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SOCIAL

THE STINKING PUB

So I went to a haughty club I saw a begging stinking pub Kneeling, weeping and blocking smoke From mouths of many a stinking broke II “Save me you fresh clean broke Don’t smoke me, you can get stroke Help me breathe air and not smoke I’m dying of the many travelling smoke” III I […]

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LIFE NATURE

OBSERVITOLOGIES

What if I say humans are fishes? We are fishes with air as our water Swimmingly walking with our hands as fins Would you all say I’ve lost my brain buttons? II What if I say humans are leaves and fruits? We are leaves and fruits according to our deeds So the leaves produce nothing […]

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LOVE

Learning Love

Loosening leaps Learning lust Listening leasts Leaning labour Lengthy labyrinth Laconic limps Laird lessons Labouring labia Lambent lightening Living lively Leading ladder Leave the la-di-das Learn to be the linchpin Leave the lost  Live in love  Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014

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LIFE SOCIAL

LET SCARS DEFEAT SCARES

Scars Remind Their bearers And taunt givers As to revenge’s time A touch, remembrance, pain But that pain can be turned gain If forgiveness smooths the bearers Not a leg walks, all strong-willed legs walk So stepping on toes in secluded space Is a giving as all reach for goals and fall down Scars given […]

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FGM, an act of brutality

Originally posted on Just Bliss:
 (Pokot girls run from their hut and make their way to a place where they will take off their clothes and wash during their circumcision ceremony) (A Pokot woman holds a razor blade after performing a circumcision on four girls. Practitioners use anything from broken glass to scissors) Even though…

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FREEDOM SOCIAL

OBVIOUS TAUNTER

Obvious waves Travelling from far caves You give chills which lift no finger to save II Visions of  your opened mouth Visions of your furious face Thoughts of your final blows Shake my body into jerks III So sail slow, oh vicious waves! Smile small, oh angry waves Seal your mouth, oh taunting waves And […]

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What is female genital mutilation?

Originally posted on Just Bliss:
It’s one of the most political areas of women’s health. Worldwide it’s estimated that well over 120 million women have been subjected to it. Supporters of the practice say it’s an important part of cultural and religious life, and some compare it to the practice of male circumcision that is…

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LIFE LOVE MOTIVATION PEACE SOCIAL

DAZZLING BLAZZERS

Stars have their brightness No matter their territories They would learn to shine They won’t look at the others And won’t try being a challenge II Sky is huge and broad It has its home and abroad It makes its beings free To roam giving their own best War is unnecessary III Blend is necessary […]

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LIFE LOVE

NEEDING ONOMATOPOEIA

Besties with their bugbears Boiling moments with their blessings Even baobabs shake their little hairs with thin air I won’t fall strong, no matter the hurdle I’ll be strong It is a world where we’re all saints with sins None gives birth, to a complete being as Satan True love is within, who can mess […]

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SOCIAL

A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER

I need a December to remember In another December as a happy member I need no pretending December Which will smile and my life endanger I will my life surrender If December opens its safe chamber I need no chamber which’ll make me an offender So December shed your temper And be a December to […]

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LIFE PEACE SOCIAL

TRIGGERS AND FIGURES (TANKA)

Anger lies within Everything God’s breath is in It can be the sun It can also be the rain And can also be the wind II Who stands this fury? The fury of the sun burns That of the rain floods And the fury of wind kills To think they pleasure in calm III All […]

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LOVE

LOVERTINE

Magintine in lovertine Blessinpull in maheartine Feelingtine is overtine Lonetine calls frustratine Make it mablessintine I know this may sound like fake language, and it is. This is the pure version: Magic in love Pull blessings to my heart My feelings are overdue Loneliness calls for frustration Make this my blessing time Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]

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LOVE

PAINFUL VISIONS

The huge tree cries It cries for its loneliness It sees it all House them all. When the moon lights its eyes And darkness whistles, They come in pairs. Many swing Many dance Many kiss many lie Many sit Just making each other reflective mirrors The hurtful of all Is when many fight Go, come […]

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A BIRTHDAY FIT FOR AN ANGEL

A fearsome God’s daughter Freely lives above her worries In the dark, she prays A storm breaks, she prays II Love is she who lives Above all challenges Ready battler of woes untold Begettor of many in deed It’s the day to say, HAPPY EARTH DAY!

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LOVE

TO MY FEMININE SIDE

To have me in your ride Touch my feminine side I’ve rules you must abide Our oneness needs no divide II To have me by your side Let smoothness glide Have no scary skeletons to hide Our prideful parts must not collide III To have me by your side Tone down when you chide Slow […]

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LIFE PEACE RELIGIOUS

SOURCER’S SOURCES

Sourcer’s sources Serve our forces Cut our loses And change our bosses II Wanderer’s wonder make pain surrender Cut hurt intruder And put war asunder III This is a prayer We don’t have a lawyer We loathe every destroyer So be our lawyer IV Cravings Yearnings Needings Fears Satisfy them; our massive pleadings Amoafowaa Sefa […]

