Are storms raging and cursing your life Browbeating you to hide in fear? Breathe the breath and have good thoughts The sun is coming to clear the sky. Are mouths convening to plan your coup? Looking on with no clue as to what to do? Breathe good breath and have good thoughts Hope is […]
Blended colours will dance Blended colours will happily fight For the little rounded peacemaker On many beautiful peaceful grounds. Sweat will merge In seriousness and play Misunderstandings will arise Not between individuals but nations Every nation becomes one people Every person, no matter where, Becomes an officer defending his nation Cheering on when […]
Fishes convene for a solution on safety The president of anchovies narrates his loss His world is evaded each blessed day His subjects are killed in million folds The herring president narrates his plight His country has alien eyes which watch their growth Many like prisoners are caught, killed and caged To please a […]
A million kisses A million smiles A million hugs Are less honours I want to dance And sing along I want to cry And kneel for you Because you believed Enough to follow This sad young life Whose belief had no strength I’m pouring many blessings In your rich corners I’m sending […]
Happiness lived with us Its family was enough for every house Before the Paleolithic era When we discovered the armoury of Homo Habilis It is no Gordon Bennett that happiness developed wings Due to the intense afterglow the taste of worldly dominance brought Volcanoes and storms must have been the only firemakers Animals being […]
Sitting lugubriously Watching as juveniles engage in a bacchanalian orgy She reaches deep in her passions’ cache And finds a bottomless fleapit of madness She dawdles, anxious at what perished within All the pain she feels are deadened With every step, with every thought As she sees that old screen flecked with dust […]
I have seen the face of God Pouring nothing from a gourd I have seen it You have seen it They have seen it. For happiness He employs the sun For meditation and approachability, He employs the moon and stars so we will not from Him run For anger, He employs darkness and the storm […]
In times past, men were the gods of our homes. They were worshipped and never challenged. They never bothered to lend a hand in household chores. Women were their slaves and their incubators. They gave birth and worked tirelessly. They tended to their kids when they were ill, washed clothes, cooked meals, did the dishes […]
When I lie awake in tears And my heart speaks in only fears Like a soldier without weapons at the war front, I bow my head in my head and think of bolting from the human front When stories are told of the meek And eyes look down on the weak Like a grass […]
From afar, It is a pile of filth Until you step in Then you become part of the filth So speak not When people talk and are disgusted about the filth They do not know They are the filth You are the filth I am the filth. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I am left alone In this fence of sharks But when I say it Many think I am not well in the up My parents travel first to the land of the spirit Left me here with four sets of twins And just three cowries To breath and eat We have no food […]
Eyes stand Eyes look Eyes insult Eyes whip Raise your head high Mouths open Mouths talk Mouths insult Mouths condemn Walk confidently Hands stand Hands point Hands say no Hands turn murderous Get away in a cool way You will be the star Of every other eyes that saw Of every other […]
If you can settle your heart I will abdicate my throne And hold your hand Looking in no other eyes but yours If you can only stretch your hands I can cut through a great wodge of pain Throw my crown to my enemies And walk barefooted just to be with you If […]
In my head I live knowing not what tomorrow brings In my head I see a picture of a tattered me side by side ‘granders’ In my head Hurting words dance “kpalongo, agbaza” and “adowa” In my head Nothing I aim for will be achieved In my head I am a […]
In its nest It waits for mum To come with the best And feed having none In the forest It waits for its mother To come with the best To feed its hunger In her house She waits for her man To come with the best And feed them both […]
Noisy chattering Hands clapping Metals chiming Smells fighting In the Kaneshie market Beings crowded Strength reigning Weakness falling Lovers walking-hugging In the Kaneshie market Second-owners plotting Market-sellers watching Owners clueless As valuables vanish with mystery In the Kaneshie market People fighting Others insulting Some watching Some excitedly talking In the Kaneshie market […]
