When the soul does not fit And the heart fails to sit When the eyes swim in tears With the head drowned in fears The body moans in the heat In millions I feel the claws of lions Every set of smiling teeth seethe Pain […]
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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. :)
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EBOLA (HAIKU)
Thanks to ebola The poor and the rich alike Kneel at the altar Praying for great calm As the tree of sickness shakes And panic’s taunt scares Peaceful in panic Holding hands in hopeful calm Perfects of pictures Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
The peace and serenity That was with my completeness Fled into the arms of the savage Who squashed and swallowed it whole The moment my guard was down And the holder of my emotion took charge Now I am in need Of that peace and innocence […]
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WE STILL FIND TIME TO CARE
In the heat of the sun And the shame of the poor Amidst the problems which stand tall And the pain with no gain Even on the market which sells the bad And the faces which are made sad With the many viruses walking […]
Sorry, In the heat of the fire And the temper of the sticks Say sorry to calm the stakes With the heat of anger And the thirst of the guns Say sorry to calm the stakes Caught in the hunger Of the cutlass and the heat of […]
Thoughts of pepper Thoughts of salt Thoughts of sugar Thoughts of onions Thoughts of oil To bring them together Singular thoughts gives not all Thoughts of rivers Thoughts of land Thoughts of fishes Who live and follow Thoughts of trees Thoughts of stones […]
Africa is not a bush It is also no country There aren’t people living on trees Houses, mansions, great architecture And great minds are found in Africa Which including its Island Nations Are 54 countries in all Africa is a continent Like Asian […]
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A JOURNEY TO YOUR DREAMS
I’m taking a journey To your dreams To banish the screams And feed you honey I’m taking a journey To your dreams To sack the screams And make you peaceful money I see your headaches And your heartaches I see your pain […]
“Please m’aam? How do you do m’aam? How may I help m’aam?” And so the words started to walk From a mouth hiding  murderous words Honorifics clothing horrifics Rely on me like the Odum tree And I’ll protect you like the mountain With a soul Go this […]
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SHAMEFROMANIACS
I stand on a branch of sincerity And watch as they march To the office of parties: Over ambitiousness Corruption Unfairness Murder Tragedies Shame Scandals Hatred Each in his or her own filth But when they emerge I see them draped in beautiful Party colours Looking […]
In the mirrored eyes of the world I see myself as the vulture parasite Spewing fire Wanting to kill and devour The movie of me in their eyes Scares me So I made to get a mirror of myself Struggling and struggling I get the mirror […]
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TO THE MAKER
In my fire rantings Let the seed of river sewn within Grow mysteriously to quench the thirst I give In my savagery Let the balm of coolness sitting within Speed to heal In my moment of chaos Let the peace you planted like petrol spread To take over […]
Future filth Stop the frown Straighten up And be around Your time is now When you can ask how When your time stops There’ll be no sound So future filth Don’t act like gold You will get old And can’t be sold Your buyers will pay For you to be hidden from […]
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ONE AT A TIME
Let it rain When the drum Of the heart Fills with tears and regret Just let it rain and let the waters wet your chest Watch When the rays seem So faint And your world seem so dark Just carefully watch till the rays gets you your needed Sing When melancholy sits on […]
Open stores With free goods Which have unfathomable price tags And no attendants to protect them But none dares to think of stealing Open doors With beautiful furnishings Which invite but scares And no caretaker to answer the door But none dares to enter A beautiful church Which many instruments Which giggle for […]
These hands Merging with this mind In the present I do envy Because they are what I give life to But will live on forever The staff of the limper Limping into nothingness Surely decays or turns into firewood But these I’m giving life to Are empowered to beat me, My great great generations […]
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EARS AND FEARS
The body with no ears Does everything in anything Risks hearing no hazards Stands in the mouth of death And sees its teeth only when They are clamping down on it Have ears Even the deaf uses his eyes as ears Have thoughts To […]
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THE OWNER OWNS
The claws of the crab Knows not the golden soil Once it harbours the water it needs The crows of the cock Escapes not the eager farmer Who has a goal in a time frame Our measured life span Stops not at our pauses No […]
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IT WAS NATURE IMMACULATE
Upon their touch Innocence developed eagle wings And flew to a city of no return Upon their touch Nature became an artificial lion Roaring in pollution of bodies Upon their touch The gods were thrown like rotten meats Into the den of hungry […]
