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. :)
She is drawn to a one One who has a one That one who has a one Eyes looking at a back Which is looking at a back Which is looking at a back Chained like three trees’ thorns clawing each other Complicated is the word Hurts, its prophetic ends Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Hearts intertwined like threads lost in channels Crossing each other, hurting each other Pulling at each other, tearing each other A world of chaos and anarchy As they knot in frost Soon, we might need a scissor-like equipment To cut through in order to save ourselves Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Bubbling in veins Are the unwise soldiery claimers Who use no brains So call for their needs But head, claim your throne! II I need your head to lead To stop your piety from degradation And keep your friends close And keep your conscience clean So head claim your throne Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
SHAMIMA “I am going to kill myself Yes, kill myself Society says an old man is my portion Because his white hairs shine wisdom and care I can’t live like a defiant fighting death off him So I will kill myself” ABLAVI “Kill yourself? Wait let me join you to kill ourselves Society says I […]
I Deep within each heart Are halves searching for their completion Once time stalls, frights start And bitterness takes control after yearning’s depletion II Deep within each heart Are arts to cart the right To attract even those asleep on many a mat To be drawn to features loving and bright III Deep within each […]
Policing the corrupting Ordering and removing the pious Liaising with the needy and greedy Instilling stealing tips in hearts of indifference Telling huge fake tales of expenses made In light of coercion for mandate Calling on propagandists to propagate deceits Allowing aliens to rule to turn indigines stooges Let us stop and think, Ghana, my […]
Sweet sensational pangs Hold my being and hangs Twisting my heart and lungs Showing their powers and fangs My passion’s head is in their fangs as they bang Making it forget the song that sanity sang When it once fell into hands of cruel boiling gangs II I swear I want to feel like Ana […]
Beginners were educated by nature No barter education Money now changes hands for a paper future Like it changes hands for the pride of the nation Crumbling the nation No skills seep through head veins of many creatures But they hold certificates worth the adoration Who are we cheating? Fake peacocks’ wings will be revealed […]
Indomie and ‘deli-aliens’ replace ‘akara, tubani’ Because African televisions scream they are the ‘ish’ Banku, fufu, tz, local rice Are but bush foods meant for bush people No wonder ‘etor’ is fading in minds No wonder ‘aprapransah’ is deemed so evil No wonder we hide to ‘face the wall’ See, we are like cocks without […]
When a storm uproot mighty trees And catches the seas in its palms and splatters Causing sands to hug in marriage As its anger burns shelters to ashes, Only brave hearts can brave the storms II When chaos sings a duet with pain And clapping eyes throw punches insane Hurts cover possibility of gain Like […]
Death painful, sad abandoning, scarring, shocking hurts, tears, relief, ends dissipating, spoiling, burrying hugs, love passing Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Fondness burns As the spirit turns It may have a spiritual lens To see our yearns Eyes fetches from the drum of pain Sad II The left space Who can find the trace And be that face? None, so legs pace As pain embraces giving us its weight Sad III Additions heal no subtractions These […]
You need the humble I’ll make it double So keep me out of trouble Hurdles are troubly bubbly I need You to be cuddly II I am like a thin cloud Hanging between earth and thick clouds Knowing not whose pull Will honour the beckoning of its tool Make, the pain, cool III Do I […]
It sits in my chair Stirring my chest like an angry woman stirs a pot of burning soup Leaving not Occasionally slapping its ground Sisi, sorry I should have known it was a call for you But like a dummy, I thought of my seed I won’t cry I won’t whine For death to get […]
Ao! She has told me blankly I went to bath my hair But I ended up staining my ears Abena, I have heard it all now II She says I have a hole like her And I need a digger, lest it fills up with dirt She said she has been studying me like a […]
Earth has peeled off its dark pull over once again Sun will show its muscles No matter how much it heats Some will survive Others hellishly will perish to nourish him Others giving him their hands seeking for rest II I am in love with watching his muscles The way it moves and gives his […]