It is again that time when football seems to succeed where peaceful organizations have failed in their bid to maintain peace. A game played with an ‘unspeaking’ little football. I don my cap to you Football! Games always have the power to charm peace I must confess but many end up fuelling the fire of […]
The cloud has formed Trying to the rules of the winds conform Darkness has become a one man soldier Pouring the scary sounds and forming a merger The cold arrests everything it sees It doesn’t make room for any exempting fees I ran being guided by instincts, oh man It’s going to be a cold […]
Good days have walked Good people have talked Good writers have chalked In Africa, long, long ago Children were born right Children thought of sin with fright Children stood while adults sat bright In Africa, long, long ago The younger, the older respected The older, the younger corrected The older, the younger good […]
Finding comfort Is a great fort I find them in you Though you’re only some little twenty six You aren’t that many And strength, you don’t have any In isolation. But together, you can conquer many Though you’re only some little twenty six I hurt a lot And lones a lot But with […]
Thinking of how to feed Or how to get money to buy seeds When there are no pockets talk less of money? Take my hand Sitting in loneliness Looking on while some are held in arms and feeling the unfairness When you too have emotions at play? Take my hands Feeling the heat […]
A poor girl sees her friends playing football In a very crowded hall Each struggling in pairs In pleasure and many shares She is attracted to play She musteres courage to say “Please play a ball with me” With an unknown stranger she sees It isn’t as nice as it seems She with pain beams […]
Lying cold in the dark I see a strong you coming from the dark To draw many a tingly sweet mark Of love, of passion, of pleasure, a mark Of possession, of addictive sweet mild scents, a reassuring mark On this love famished body I see it start from the soles of my feet […]
Farmer, I have some few words for you Today, please let me have your attention You have been coming daily to this farm Your own this farm But when it comes to harvesting I think you do me no good If you open your eyes widely, You will know that I am the most resourceful […]
Corruption wears the platinum and golden crowns And sits on thrones even royals are forbidden to sit In many parts of the world Wearing and changing frequently by day many expensive apparels Being driven in the most expensive cars With many servants licking his feet In the hopes of many favours. Corruption is a fierce […]
I have heard so many things in my life. “You are a girl, walk like a girl You are a girl, look down when men are speaking You are a girl, never shout no matter the pain Are you crying because of this little thing? What will you do when delivering a baby? You are […]
In the laughing Sun, she bathes The Sun stops laughing A mood swing none understands But it smiles. Then a change, Wrinkles of a frown form on her face What are these mood swings? What could he be doing wrong to antagonize this being? Before he had an answer to this, another change This time, […]
Some have submitted themselves to the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama Hoping to be awakened and their sufferings ended Through either Theravada or Mahayana counting on The Three Jewels But Friedrich Nietzsche said emphatically, with many agreements, that they practice nihilism Some have surrendered to the expression of ecumenical creeds Learning meaning from Abrahamic teachings […]
Walking, walking and walking? Just sit and listen See with your mind’s eye; A very clear blue natural sea Surrounded by beautiful trees On which birds with the most amazing voices live The gentle wind blows As your tired limbs are being massaged by smooth marbles The clear ocean dances to the beat of the […]
He fanned my heart in the heat And held it from those who hearts eat He stood behind me and was neat Like a loyal butcher tending to his future meat I was fed and made relaxed all the time in a seat. Even when I needed to dance to a beat He held up […]
Like packaged sardines they sit face to face With ears screaming its disgust The “Tabora, Alhaji, Lomnava” hallelujahs of the conductor cum driver The airless arena breeds grumbling mouths and frowned faces He sits quietly like a fish out of water Dreading the very thought of other’s skinny seas touching his standing hairs A sharp […]
We fear the reign of darkness So we close our eyes to its regime But nature has written itself So much so that many eyes must keep watch over King Darkness When it is on its throne But we grumble and shiver. Groping in darkness? A candle glows best in the dark Light yourself up […]
