As we do this rope weave And the unseen sieve does us sieve And we all stand to fall Like weak trees in storm’s call We just have to strengthen our thread As we step, step by step And our breaths do us prep And the […]
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(Today is a day set aside to educate people on the need to treat mental patients with love and care, so I understand, this is my bit of contribution.) Electrical circuits touch in rooms Electrifying in high pain Until pain gives way to thoughts unburdened In […]
For a hole to hide its finger When nobody is watching It shuns its precious little wingers And goes hunting in a sunny scorching It knows it is in danger But thinks of the warm little hole It dreams of the finger in a manger And desires […]
Who preaches to the preacher When he needs preaching? Who motivates the motivator When he needs motivation Who tends to the only doctor When he is chronically ill? Who will hold the hands Of the holder? I stretch my hands As I close my eyes Picturing God And asking who gods […]
Wriggle, tickle and giggle You are probably just a fickle Who will your object tickle Until it gets you sickle’ Wriggle, tickle and giggle You can be a diddle You’ll get the tag of a money fiddle And will control them to at your steps jiggle […]
“For you, The moon is at arm’s length For you, The sky is like the shortest roof For you, The stars like night lights will walk at my command For you, Trees will shake, shrubs will clap as birds sing at my command […]
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UNCLEAR EPIPHANY
When the soul does not fit And the heart fails to sit When the eyes swim in tears With the head drowned in fears The body moans in the heat In millions I feel the claws of lions Every set of smiling teeth seethe Pain […]
“Please m’aam? How do you do m’aam? How may I help m’aam?” And so the words started to walk From a mouth hiding  murderous words Honorifics clothing horrifics Rely on me like the Odum tree And I’ll protect you like the mountain With a soul Go this […]
Open stores With free goods Which have unfathomable price tags And no attendants to protect them But none dares to think of stealing Open doors With beautiful furnishings Which invite but scares And no caretaker to answer the door But none dares to enter A beautiful church Which many instruments Which giggle for […]
These hands Merging with this mind In the present I do envy Because they are what I give life to But will live on forever The staff of the limper Limping into nothingness Surely decays or turns into firewood But these I’m giving life to Are empowered to beat me, My great great generations […]
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EARS AND FEARS
The body with no ears Does everything in anything Risks hearing no hazards Stands in the mouth of death And sees its teeth only when They are clamping down on it Have ears Even the deaf uses his eyes as ears Have thoughts To […]
I wish for a spirit so divine Which will close eyes of all who with me dine And leave my living to be mine So I can treat myself superbly fine Then I’ll put all my feelings in line It doesn’t matter if it sums up to […]
There is that vast ocean Of cancer, one that lies to be seen And she stands at the bank Eyeing the serenity at the other bank Would she be able to swim through To her loved ones? Could tales of others winning be true? Should she […]
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I’VE WALKED
I’ve walked I’ve walked through the desert in a sea Like a lost game Knowing not the refuge hut Knowing my end was near But ended up at its bank Being caressed by the sea breeze I’ve stopped I’ve stopped in the middle of a busy road […]
In this place In this time It is a story time Around my territory Some ears are corked Enjoying my honey Flowing into them Wanting the thickest to feel the surge And it shows The hush hushes The eye eyers The unhearable mumblings are its evidence It is a past Made into a good story […]
When I seem lost In the arms of this world I seek shelter in the arms of my worse Nothing seems worse As many have their footsteps marked No matter the pain, I’ll not falter So clothe me in love If you have any And give me shelter For what you see […]
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 […]
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DRUNK IN BEAUTY
Full yearning for this can Possess all who run Caring not about the rain or sun Being each for the air, a fan The running run into the running And I stand my ground Moving not, the competition blessing me with laughter And shushing the sound of pain Indifferent audience watch Some shrugging […]
The tree stands in glamour Attracting birds Attracting bees Attracting monkeys Attracting snakes Attracting eyes And singing hymns None cares About the fallen leaves Which was high above And has served its time They step on them, hailing the new And ignoring their pain Although their work is not done Like an unwanted […]
Once in the land of the wild God staged a judgement in the mild He called king lion Who sought to sing to enter Zion But sang the song of the murderous The crowd cheered in happiness Their terrorist has been fairly judged by His Holiness They sang and praised God’s name was raised […]
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) […]
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DESORROW ME
I yearn for a day of no sorrow Where words will have no sadness to borrow To have life to enable them leave the hollow And light the pain to mellow When spring calls And summer falls I yearn for many made halls Of sunlight in my head’s thinking walls Let the shine […]
