I am waiting Waiting for that moment, That moment when bubbles will fry And join passions in the bloodstream Sending satisfaction like a serpent in heat To this heart which is living and yearning for a step up II I am waiting Waiting for that moment When a righteous war will be waged Waged against […]
Author: amoafowaa
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 bulb brightens Like a higher version of candles Knowing air can never get close Knowing its life will end not with a wick It knows it is not immortal But feels it can brighten longer than most candles I am that bulb And until a hot iron brings me down Or a hot current […]
See Hear Feel The cries Of the needy From infants To death trackers All the days of your life Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Sparks of lightening When the moon meets sun Sparks of electricity When pluses stand beside negation Sparks and sparks Is what I need Make me the moon If you need to be the sun And let’s produce many stars To help us shine bright Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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ON THIS DAY WHEN LOVE CALLS
When we do meet Let the nation of our eyes merge Into a nation so perfect Forcing our tyres to move with speed For our hands to lock in love I do have pots ready to cook When you bring the ingredients And stir after pouring your great waters into my river Who knows, I […]
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FOR THE BROKEN
Oh ye brokens! I bring you some few tokens Of words many mouths have spoken In their bid to calm past broken II There were two swans Who fell at once Into a ditch A ditch more like a bitch III It bit them Confined them And forced them to love So they thought it […]
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LEFT: VALENTRIMO
Trimmed and hemmed? Oh no! You should have known There are miserly mice Who hate to share On the feast of “hand go hand comes” Especially when their hands are the longest So stop flooding the land of your face Stop looking into the hemmed holes Stop being the cat and forget the mouse And […]
While Mihran “Mino” Kalaydjian is a mesmerizing live performer, his passionate cult following is surely due to his immense discography. “Mihran Kalaydjian “Mino” known as “Fast Finger” is a special breed, and I mean that in the most complimentary sense of the phrase. He has it all – the whole package of artistic gifts – […]
Originally posted on IreneDesign2011:
Badge by: Doobster @ Mindful Digressions Today’s prompt is not easy to start for me. What is emotions and the opposites in these? A lot of things happening in our world can turn my temper up in red, even I use to be a calm soul, when I tell it myself…..…
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LONE PIERCINGS
Verily, verily, I say unto you Accepting one’s self in a Life of love amidst the dances of love Encompasses discipline and pain of Never ending ‘what ifs’ Turn around or close your eyes Invite your ex or sit and cry No, too hard, will you kill yourself? Empire of fire for the life of […]
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THE GATES OF LOVE
Fall into my arms And let’s recite the Psalms The Psalms which draw And brings passionate beauty to the fore The Psalms which tickles And has a fragrance which sizzles When morning breezes wash their faces As the sun approaches watching its paces The gates of its arms will be opened Like red roses open […]
When Ghana was hit and sat on by snow Gallant Kwame Nkrumah felt the blow He watched as the Gold Coast sunk so low Watched and learned so hard to tow their glow He succeeded and with genius thoughts held the snow And eventually succeeded in banishing her with a 1957 blow And sat on […]
There is a place where I belong It seems I’ve always there belonged Even while I’m resting under this earthly tree Its eastern corridors reek freedom song Freedom from self, the lyrics of the song From the stitched, to the fried heart From the sick, to heads needed to be heard From the thorned, to […]
Vultures standing in mirrors Prepare to fight their souls None can intervene except pitch dark Then darkness becomes the hero The only hero who stopped an internal war We, With hearts, We, With minds We, With souls Are not vultures Cannot be vultures And must not be vultures In front of mirrors For we are […]
When our minds get together In a bind that can’t go asunder Peace dances as chaos cries Harmony jubilates as jealousy lies So let’s flee in our good highs II Let claps shout And love be stout Let peace be still And like broom, feel The hope standstill Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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TRYING TIMES
Tied to trouble’s tantrums, Today, I turn to You totally Turn around and talk to the times Like the omnipotent that You really are To calm the tantrum of troubles II Here, herald the realms Hear my heart’s heaviness Heal my heat and replace with happiness Helping my hand always To cease all hurts III […]
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THE HEAVEN I CRAVE
Without teeth Without nails Without stomachs for hunger and greed Without tools With no need for protection That is the heaven I crave Like serenity in name Let it be a heaven with no need A heaven with no gender A heaven with no discrimination And like a good choir Let us sing in unison […]
