I You can say she had no night sleep Her hungry stomach all night weep So she rushes to get the train Watches not, runs, and falls in a ditch clearly deep II She thinks of the job appointment Sees herself in disappointment Who is her guardian angel now? His or her job is a […]
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. :)
LIFE Sublime Contorted II Wires of recklessness Tangling and tearing breaths I fret at its thoughts always III Help me through in laughter not pain Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
A WORLD OF AWE (THE ALOUETTE)
I The air we breathe now Helps in life endow I ask how our breathes do fail When air runs around And plays life’s good sound Again how do our breathes fail? II Beings crave immortal Yet are like portal What’s the secret of living? Bodies in awe grow Blood in streams do flow Yet […]
Mum told me to take Christ as king To also go to church and sing And believe in good guards with wing II She said those guards have life contracts with the Almighty God To follow and protect me with an unbreakable sword In the spirit where no amount of money can afford III Mama […]
The bright shinning stars Playing sweet songs on your sky Tell tales of undying love My heart will travel To your chest to merge as one And travel to the unknown Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
CLOSE TREES
These nice warm arms Were not made as arms Yours are huge Sweet refuge Please let me Run in and be II These nice mouths Weren’t made for shouts Yours are thick Sweet for my pick Please close it And let mine fit II The hands of time Has caused no crime But it […]
Bubbly blooming and winding winds Catching caressing in mean massages Causing cravings, love and life Standing sitting no patience nor peace Storms stand in dense dungeons Waving win flash in flowing flaws Reigning regrets, wishes don’t win. Â Â Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 (This poem is for those who intend to kill themselves, it is […]
Waakye sits in the hot pot Calling for shito Mixed gari watches salad And nod happily Welcoming hunger Awesome food Mmmm! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I How I love my soobolo Sitting chilled sweetly This fresh drink from Africa Cools the heart nicely II Leaves generous with colour When it meets waters Sugar and ginger powder ‘Wisa’, its perfecters! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I The chicks scurry off Trying to hide from the hawks Their wings cannot fly Their weak chirping are not heard They see the shade of hawk frames II Their mothers weep loud To their fathers who sigh loud They try to set traps The specific trap breaks fight Whose must be the potent one? […]
I I need a light to help me shine Without a whine And gift me right When I’m in sight II I need a knife to carve and mould And clear and hold To make me bold And not me sold III I need that smile to bright my day And help me say I […]
Snakes Beautiful, smooth zigzagging, hissing, slithering Friendly, watchful, smart, fearful chatting, hurting, poisoning Swift, elegant Serpents Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
THINK RIGHT (NAANI)
Negative thoughts If not fought Become rocks Which block successes’ docks Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
In this sanctuary I wish to last a century Blowing hot goodness In this sanctuary I wish we form a country To share right kindness In this sanctuary I’m looking for luxury In love’s sanctity Help me breath this out To let all hearts heal […]
Oh ye bats Hold on to thy bats Hitting the air To trouble stir Please bats Put down your bats Your meat is sweet But now hides deceit We have no thought Of you being caught Your delicacy is in the […]
Laughter as infectious as ebola, must stand and be made to rule our poor land today Because teeth of decay plague the mouth of the earth sending loud painful sounds all over the land Laughter which stands supreme and can bring tongue, teeth and […]
ACROSTIC LIFTER
Your success cries from afar Over the mountain of despair Under the lid of the heat Win over thoughts of giving up Ill thoughts of ending it all Leaning whispering audibly  to your ears Let it know you hear the cries Getting to you from […]
LIFE’S CALL
As we do this rope weave And the unseen sieve does us sieve And we all stand to fall Like weak trees in storm’s call We just have to strengthen our thread As we step, step by step And our breaths do us prep And the […]
(Today is a day set aside to educate people on the need to treat mental patients with love and care, so I understand, this is my bit of contribution.) Electrical circuits touch in rooms Electrifying in high pain Until pain gives way to thoughts unburdened In […]
Illuminated She stands in crepuscular Knowing not her next Would the next be day? Would it be absolute night? She stands scared waiting One would be tempted To think her light would stand out Blinding grave darkness But no, only she Sees her […]
