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. :)
“Hu me abɛ” And let its scent have running legs “Hu me abɛ” And dress it with crawling crabs Let the salmons shine in their numbers “Hu me abɛ” If prekɛsɛ walks through with its scented self It will leave it as sweet as an angelic perfume “Hu me abɛ, ma ɛman nbↄn mu” And […]
Ghana glammed gifted grandly On inception like a princess from a rich kingdom Until her marriage to usurpers Who started with her adornments And left her in short skirts II After the usurpers divorce She married herself Only to realise that she feasted on herself And now she has near bones III What causes this? […]
When witnesses fail to talk Righteous men are eaten by the hands of the rope Yet some call themselves witnesses And witness when eyes need to close Akosua is a tier She ties herself by the Witness she has become Becoming bounded and hounded by celebrations Like a monkey whose tail is knotted on a […]
THE TENANT It is not a small box Which can fit into my pocket I would have gotten a chain To chain it to my pocket To stop all the drama Of landlord landladyships Houses! Look at this horrible house Does it merit my troubles? LANDLORD Horrible house? Then leave it for me! Look at […]
Though goats have four legs Two step at a time Making it a set at a time Even crawling is set at a time A fall, a tear, another trial And perfection smiles in time So a step at a time Is what I want to rhyme In this silly monologue of What seems like […]
Being busted buying best is best than busted being bought, a brain of a she-being can beat buyers and break bouncing bounds II Determination determines dreams, doing dreams without, is daydreams which will deal dangerous dates, dance to the rhythm of “done” III I and eye are “I’s” But one stands and the other sees […]
Before we meet I must sweep the room of my heart II Before we meet, I must dust and arrange this room of my heart III Before we meet, I must weed the compound of my thoughts IV Before we meet, I must remove the fear cobwebs on my building V Before we meet, I […]
A good gift is what we strive to keep A good gift is what costs us sleepless nights A good gift is what helps us take a grand leap A good gift is what makes us shine so bright I suffer to keep What others sleep to keep I suffer to nurse What others lie […]
Carnivorous ants act like fleas Wherever there are sweets Each wanting a bite Each growing greed Let the scent of sweets reek arrest, all will vanish, hide, look and laugh their victories. Will there ever be a liker of victory and defeat? Fleas singing praises like fake possessed Christians Please do sympathise in defeat And […]
African tales have tails of morals refrains of chorals and sometimes show hearts of abhorals II African tales hold wise mails, show hurting fails, clarify heavenly bails III African tales can cause wails, narrate heroic hails and their wounding nails IV African tales are now like its porridges; dilutings severe, erasing its sweetners making its […]
Whistling winds Stalling stars Trembling thunders Dine in the sky II Taunted trees Soaring seas Beautiful breezes Can’t pass me by III Walk the waste Weave a web Wrestle waters But view the sky Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (I always follow trends, decided to have my own type of poetry writing; amoawaatype, even three […]
Fiery fire! Fall on fake farms who feast and feed forests fantasies which fume fecal forces II Fiery fire fall fast! For fermentations feel fabulous as fabrications shed clothes of facade and few faultless feel fear III Fiery fire flip fences! Fan the few and fall the fakes, fire facelift facetiousnesses as you flame all fake […]
It’s the brink of a hot hot night My eyes still burn in cold delight Wanting sleep and needing good work On a floor mattress with duress Only comfort; fan which caress I know many mouths do not see Will grant interviews without fee And try to my hard work now, shirk Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Eyes in windows of the world’s shadow See all; the call, fall and the talls Like omnipotent gods in fathers Good thoughts close mouths in the shadow II When dawn’s rain fall like a sharp arrow And supposed suns make all cloud calls Good eyes cry like angry pained mothers Chaosers step with happy toe III […]
When accommodatings get fed-up, They shut the gates of their house And cause a tsunamic slap On the whining displayer forever II When a pond gets flooded By a sea, it gives way When its hands are full Even metals melt when they receive Too much lovemaking from fire Think, sit and ponder Or face […]
After “I do” Pleasures turn responsibilities Love becomes a lazy worker And reality shows its full self II After “I do” Carelessness sits like a new born child Magic of dazzles wanes As metaphorically blinded eyes are made clearer III After “I do” Laughables become irritants As temper holds spears In feminine and masculine oppositions […]
Men They are poles Poles with six and a half holes; Two in mid face Two; the windows of the head One close to the chinny end One on the rear And a little queer one with urea and bullets II Men Hoarding magnets on their eyes They see and their eyes call for touch […]
