It has no legs but we can’t catch it Let’s run with it, let’s run with it It has no heart so it won’t get tired Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can’t fight it to stop running Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can do […]
Once upon a time, there was a village called Nsem Pii. Nsem Pii suffered from famine for years. People died of hunger, heads of families died of shame of not being able to cater for their families. But Kwaku Ananse, the great spider used his brains to make his family live. One day, there was […]
Salt it from the land Yet it is sweet Pepper comes from a plant from the same land Yet it is hot You don’t dote on salt And trash pepper Know its management And enjoy its taste Throwing it away You say goodbye to your nauseous fighter Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (© 2014.
Roast me gently Roast me lightly Give me a dressing Befitting of an angel To enjoy this serenity engulfing our world For even sugar can be made bitter When it is pushed to the limit by fire Say that story Without any worry As long as it is right Like a motherly bridge I’ll […]
It’s a quarter to six Their faces fix To go to work this precious night They weed their plots And spray their lands In short and brief to give plenty a calling They fence their gardens with panty clads With very bushy mermaid hair Water the gate with red blood, of the many […]
She was a weak bird Hatched in a ground nest. Her mother was hunted down By one wicked hunter. Through hazy eyes she struggled to feed Through dark paths she managed to walk Like one optimistic poor princess Never knowing what wings were meant for. Flying birds mocked her walks Flying birds […]
You make me cry When your thoughts cross that of mine What have I really done To merit carrying this heavy beautiful drum at no cost? Just last time, I met your father Hand in hand with his beautiful drum They laughed and called me sweet in law When I have no right to […]
When age married the deadly death They arranged all grown beings to the shore for their honeymoon Because death doted on his wife Now the legs of time has travelled an untraceable path He hunts the young and brings them home His wife lovingly advise age meals Carnivorous death stresses some youthful beings “I am […]
Unequal fingers Makes the hand Unequal stars Help bright the sky Unequal boundaries Make round world Unequal humans Makes the world So love the children With their needs and dreams. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
Throw your worries to the wind Free yourself and have your mind Play around and know it’s summertime Who is trying to catch the silly? This time each runs his own runs This time each cares no hoot, it’s summertime The many debts have no legs to run To haunt and taunt you […]
One who associates with gossips always hears the laughables, except his own, even when his generates the most laughter. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia.
She gently touches my weedless pate Knowing it is my passion’s gate Testing my very strong fate In what may be a tasteless bait I hold my own trying to let it abate She keeps going making me say Kate. Her name rises tingly passion’s hate And forces me to like the goat mate My […]
Coffins vary The feet stay the same; Six. Riches are shown The body stays the same; Lifeless. People cry The soul stays the same; Gone. This thing, that thing, All will end at the same; Dust. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
The edible maggots form from the palm nut tree They come out, wiggle and know they are free They worship their maker, promising their piousness and their love Promising their souls and bodies as they look above Then they touch the ground and eat their god They wiggle around the home without measure Eating […]
When I need that touching And I need that loving And I need that moisture And I see that empty bulb lightless I curse my stars And I ask them why This high demand you Has no light to emit When the body calls for it To think that most for you have insulted Most […]
I live here in lonely wants Going only in troubled fronts All the hollow ears open At every steppy country All the many hands open At every steppy country But I want only those ears of yours And only those hands you wore I want it all to come from the grave To listen and […]
Your heart will ache In pain, no gain If you close your mouth In desire, don’t require Acts go hand in hand with wants Entering always succeeds the knock Fold your arms and harm your heart. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c)
When the clouds are mating The winds throw dust into the eyes of interested parties Then even highly inquisitive eyes will shut Until each body in the mating posture cools Minds are so wonderful, That though they know something sinister is ongoing, They bury them deep and live in the day Moving on with new […]
