I When a pot breaks The earth shakes Because its water pours And takes many “I’m not coming back” tours Into forever loss II The earth takes The pot which breaks The pot with arms for some lonely being The pot with a heart which must protect some hurtful being And its water which pours […]
He became abstemious When death taught him And gave him an example An example with the one his heart beats for He hugged a tree and cried aloud Hoping the lesson will be a mock But after the tree screamed in pain And his skin felt the strain He realised the lesson was real So […]
I As fowls search for corn, Hawks search for chicks Eagles search for fowls Some snakes search for eggs Forgetting others’ search for snakes II As plants draw water, air and sunlight Sheep and goats search for plants Cows search for plants Even dogs search for some plants Forgetting others search for dogs III As […]
Sanity tells me It’ll be an illusion If anyone thinks of human reincarnation In any other form But weeds, plants or trees Because yeah, we go back to earth Because yeah, it dismantles us into soil Because yeah, fertiliser is our end product Because yeah, nothing is known after that But my heart tells me […]
Orphaned by ebola, it is hurtful to see families shunning the companies of the young ones. My heart bleeds for these young ones. I pray that many voices will come together as one to bring comfort to these children and bring hope to those who have conquered the sickness. This poem is for all those […]
Clear it there And make it rare This ebola scare Needs some care Make it fair Face it square It is a cheater who cannot with humans pair The pain it brings none can bear And even with its presence all fear to dare Because its teeth are ready to tear Aiming to make black […]
We In  the arms of armoured earth Protective of us Fight with race Fight with gender Fight with geography Fight with ethnicity And fight for what we can’t forever own II When we Crossing over into soil Take nothing but our beings Our skin being butchered by moth Our bones being powdered by age and […]
I If you know not the taker Please give me your ears Listen and listen through And see its feet II Like sleep It takes to control Like wood It climbs till it’s bored III Like God It darkens in sleep Like God It lightens in sleep IV No shoes No eye can see, no […]
I I came as a pen A pen given by my hen My hen who kept me in her den Her den to help me be among men II Such an interesting pen I am I am a pen which writes to fill To fill but never gets filled Gets filled or deplete for extinction […]
Crashers of nuts Who crash not their seeds Water pourers Who break not the pots Hear this sound From a clever mind If you crash the nuts Do crash their seeds If you pour the water Do crash the pots Leaving these tells of tales Of your dumbness of dumbness If you can’t crash their […]
Bubbly blooming and winding winds Catching caressing in mean massages Causing cravings, love and life Standing sitting no patience nor peace Storms stand in dense dungeons Waving win flash in flowing flaws Reigning regrets, wishes don’t win. Â Â Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 (This poem is for those who intend to kill themselves, it is […]
Future filth Stop the frown Straighten up And be around Your time is now When you can ask how When your time stops There’ll be no sound So future filth Don’t act like gold You will get old And can’t be sold Your buyers will pay For you to be hidden from […]
Trees in death Form mansions Or create fires For those dying of cold Darkness dawns For the sun to rise Some plants die To give warmth for bodies to live Analogies upon analogies But you special ones Have your luck shine bright When your earth […]
In the light Of this fight We find the sight In an insight And lose our might Like a kite We fascinate in light In God’s sight As our colour bright No matter our height But  there is our night Which brings our plight And turns all things right On this site Into […]
Two grasses On many lawns Fight But the poor lawns Have their beauties smeared And their lives ended I live I see The unfair blues I try I cry But no good You go in spirit Your lives are taken But your marks remain on firm minds Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
This soul of hurt and sorrow What peace toll will it borrow To leave for astral ‘plane When this body sets sail? Strength saps When thoughts of my blood visibly shakes With less mentality Who’ll be the caretaker when I leave for astral ‘plane? This here In this chest enclave Shakes and breaks […]
Save a place for me Grandma Please save a place for me I do not know what country or town awaits After my eyes close and my breathe seizes Save a place for me Grandma There may be a long cue which might require one knowing another If the current bribing here is […]
So one came With thoughts of putting me to shame His goatee looked so lame Yet he sought to me tame I let him go with ego deflated Completely different from how he came Another came Betting to have me tamed His antagonistic tricks I had defamed His time belled out and he was […]
What if Shakespeare’s thoughts Slept, sat, woke, ate, drank, slept And followed him to the grave? What if Thomas Eddison’s thoughts Slept, sat, woke, ate, drank, slept And followed him to the grave? What if Alexander Wolcott’s thoughts Slept, sat, woke, ate, drank, slept And followed him to the grave? What if […]
Before your hungry appetite is curbed I ask that you treat me fair and square Give my ink freedom to do its work Until my tinniest ink is dropped Let my name be on all the ink Unbloating tears hiding in all things phony And be the light of future men, Who will need […]
The hands which frets The eyes which call for want The head which battles the heart The tongue which yearns to taste The legs which move and complain of pain The ears which draw attention and hurt The nose which smells good and bad alike Other organs we always wish to satisfy Are all cooking […]
The cradle cries From the cold of loneliness As the infant cringes in the darkness Of the past What could’ve now been a blessing Ended up being a past catastrophe Which you pushed with the help Of rakes of harsh drugs Now you call on God After abandoning the gourd Of the gods […]
Laughter resonates From the abyss of the acquired The acquired watch their masters Slumber with no awareness Mocked pageant of self ownership fills the air At this point, they’re unowned And can belong to any daring hands But the snores are so confident That they have eyes on watch When they’re also of the flesh […]
If there is a chance I’ll turn into a plant When the earth receives my being, Please make me a creeping plant Specifically a water melon plant And give me space to climb, crawl and lie I’d like to climb the tallest tree… Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
You lie on the roaster tonight Flanked by many cooks under a beautiful light You lie being garnished with tears Of those who will never want to be you For they know, they will never eat you Nor sit for anyone to eat you You are the special food of the earth Tomorrow, you’ll […]
Walls climbed walls At her order Pride joined beauty at her table, Made her an unmatched princess And froze her thoughts of age Inside a wall without an opening Age minded no frozen thoughts And walked through to his territory Taking hold of her skin like wild fire Making mirrors her enemies As […]
Someday, I’ll walk my life away I’ll be seized from seeing day Somehow, I’ll shed this skin and bow I can no longer chew my favourite cow And These bones, these knuckles These stones will come off This water These nails This blood will dry off Some day It will all make way So why […]
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 […]
When I sniff and sniff I think I stink and stink When I blink and blink I think I’m blind an blind When I listen and listen I think I’m deaf and deaf When I walk and walk I think I’m a crippled cripple When I touch my hair I feel I’m bald and bald […]
You were my friend I never disrespected you Your instructions I carried Your worries I quenched I thought you saying goodbye in your sleep Meant your instructions have ended So why are you stuck in my head Criticising everything I do With a whip of conscience? Please show your face And stop haunting A whipping […]
The same tick tock Which grows the plant Is the same tick tock Which kills the plant  Every leaf, stem and stalk Will dance to the tune It grew to love And learn to detest its hands and discipline  A time for one, Tick tock will pass And will never bother To take […]
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 […]
In her bid to get medicine to combat age Ako travelled far to meet a sage The sage asked why she needed to combat age To be immortal was her answer to the sage  The sage tells her about age’s rage And threats of putting Ako in a cage The sage had for her […]
 They needed the inedible sardine But not the working fish They sat and watched It struggling When It was of their flesh And never thought of helping When It finally bobbed up bellywise in a breathless wave They hired an expensive can To transport it to the keeper freezer To keep it fresh for […]
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