We aren’t angry enoughLike a wind on a sea which howls in the roughWe aren’t angry enoughTo change our beings and to demand our growthWe aren’t angry enoughTo seek returns from pleaders who turn leachersWe aren’t angry enoughWe so aren’t angry enough IIWhen our anger turns into furyAnd our fury seeks its hurryWe will change […]
Once upon a timeWorms assumed cobra powersBecause they were informantsAnd thought no animal could touch them IIThey evaded spaces meant for others…with impunityAnd assaulted others…thanks to their falsely thought immunityUntil anger vaults in hearts got fullAnd animals rose like angry bulls…to riot IIIFowls decided to demonstrate…by crowing loudly through the kingdomAs usual, worms went there […]
Once upon a timeMan ruled a free house thinking no animal guilty of crimeAnd so goats, fowls, parrots, sheep…and many others lived as his free animals to keepUnbeknownst to him…the animals disliked him to a detesful brimAnd so they plotted to oust him…to his visible powers dim IIThe animals planned to confront him the next […]
I look at youAnd can’t stop my thoughts from racing backRacing back to all the times I lost…in love forestBefore getting to this palace IIAlthough I swerved a lot of troubleI did get bitten by a snakeAnd got kicked by an antelope and hit by a goat…all of which I could’ve made meat out of…but […]
Whatever goes up, certainly will come downSo it is that the young will grow oldBut that old age envelopes like a shadeIn bitsUntil it overtakes forms IIMany a being have slept…only to wake up with their youth missingAnd go on a fruitless search which yields naughtBut we must know the shades of aging IIIIt comes […]
Sometimes I wish I were Satan…newly sacked from heavenTo find a way to burn it and its beings IISometimes I wish I were an obedient angel…in a worshipTo worship you like a tireless soulAnd praise you without a thought IIISometimes I wish I were an immortal beingTo live forever to you shower…with praises and complaintsJust […]
Abayatei whipped my buttocksSaying I did not fasten my door with locksAfter I agreed to dance to the tunes of his passionAnd he caught me in a flirting actionHe stretched his tail and stressed my failure…saying I wanted to taint his tenureBut the beatings turned into a heatingAnd the heating turned into a coitingOne his […]
OkokosookoWo fie anwia ase boɔ na suro…enyɛ nwuramuboɔ B.OkokosiakaWo ntama mu ka na ɛdane ahoma kyekyere woƐnyɛ nea etim obi honam so D.OkokokrokoWo fie akokonini na hwɛƐnyɛ nea ɔɔbon wɔ obi bɔn mu E.OkokoberantanOdwan a ɔdane gyata ho ɛyɛ hu sene ahaban ase ɔkyereben Ɛ.OkokosankareEfie gya dum na ɛsoro gya dum a …ɛnkyerɛ sɛ adwene […]
It’s been a while you and I held powerThrough our forebearsLiving free and ruledRuling and citizeningWhat have we done with our power? IIResponsibilities seem so paleSick from the abuse of holders hereRulers use its power to Lord!Citizens use its power as a tool of indisciplineAnd so we live in the chaos of ridiculesNot moving forward…hating […]
Words which hide behind computerCan hide heaps of sarcasmFor their intentions are protected by screensAnd their real outlook are geographically blockedAnd so they appear with pleasantriesBut don’t fall for it IIBefore you post a pictureLook to see if it is not the caricature of yourselfFor none will candid beEven if one person doesThe terrible hypocrites […]
Soldiers need a nation to protectThe Police need citizens to power lawsPoliticians need a country to ruleSovereignty is the preserve of allSo all should know better IbA demonstration is a wakeup callTo bring workers to their effective hallDemonstration is a damn loud bellTo let leaders know subjects are out of their ignorant or indifferent cellAnd […]
In the sea of menAre paws which can arrest teens and throw them out off their age rangeTo a sphere they find strangeA sphere which pushes them forcefully from teens to womenCausing their loss of selvesForcing their childhood onto life’s unfortunate shelvesTo send their unprepared selves to their unprepared hell IISo protect your daughterTeach them […]
A leader creates channels through all positionsIn order to let parts of a working body…be whole IIFor from the soles right to the headAre veins through the heart …through to the mind…connected to all partsA little cut on the soles affects the wholeA little bruise on the arm affects the wholeA little ache in the […]