For a hole to hide its finger When nobody is watching It shuns its precious little wingers And goes hunting in a sunny scorching It knows it is in danger But thinks of the warm little hole It dreams of the finger in a manger And desires […]
TO THE PREACHER WHO YEARNS
Thou art an earth idol Thy heart is not thine Thy soul dwelleth in the temple of Jah Like a congregation in a church Though honour and piousness do ye fortify Thy yearnings must be buried like a dead being None liveth wiith […]
Who preaches to the preacher When he needs preaching? Who motivates the motivator When he needs motivation Who tends to the only doctor When he is chronically ill? Who will hold the hands Of the holder? I stretch my hands As I close my eyes Picturing God And asking who gods […]
MOTIVATOR
In that dark, Without a mark, In that sight without a light, Know no frights, Know no bites, Yours is might And being bright, You’ll win that fight Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Wriggle, tickle and giggle You are probably just a fickle Who will your object tickle Until it gets you sickle’ Wriggle, tickle and giggle You can be a diddle You’ll get the tag of a money fiddle And will control them to at your steps jiggle […]
GOD’S CHOICE
God can’t afford your hatred sword So he let’s you on your own accord To choose and ask when you see He’s lord For his opinion and to invite Him on board God can’t afford your hatred sword So he leaves you free to not […]
CHILDISH DREAMS
One day I’ll climb the stage And be on the front page I’ll talk like the best sage And break free from this cage This cage of a lost sage Whose work is no advantage Cries and flies in this cage Which has no definite stage […]
DETERMINATION’S CREST
One He braves Through the pain Like a soldier And marches rightly Armoured with hope in life And determination’s sword Two He walks Gallantly Through his captives Throwing this aside Throwing fierce ones beneath And succeeded in breaking chains Three The breeze So very nice […]
LITTER IS BITTER
Litter is bitter When it catches You in a sitter Litter is bitter When food turns bile In the fitter Litter is bitter You sitter Don’t litter A bag here Rubbish there A can here Some leaves here Then we turn litter Which […]
CUPID’S CONCEIT
Saints of the bed, ye saints ahead Promise eternity of voices heard But anger stands tall as trust falls As lover’s sweet blindfold disaster calls Like Goliath being killed by David Shame drapes faces of supporters avid Cupid sits in worldly horrid With clasped […]
Stars watch sun-moon play Shinning bright and wishing strong For their dreams to be They giggle, wriggle And blush in nice fantasies As long as it lasts The sun burned the moon The moon saw its mark and cried Thoughts: never again […]
“For you, The moon is at arm’s length For you, The sky is like the shortest roof For you, The stars like night lights will walk at my command For you, Trees will shake, shrubs will clap as birds sing at my command […]
UNREFINED WALKS TO REFINEMENT
Prekese and dawadawa Unlikenesses in rawness Loved refined Momoni and Koobi Nose irritants in the process of refinement Delicacies in refinements By being in the sand And getting stepped on Gold walks through shame To attain fame In the eyes of the refined Amoafowaa […]
A mouth keeps opening Dressed by a walrus moustache Its door at every opening Shows two crooked chairs Which tell tales of collapsing in kola But voices dressed in words so horrid Dawdle to battle the strong And guess what? They win A […]
POOR “AFRI” POOR “CA”
She lies like the vast ocean Knowing not her tenants’ mission With five legs and 49 intestines She feels like a Frankenstein’s Monster She created a world for herself And stayed back watching it glow But the glow turned into tears which flow Without a […]
SHORE’S SOLIDARITY
Seas sell shores, Shores with sores Sauntering seas Sell static shores Stops by sides, seeping, Struggling with steeps Silly shores lie still In solemn solidarity As seas sing in satisfaction Sell me out And I’m sold I’m no shore I see you’re no sea […]
ASSERTIONS OF THE COWARD
“When evil goes to bed And its angels sleep tight When hell’s gate is closed And the guards get so drunk When shameful walking sounds Stop running in my mind When past pictures of me In my head seize to be I will rise like […]
ABOVE PAIN
At this point The hunter can gather its game In the forest And tell it the story Of the eater and the eaten I do not care At this point Time can walk like a taunting trolley Ringing its irritating bell Waking the dead To know its […]
FREE THE BIRD (HAIKU)
The bird cries at night Begging for more humane rights To fly like a kite Yes fly like a kite When the sun is shining bright To feel the cool breeze It is so glaring That guns thirst for its poor blood When the sun […]
UNCLEAR EPIPHANY
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]