As Cupids little beings and arrows abound Tigers and tigresses show claws of protection Fencing their zones with stinking urinals of suffocation Their significant others, their heat baking II I know sheep will stand to be cheated Seeing as all they know is baa and foolishly roam Like zombies needing direction all times So roam […]
Before the first cry of dew Stepped on the ever thirsty leaf Minds which thought of the Omnipotent were few Because they behave like the deaf II He who crocheted you like a cloth Hoards true love for you as your God He who made you up from scratch Loves you no matter how much […]
This dead bulb Left in this heart that stood derelict Lighted like the full moon in a cloudless sky Upon your appearance II It’s a pity eyes can’t be privy To the bright rays it emits When your voice kisses my ears As your hands touch my layers III Flowing rivers are not my comparables […]
Many crave for diamonds Many crave for gold Many crave for cars Few hope for flowers Oh, there are the materialistics Who want all including the lipsticks But I hope for far more: Hearts and thoughts II Like a conservative liver, I wish to live in the cave of your mind Where none can dig […]
From today, February 13, 2016, I start a weekly series titled Jubilation of Onomatopoeiaisms. on amoafowaa,com This story will be continued every Saturday until it ends. Please do follow the thrills. You don’t want to miss this Once upon the time, King Eagle was the king of the Jungle Kingdom. The animals became thirsty as […]
A chariot of gold Pushed by purest horses Move in bold Recovering all losses Magic holds cold Ordering love in many poses Laughter in many fold Resonates in all forces Ready hands to hold Open with no clauses Pain is sold As hearts dance with needed resources Red for intensity of the mould White for […]
Sounds of love blur ears of singleness Which seek its arrest by hatred While secretly hoping for its miracle But love is for those with traits of the sheep Traits of the dove Traits of swans Traits of the sun Traits of the moon And traits of cool breezes Not those consumed with the fierceness […]
Roll over like mat unfolding And let time be your roller As you grow and wilt You aid your hunters to feed On flesh and blood meant for locomotion II We breathe but you step Recording beautiful shames Horrible tames Gradual lames And few exciting fames So step with a crown on your secondic head […]
On the day when love sits on the throne I wish to lie comfortably in two handly mattresses Looking into the cornea seas of trust Knowing the tongue of fire awaits to lick my cold II On the day when love sits on the throne I’d love to shed the pain that loneliness moans And […]
Some see the little peacock With flowery feathers of different shades Artfully opened like a colourful fan Showing hens that they are merely plain II Some see the plain comedian Immature and never serious Living large like one immuned to problems Hopping like a little bird with a golden crown III Some see a burdened […]
Many pockets are dry As the economy squeezes tight Like a thirsty throat sqeezing a little orange Valentine’s deed promises to squeeze So minds of men plant seeds of quarrels This is no time to fan a pore As a hit will cause weeks of anger This is no time to scare away mosquitoes As […]
It is tearing down their roof Some are complacent, sitting aloof Some are hopping looking for a hoof Some are looking to clear their goof All they wanted was a proof And now they have their precious fired proof But they don’t know if it’s a cause on land A cause in the air A […]
The book No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Atta Aidoo is an anthology of short stories heavily embedded in transliterations with varied thematic concerns. It is a book that needs higher minds to read, understand and appreciate. I was baffled when it was approved by the Ghana Education Service as a core text […]
Hide in the dark and strike to mark Cajole, I am your ultimate fool Show the world the donkey you’ve tamed Ride me like wheels on a comfy stool II Wear me no shoes in the harmattan Give me your best whips to cut in stripes Let the blood ooze to solidify After all, none […]
Pestle and mortar stay afar Until cassava and yam are well boiled They always meet to melt their guests To create a version smooth to savour II The pestle will be foolish to hit it empty As that will call for their untimely bursts But here I hear tears of fears Of the blasts of […]
Life tires; breath is a crime Dire-wired prime times in rhyme II Life shrines; a breath for dime Pain lines; as will whines in mime III Strong longs, the end of song Win belongs; hands of gong Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
When I am prompted by tired limbs And my heart succumbs to pain’s whims Like a lost puppy my fate slims As fear in my doubtful seas swims Oh how the happy world of mine dims But I am always lifted by your beautiful hymns II I know I have a king above all kings […]