For a heart known to commotionAnd a head known to liesYour beautiful devotion…and tiesAre like heaven made for a demonAnd I’m so learning many a lessonTo self destruct the horror into Cupid’s arrow…to break through the hollow tunnel of my past’s sorrow IISo when I breakdown at your good intentionsPlease hold onto me with your […]
As the sky looks down on earthAnd the earth looks up on its faceSo do we kneel in earnest…always reciting our national prayer II“Our Father who art in heavenHell is another name for povertyPoverty cower kings to crumble kingdoms because of needSo do, by all means, me feedLet me climb success’ ladderEven if it is […]
As a hero goes home…through a beautiful journey in his most fertile state than loamLet not your hearts, in despair, roam IbThere are no tears nor fears…needed to accompany one whose life deserves cheersIn this here world and beyondWhen his accomplishments are now part of nature’s bondBill was one such person IIHe lived like an […]
Ebi resu te sɛ anantwie…pɛ sɛ wɔn yɛ kɔkɔɔ te sɛ esieEbi resu te sɛ ampane…pɛ sɛ wɔn yɛ tuntum abraneEbi de ɔyiaw te wiase te sɛ nea wɔn apira…efirisɛ wɔn ne tintin abɔ abiraEbi de ehu na ɛhwɛ ɛfɔmEfirisɛ tintin ɛne wɔn eedi akɔmNana Nyame nkutukwii sene n’abɔdeɛ nyinaa! B.Ebi anya sika ɛrepiri nkwa…suro […]
When venomous fangs paradeTake it not as a charadeFor a bite will followOne which can make high strength, weakness swallow IIAttitudes are like pod seedsSome crack in their dry beadsTo give an idea of their natureBefore a harvest brings into force its structureSo take a cue…from its hue IIIMany muscles are monsters unparalleledWho forget not […]
Nature speaks through many a mouth…that humans throw southBut we must take their cautions…and heed to their instructions IIA stone can wake to breakA tree can battle winds to breakEarth can battle other forces to shakeRains can gather to lives takeVolcanoes can errupt to lives takeSeas can roar to lives takeSo let’s heed to nature’s […]
Sometimes a teller’s tale touches on tricky tempters…meant to thrust into taunting triumph with self pointersBy snapping pictures of obscure anglesTo make themselves look like angelsPushing truths beneath piles of liesTo solicit sympathetic cries IISometimes a teller’s tale tackles a truceTo tick adjudicators off to abuse…the other by omitting important points to confuseMaking all, peaceful […]
The tree of hard work grows in difficult soilPushing hearts and minds to toilMaking tired blood boilForcing undetermined souls to recoilBut tire not from the toil IIFor in the sweat of tirednessAre the bountiful harvest of happinessThe congratulatory harvest of gratefulnessThe loving harvest of calmnessAnd the painful death of restlessnessWhen age turns secateur to harvest […]
(Birthdays are days of reflection and reaccessing one’s life. Every 21st June gives me those vibes, even more so in these times when a day must be lived like the last. In wishing me well in every day life continues to grant me breath, I wish years will keep all of us together to its […]
Abreast in appeasing angst of the annoyedBreakers of barnacles of bulliesClearers of cases in characters cantankerousDuty dealers and or dottersDads! IIEleemosynaries in their elementsFamily founders and fancy fansGreat grooms and goaders of guns in grooming Home holders with high horizons and hope Interesting interrogators of intrudersJudges and jurors of justicesFathers! IIIKings of KingdomsLovers living atop […]
I sit here in a green plastic chair, listening to outpour of your tributesTelling many beautiful tales about your attributesAnd the many many things your living did contributeTo humanity on this very Tech land of the Protestant ChapelAnd sadness acts electricity, to send many a shock ripple…down my spineMaking my thoughts, like a sulking toddler, […]
Death is like the journeyEveryone will embark onIt is painful and uncannyBut life’s reality does so rely on…its distasteful tiesThat’s why we will cryAnd always rememberBut we will live until we all dieWe will not slumberAnd we will not lieWe will work hard till our harvests reach its bumperJust to you rememberFor you lived a […]
