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. :)
Ha ha, hehehehe, hmmm “Akosua is a ‘kosua’ A ‘kosua’ which needs a holder A holder with veins feared by the earth But she fears palms” *** Really? *** Oh elders like shelvers! Elders with clippers! Elders with machete tongues! ‘Odomankoma Ahunu Abobirim’ is a generous God So generous as to make Akosua legs, hands, […]
What is this tingling sensation? What is this happy feeling? What is this dreaming on clouds I am definitely on the cloud of twelve II What is this feeling dipped in smiles? What? Am I in a huge loving ocean? What is this feeling of being captured? Being captured by a rich sweet magician? I […]
My blood boils like water on fire! Who steals from a sacred temple That once gave him sleeping space? Must be an it! II Who acts evil Grazing holes that hid him from his enemies When they chased his formation? It must be an it III Who embarrasses a goddess Whose tears turn into rains […]
Scars of slavery Scars of rebellion Scars of half freedom Scars of neo colonialism Scars of coups Scars of internal wars Have now given birth to Scars of terrorism Scars of brutality With these many scars How can we still not feel the experience? How can we not pull the clothes of togetherness on our […]
Gone are the days When Ghanaian children feared ‘kakai’ Now only villagers, coastal children and children with naturalistic parents get to bath in natural waters What was a swimming pool then? An anachronistic thought II Now, ‘mpotompoto’ and ‘coco’ Are for the villagers and children with grand mothers Ei! With the lac lac lac in […]
I They call me the happiest man. They say I’m the definition of happiness. But they don’t know my sadness If they knew. A man who has no worries they assume Saying worriers and I are parallel lines But they don’t know my worries If they knew The man who kills both a lion and […]
I The noise diminishes and it is left with you and me Alone with our thoughts We stare at each other Fright takes both of us II Overwhelmed by the noise from the station, We both turned. What’s the link between the two of us? I hope you are not my twin. III I want […]
When the hands of night embrace As sounds tell of mosquito hunts And beds cry for their weight And rains fall on benevolent roofs Loneliness sit close to this bedside Marking time in loud tickings II Then thoughts become restless Walking on the mind of this old maid Whose society deem useless because it has […]
Nae! Thoughts that taunt Hurts that haunt Beasts that burst Are like wild lions let lose To feed on happy beings II Nae! I am an eye Many eyes see me as the sky But my sky seems so wry Clouds and sun seem to be in a tie III Nae! If leaves fight to […]
“Chicks follow hens” he says So nothing will cost him in pays The “neck-bottle” is willing That’s why it has rope tied to its neck Pull, while you have it, pull When the two balls Were begging to swerve blue balls As vein-mouths opened crying burning passions You forgot of the chicks being transferred into […]
Under umbrellaic underlings Wonders of winning winces Spell satanic sellables In infinite impropriety II How hurt heavens Watch what works Baffles better beings. No nudity nurturings III Emancipation era Speaks not of serpentious sicklings Giving guts to gullibles To turn into torturers IV Lies of eyes which dies Sighs of byes in highs Strange serenades […]
In all that is fair No vein in male brain is fair II In all that is fair Quick wakes at sight always need a share III In all that is fair Their great thoughts can never temptations bare IV In all that is fair They are wires connected by desires so rare V In […]
Pregnant gutters Labour in downpours Caging and taking lives In barbarism And the living cries foul? II Who makes sweet love By pushing bottles, polythenes and tins Into its wombs? They too have ends III Wait! What’s with the buildings Usurping water heads By the aid of hands so feeble and at risk? Humans are […]
After all the noise, 2015’s music runnings has sped off Winners are like things on cloud Well, unwinners see clearly now With shoutings meant to scatter ears And hips fuelling the condition of the shouting Bringing it to normalcy God’s chosen, was awarded by Ghana’s chosen With a Kantanka, mereba o speedo The highly anticipated Oh, […]
Get the physique Harness thoughts And know the antiques Never growing the land And help uproot it II We were led into the gates of independence By a forehead with a well lit touch Anyone could see its brains talking Where the elites lacked III Few schemers Came, aided by revengers Then the voice of […]