Often times, when people fall in and out of love, they tend to appreciate the theory that the beginning of every love relationship is beautiful but fail to appreciate that notion in all the things we have and do. Except in few cases, I believe that every beginning has a beautiful twist. Remember the first […]
As I sat in the dark corner I saw a rat jump past in fright Then a cat chased like a hunter Its paws fat like a curved sword I saw a bat sitting like a judge When its mat of leaves did little shake It flew like a tat cotton in strong wind Chased […]
Tell me a different version of the story The story of Romeo and Juliet Tell me the loving part, And kill the tragic deaths Whose moral uprooted not the roots of feuds in life So I can see hope like a star in lead And follow until I reach my sky II Tell me the […]
(As part of the World Cancer Day, I wrote this piece to commemorate it) Cancer! That canker! The worm that eats the flesh of beings II Cancer! That canker! Can even snake the birth hole of women III Cancer! That canker! Knows no old and knows no young IV Cancer! That canker! The sly can […]
They act like foes Hitting truths like nails They hug like bears Chasing pains and fears They share the weight Of sad and troubled thoughts They compliment without prejudice Play without attitude They laugh without the weirds And care without much stress Real friends Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
In that tentacle I see a soul credible And a mind so sensible That my passions become lamentable When given instruction not to cause a spectacle Although the bars are not commendable What these eyes find digestible Is to cut the cords of the tentacle And bond in life so incredible I know my will […]
Agbozo spends all night and day Looking in the pastor’s way Thinking that will Satan flay And cause his goods to sell themselves Hopping on baskets after banking their sales Ha! This mind, isn’t it a playful thing? II Yaa Foowaa prays like a praying mantis Crying to God and being an apprentice To the […]
His every sight triggers a magical goldsmith Who makes a mental pickaxe and shovel Which exhumes dead hurts Leaving the best parts buried II How he caught a young flower And stepped on the fresh he plucked in young How he acted like an ostrich And flew on two legs is still a mystery III […]
I need and American who can Or a British with an ish One from France with all the chance Give me a Danish with a dish Or one from Netherlands who understands Bless me with a South African with the coolest can Or one from Morocco who is not cold Or a good to go […]
Pain Cuts through Hurts so true Doesn’t say much Sheds wings with which it flew Cares not about dying as such But craves for insanity in so much Knowing with a little tightening it will gain Calling shame to wear out legs, cramps in much Tears and fumbling in rage as such Shredding hearts as […]
I laugh like I cry I cry like I laugh Whoever saw a lion hiding behind a rat For protection from what it fears? Show me that being, And I will take bullets meant for the skies II I dance like I wail I wail like I dance Whoever saw an elephant begging an ant […]
Today Noella Wiyaala is dropping the video for Leno (This Place) and releasing the song worldwide as a single on all digital platforms. As an independent artiste owning her own label (Djimba World Records), she is free to go in whatever artistic direction she chooses. Wiyaala used her opportunity in the UK to shoot a […]
It was a song she sung One she sung that so stung And freed blood that turned dung Manuring pain which bitterness sprung Oh I curse her tongue II I sought for the strong But clung on straw which was not strong And water longed but fire belonged I swept but wept and kept the […]
Kofi Akpabli, multiple-award winning journalist and author of 4 books including Tickling the Ghanaian and Romancing Ghanaland, teams up with Kapokyikyiwofaase Nana Awere Damoah of Sebitically Speaking and I Speak of Ghana fame to bring you another exciting evening of book reading! Come join them romance the valentine sebitically in the newly-opened Sytris Bookshop, East […]
 There were mountains to climb But like a great traveler You saw the path And not the pantings of breath It scarily asked for Until you reached this spot A spot where eyes watch in dynamics Eyes calling for a fall Eyes calling for shame Eyes calling for failure Eyes calling for success All […]
Huge sharp blinding stones Fall on what once was gold coast Shielded by mandate II Swords in umbrellas They cover, hit to quiver Fail to deliver III Animals run wild But will forget when swords hide Faking protection IV A little water Few gifts so swift calms all rifts Then mandate again Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Originally posted on Espiritu en Fuego/A Fiery Spirit:
Source: (7) DeBorah Le Raconteur Me and two Members of my A Better Balance Team helping to get justice and the right to care for my brother Stephen who has Autism!! Removing the stigma thrust upon caregivers and their disabled relatives by the workplace! Go Team!!…
Gradually, theatre is gaining grounds as a formidable, alternative source of entertainment in Ghana. Something big in this industry is going to happen this February. The eve of Valentine just got more interesting. From the ink of playwright, Kobina Ansah, comes a new romantic comedy, ‘I Want To Sue God!’ Writer and director of the […]
Writer Nana Awere Damoah, author of five books including I Speak of Ghana, Sebitically Speaking, has called on Ghanaian publishers to do more to push Ghanaian writers on the world front. The writer, in a chat with Amoafowaa wrote: “I Speak of Ghana listed as one of the “to read” books for tourists to Ghana. […]
Fallen in the desert of the unknown Aided by water And the daily murder of plants and animals I look up and I see the skies; House of clouds, sun, moon and stars I look down and I see me and my likes And all that we are harmful to Then I seek your face […]
We are trapped Wrapped in covers of ills Ills which pay no bills And our growth stills You in covers of ego And I, in covers of pride Both being carried on the backs of striking words How did we get here? II How did we get here? How did we get to this point […]
Give me Love without hushes No clashes And no rushes  II Hold me Fun with no evil No watching devil And be civil  III Call me Name of no bitches Thinking of no riches Pushing into no stitches  IV For the moon stands tall to watch And the stars flung her to […]
I smile As I make the miles For I’ve known more than a while And have tasted livers from biles Like a swift alikoto, I have swirled Like the boss fishes of some rivers, I have swarm Like the nightingale with the tinniest vocal chord, I have sang Some say I am a tortoise, but […]
As the sun lights the world You light my life With your follows, reads, likes and comments I’ve flown like an eagle Through the WordPress skies And travelled so wide Just in years of two You’ve been my armour You’ve been my strength You’ve taken me higher With your care and love Thank you for […]
May I? May I sip from the calabash of truth And spit on the lies which lie like parcelled beauty In the minds of those with power hands of command? May I? May I? II May I? May I step on the heart of deceit As truth blocks gates of ears which lies have VVIP […]
A good love is like the sun and moon A part sleeps when a part is at post They appear even if they vanish for a while Always smiling A good lover hunts for happiness For the one who holds the time of his heart And will gladly lay down his life with a smile […]
As to how we got here I do not know Except that, like a sun awoken in the night I am burning my eyes but there is no heat in sight How eagles have now turned hawks And catching little chicks to far away trees Which needs days and days of travel Beats my mind’s […]
Originally posted on Nana A Damoah:
Dear Friends: Since 2013, friends of mine mainly on FB have been doing annual outreaches and donations to schools. Many of you will remember the re-roofing and rehabilitation of the Apagya R/C Primary School we undertook in 2014, raising over GHC23000 to bring smiles to the faces of the…
As many try to get emancipated From problems which have roots so constipated Many are those whose problems are cemented And only need bulldozers to break them together Them; problems and beings II As students fear breathing questions With their countless Roman numerals So are many breathers living with problems With countless Roman numerals Numerals […]
Man Man who was made naked And grew to know leaves could hide And proceeded to pursue trees to be softer In order to hide more and more of himself And now thinks leaving some parts bare is a sin Man! Oh man! II Man Man who initially fed on fruits And was afraid of […]
Abena Mansa is a great cook It is not that she knows book She knows that tomatoes stand on their feet When pepper stays to beat And salt stops the bragging of onions When it steps into the zone of the house of oil What is good is they all make an army To trash […]
When I first heard of the Ghana government’s initiative to give free mattresses to boarders in senior high schools, my first reaction was that of shock. I asked myself why a government which could barely pay for the feeding grants for the Northern Scholarship Initiative could be so extravagant as to bother to duplicate mattresses […]
If we were made like you As spoken by the oracles of beliefs In their many incantations and codifications Then may I ask How big your hands are? Are they as big as the pate of earth’s head? Are they as big as the back of the mat-like sky? Are they as big as the […]
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