Mframa wuo a ɛɛbɔ wɔ wiaseAma ano ahyehyɛ ntaade…de hwan ni -hwan ni aba wiaseAma wiamua wuo adane brisi ahyɛ yɛn ataadeEnti yɛ ahwɛyie B.Yareɛ yi ka ni ka baYareɛ yi ka si ka wɔfaYareɛ yi kum asɔfoɔ …kum nnipa-abɔfoɔYareɛ yi nnim mpayindie…nsuro asomfieYareɛ kyere wɔ Abosomfie…kyekyere asomfo wɔ KramofieYareɛ nni ahumɔbrɔ mma awisia…nankampɛsɛ ahunu […]
In this here sphere where horrors of life unfoldWith its cheers and fears, honour and their coldIf we sit like queers in slumber and lossHow will we brave odds of successes’ chores? IISo you here wake at dawn and workAnd you there work at night to shirk…your complaining blurts…your paupering hurtsTo fill the nil with […]
The Gallic Rooster’s greed…of Feeding off part of AfricaMakes it nothing but a despicable leach IIWhy is Marianne still pecking on a struggling continentWhile posing big and powerful?The Lily Flower should know when shame showersAnd leave the struggling to grow IIIFor it is suffocating our continentAnd killing our land!It is deteriorating our chances of growthAnd […]
There were times many a norm today…could call for society to slayNow many a past’s ill fitting attitudes…now bag many bowing gratitudesIt is just like the back rooms …becoming the front roomsAnd birth…turning into death It is intriguing! So so intriguing! IITears of yesteryears…now bury their fearsHopelessness of yesteryears…now steer power with happy cheers! Those […]
The elders say“What am I here for?”Sometimes accompanies the statement“I am going to look for a little to feed on”Such is the situation many find themselves inIn many an unfair situation IIA policeman just turned into an armed robbery fowlMurdered at a robbery festLeaving his family in poor and disheartening frenzyAll because of monies needed […]
The worldIts skyIts earthIts treesIts shrubsIts animalsIts sunsIts moonsIts starsIts darkIts marksIts birthsIts deathsIts ailsIts challengesIts winsIts lossesIts fallsIts risesIts competitionsMake life and living it…what it isDiffimazing!Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © June 14, 2021
Times call on their God with needs…which call for seeds of His deedsAccording to thoughts their people habour in the chambers of many a headCaring not about the morals of their dying and their deadThey asked for what fitted IISome time ago, people called their God to bless their soilAs like untiring hearts pleading with […]
There is something so wrongIn a thought that memories belong…to a pairOnly for half to share IIThere is something so disgustingIn using humans like toffees with gumOnly to chew and spit them out without a humFor others to step on and go castigating IIIThere is something so infuriatingAbout the flawed acting pious for roaming eyesOnly […]
Na anka wo yɛ nsoroma a wo da yɛn wiemuNa wo sereɛ hyirɛn sɛ anɔpa wiaNa anka wo yɛ ɔsrane a wo bɔ yɛn sum guNa wo kanea te sɛ akyerɛkyerɛkwanNa anka wɔ yɛ mframa dɛ…yɛ mpata deWo ho akɔnɔ kyiran abufuwNti ɛbaanesɛn na owuo aanfɛre…ate wo tɛ agya yɛn nisuo yi? B.Owuo di ni…di […]
Which calamities make things hide in unshedable clouds?Which abnormalities make the sky swallow stars…and moons…and suns of progressLeaving the earth barren?Which monstrous heat are forced to drink up the rivers…muddy the sea…anger the windsLeaving beings dying?Which of the atrocities are hiding potency in trees…and shrubs…forcing horrors out of animals andMaking healing an unwilling traveler…to us?Many […]
They bite best whose love vests wear off…from abused seduction in troubled roughAnd unsolicited love high handedly tough IbYou fed her crumbsThinking her dumbYou worked her into crampsThinking she is numbYou did her so pumpTo get her some ill floating lumpsBut look at you nowMaking even horrors exclaim “wow”Look at you nowActing like dumb lumps…pumping […]
There is smoke from our mukaase’s mukyiaPaapa sits in front of our mud house receiving nkyiaKwaku runs after the naughty abrekyieAs Ewuraa follows him with her eyes with its you’re-child-like anikyieKwabena dreams of becoming a Katakyie…so he tries to mirror Paapa even as the rest of the kids play antowankyire IIMaame is cooking in a […]
Mating birdsWithout firm bedsMate is silenceFor your raw moans are violence…waking uncanny feelings in firm abdomenMaking greatness crumble in women and menEven as your base is naught but a denWhose adult lioneses are away on a famished huntIn a forest with no game in chantWhen they come back, …responsibilities will sit on duties to make […]