Mama said I needed a man A man who will care and be my fan A man who will take an arrow And hide me in his shadow But she warned me not to borrow Or I will get stuck when I become an unknown widow II Mama said I needed a clan To form […]
Dimples are jingling Simples are singling Principles are mingling Let your tight clothes loose baby II You wear your disciplines like a corset Wearing your pride like a huge helmet You wear your need like your underpants Who will tear through to see its needles? Let your tight clothes loose baby Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
If Jesus was bruised and killed Then I think this is karma Oh! What else can best explain this enigma? Of sticks needing sticks And mortars needing mortars? II If indeed Jesus was bruised and killed And He was sent by a human-like God Then who can stand and watch his own abused? Oh! This […]
I Bats and owls have gone to bed On huge trees with great great shade Cats and bowls may be in shed In an Ewe’s cravings grade II I am here like a soldiery bridge Having crossed from a darkened night I may be faced with a hardened ridge But I’ll make sure I get […]
She says she is like one tracking a mouse To be able to seize his latest phone He says she can be like one tracking a rat Because the phone will be like his god Twum ei! Love ei! Love quarrels are sweetest When youngsters use their exuberance Oh an iPhone brews trouble like beer […]
Righteous to a fault Too pious, Satan fears to stain A voice like the softest touch Eyes like the vastest, cleanest ocean Many climb and reach far But he stands supreme II Innocent and fine Funny with unbended trust flowing like a fountain A vine without doubts A shelter ready to protect Many climb and […]
The breezes are whispering After they hid in the whirlwinds To swell the dust As the sky threatened to spit In the face of the earth II The breezes are fanning After they stirred the pots of dust And blinded eyes to shut As the sky frowned and yelled Sending beings to seek cover III […]
Serenity serenaded in sounds Sweet scents soared Stinging sourness Slapping serpents II Symphony was smooth Slowing sharpness of scams Seraphs stayed supreme Sacking satanics, securing safety Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I have reached the middle of a rose Through the bushes And all the thorns Seeking more colour to brighten Seeking more scent to attract I pray the Sky gives its nurturing II I need the sun in gentle doses I need the breeze like livers need breath I need the rain in moderate doses […]
Time takes off the mask of manhood And shows the real faces of boys Boys who throw tantrums When they feel pangs of confusion II A heart of grace Swerving disgrace Widening the pace And saving face Busy beings need no drama Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I Amidst the tiresome run And the freedom ban Amidst the horrid fan And the dirty empty national pan I know we can Yes, we certainly can II Though there be trails Though there be pains Though the future may look Dull and bleak I believe we can Yes we certainly can III Over the […]
Golden shores With zeal that snores Mother Ghana calls for cleaning chores To shut low confidence doors Whinning, she abhors II Form a circle Working for the miracle Get truthful oracles Who can trash all obstacles To rid us of all ridicules III We need to be like the peacocks Prideful in beauty not like […]
We wail Cursing those we hailed We hunger Blaming our thought-heroes for death danger Maybe we are like a breed of animals Who stash weeds on thrones, neglecting the propers, Only to climb with their little strength To bring them down as foot-mats II We are here in the republican cave One the fearless Nkrumah […]
I, protest Because my heart, in this detest But she calls herself old in age Saying she knows the running of this stage And I am in rage II I do as she wishes Because, her, this heart cherishes But I keep hurt in shame I hate the chains of her tame I know I […]
I go from hand to hand A cuff and a band A sit and a stand I keep on walking And running I keep on flying And breaking I keep on singing And laughing Crying is like salt dipped in my blood for cleansing So I cleanse II Chai! I cause some headaches And toothaches […]
When I turn cold I know you hurt But I hurt in ten-fold And I need an outlet II When I turn cold I know you fret But to you I am sold As you cuddle a safe bet III I am bold I need, to strength, get I need a hold Or I will […]