The great hunter goes to the forest Where the many live game rest At the brink of dawn As always, this time, the game is on But no, the only game sleeping comfortably today Is the “santrofie anoma” He searches and searches and searches But nothing is seen, nothing is heard except the “santrofie” bird […]
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In the scorching sun In the raging storm In the pouring rain Some sit in tattered apparels Others seek attention with friendliness Holding unto the sweet, The angered, The kind, The unkind, Just for some sustenance Not only for themselves, but for grown mouths While strong working limbs sit in shades Waiting for their wages […]
She waits patiently during the day Until the sun goes all around, then says Her peace by taking possession And shedding all boring repressions That’s her, the charming darkness. She ties her tongue with her teeth And stills the veins in her feet Just to be very obedient Because she knows this is transient […]
Tagging along the rustic path I see an ending full of gloom It is more like a tricky math That requires minds to fully zoom I see the maker crooking the path Which tells of a danger loom I wish I had many a strong lath To support the path to make more room […]
We are digging our trenches We are unconsciously digging our trenches With every breathe even if we sit on benches We are digging our own trenches Even as we see a beautiful bird on a great tree perching We are digging our trenches No matter our badness No matter our goodness We are digging our […]
Menyἐ osuo abruboↄ Nanso madi nna kakra wↄ asaase yi so Agyinamoa ba, mani ti yἐ no, Na afei na nhwin kuhaa a mmaa de siesie wↄn ho aba abibiman mu Wↄn a wↄn nhuu bi da kaa sἐ, ἐyἐ Maame Wↄta tiriho nhwi na amanfo retↄn Asↄfo mpanyinfo kasa tia wↄn a wↄhyἐ Nnipa […]
The walker asked his feeder “Why do you not produce much? The feeder said emphatically, “You give me much stress, You throw everything I give you back at me You throw them back in unlikable packages. The feeder now asks “Don’t you know what proper packaging is? I give water and you give urine, I […]
Give joy a chance Give your legs a dance Jump and clap your hands Like worry exist not Like worry exist not step out of your zone Never ever mourn If you ever feel alone Jump and clap your hands Like worry exist not Like worry exist not Let the troubles rain Be […]
The pot went to fetch water It reached the river But never made it home “efie ahena na abↄ yi Hwana na ↄbἐhwἐ efie yi so? Adidie nnyἐ adedἐdἐw Nsupa wↄ he a yἐde bἐ pia?” Everyone saw how she served The pot was a pot of pot Now it is shattered and unmendable […]
Give me a calabash of “nsafufuo” And let me pour my story like “abufushiw nsuo” Thank you I come from far I have come from a far, far land Where the lions are the hyenas Where the cats are the mice Where the hunters are the dogs Where all owners are servants Yes, I come […]
He needs felicitations On this day of meditation When his years walks majestically In gainful wisdom and has reached another count Why? He makes pouty mouths bend in pleasant smiles He has so much inspiration to last a lifetime He cares not so much about his needs as that of others He breeds happiness And […]
Feeling down? Here is a bouquet of flowers for you Flowers with beautiful sunny yellow colours Flowers with lovely red colours Flowers of greenery showing fertility, showing abundance Flowers of congratulations in their white gowns Flowers of quietude in its dark apparel Flowers of colours yet unseen depicting good things yet to be So smile […]
There is a song on every lips Mine is a song of peace A song of love A song of tolerance A song of freedom A song of merriment A song of positive celebrations A song of good living A song of happiness A song of flying colours A song which gives wings to the […]
The dust is sprinkled onto the monkey land By pigs tutored to climb by the monkeys Now it stands on a tall strong tree Sprinkling dust to blind his teachers The monkeys grovel Wanting to see with their eyes They try and try But none thinks to look up When they perfectly know the dust […]
Endless sky Endless sky Have you any children sired? If you have Let us see If you have Bring them close Then we can know How vast you be Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
In a wooden building in the jungle Alone How can it get worse? “There could be storms Which will wipe the structure out of the surface of this earth” What else could happen? “There could be snakes which will bite and leave you in pain for a while Or there could be hungry lions, cheetahs […]
All tongues quiver All mouths blabber All hands clap All eyes betray When trouble shows its head All legs run All bodies fly All ears open wide All noses open And hairs stand straight when trouble shows its ugly head. Why can’t hands embrace? Why can’t eyes sympathize? Why can’t ears listen? Why […]
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