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LIFE PEACE

ERECTED INFECTIONS

I’m an infection

An infection of happy erections

Erections which give many affection

Affection without commotion

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FREEDOM LIFE

A PORCUPINE WARRIOR

Try not the porcupine Fins are for fishes Try not the porcupine It lives on land Try not the porcupine It comes from many Try not the porcupine None can beat its kingdom in determination Try not the porcupine It has automatic body swords Try not the porcupine Poisoned needles can’t compare For it has […]

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MOTIVATION

SHAKE WITH IT

Now, The light has turned up Darkness needs a hiding Day needs a sitting The sun needs a coming Dawn is on Cocks are up Birds are chirping The world does shake I’m shaking with it Let everyone shake to fit Rather than just sitting Like zombies carrying loads of problems. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]

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LIFE SOCIAL

SEMBLANCE WITHOUT SEMBLANCE

I’s without eyes Heads which never heads Nose which never knows Birds without beds Legs which beg Sheds without shirts Mouths which can’t build mounds Armpits without pits  Thighs beneath the highs Fingers without figures Toes in the lows Mics built in stomachs Buttocks without tick tocks Everything has a semblance With no semblance Once […]

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AFRICA GHANA POLITICS

SWIFT METHODOLOGY

In the drizzling rain I feel the sizzling bane Of the fizzling cane II Chaos sit at the counter Bragging to sanity counter And shun peace’s encounter III Vultures perch on broken twigs Smelling blood mixed with long wigs Looking through for the fleshy bigs IV Vampires join the nasty orgy Assured by their psychology […]

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HEARTBREAKS LOVE

TRAVELLING FEELINGS

Sweet At my feet He offers a seat II Sweet At the beat He offers a dance III Sweet As it heats He switches on his cool IV Sweet He makes all neat When dirt sweeps across V Sour By the lengthening hour All the sweet turn to sour So sad. Thoughts then tend to […]

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LIFE SOCIAL

BACK TRAVEL

Time! Travel backwards To the day of creation  And take me there II Time! Make me no alien In that crucial moment Please help me blend III Time! I need to see Like a child watching TV With my eyes the order of creation IV Time! I need to fathom How initialists lived Without religion […]

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DEATH LIFE SOCIAL

A WISE PUZZLE

If life goes for eggs And blessing goes for fowls And trouble goes for hawks And earth go for death, I would voice my peace Egg throughout Boiling to be a fowl Without encountering many hawks Fly when need be Being careful not to fall For the earth’s mouth never closes And its stomach never […]

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DEATH LIFE

ENTANGLING ALBATROSS (HAIKU)

In this driver’s seat, I see the forward and lose The backward, sadly. II If only eyes see Far to the end, I’d feel free But no, they do not III Who made this lone path? Who made this wild mystic path? They say God, fact-less IV I see the wild thorns Feel the taunting […]

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HEALTH SOCIAL

AID IN AIDS

          Acquired mostly through pleasure Inducing roots of pain without measure Deadly blood sucking discomforts implant themselves Sternly with no plans of leaving one’s trail   II Killer of freedom from medication Instructor of chills and headaches Leech through fever, muscle aches and more Learner of injection of pain and shame […]

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MOTIVATION

SENDING LOVE

  Sizzling songs psyche us up Serving our souls serenity Surrender to its surreality To send sparks to your motivation II Pain pecks as poor  pests Pinning pins in pensive parts Prove to pain your power By pecking pain for awesome gain III In insecurity Immerse your soul in happy ink Irk low confidence into […]

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LOVE PEACE

SHINE BRIGHT (HAIKU)

Teeth in the curtain Are not hiding, that’s their home Mouth is their master II Mouth is a servant Listening to the mind and eyes To carefully work III I pray to just see What will make my teeth shine bright And be no monsters IV So for you I hope Let pain flee from […]

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FREEDOM

WITHIN AND WITHOUT

Standing on the mountain I feel my perfect shape a fountain I try to many things a counting But the many creatures keep shouting Please, make me a free fountain So I can snake through all and know their nurturing So I can feel the fire, stones and land thumping So I can feel the […]

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RACISM

CONSENSUS

Had a duet with the sensational Lisa Ojanpera on theme Racism. This is a white and black blend, please enjoy and let the white and black clouds merge. The sky is fuming madly Hating our living badly She neglects wind’s many pleas And thunders us on our knees Black clouds force to take full charge […]

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LIFE

SKY TEARS

Tears Of the sky Can be blessings For the earth when it’s dry II Tears Of the sky Can be a curse For the earth when it’s wet III Know There’s change in all So plot but don’t plot to fall Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014

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HEARTBREAKS LOVE

LOVE LIKE A BEE? (QUATRAIN)

Love must be a butterfly Flying here and sucking there Deceiving beings by being sly Because its angels are rare II Love must be a bed with bugs Pinching beings when sleep is sweet Denying addicts its hugs And pushing beings to their feet III Love must be bee with honey Combing around to make […]

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RACISM

THWARTED

Wow! How did God allow this? Many bottles he made Like the ingenious crafter In his branding thoughts Now it turns into a huge show a show of beauty A show of durability A show of class A show of geography A show of war Not what He bargained for I know Lost! We seem […]