When hunters’ hunts unveiled her She sat in mystery like the virgin she was Adorned by great forests Clothed by beautiful trees Surrounded by caring rivers Being serenaded by great seas As she sat on the much need riches Scared at first, they sought to shoot Then realized her worth And sought to take They […]
When the cameraman dies Many accuse the camera of lies As his image is searched But none can be fetched He got lost behind the scenes While he was busy fetching other scenes Never did he think to be needed in a frame Until his soul answered the call Causing chaos in the hall And […]
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WHAT WAS SAID
“He said what he said Because of what I said I said what I said Because of what he said We said what we said Because of what we both said” So what was it that was said That drove what we said? Most of the time, what was said Like gas, evaporates before a […]
Here I am Sand close to the sea Always wet like a condemned prisoner Even when the weather is warm As other sands turn dust Dancing in the corridors of the breezes, I stay where I am Bounded by seawater I know I’ll eventually be washed ashore And get lost in the same sea of […]
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PUPPETS (HAIKU)
We started on clouds Now pride ties us like a rope Dangling us in air II How did we get here? Mouths playing opposition To our hearts true sounds III How did we get here? Tears for the open hidden And shed in the dark IV How did we get here? Ears […]
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FOR MY SWEET DEBBIE PALMER
When an angel falls in the dark There is no place light has no mark All hidden routes are made visible Impossibilities then become possibilities She, without wings, is the she, bearing goodness I, in the dark, am the one, liberated Thousand tongues cannot sing your praise If I do ask considering the level […]
When legs lift the balls At all ambitious goals’ calls Nets cry, touched by balls II As a section falls Another does climb joy’s walls Worshipping the balls III Goal, goal, goal; the calls Where we will head are the malls We are the stand-talls IV All those with the galls Just because you took […]
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BITING BOUTS
Baron bought bread brought by Berth Beating Ben by bribing Berth Brewing beverages bought by Ben Belittling Brown by buying beef Brought-up by Brown’s best boys II “Bring my bread Bring my beverage Bring back my beef in the best bowl” But Baron boasted by biting the last bite Betting Both Ben and Brown That […]
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SWEPT OFF HER FEET
“Oh saintly mermaid! One with a heavenly touch! You are the breath I need to have! II Oh beautiful princess Of a higher kingdom Look down in love On this pitiful patient of love” III Ordinary Abea Thought she had landed Looked down and danced For the one who beckoned in humility IV The dance […]
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VALENTINE ANTICIPANTS
“He would buy me some shoes Which would themselves give boos We will never slip in twos Because we work well as twos” II These are words from novices You all need some services Your minds do have some crevices So come for the services III Even those bonded by bands Showing always on their […]
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NO BURDEN OF GUILT (HAIKU)
“Bone of contention? He lived with a chain of thoughts Ringing in his mind II Kong tang yang kang kong! They rung, rung, rung rung non-stop Until Pantan called III Those loads he carried Those in his goodness married Shunned him totally IV Funny how life sailed There was no burden of guilt None asked […]
When busy legs lie Being neglected by hearts which sigh Watching others move As minds think of all its loss Doom blankets future wishes II Will I ever rise? Will I ever leave like them? Will I ever laugh? Will I ever get my wish? Dilemic songs sing themselves III If God watches now Let […]
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OUR SACRED TEMPLES
Deep within hearts Are yearnings never to be satisfied Many dramas never to be acted Hurts turned shame never to be seen Tears buried under pride never to be dug Words hidden in fear balloon never to burst And so the story is never complete As seated deep our these hidden In a safe like […]
Caused by uncontrolled division of abnormal cells, cancer grows to take lives, irrespective of personalities and fame II Early detection Is needed for a fair fight Once outweighed; no hope So stop tobacco intake Eat well, cut down alcohol III Exercise is key Learn to enjoy monrning sun Do practice safe sex Green tea is […]
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HE AND SHE (BEFORE THEIR VALENTINE)
HE She is the sun The sun I yearn for a tan So all can see I’m a man A man who can face any gun SHE He is the moon The moon which makes me swoon The moon I need for a cocoon Because the moon makes night noon HE Can I bribe the […]
Pretty as flower Rotting within, sharp contrast Oh hearts of the gods! II You have soothing words “He whom the gods love dies young” Ye gods, please hate me! III I don’t need your love! I do not need your warm love! But your protection! IV Let me win this time Let me win again, […]
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FARMS OF GREENS
When farms of greens are cultivated And the farmers are without harvesting tools And the farmed lack the strength of nutrition Chaos abounds How these farms get farmed By allowing the farmers to farm to harm Beats minds which care for ready farms Please get green farms to term Please get green farms to grow […]
