We are like wick Dressed in wax We are like stick Which fire needs to fax II We are like gas Bottled in use We are like a working bus Bombed-set in fuse III We think time’s heels wane We are that insane Time builds strength with age While we exit the stage Amoafowaa Sefa […]
Who has seen a drunk Craving for a drink Amidst pots of liquor With no owners And still sees none Even in his sanity? II I am now like the drunk One who lives in words And has dined with most Seeking some great words Just to express mood Of an surreal feeling By one […]
Could you be just name and fame? Could your spirit be all fake and lame? Why will you and your sons Replace your taste form slaves to leopards? Did you not know what leopards were Did you not know leopards never give their paws freely? Or did you plan a huge royal massacre? Were the […]
Fill the belly of every second Please make them full So they can see the strength end Of their minutes And ultimately have them pulled II Light the fire of every minute Training in work to have them wake And like the ant cherishing the minute They will smoke out your hour III Whip up […]
Slaps were his claps Traps his silly craps Painful taps were his maps Straps of his pains my soundless raps So I always wore caps Until you came to break his hurtful rhyme I know you are my love’s prime He was my made up crime Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I need I need I need me a one With no hawk’s eye for talent II I need I need I need me that one Who will look into my soul III I need I need I need me a one Who can erase all my sadness IV I need I need I need to […]
Now I can sing my song Because the sky has finished washing its face And sun’s coming footprints Have been licked by time II Now I can sing my song Because the sun sits comfortably On its throne Facing and brightening its lively audience III Now, I can sing my song Decorum has gone to […]
In Tamale, They cry like humans Never leaving traces Of they being ons all fours II Their children can imitate babies With their shrills which give chills Leaving no trace That they are on all fours III The Billies have their bass Croaking like a high commander on heat No traces at all That they […]
Going in grand style? Smiling to make me wild? Please be patient And listen to what you’ll be missing II If you are my sky You successor will be my heaven Yes, my everlasting heaven Making him your boss Can you carry that cross? III If I give you pleasure I would certainly take him […]
Yesterday, a very good friend of mine; Sylvanus Bedzrah, nominated me to tell the world what makes me a Ghanaian. Well, I’ve thought it through and these are the things. 1. My name is Abena Amoafowaa Tawia Mansah Sefa Cecilia; Abena, a name I gained after touching the Ghanaian ground on a day ordained by […]
Life pulls pain from one And turns it laughter for another Abena, I can’t comprehend its genesis Let alone find its revelations II Dawn cries And plants and most living things flourish I can’t take out sky weepings Because rain gives more life than take Strange, this side of life III Animals cry being murdered […]
“Aaaah! I say he has changed And will always remain so” The elders say Only the child sees the eyes of the crab As a stick, Look at Selina now She too told me She was the wind of change in his life When his pleasures waned She said she was blinded By Cupid’s thick […]
When the storms roar And the rains set in You will hear the vultures say “After the rains, we’ll build our huts” II When the rains do wane And the sky smiles You’ll hear the vultures say “We need no structure To tame our wings The best is flying without opening gates” III We are […]
If you are mine The seas of lust Can swallow you Like pythons swallow beings But will vomit you at my doorstep When the time is right II If you are mine Alcohol and dope Can hide your brains And make me a stranger In your high site But will return it and make you […]
It’s sad, those pushed to school Are mostly those who learn to fool Eventually acting as many a stool And being used as many a tool II It’s sad, those who has heads Make the many beds For those who know no sheds To hurt the gentle with many reds III It’s a horror Which […]
Horror can rain Terror can maim But time’s long legs Never cease to run II Hearts can stop Hurts can harm But time’s long legs Never cease to run III Shame can tame Risks can shatter But time’s long legs Never cease to run IV “Ko ko ko” Oh “ka ka ka” Time’s long legs […]
I remember that day When my seed took ill In the waist of night Left with no mobility, You woke and became my weakened legs And saw me to the healing centre I had no eyes, but I really saw II I remember when Korle-bu called And I was left at the cross-road of need […]
Walk like a king No matter what annoying bells ring Because you are the sky Which a great moon yearns to embrace II Walk like a god No matter who gets bored For you are that spirit That a great priestess worships III Smiles must make your miles All suns must create you tiles All […]
Pants of can’ts Excuses in rants Even firewood crave fire Wanting to lead in light Wanting to be a star bright Although being in ashes is no delight But you, like a firefly, tease with your faint glow Saying this and saying that On a day when emotions weep For a play in your tower […]
Throwers of filth In the belly of drains Builders of mansions On the breathes of rains Oh rears whose chamber pots are mouths of seas Fie! Fie! Fie! You live lives of lies When your index fingers find others as offenders Of drowning and ills You need to know your pills II Carers of mandates […]
Me, I can’t share my man o I am no hypocrite so I won’t lie I met a terror called jealousy When I saw a taken-cuddling meant for me I never knew its claws really lived deep down my guts When it decided to show It was like a lioness tearing my soul There I […]
Dawn can’t begrudge the cock’s crow It is its companion It is its friend It maybe its enemy But it makes it a star As some wake to see it At the sound of a cock’s crow II Lawn cannot begrudge dawn It owes it part of its colour Like the bed of a princess […]
She is my carer One who drummed my coupling One who forced a joining But like a stubborn child who learns She begs that I stay me Getting a one hoarder of life With a sense of responsibility Weeping her mistakes As to how she came to couple *** Which is which? What is what? […]
Twisted tattered tingly things Taunt in towering tormenting tests Tempers tower in trending taps A tactful treasure is needed to turn II Turn or burn Taint or train Tag or tailor It takes a treasure to be traced in tests Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Mouths in shouts Releasing arrow words in sharps Aiming at my being Know that I am as swift as an eagle And armoured like God’s soldier So I keep going higher II Tongues like serpents Hissing my biography Wanting a slaughter Of my name and fame to have me tamed Don’t bother My name is […]
