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. :)
Standing erect In a personality which deflects Akwasi Tentene With a language “menpene” Poses and rages In a brain all Akosua Kumas deem unsage II He doesn’t know What causes the blow But when Akwasi rises, He knows no no Oh sickness is foul Oh difference is pain Oh perfection is vain Oh Akwasi Tentene, […]
Kwasi is a name of peace, Winning and grace, A day of rest So I knock my wonder In gratitude of a Kwasi-blessing Good deeds have no mouths Yes, but many alien mouths Announce at no cost, their works Not new, but good clichés work best – No fears in saying A […]
Stones crack Metals melt The land can open But eventually closes Asaase Yaa is to be revered II I am stone I am metal What does it matter? When we all have mouths Hidden in Asaase Yaa, always ready to eat us all? Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Yesterday, a father I cherish, nominated me to say five things I love about Ghana, my homeland. Due to the advantaged peace of “dumsor” I was not able to take on the challenge to the fullest, and I decided to take that up today. 1. I love Ghana because we are hospitable. Yes, we are […]
Yay to the hay Nay to explain When ministers crawl Under Satan’s bench, Yay to the hay Nay to explain II When accountants bolt As accountings hide Yay to the hay Nay to explain We do the do But sit to be fooled III It’s yay to the hay Nay to explain Who made the […]
When rats Feel threatened They think of all tricks But changing their scents “Akura Woyo w’adi atwi” II When threatened dogs Bark loudest They fail to think That sounds attract “Agya nsem atukwan” III When cats See, blink and quieten They fail to think That fire can flood “Agya! Yani atan” IV A finger of […]
The dream of this launch started with a discussion with one of my mothers Yaa Asabea Asihene. She said sure Ceci, publishing is fine and I will help in any way I can. And she stayed true to her words. Although she was not here, she came a few weeks earlier and saw […]
There is a never dying plantain plant Which is rooted in the centre Of a coast initially golden When it is cut down, other shoots emerge When it is uprooted, new shoots succeed Funny, how a plantain drains And never ceases to create holes of mouthings Holes of horrid deceits Holes of disappointments Holes of […]
When the cock wakes and crows Then you should know the real cock I am that cock Crowing in thankfulness Waking in gratefulness Making the noise in good bafflement Of the support and love shown Kokrokooookoooo! Kokrokoooookooooo! Kokrokooooo! Medamo ase ooo! Akpe na mi loooo! Menda ny3 shi o! Nawo dee so! Thank you very […]
I hope On the dilemmic three pathway I hope Feeling the pangs and the goosebumps I hope To walk with legs of victory II I pray With limbs of tiredness I pray Even as time smiles in its race I pray To get strong wings like eagles III Hold me As I hold the sails […]
When love turned and walked My way, cupid was hesitant Because he knew I was usurping II Knowing love was the boss Never to be challenged, he let it be Mourning my future heart demise III Then love possessed got dispossesed And saw clearly the meatful part he had crashed, Felt sorry but his bus […]
He may have my picture on his phone Thinking I’m the bone of his bone He may feel the chaos of the lone But gently hides it from his tone II He may have me as song in his head Knowing work always feed instead He may have felt his pulse, his organs race led […]
Quintessential queens’ quill Quarantines qualms And quieten quaffers quagmired II A quaint quintessential queen Makes unqualifiers quake Even the qualified is thrown into a quandary III Quintessential queens get queasy When quarrels’ quest quenches questions They quickly quell as though they have quiff IV Quintessential queens Quick and quirk Even quotes in the Quaran Can’t […]
I “There are some crying crabs Inside my blood and they’re bubbling Especially because I see him II There are some goose Being chased by cold Inside my head Especially when I spot him III What is this passion That is out of fashion And trying my attraction Forcing it to action? IV Oh […]
I don’t want to climb I wanted to be lifted So get the okro and banku And drop the yam and others II When there’s a lift Why would I climb? Exercise of jaws? Please save my energy III Let the okro lift And lips open for a lift Get me the lifter I need […]
Happily married trees Pavements lying in obedience Lawns so flirty A peace so surreal Like Mrs. Ohui Allotey II With her words Walking in sneakers And her brains working like angels Nothing beats a Mrs. Ohui Allotey presence III She took us and brought us To an embracing peace so beautiful Softly singing her old […]
When bodily food Is sacrificed for mouth food As cleanliness Is sacrificed for prayers That is when lovers of the religious Get the reward of the godly II “No I don’t want this, She is not churchy She is too flashy She aint a lady I aint no folly” III I’ll say again, when bodily […]
Mama said she had no eyes She had no eyes so her mama was stolen Her two eyes were not enough So an invisible hole stole her mama whole II Mama told me she had no power No power to get to the whole Because the hole would have swallowed her whole As it owned […]
We live, Through the snaking smiling gutter maimings To the sitting smokes which puff to mate into killing II We live Through the dotty salaries To the gargantuan prices on needed edibles III We live, Even though we are being ruled By a rich dead goat who fears no knife IV We live, Even though […]
Father, like wings of eagles, House me Father, like a raging storm, Be my guard Father, like a mother hen, Lead me Father, like the cool bright sun Light my world Father, like the mercy you are, Forgive my flaws Father, I have none but you, Lift me Father, you who hates discrimination, Please protect […]
When I Saw your handsome frame; Like a modern Japanese building, I knew you’d become my muse II When I, Heard that beautiful deep flow From the sea of your throat, I knew you’d become my muse III When I, Finally climbed your beautiful mountain, Oh the tiredness and the pleasure! I knew you’d become […]
If night walls could talk They will tell tales of crawling snakes And opened mouth holes II If night walls could talk, They would properly describe the insects Of the night and the real scarers III If night walls could talk Children will not be allowed to walk The streets alone, even in daylight IV […]
“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 […]
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