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KIDS

INFANTILE PLEASURES

Kwame pees and peeps His pleasures turns to sweat His mama’s cane awaits His papa’s stare would scare His friends’ taunts would hurt What must Kwame do? What? What must Kwame do? II School is a bore Shoes give him sore All subjects are core Each thing is a bore But some kids ask for […]

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RELIGIOUS

PREACHER AND TEACHER

So the preacher preached On the pious pulpit Looking on head tops Charging by every “amen” Like a goat, he was sent in By a wife he thought was ignorant And listened as he spoke He held his pen and jotter Turned when there was laughter  After sermons he looked down Only to find marked […]

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ARTICLES

AFIA VRS OBINIM; MY TAKE ON THEIR TASTELESS PUBLIC COMEDY

Today is Sunday, a day many churches wait for monies promised in the Bible to help the poor and needy and oh to give moral lessons. This is the day I choose to analyse and say my peace on the Pastor Obinim and Valentina’s saga. So apparently, Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa popularly known as Afia Schwarzenegger, […]

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FOR YOU TO MOVE ON

When simmering help Stops boiling And the the snaking hope Stops snaking And the many beings Stop being I need you to know; As long as life, Like electricity, Flows through veins Moving and working Will surely take you there Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014

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RELIGIOUS

IF I WERE A CHRISTIAN

Just as Christ came Easing His way through hearts Summoning hurdles to lie Unleashing anger on sins, I would Summon my conscience to light II If I were a Christian, Saving me and all would be a priority III Tearing beings Hesitating in helping Ecstatically jubilating than saving, will be nil IV Soaring on righteousness […]

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RACISM

RACISTS ALERT

These natural black overalls These natural white overalls These natural brown overalls These natural yellow overalls Are just overalls like all overalls We wear them to cover worldly alls And take them off for earth to blend Then our souls are seen as one Who fights for packaging When all they do is package? We […]

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PEACE SOCIAL

HEARERS, SEERS AND SPEAKERS

If ears hear And eyes see Mouth will surely be tempted To speak Imagine a world without these No sins, I suppose They enhance To exaggerate, And infuriate into action Like the chicken from bile They attract To show the good Then put smiles and hope On faces We can’t live with We can’t live […]

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LOVE

CUPID’S PAINFUL RHETORICALS

What do I do? I knew not the heart had eyes II What do I do I knew not the heart had no ears What do I do? I knew not the heart runs faster than cars III What do I do? When stifled, this heart tends to threaten bursting IV What do I do? […]

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LOVE

BOUNCER

            You Came here And rubbed salt Painfully …in Caring not a hoot About the heart with fears   You rubbed into injury Salt which burned after your grave wound Like a hobby, you loved beyond compare You forgot I am a house built with bricks Bricks which could return […]

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ALL WHITE

He’ll come today With his magic rod And his all white robe To take you to shop For life Peace Love Happiness And all that is fair All you need to do, I’m told, Is to throw out the filth Of worry Of pain and shame And look forward to glory In your sleep None […]

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HEARTBREAKS LOVE

WHEN STARS BEAMED

He sent the bright stars With many sweet candy bars To bring me sweet smiles II The moon sat afar And nodded in cute brightness Smiling through it all III The sky beings thanked me For brightness of my presence I happily beamed IV Suddenly, clouds formed And fumed, calling lightening And thunder, and rains […]

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LIFE LOVE

BLOCKED SKY

He Smiled bright Sending flights Of blood To crush Within II He Called me From angles And I rushed Thinking not To his feet III He Used me As his rag And threw me out Only to pick me up After I was washed clean IV Now I have seen With my own eyes The […]

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FOR HER INFANT- FOR KAY

Those tears from veins Zaps the life out of the womb Squeeze the blood from the heart Shrink the womb and make it squeak Those are tears from a Mother for her infant II Those tears without brakes Break the brakes and kill hope straight, Cover the sky to block its light Like doom, rain […]

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KIDS LIFE POVERTY

INFANT LONERS

I am a tadpole A tadpole made to be a frog My safe place is a cave in some safe river But I thread where sharks and cat fishes hunt Just to feed My pole can’t swim far But what can I do? I came from somewhere I know I came from somewhere Yet it […]

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LIFE

HIS BLOOD

I give you my own flesh They do take it quickly But still they think need They go for His bones He gets so broken And broken Broken Blood flows From Him Into Their Flaming hot cups Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014

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LIFE

TALKERS AND WALKERS

Shoes have mouths Selection can prevent doubts One in hiding needs no talker One in limelight needs the talker One in chasing needs the quiet Brains can give grains In famine Watch And Learn Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014

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LIFE PRIDE\ SOCIAL

PEACOCK’S ENQUIRY

Mirror mirror on the wall Who is the fairest of all? Is it the goat, lion, sheep Or the vulture? You can boldly mention me; The peacock, if I fit the position MIRROR: Only VULTURE comes close to the fairest of all PEACOCK: What? The corpse eater? MIRROR: Yes PEACOCK: Why? MIRROR: Because he takes […]