When fate goes to sleep Fear wakes and tends to seep Showing his muscles And giving all hassles Then failure gets dazzled II When fear walks on eye And will acts too shy Uselessness takes a grand seat As ambition falls at his feet Giving mouths words of a defeat III Dress fear in hope […]
Tiredness, massage yourself And let sleep take its place II Tiredness, get some fuel And let rest have some kebab III You know you hit hard Holding joints and piercing skins IV You know you hit hard Holding the brains and squeezing pates V You know you hit hard Kicking the back in sharp seconds […]
Churches Peace, love Unburdening, accepting, caring Prayers, happiness, scam, falsehood Fashioning, corrupting, backbiting Abhorable, shameful Temples Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When I think of churches, I think of their riches and all their ungodly breaches. Why do riches make some men of God “sɛbi” bitches? II They must cherish all paupers But they live for only the “shadders” “Witchising” all poor mothers Whipping under all weathers How money develops wings To fly nicodemously into secret […]
(Aubreysarch challenged me to write a ten line poem about love. Here it is) A thing so abstract Holds many keys to happiness A thing so surreal Its loss makes all fall into bitterness A thing so beautiful Holds the swords of the hate oracle A thing so powerful Its healing is always a miracle […]
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Moonrise Over Solaris https://jessicacauthon.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/the-daily-prompt-268/#like-1392 Moonrise over Solaris Enveloped in the sweet darkness of a sultry summer Knight his face flees from my mind as I chase it from dimension to dimension. Finally letting go I fade into Solaris laying upon her Lunar base, I allow the…
We are fire And your desire You make us tire Pushing us into situations dire Yet we are still the fire Which goodness require A few pushed may desire To burn some blues But we’re still the fire Which breeds warmth in this empire II Know we are the world Know, we build the world […]
When sorrow does burrow In your heart like a fierce rabbit Know its path can only be narrow It definitely will outgrow its habit When you eventually pull your arrow So think of its pit You will be the master When you become its crime buster Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
The preacher Kofi Preaches for “chofi” So he always digs To live the bigs II Kofi The Sunday For that is his day He reaps for Zion And devours all like a lion III Kofi the Gyata, You’ll end in a gutter If you make all bitter By being a litter Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
Sword; Holders In high seats Cutting righteous Leaving the horrors You continue to weed There is a higher swordsman Who is waiting for your sinking And writing all your filthy thinkings You continue growing weeds, cutting seeds Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Peace amidst chaos Helpful amidst helplessness Healing in murder Embracing ruthless shooters He must be a good woman II Climbs against advice; He holds hands and drops gently. Bad demonstrations; He protects, love and give all Why is He not a woman? III He acts motherly So He must be a woman Catching all our […]
As you cry victims and say “empty bottles make most noise, know I know I know, that there were touches Which caused the noise, whose touches? II Touches give movements and movements give noise, a choice So touch not, mouth zipped Touch and say, empty barrels and itchy hands cause most noise Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
He uses the rags Which someone sees as cloth And throws it in animal dung of mud But the rags get cleaned and rushes to him II She uses the doormat Which someone sees as a bed Making sure the rains do cane And pull it into the gutters But as soon as it gets […]
You sit and watch, The hands which has a fenced mouth Through which your disrespectful sermons walk out with ease, Touch and caress your sacred temple As its legs kneel in the tightly closed doors of “mock to” ears And you do nothing? Shoot him! Shoot that freaking son from a rabies dog! II […]
Fie! Artificial fires of the night Fie! You who shine off and on Jumping from the mountain of darkness To the mountain of brightness Scattering arranged futures And pulling hairs of the protected Fie! You nighters like weak but dangerous fireflies! II I wear great clothes of metal Metal to you, cotton to day workers […]
I braced all weathers Alone, Suffered through falling Alone, I faced the anger of mean suns Alone Seeing my twin being pampered Simply because I was banana And not plantain II When she was watered, I was neglected When she was shaped, I was left in my withers Now, plantain sleeps In this weather as […]
As we stand in our fallibility Like soldiers with brave masks showing our durability We’re like maize plants Moving like hungry ants When the winds place their calls To have our falls II As we claim authenticities As lesser lives cry on our artificialities Like victims whose lives were taken Before their happiness was awaken […]