Simpa panyin te abrempong adwa so Wↄn a ἐwↄ sἐↄhwἐ wↄn ahobanbↄ anya amane Gyata ἐkyekyere bi we Ama ntwea mpo anya akukuduro mmorosoↄ re bubↄ ebi nnompe mu Ne deἐaaa ne sἐ, ↄresiesie ne ho de gye nkamfoↄ Eneἐ daa na wa yἐ shἐpἐἐ Nnumaa kↄnkↄnsafoↄ na ↄgye wↄn diee Nguan a ἐborↄ nnye […]
Baby fox turns into a tiger In the mind of a paranoid sailor Who like a greedy dog hated to share So bolted with all the world had to give many On the blood of many, many heads He paddles through the angry storm Who seeks to sit on heavenly throne When he takes […]
Originally posted on Nana A Damoah:
Apagya R/C JSS is a basic school in the Adansi South district of Ashanti region serving about 5 communities within its catchment area. The school is made up of a decent six (6) unit classroom block plus a headmaster’s office. A recent rainstorm caused severe damages to the school…
Please do me read I am in the book Not on its cover Just open the door of the book And read me I am tired of being hidden in this book My beauty not gracing your eyes nor accentuating your looks My story fading within me Like a stack of gold forgotten in poverty […]
It takes a smell to attract flies Dirt always attract pigs and not penguins A magnet always attract pins So consent is key for it to be Eyes must always be used to see Carelessness always comes with a fee You sit in the comfort of your canoe in your pool Looking keenly for […]
Sorry to all those who post comments on my blog and never get to see them. Somehow I am having troubles using Askimet. It seems it automatically deletes every comment automatically marking them as spam. Rendering my sincerest apologies.
Say my name with a careful thought Don’t say it like I’m some disgusting thing For I have seen many who have because of me fought And many others who have for me sing I know you cannot stand my stench I stink, I know Ask yourself, did I create me? And say my […]
I am standing on coal Mmmmm, on coal, So I cannot walk, Cannot walk properly “Bue! Santa Maria! Agya gyinagyina, Gyina, gyina bↄkↄↄ” I am a quaffer, A quaffer of apio So I cannot think, Cannot think properly “Bue! Santa Maria! Agya gyinagyina, Gyina, gyina bↄkↄↄ” But you too are a […]
I am a flower, yes I am a beautiful flower I am that beautiful flower Which chooses to wither in time Than be scattered into pieces with no shred of dignity After my blooming I may use my eyes to see beautiful things And beautiful places I may use my scent to dazzle critic […]
“Come to me all ye that are weary and are heavy laddened And I will give you rest” So I go to Him not as a being, As a woman The strict abbess tries her hardest To test the genuineness of the decision, I remained my readless self and sailed through Little did I know […]
“Ketekee nam nnadeἐ so Esu hwam hwam hwam hwam hwam Ehefa nn’ade yi reko? Koforidua!” When I am resting, All that fills my mind is yakka yakka My temporary internal maggots and backpack come in all shapes and sizes As air of acrid smell are the hobbies of the lot My belly is the […]
I am wearing the clothes of doubt Darling, please undress me I am wearing the scarf of worry Honey, please unburden me I’m wearing the earrings of many rumours Sweetheart just get them off me I am wearing the shoes of running My heart, please hold me still I am wearing […]
Hold me close in your house of thought Bless my ears with its juicy lot Quench my yearn so I could no one sought Then wads of notes could never me bought I couldn’t your love in a million quantify A word from you could my veins electrify To light positive rays and lonesome […]
The heart weeps The pain seeps Thoughts go deep And so fast the mind cannot keep The mouth yearns to speak But its trembling has reached its peak It shivers and hates all eyes that seek To make it sympathetically weak But such is the depth of loss No amount of words can […]
I love him, I love her, I love these, I love those, I love them all who have stayed in the inner me The ugliness of a little monkey In alien eyes Is the beauty its mother sees. Bad traits changeth no motherly love Those moons of nine, Those sicknesses of the fullness of the […]
You have made me what you’ve always wanted Why do you cry foul? You started by eating my delicious hairs Telling tales of weak bodies and grazing my head Using impudence to graze my armpit Using vigour to graze my privates You were not satisfied, Your pleasure brought so many of your kind You sealed […]
Too beautiful to behold This hairful chest Its beauty like lightening in a cloudless sky Outshine all his human surrounding My eyes feast against my head’s warning My mouth opens like happy thirsty leaves in the virgin rain His eyes sparkle and speak in volumes As his hand, like the hand […]
A tender bosomI pray to blossomIn peaceful sleepTo comfy shoulders keepHold my soulAnd cover my solesSo I can walkOn stones of coalIn the dark or beautiful dreamy landTill you shine your brightest smiling sun.Mom C.