Faith in God Able and lord Teacher and friend Hearer and punisher Earth’s owner Reasons know no gate of His thoughts Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I shiver And I don’t know why I who battled dark quarries And emerged bathed with light II I shiver And I don’t know why I who battled with poverty And won with no debt mark II I tremble And I don’t know why I who was forced into the anus of the great sick […]
Fingerings Fingerings of sheds by words Fingerings like knives in bread II Fingerings Oh you fingers of hurts Take off your shoes and rest, you’ve won III No need to pursue and finger the slapped Fingerings Fingerings so murderous Fingerings always figuring Queens and kings Sit on stools instead of running I kneel subdued […]
Only teens believe in the potency Of the forget me not flower as presents A good time traveller knows the plight of the bleeding flower Even sunflowers have doom charms Because they recoil in ugliness in no time Fraternise, by all means Do harmonise, as your hearts wish But know chaos has rights And that […]
Poor kitten with no hands to build Scared little thing in the winds Hungry little thing facing the storms What will you do if it rains? II The trees are protecting birds The caves are protecting lions Holes are protecting rats and snakes Oh, anthills protect even ants and others Where do you belong poor […]
As aiding scratchers turn claws And pride’s stunted growth cures Hands for the domestic are rebelling The joke now turns the jokers into jokes Ei! Time is driving them in In, into the kitchen! II Now strength does no work Beauty reigns as it breaks strength into pieces Fire turned ice! They are being driven […]
He is trying Like the heavy part of iced Kenkey He hides under his smooth waters He is trying He is so trying II He is trying Hiding his vigorous passions Like a skilled thief encountering a policeman He is trying He is so trying III As some entice with their ‘big’ promises He tries […]
Nightmares end in wake So does hard times Pain can develop demonic wings And chase in dreams like a strong vehicle But consciousness is its master So pinch yourself You are not being stirred like its banku You are not being pounded like its fufu Your power can make you its stirrer and pounder So […]
I am opening the gates of my heart Look, look at it carefully I know you see its flaws You see its uglies You see its blood forcing to pump You see its scars You see its tears like abandoned rains pushed from the sky But it is all to come clean If you look […]
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Note: I will be updating this post as the reviews come in. The reviews are also published as standalone posts in more detail. ======== A perfect reader’s guide for a visitor in Ghana, the book is hilarious and a sebitical reflection of how Ghana, after 58 years, is still…
Once, There was a sun Whose light went off Any time he saw its moon II Like all females The moon complained And threatened looking for another sun Whose sun could melt her light in glowing togetherness III Still, the sun’s light went off It knew not its problem But knew he could shine One […]
I have never been one who tries to worship celebrities. To me, they are humans like myself whose works have made them known. So whereas people cry as they see celebrities, I am calm, if I develop eye contact, I smile, greet, move on. For me to be touched by something someone has done, that […]
Flowing streams don’t stink Caged water does I will forever flow Never being stagnant I know a bridge Which hoarded water And like the African proverb Which features the toad Vomited until dehydration No, I won’t be that toad So off I go flowing Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I’ve seen those with fees Wanting to dance naked in my sees But end up peeing in me And what of the many babies who think me a womb? II I’ve seen human rear-holes Of mafia Gas trumpeting in tows Fearing no eyes, putting eyesores in my mouth Slapping me with angry tissues III I […]
Graw graw, graw graw! Your bones are sweet You noisy yam II Graw graw, graw graw What’s with your shouting? I’ll have you anyway III Graw graw, graw graw I know you suffered Through fire and oil IV Graw graw, graw graw graw I know it’s not fair Your butchering and frying V Graw graw, […]
The calabash is empty Its waters vanished Making its chambers dry II The calabash is thirsty So thirsty it is crying Crying for waters which initially burdened III The calabash is hungry Hungry in bottom But the winds are having fun in blowing IV The calabash is dancing Eyes see it dancing But it sees […]
Invincible invincible hands of these takers Taking what they don’t own Or do they own? Do we owe? We may owe Like a magical thief Death takes and shatters hearts! Like a carnivorous borla beach With machete teeth It swallows and break bones If only there can be an all seeing eye What wouldn’t I […]