The night is tickling With ringing passions Passions soaring on eagle wings And having flings with loneliness II Sky looks high at the sighs Breezes whisper in gossips Waiting anxiously for the complete lonely season As I lose all my reasons III As the stars pray And the moon displays all shameful longings, Fireflies pull […]
Wrinkled, She is wrinkled in her prime Wrinkled, She is wrinkled while her mates glow Wrinkled, She is wrinkled by scorching distortion, Wrinkled by omnivorous corruption Wrinkled by familial keep-up appearances Wrinkled by fence sitting Wrinkled by money gluttons Wrinkled by horrid crime sexing Wrinkled, just wrinkled By eyes of jealousy “Ghanamanosyncratics nsempiisms” Nana Awere […]
Flies, please take a rest You’ve been your pesty best Feeding on huge sores On this Ghanaian Land. II Flies, try housing your booty Moths hide in pulling While you aim at the bones In this Ghanaian Land III Flies, the bones are ageing Weakness means surrender So rest in triumph IV And oh you […]
Mama Ghana, Are you turning in your grave? Are we all doomed for the grave? Have we doom, on your grave, engraved? Don’t be bitter, we’re all not litter II Mama Ghana, Be a little content We hold onto our peace like fishermen and their paddles Although our ship is in the middle of the […]
He lived like a goat Taking all the beatings And wearing debt’s coats Took all the curses He rode tear boats Taking all the beggings He yielded to no antidote Until Afia asked him why. II Mr. Kadeka laughed out loud Sat his buttocks And looked so proud Craned his neck To clear the path’s […]
It is a known fact that most students in the second cycle fail the English Language course in Ghana. I marvelled at the high percentages of failure in the course when I was a student. Now, I am a teacher of the language and I have noticed some reasons students fail in English. First or […]
Like bats, make us fly together We are trees on same land with different grounds A loud “paaa, pooom, peii” must raise our concerns II While our heads have nations with different thought legs, Their frames have carvings so similar in supplementation Their thought deeds have beautiful uglies Causing real pain to differing acts Which […]
Where lies your heart? In the will of safety or doom? Trust your heart to a machine That can crash and maim? II Where lies your fear? Oh travelling heart? In the machete of maiming Or in the bowl of death? III Where lies your motivation? In the importance of work Or in […]
I went with some geography students of Tamale Senior High school on a tour to the Buabeng Fiema Monkey Sanctuary and proceeded to the Kintampo Waterfalls. Knowing Ghana, my homeland, is now a passion, so I decided to share our experience. The road to Buabeng Fiema from Kintampo was 32km and only some 300m of […]
Heal the nation By being doctors of sanitation Inject polythene to death And zap tins’ breath II Heal the nation By delivering pregnant gutters And impregnating bins Do make mosquitoes homeless III Heal the nation By making toilets bell Leaving nature’s smell On bushes and land IV Heal the nation By embracing neatness Banishing flies […]
Maa Yaa! Come and listen! I went looking for snails Then I saw Oforiwaa strapping her newborn, I also saw her holding two of her youngs Then I asked how she was doing, She told me ” Who can be finer than me? Me who gives birth to the strength of the nation This whole […]
As morning stretches On dawn’s mat In thought’s cover cloth, Fears wear high heels Looking for who to attack. Just who is willing to be that pawn? II What pain on earth has never, ever tasted life Or is never, ever going to taste lives That you sacrifice happiness for fear? Those heels, will never […]
They fight seriously Why? Look here, ground-nuts and beans! Fighting for nothing Is like falling into grounds Full of herbivoric pests II As a leaf, I probed Beans claim superiority For being flower-borns As ground-nuts claim bosshood for Being root borns, how trivial! III You silly fighting beans, Don’t you know you depend on roots […]
Sight is calling might As it shines so bright But might doesn’t make it light II When natural aphrodisiacs Stand on heels of passion, Who can quench its fire? III Night’s whispers Make these walkers intense Setting heart on fire IV Calling control to quench Flying forced winds to work Bath the body with an […]
Tears of children rise From empty stomachs Wasting energies without For innocent faces to get visitors of drowning tears, And you sit on thrones fighting superiority? II Africa! Many enterprises die Killed by lack of energy foods School children embrace darkness And shun learning Through no fault of begging books And you, on high pedestals […]
If a squirrel Stays in its hole Fearing trouble, Fire finds it And it is smoked out Into a hot saucepan II If a bird Stays on one tree Like a person tied to a bed Fearing a bullet A gun finds it And it ends up a kebab III Let legs take you places […]
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