I saw some eyes in the dark Walking alone without a body mark They looked left And looked right And looked straight And looked through me They watched with fright One asked my role in the night I shrinked in fear And asked his peer What are you? Eyes of the dark? They started to […]
If I had more lives in time I could you chase in all my prime Wasting hearts on all thy lovey crimes With trippings in all your hurty slimes I could shed a river full of tears And sit on all the hurts and fear As your words hold knives and in me tear […]
See, All the animals wailing and cursing in the jungle At their chosen master See, When like bathed pigs They went for the same dirt to soil their own clothes. See, They are the pigs and he is the lion Roaring to tame as they squeak to wail You watch, They may […]
I had a brain without watchful eyes I had a heart without an expressive mouth I had a head filled with meat and coloured water You came Gave eyes to my brains, A good mouth to my heart And filled my head with thoughts Who would’ve ever known That your about-turn Could turn your […]
There is the UK’s follow my leader, Double ’Dutch, hopscotch And the general blind man’s buff. Long ago in Africa; Ghana, We the children giggled and laughed As we, like little angels with no serious assignments, Circled in kneeling as a chosen chose the smart or the dull For our admiration or booing, While we […]
THE STORY OF MOLE DAGBANI The founder of the kingdom was called Naa-Gbewaa. He had several children, but the popular among them were Zirili, Kufogu, Tosigu, Shitobu, Mantanbu and Yentura (the only female who was popular). Yentura which was the name of the lady meant “which part of me can be insulted?” She left her […]
Mma Adjara stands in the middle of the compound wondering what is going to happen. Is she to support Wadudu or Watara in their bid for kingship? She was the first wife of the late king, their father, and loves them both. Fate had dealt her a nasty blow so much so that […]
One drop can be no mighty ocean It needs a welcoming hollow land, Which will accommodate her in his bosom It needs another’s hand It needs watery leggy droppings It needs others’ drops It needs the bubbly water stars Which annoyingly parade their beauty Before joining his growing kingdom Above all, it needs the most […]
Sing to the birds of one tree And they will make it their hobby to sing to birds of many trees Your very private song Will be heard everywhere in the sky before long Some songs must not be sang in the face of collaborationists We must turn into worry abortionists To do away with […]
Because I was travelling on my birthday which was last week, I’d take this weekend to myself without any work on my blog. I’ll be back on Monday. I plead to be pardoned on any inconvenience. Thank you.
She was a dab hand in many things And received beaming from many satisfied mouths Until that cataclysmic rendezvous for good Saw her losing her capable tools. With no ‘lings’ on her hands, She tries her best to maintain her smile And be no burden Respect must be given to who respect is due Bow […]
THE NALERIGU TOUR After the 2014 cultural festival of the northern region of Ghana which took place on the premise of the Nalerigu Senior High School, we visited the chief’s palace which is at the market square. In the palace. The seeds on the ground are shea nuts and millet. The shea nuts being prepared […]
He says he will wear no “fugu” He will never drape himself in “Mmarintama” Neither will he wear “Ahenemma” He will always look smart in alien shirts and trousers And his well polished shoes will command the respect of all He emphatically said these wrappings are fetish The drapings of his fathers and forefathers She […]
Breathe in the flesh suffering, no attention A breathless being ready to join the earth, full attention It’s time somebody thinks If this selflessness in making skulls money sinks Is enough to quench our thirst by serving as storer of drinks. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
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