I need to feel the sun I need to feel the sun in my land I don’t need blankets When it is too hot for clothes I need to drink water I need to drink potent water I need no liquor When thirst warns to drown me in the sea of death I […]
Have you? Have you ever drunk the fecal water of the unknown? Have you stayed even for a day with scents of the expired? Have you? Have you ever been made uncomfortable enough to Walk barefooted with care, lest you are pulled into the realm of tetanus? Have you? Has your home ever been considered […]
From the soothing balm of shea To the ginger, pepper suppository Through to hunger which was queer And quenched with thick breakfast of ‘coco’ With plenty sunshine, my happiness was sealed By the creator I, like an angel, knew no colour I knew no difference I knew humans, black, white, yellow and whatever And […]
It is a known fact that Ghanaian gospel singers come onto the scene meek, respectful with an air of the African gospel singer attitude (dressing from head to toe for females with archaic head gears and normal shoes for men). But what do we see? After one hit, they tend to wear everything from mini […]
Him Her Them Me Let it be We And We And We And problems will develop wings To flee Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
“Abobi” “Adodi” Tilapia One man thousand Accompanied by the tasty “abolo” The Volta River feeds Voltarians And visitors alike It lies like a mother Carrying a ferry Which carries all feet Crossing her world But smiles in serenity The Volta River feeds Voltarians And visitors alike When Ghana calls Heed , and step […]
In the past years, Stench rose with more than enough fists To welcome all first timers As people hid behind ugly filth Trying their hardest to sell their wares “Sister, please buy some for me Beautiful chains made for a queen like you, Brother come and buy tomatoes, The onions are really cheap and […]
When brains fear strength Chaos stands tall The body of the pen Must fear no muscles Because its voice is the loudest Let the pen talk And the muscles bow Power like that Needs no coward for an ink I am a pen A pen without muscles But I will never stand To be crashed […]
The man with the broomy beard Sweeps the road and clears the gutters He defies all the insults and taunts To keep the Ghanaian royal centre clean Oko the dancer dances the streets Oko the wicked murders some rubbish Oko the ambitious wants a palace out the street Oko the cruel imposes neatness […]
Carnivores hearts bleed As ebola their targets freed The kingdom of the wild Might be singing hallelujah For their liberation from African mouths Our curse, their blessing That’s the life the creator created Fair to a group now Fair to that group tomorrow. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
They sit on the fury of the gods And fan them to snooze Everyone is onboard this sin against the gods Some watch as some touch The symbolic tails of the chained seer To hide their sins under its fur Some sip from the calabash of hatred Others eat from the earthenware of […]
I stand on this mountain top Looking at the beautiful terrestrial contours As I smooch the benevolent dew drop I stand mesmerized by the lands Which comfortably sit in innocence Bearing all barbarisms in its belly and saying nothing to terroristic bands I stand here Closer to God Asking how she can all […]
She’s like sapphire Transparent in feelings, She blabbers about her dearest Embracing her absence And wearing her yearnings like a beautiful gown I feel I’m watching a weird movie I live like her, if not more occupied So why does she try to taunt me with names? Could it be her loneliness is more […]
This is the part where I say thank you to all those who have been supporting me. My first anthology is coming up soon. It embodies everything we can think of, please watch out.
I chew groundnut in its shell I eat maize on its bell Okro in my stew flows from my backyard Plucking plantain is not hard Getting cassava just needs a tool If I want, I’ll eat like a fool Pepper calls to be plucked As tomatoes’s lipstick aims to seduce… Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 […]
In my idleness and tiredness Of hearing the screams of pain, I decided to take a stroll in Africa And what did I see? I saw indifference chewing an unmeasured stick Sitting on our wall, watching and shaking its head I reached out but it had sold its ears to disappointment And had thrown […]
An oven when the sun fumes A freezer when the rain spews Chaotic battlefield when tempers rise Pauper worshippers without shame in the light But true serenity stays in Tamale Strong muscles dazzle at work Loud voices call for customers Angry consumers get into their own way Fuming and cursing the patient ones But affordable […]
It’s a man’s world It’s indeed a man’s world Although we give them life But let’s face it, We give them the maximum offerings There are those of us who sell for pleasure Without measure Their treasures There are those of us who covet Without regret What our peers have, an open secret […]
The winds which blows Knows no greens It takes the yellow And angrily pluck the greens You my dears are being plucked unfairly But you are gallants Who will be hailed The fevers burn So does my heart Your blood boil and flow through facial holes Eyes which watch cry in pain We’d love […]
I bowed head To fight my thoughts And closed my eyes To shut the void Only to feel a tingle On my leg What alien snake Aims to bite? I turn on my senses And see the commotion It is that borrowed Brazilian hair Things alien Need some getting used to. Amoafowaa Sefa […]
Stillness, In the land that was shaky is stillness Which floats in the cold, this stillness Abounds It was trust It was trust which caused this stillness Trust for respect on corruption In this town There was merriment There was merriment when he won, No wonder, disappointment sits in stillness And weighs […]
In fear’s arms panic cuddles Feeling safe and on top of threats The lovers push their victim to the wall Crushing it with their hands and teeth Ofori never knew their trick The fear of ebola drove him mad He took to his heels and run frantically Into the opened arms of fever […]
I am from here But I’ll not hide it under a sneer The Africa to detest Must be detested by all Under the bright sky, A lone traveller walked Time beating him As the moon kept him watched My continental people saw he was vulnerable And thought of what their spiritualist had said […]
I can tell you pride has been sold For power in my home For the first man status, a sheep clothe was worn. To be the keeper of all, A known affluence was paraded But a lion could never stay in a sheep clothe forever It tore free immediately it landed on the stool […]
It is a perfect creation A machine to sieve and produce One to give pleasure and satisfaction Not an imperfection calling to be perfected It is a machine of perfection Which cleans itself with every growth And has the decency to close and open Under the instruction of a mind on top There […]
Aboakyere transliterates “animal catching”. The animal in question happens to be a deer. It was first a human sacrifice, and then the gods listened to the cries of the people and made it a leopard which was worse in the loss of human lives, so they settled on a deer. It is believed that this […]
Come to Ghana And hold our banner Freedom and justice we preach Hospitality we teach Your mood will change from red to green, From green to yellow with a black star of hope being your facial screen Come to Ghana Let’s share our banner From the many sites in the beautiful Accra city We’ll […]
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