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A CITY TO WIN
Travel with me Travel with me into the comfort of love A city of bright lights and smooth sounds Holding hands and looking into our souls Through the unending seas of our visions Let us stop time And kill all mouths Shutting all eyes with our brightness […]
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FOR THE ORPHANED
Trees in death Form mansions Or create fires For those dying of cold Darkness dawns For the sun to rise Some plants die To give warmth for bodies to live Analogies upon analogies But you special ones Have your luck shine bright When your earth […]
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IN THE MIND OF WHITE SLAVE HUNTERS
They are like us Eyes like ours Hands like ours Mouths like ours Legs like ours But why do they act like apes? Let’s see They farm to eat Wear less to battle the air Look dirty and care not Act innocent Like there’s no care in […]
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THE PRIZE OF LOVE?
Just how much will it cost To have a peacock love a hen? Just how much will it cost For beef to shine positively in the eyes of men? I am cat With human thoughts Sniffing and mewing But talking too Having whiskers And walking […]
I wish for a spirit so divine Which will close eyes of all who with me dine And leave my living to be mine So I can treat myself superbly fine Then I’ll put all my feelings in line It doesn’t matter if it sums up to […]
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HOW DOES GOD LIVE?
In arbitration And granting mercies Or adjudicating, Doe He sit, cross his leg, Stand, lie, sit in a palanquin, Hide behind curtains Or mysteriously has His voice represent Him? I’m asking this of The God whom many talk of. In listening To prayers […]
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EID PRAYERS IN POETRY
During this Eid I pray for all aggressors to be timid To seize all that is horrid During this Eid Let lives be splendid Forgetting all spirits which happiness hid During this Eid Make it your bid To on chaos put an unbreakable lid […]
There is that vast ocean Of cancer, one that lies to be seen And she stands at the bank Eyeing the serenity at the other bank Would she be able to swim through To her loved ones? Could tales of others winning be true? Should she […]
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A SAVAGE OPINION
The earth sat millions of years ago And ruled that he won’t take part Of the competition between beings And plants And she resolved to watch Then, the plants ruled Their pests hunting beings down Their trees killing beings instantly Their leaves poisoning to depletion […]
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LOVE BATTLES
Upon her eyes meeting him There was electricity Through her body wires Like one shocked to dumbness She stood rooted Waiting for a useless pestle To get her out of her reverie Upon his eyes meeting her He stood stupefied Like a horse foreseeing a […]
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A WALK WITH HOPE
Walking on a tattered rope I saw a light through beauty’s hope Looked down and thought I could not cope But knew coping would be dope Of course I knew I was no pope And knew I could fall on a tiny slope I wished […]
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TEEN FANTASIES
In teenage river Swimming in the pool of innocence Passion’s impressions Was for her, perfection and happiness In teenage love’s shiver Basking in hopes of ever afters Pampering and queen-ship Was her dream and fantasy She reached the steps of Cupid And thought perfect celebrations Were […]
Originally posted on Nana A Damoah:
3 October 2014 Second stage of roofing (removal of old roofing sheets over 3 classrooms and re-roofing with sheets) done. So ALL 6 classrooms and Headmaster’s office have been roofed! Hurray! Concrete works on foundation in progress. We are purchasing 10 bags of cement this weekend to progress. Once…
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TALES OF FAILED MORTUARY MEN
Atia looked at Babatunde who seem drunk  and can’t believe his ears. “So a corpse you kept sat down when the funeral workers touched her, and because of this you think you have seen it all? Baba, you really must be drunk. That you live […]
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KWAHU BRAVES- A CHILD OF STONE
I am a child of stone I am from the great stone Which was refuge to my generations gone What was a weapon turned shelter For my forefathers And later became my mothers and fathers I am from the stone which protects And tells enemies “go and die” […]
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FIGHT THE RAINS
Rains of tears fall From the sky upon pain’s call I stand in my tainted hall Watching it flood through the dirtiest gutter mall No matter its intensity And the strength of its publicity The trash it needs out of its way Finds places to sway […]
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PULL YOUR STRINGS
Sing through the swing Develop an eagles wing And beat the problem king What will this trick bring? A mighty hopeful spring Which will provide you a cling And help your through all small a ring Gearing you to pull all your strings A trickling tree […]
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COME TO GHANA
Patriotism is a good trait. Loving my land Ghana.