Choices are like riddles of God He sprinkles them and allows minds to discern Yesterdays beget todays Todays are mothers of tomorrows And todays are us Kwaku Ananse’s naughty decisions in Ghanaian folktales Earned his generations “the cunning tags” There is no one God for every being If we are all God’s children Then wisdom, […]
I don’t know what to do I am like a nail With a magnetic force Which uses all its strength to repel magnets But I am now locked in a greater force II I don’t know what to do He is everything I dislike: Location, God-channels And all But I feel trapped Like a mouse […]
Our guest post is a beautiful, very beautiful (no exaggeration) lady inside out. She is a fashion designer, a motivator, an inspiration, a Ghanaian patriot with a golden intelligent head on her head. She is one of the stars of Africa where innovation in creativity is concerned. She is none other than Awura Abena Agyeman. […]
A weird thing, in Accra, sat Sputtering and mumbling “tar” Until it said it was called day II Day which was new But had many problems dew The first after a terror flood III It is going to be used It won’t get the privilege Of seeing the lazy in action IV It would die […]
Emotions dance in veins of the holies And I am a holy The weather’s fan is fanning vain whims And I have a vain whim The sky’s complexion is dark and light And I am the sky At this point, fans are suicide Air conditioners, murder The air is rudely entering pores without knocking And […]
Some sit like a congregation Others look like they are on relegation Some are buried in books like they had illiterate suicide Fashionistas are comparing Lookers are watching Uninspirers are down Different languages compete for attention It is a community like the failed of the rich Garnished by a coconut tree A learning zone like […]
Oh He dressed sky beings with glow So they will be visible to eyes so low He dressed the man with strength So they could guard protection’s length He dressed the woman with beauty So she could charm in surety He even knows the shy sky Would need privacy for her nudity So dresses her […]
Roastings and drownings Fire and water Ghana has seen another May nine But tear gas folds its arms in innocence Nature meets artificial Fire holds the hands of water And harvest lives in horrible hunts Leaving us awed II We are crying Because fear stands holding his whip We are mourning our future selves […]
Darkness is serene Clothing many monsters to Hide the so-tortured
Kola-nut lasts longer Oh! In the mouth of those who value it Learn, that the elders did form a quote right And I value my Kola-Nut II Not that it is too sweet Or that it is too sour Tasting idsdetermination of pushings to greater heights III Kisses for a brother On his […]
Boy is twisted Ruins his upper Uncaged but demented Chess of a mess stripped into a dress Ending fatherhood borrowing an old womb II Jesus must be in distress Eating His disgust by looking unto His father Never hoping to use His cane Never wishing to have grown his mother Emancipation damaged him Really, […]
We are like varied but same flowers Pretty in different shapes, colours and sizes We are like flowing rivers Bubbly and dense but burning by rocks beneath We are like opposing reflections Speaking in weird deflections Making dumb demi gods weak While stabbing ourselves with our double edged daggers Yes, we are that twisted II […]
Like an angel He brightened my world Getting to thoughts of paranoia Where hoarders are concerned I saw not how But he did his magic Brought on his therapy And an uptight me Began to open up I thought it was magic But it was inspiration Sharpening braveness Making me an achiever Slowly, I found […]
Another morning visits Coming with its stomach Its need for clothing Its need for being walked or driven like a dog Its need for dialogue And its many conflicts in diversity II Abena, like the earth which must hosts it, I succumb to its whims Allowing myself to be played like its guitar For […]
When I spotted him It was like magic His light travelled to wake dead feelings Buried under the earth of my skin He was the electricity And I the wires II So I found myself asking “Is he too taken?” If he is, then I committed adultery Adultery of thoughts Because he looked […]
I challenged a student who just completed high school to write a poem on faith. I am actually surprised she did this in a matter of 30 minutes: Many find it difficult holding on to me I am defined as the substance of things hoped for The evidence of things not seen I am […]
Pop the hop Crop the top Sing with wings A pin and a spin Are like triumphs with time
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The cocks have the docks For they hold the waking locks So “kwa kwa kwa kwa” those mocks May end in needing knocks II They have the stocks They’ve the keys to the flocks So elephants’ strength is ad infinitum But common sense makes them kings III So follow the kwa kwa kwa And soar […]
“I love you, I can’t live without you, You are so beautiful! Hey no one compares to you I will die for you I am so into you Hush and feel my heart beat for you” These are old rags Buried by some ancestors Who died thousands of years ago A real lover is one […]
Higher education is being sought for in Ghana and although I know that is commendable, I must say some institutions are losing focus where fees are concerned. Given that they are autonomous bodies, one would think that some institutions will look at their surroundings before billing students to encourage them to pursue their dreams but […]
Fix the needs Fix the needs of a lady Wrangling of nothings Glitters and twitches are naught Just fix them Fix them needs of the lady II Who are you impressing? The world with jealous eyes? Or the flashes which attract the jealousy of the sun? Fix them needs Just fix them needs of the lady […]
Mama you should have magically told Of the possibility that love could have me sold You are the one who carried my mould Are you satisfied that I am broken into many a fold? II Papa, you should really have magically warned That love stands a better chance of having me harmed You […]
Be strong like Mount Afadjato Or fall like the Twin Towers Be swift like a tsunami Or be trapped like oxygen For maiming and trashing II Swimming in breath Is brimming in wealth So be the eagle And fly as such Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
So we started with the Autism Awareness Walk on April 25, 2015. By the grace of God, we now have an experienced mother, a well travelled lady in the realms of autism and a very learned and well researched personality; Mrs. Mary Amoah to organise a workshop to train the teachers and whoever needs the […]
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