When orphans are slapped In the confines of protection By “saints without, monsters within”, Whose eyes can penetrate for knowledge? II When little orphans Who know no difference between the words Pray and play are made to fast For two weeks, which blessed Satan can go to their rescue? III All they feel is hunger […]
Selling sin sores Satan saw such seal; Saints seek supremacy, So Satan sold to series of saints II “Send sinners to the stakes” Supposed saints say in symphony Silly, scents of sins Sorrowfully stay on the saints III Stop sending sinners to the stakes Saints are sentenced to sell sins too And if saints say […]
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NONE CAN FIGHT RAIN
After her lips was kissed by the harmattan which left its peels as her souvenirs, she resolved to begrudge rain which failed in its rescue and like one fighting her soul, she basked herself in her madness II She boxed with revenge and was punched by thirst still, she boxed with hatred and was punched […]
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AFTER MY PARTING
After my parting I hope the world remembers not The stench of my farthings And only sees the marks of my sweeping broom II After my parting I hope none cries for gains lost And that my only son lives Growing in pride over my short existence III After my parting I hope […]
The internet rocks Being the gossip which knows all And readily shares II As just as it can It produces all it’s given Like a tutored child III So many regret When their weaknesses are keyed Looking for cover IV Those with self goodies Always need circulations For fame and stardom V It is the […]
Tamale is no doubt a motor bike zone but the motor bikes have now turned into the murderers of the young. Three years ago, my mother who went to the Tamale Teaching Hospital told me about a motor accident which crushed a young man’s head leaving his body jerking for minutes on a stretcher, obviously […]
And the Dr. said to calm They would never do her harm But on whose ticket was she there? School fees of needers? Feeders of hunger? And the pressure tend to be up She didn’t want to be there Dr. flips; “You can’t tell me what to do” Her anger, the patient’s anger Araba knew […]
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FAILURE’S DEN
Who needs to hold the tail And suffer a fail When even after the uprooting of the “f” What remains is ail? And after all the suffering to get the “a” off, What still remains attract another “l” To show “ill”? None! II But a fail throws a ladder For a climb to the top […]
Harmattan effects; Burning fresh leaves, kindling ills Favouring orthodox? II Attacking the nose Scratching and biting the chest Murder in cold blood? III When your pinch shivers As your air wrinkles like cloth Of linen, your problem? IV You’ll say I accuse Unfairly, but you know how Right I am. My chest! V Leave my […]
Obroni, If you need to know Why my skin is coal I’ll bless you now With some knowledge bow *** Mama cooked me in her special pot With fire from the sun And work from her womb Turning me in and turning me out *** Yes, mama cooked me in her special pot I knew […]
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MISSING THE PLAY
I miss, I miss, I miss The plays which lived in the past When the sun went to sleep All the children gathered to play in a circle As the alien runs round Looking for an alien to join the circle And the circle sang this song “Antowankire ei! Tinkon! Dwaaso mankani Tinkon! ɛtↄ a ne […]
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Alice’s Wonderland Deconstructed
Originally posted on Espiritu en Fuego/A Fiery Spirit:
Life as a Void Consisting of Only Time and Eternity An exploration of Emptiness, Nothingness, Inner and Outer spheres/realms of being Do women occupy the inner sphere/sanctum of purity? Is the enclosed female space a sign of sanctity whereas the open hinged male space the spirit…
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DO THE REQUIRE
Carrying the heaviest house Knowing it can’t compete a sick mouse The tortoise still moves in search Of its daily manna II Knowing a step-on is its horrid accident And the steppers would never give it a lament The ant still moves in search Of its daily manna III Even the lions know their Zions […]
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WHEN PAIN GNAWS
You hold my thighs When you hear my sighs And you see dark drawing dawn nigh But your bites tend to be high II What, to you, I did That you’ve placed on my head a bid That none can cancel, not even God forbid! Makes me search for balms God hid III Please leave […]
Behold Ghana Has lifted the Banner And though the Savannah Rather listens to adverts of Sultana And Guinea has a Forfana Hearts are beaming Hypocritically leaning Praying for their continuing And eventual winning II They are the famous Black Stars Who shine bright even in the dark Disappointing pessimists till their mouths are ajar A […]
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AFTER THE GONG HIT (SONG)
I’ll put you in a song Where you really belong From when you came along To the time you run along CHORUS For you were the rain Which promised me gain But drove me insane In a long short lane II You said you were among Those who many do long Because your sweet sweet […]
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