You are the only one who can swim through skinTo fetch the leveler unseen…by naked eyes IIYou are the only one who can slap the indoctrinatedAnd hug the incarcerated…through definite byes IIIYou’re the only one who can cut short breathsDeceiving through lengths and breadths…in echoing lies IVYou’re the only one who distinguishes God…from many a […]
There are people who have high walls around themWith tight securityNeeding to check every detail…before opening themselves upBut end up allowing only the worst of beings…to enter into their territoriesShutting their best bets outI wonder why!I wonder why! IIThere are some people who live like monstersAlways roaring and gnashing their teethTo scar or emit hatredBut […]
Roles are the clothes of emotional definitionThrough the institution of attitudinal administrationWhen faults pile onto judgmental conversationsHatred breeds through hurts and jealous constipations IIMany affiliations might pull for considerationFamily, friends, fosters in additionAll with strings of interesting conditionsAdding ding dongs to destroy your concentration IIIEyes blink not through the commotionSome sit still like stones waiting […]
Ɛmmrɛ bi a atwa mu Na Mentimehoasefoɔ ɛne Metimehoasefoɔ ti koro korɔ mu Na akasa akasa wɔ wɔn ntɛm deɛNso Metimehoasefoɔ gyina pintinn…de kasa dɛ tɔɔ asomdwoe ma asetena yɛɛ dwoodwooKosi sɛ nsutɔbrɛ de ɔhaw kɛseɛ bi bɛtoo wɔn soMetimehoase panyin de adwenpa baa sɛWɔn ntase nuabenane a mframa de abufuwhyew atutu afiri asaase so […]
There are days rays die before their birthsThere are days suns fall before their deathsThere are days clouds form to block a shineThere are days thunders rage in a horrid whineWhen those days dawnKnow our hardwork can push for brightness to be born IISo let no failing rains drain our spiritsLet the tests of time […]
On this scary fieldWith no answering buildWith hands, no arms in wieldAnd bodies, no immortal shieldI know we will all, to your trap, yieldBut set a fairness to your guild IIYou’re hunting the awesomeAnd gunning beauties and the handsomeYou’re leaving many as lonesomeAnd branding many hearts loathsomeYou’re posing as fearsomeAs your deeds set marks so […]
Obio Akweley sat and clappedAs Nortey worked and trapped…her rivalShe then chanted “Discipline in revival!” IIObio Akweley did the Kpanlogo danceWhen Nortey got the chance…to try Obioma for her fraudSaying all fraudsters would be caught and tried for their fraud IIIObio Akweley laughed and puffed…choked, and with powder, bathedBecause Atta Ayi was caught…in a nepot’s […]
Preparations power people to pass their peaks…parking problems posing as pests and pricksPushing them to pinnacles of positions Providing proofs that pros are pilots of planning IISo sit and serve…to see and showSort and swerve…to start your successSources share some stories…sipped through sufferings and shocks…and needed to shoot selves…through swallowing seas…to avoid sinkingSo sit and […]
Water can be in cahoots with stones to woundIt can hold hands with the sun to boilIt can connive with the winds to killIt can hide sharp things in the dark to murder And can hide in mud to suffocateIn all of this…it holds the power to life So is a humanA human can use […]
The emotions between you and IMake me better than who I amIt is your love that makes it soPushing me up and digging me in…to the happiness which glitters in the sky of loveAnd shines on this heart which bears with…the magnetic contagion that is youAmoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © May 30, 2021
SometimesI need you to love me like your bitchPush me hard into your ditch…to feel the stench of your pleasure IISometimesI need you to bite me hard like a snitchTo force my body to a stitch…to feel the rest of leisure IIISometimesI need you to love me gently like an eggAnd pamper me to sleep […]
Abibiman nyinaa adane onnibie Ama ohia apopobibire asi yɛn wɔ mantwia so …te sɛ nea mfɔtiɛ si wɔn sie Ama mmoadomma nyinaa bu yɛn atantandeɛ …san ewurawura yɛn mu…ɛwia yɛn pasaaAbibire mu apopobibire! B.Mpo nsuwa nsuwa nyinaa da ayiya a efi ɛretwetwa wɔn meneA wɔn dawuro a ɛɛpae daakye nsukɔm …ɛntɔ aso biara muƐnɛ yi, […]
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