He is a cyclist who is cycling to raise funds for the Ghana Cleft Foundation. He describes himself as a jealous romantic who loves passionately. I say he is a young enterprising young man who might do deeds which the […]
The bird whose nest Nestle in the palm of the mountainous tree Was forced to look down to painfully see How heartbreaking weak little birds lived After having such a one II And after her tears turned to determination She flew in hovering like a protective mother hen Surveying, praying, hoping for a good thought […]
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