When I said I loved I was like a caught bird Under heated water in the saucepan of society Being cooked for being alone Now that I see a hole in the pan I see my true heart and I am sorry II When I said I loved I was like a lone soul Deserted […]
Never falter When you are at the alter Allah is Lord And He is on board II Never whine For you are fine Allah, with you, does dine And he will add to your table blessed wine III You are a messenger Not a stranger Allah needs your devotion So don’t be drowned in the […]
Waking to smiles from naughty faces I see the hidden naughties’ paces Like the happening of yesterday left no traces The humurous battle is drawn “Mrs. Phone, Fufu Mafia, Poetry Eater” My few nickies But I smile Knowing a mile has been reached I call far away home Everyone is fine A few business calls […]
Abena says Kwaku Bonsam is a liar He feeds on lies And hoards them in his bloated belly He needs mere friends as brothers and cousins He needs his ugly face as handsome He needs his piggy beddy bounces As the best ride on a smooth road II Bonsam says Abena feeds fat on lies […]
So life is life And life needs feeds Life is life And life sheds blood Life is life And life needs moves I will use my machine at the palm of my tree To get what I need Because it is no tofee to deplete What? II It’s true, I meet them all; The ritualists […]
I hear sounds Dancing like dew all around I feel bounds Crying like attention seekers, to be found And I am astonished II I feel fear Gathering, like seas, much tears I feel cheer Taunting, like pain, all the queers And I am perplexed III I smell conflicts Ready, like doped soldiers, to conflict I […]
I am sometimes in a semi-circle But the faces are not familiar You aren’t there I turn to the freedom chasers They see me like a meaty rat So give me the hot chase Unfortunately, all welcoming holes hoard smokes And heat whose fore-fingers point at me in a warning So I run on Crying […]
I am naught But some call me naughty II I am naught But I still own my breathing III I am naught But I mostly feel like your diamond You are Lord You are God So take me through and don’t be bored IV I see the tallest hurdles Like fenced walls I hear roars […]
I am one But I can’t believe I am Because I feel my pulse I feel my breath And my skin spits As pain floods my eyes So I am one But I don’t feel one Cars are racing And I feel like three I see I hear And I feel The breezes are blowing […]
If you promise to be a horse You’ve got to have speed Most importantly, stamina To carry and ride harder Like a true knight Fearless and apt in promises II If you promise to be an eagle You’ve got to have strength Most importantly, fierceness To carry and ride harder Making sure need fears my […]
Thank you Yoshiko for nominating me for this challenge.
Peaches! Poor Paul has turned pest Easy to hear “tiaaan, chtian!” around him Doped in smell of all that sickens and kills Sickening and killing humans like flies Is he a walking corpse? II He knows not he is a repellent So explores all “nosedoms” “Agyawaadwo!” I would be a swinging monkey Around his chasing […]
“Give your life to Christ” He writes boldly “For even the love of humans Can’t compete His earthly love” I ponder on the three paged sheet And wonder why I feel I am being coerced, like a little puppy, into a cult I know God creates Who needs what he creates when he continuously creates? […]
Players play like porters use clay Forming, watering, playing and wasting Eventually messing up everywhere Like kids in dangerous games Sometimes harming themselves Sometimes shaming themselves Most times incurring the wrath of their carers All in their initiation of fun II Lovers are like roses They open wounds and show Admitting they will take all […]
They say once one is down A fall is nothing to fear But here, lying flat on my back I feel my pulse racing like a tsunami Who knew falling from the pain tree Breaks no bone But beats your bests And blasts your breast? Interesting, that is where the heart hides II I am […]
They claim we claim gooses are like ganders And ganders are like gooses Their goodies, the same Their bothers, the same So circumcision is a decision None fights for a cock So none must fight for a hen Abena, I say bullshit! Leave your danglers if you like But leave them clits alone II It […]
Kyei Maame, please stop bragging Stop bragging about the great goat you keep tamed I know what it does And I even know what Osofo Maame’s goat does too No matter the fur of goodness it preaches II As soon as it clears your bowl It goes sniffing Licking any bowl it sees No matter […]
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