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I’VE WALKED
I’ve walked I’ve walked through the desert in a sea Like a lost game Knowing not the refuge hut Knowing my end was near But ended up at its bank Being caressed by the sea breeze I’ve stopped I’ve stopped in the middle of a busy road […]
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MONEY RULES
Any time I fly past the rich I see a good picture of the poor But the funny thing is The rich only sadness pours What is it they need? The rich cries like a proud peacock And the poor laughs and cries any time he […]
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THE GHANA TO LOVE
I smell mud I see the chicks following the hens As the cocks are on guard I see the goats being naughty The sheep eating gently I see the trees dancing nicely With the breeze and shrubs singing melodiously I see the farmers tools Walking on […]
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EVER FELT THIS WAY?
I stand in the midst of two deadly ditches Holding on to tiny tattered stitches Wanting to close my eyes but needing the eyes Hating to say goodbye but compelled as every second eyes I stand in the middle of this antagonistic wind Being blown here, […]
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EMBRACE THE AIR
Embrace the air And enjoy their caresses They have so much to give Though they have no bodies They can fan you to cool And sing you to sleep They can give and give Without taking anything in return Close your eyes For as long as you like […]
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IT MUST BE FATE
How quick clocks tick How meek the weak seeks How grand the brand of the land It must be fate, it must be fate How sorry the tears of Worry How sappy that wealth is happy How moody the shoddy of the dead pocket It […]
In this place In this time It is a story time Around my territory Some ears are corked Enjoying my honey Flowing into them Wanting the thickest to feel the surge And it shows The hush hushes The eye eyers The unhearable mumblings are its evidence It is a past Made into a good story […]
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MADLY INSANE
Every one thinks him mad Like a story told from days of old The tellers believe it And so does the told So the mad thinks the sane mad And the sane thinks himself mad In the presence of the mad. Who has the eyes to see? The dunce dances As the mad […]
Examination malpractices seem like a naughty visitors who hves come to stay in Ghana. I say in Ghana because I only know about the terrain in which I live. It is easy to see students idling about simply because they think “Manna will fall” when it is time for their final exams. As a teacher, […]
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GHANA’S PLIGHT
In days of old Ghana was rich in gold So rich that she needed no gold to be sold And stood in riches of timber, and untapped oil In days of old The body of Ghana knew no cold Her people did her mould Taking only what was needed and preserving the rest […]
This is a poem I’ll forever treasure. I wrote it together with a very good father, being one who always wondered about my real father who I never got the chance to meet, I took a tour with Nana Awere Damoah into his thoughts in the grave. What a beautiful poem we came up with, […]
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YOU AREN’T THAT HOPELESS
With every breathe we must bow Never asking how We are life endowe’ I am not a cow You are not a cow With breathe, you’re superior to the cow As we speak There are those at their problem’s peak Being sacked from their resting sticks For work to commence There are also […]
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CLOSING THIS BOOK
When I opened our book I loved the look And begged my lovely cook Just to be your cook And add the recipes in the cook book But my pen has run out Yours does not tally with this book No need to pout Nor shout This is all it took I’m closing this […]
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