On that faithful day when the cold and unpardonable hands of death snatched you away from the surface of the earth. The day I knew my world had come to an end because a great being had been lost. I couldn’t bear the mockery from my enemies. My spirit was like a sunken bed. Every […]
I hear the praises Of all daisies I hear the whispers Of windy winners I hear the clappings Of stones being stepped on How can I sit like a caged doomed man When life smiles through my veins? II Here is your praises Here, your exultation Here is your adoration Sit comfortably and receive them […]
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Traditional taunters Twisting tongues To tabulate terror On tamer tabernacles Tackle your taints Tear your tentacles Tame your tempers To tailor your tearings Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I Will Let you go Like a child Leaving her beautiful balloon For the sky 2 I Will Leave your hand Like a gallant Leaving the battlefield Undefeated, although sand Is my only clothing 3 There is no point Fighting passions No point, fighting love When its attraction point can murder 4 With this back […]
Funniest Scariest Maddest Deadliest Ebola, funniest and scariest joke Can give the maddest and deadliest stroke Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Ghana Sunny, DARK Politicking, loving, insulting Peaceful, inflation, freedom, nature Touring, entertaining, promising Riches, poverty Sikaman Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Spirits standing in stupor Selling saints for shillings Scrape the scripts at the storehouse See the sorries of the Supreme II Silly sayings Sorting sufferings Simple stabbings Stills of shouts III Speed to seats Scam to shams Stealing to stifling Stop! Sinners of sainthood Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Meet me there There At the papleassion Where heat and cold embrace As lightening and thunder sing praise II Hold me there There At the papleassion On the waist of power and slavery And let the windy audience worship bravery III Indulge me there There At the papleassion Where speaking and listening have handshakes And […]
Living in freedom Mr. Worla knew not The hot trousers which swallow skirts indiscriminately  II He boils as he hears He hears and his temper gears It gears as it stirs his fears  III Like a soldier, he wants to form an army Like a god, he wants to take his sin whip […]
Abotsi is crying lion In the free mount Zion When all heads Know lions don’t live in Zion Afua, so what do we do to help him?  II If we do ignore He will make shyness snore And will feel love’s bore And can’t come to the fore But what do we do when […]
God of creation For brain’s procreation I sit at this station And watch your dear nation Missing what will bring them ovation  II They are like fufu eaters Hating the basic fufu heaters They are like death fearers Wanting the touches of God’s carers They are like birds Hating tree beds They are like […]
That I was a toy So you made a ploy Oh you naughty boy You said I’d enjoy CHORUS You treated me like your big boss Now I see you feel at a loss I really need to know the cause So I can your freedom endorse How can you say it’s not by force? […]
It was a ball It was a ball being pressed deep Deep into the sea By the golden legs she needed to move And the hands she needed for comfort II It was a bouncy ball Which required all her strength, Freedom and wealth To keep under the sea, From eyes seeking reverence III She […]
I’ve walked a good walk with a good faith. On the streets of Accra, I move about with a whole group of individuals from different walks of life. It was interesting with the drumming from the bandsmen who thrilled us and passers-by with versus music made from vocal folds?The sole of my old-fashioned shoe wanted […]
Stare! Is this fair? Splattered young fruits At that square? II Stare! Don’t you care? Many capable future leads weeded Can you bear? III Stare! Dare to stare! They just wanted to fit in But a blasting this glare? IV Stare! Whoever did dare Would you ever trade places? All you who dared? V Stare! […]
Row love’s arrow and bow Into your foe Run his hate into the low By piercing the hate drum To run down the sham So love’s rum can take effect Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Thinking Thinking of someone Someone with a strong bull’s horns and eyes in care One who has the sharpest sword among all knights Thinking Thinking of someone II Thinking Thinking of someone Thinking of someone with a peacock’s self confidence One who has a lion’s strength for protection And an elephant’s weight in trust Thinking […]
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