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BE MY ROPE
Hunchback television Paved way for the flats All inspired by Edison’s light Harvested food’s love with famine Gave reason for the canned and tinned All inspired by the need to eat and survive Brown leaves fall In wait of the greens All inspired by the tree’s need to flourish At a time […]
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SOME RULES TO FOLLOW
Live Learn Lean Love Loathe Forgive Feel free Before stepping out Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
For your punishment In matrimony Which would you prefer? Sealed lips Crossed legs Or avoidance? Packing out Sending you out Or separation? Instead of cuddling You go wandering Instead of talking You go playing In extremity I’d burn certificates And the court of its duplicate To be free from you […]
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SHARING AND CURSING
Sharing is caring But some sharing is cursing I fish You watch I share You enjoy I fish You learn I share You enjoy I fish You fish I may get more You may get none So I share And we enjoy Then we will grow And […]
Faithfulness! A word as beautiful As a flower With many opened Holes of deceit in deed Love! A word sought From mouths of worthy beings But heavily utilised By pain, mockery and hatred Trust! A word which lights The face and tingles the heart Only to be a pawn In the hands of […]
You push men into the limelight And serve as mouths of a future bright But men are men and claim are men When they become fertile money hatching hen’ Poor heads which hurt to push Sorry for being forced into the bush After you make comfortable roosters Of hen boosters I know it is a […]
Stumbling upon a bloody kite On an unimaginable stony site He made to run with all his might But was caught and jailed by the unfair light He thought a lot about this trappy bright And saw clearly how he was poorly indict’ He swore to never be confined without a fight So he […]
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 […]
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SOLDIERING CROSS
On a happy sea tour Our love blossomed to the core All sores aimed to heal But the sea goddesses hated for it to be real We sailed without mails We shared in all the sails We loved, and held I forgot, the soldiering limpy loss I held Until your unfortunate slip Reminded […]
The rhythm of falling Plays not in one house But all Esi’s roots were in solid gold Abena’s roots were in filthy gutter mud Their minds were in contrast Esi’s complacency showed Abena’s hard working mind prayed To ascend the ladder of gold Time held no hands The golden tree developed gutter […]
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SEEDLY PRAYERS
These sad rains Seen through the gates of my eyes Are straight from the soul The seed hatched, Its features Leave me pained and strained Would it be lifelong? Would it be for the most part Of its life span? What am I to do If it is to be tended forever? […]
The eagles are fowls The fowls are eagles The houses are the sky The sky is the houses In her world. Elephants are ants Ants are elephants Lions are the cats Cats are the lions In her world Food goes through the rear Feaces come through the mouth The back houses the babies […]
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AT THE JUNCTION OF DILEMMA
My mind and my heart clash And in their most horrendous bash They win in turns The heart mellows and turns The head stands firm And squirm It ends up with the heart wanting The head weighing So what is this? I want you I fear you I need you But my head can’t […]
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FIGHTING ZONE
When life’s fog takes my eyes I talk to self without lies And step on its ground to say my byes Without eyes shedding no cries In strength, I forge forward There is no fear which sends me backward Even when sent to the ward I dance to the chord Because life has […]
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BEEP, BEEP, NO ACCESS!
Truth denied Faith hyped Freedom subdued Chains hyped Sellers abound Like nets In the sea Goods are nil What pain! What suffering! Among the living Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
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 […]
Amidst the pain And all the gain Amidst the storms And the beautiful suns Amidst the rough roads And the smooth ones Amidst the love And all the hate I’ll never change a thing Because each thing had its bearing on the me today Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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INGRATITUDE
He who discriminates On the food table He who discriminates Around the drinking tanks He who complains Of the hard sheets Knows no pain And knows no need Come to my end And I’ll give you a mirror in which you’ll see your ingratitude. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Fame abounds on the humble Like fire on light ice It makes the ice so hot Parched throats fear to touch But those feeling the cold weather Get to use the hot water for coffee or tea Neglecting the thoughts of its original state Many might have loved to sip it It might have wanted […]
Mama’s space Is occupied by air Mama’s hug Is always done by the tree Mama’s voice Is lost in the wind So in my many nightmares I have no voice to call mama Because when the trees and the air Run there, their scare will stop my heartbeat. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
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 […]
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WATCHING OURSELVES
We were created by no one knows We live for love but none wants to show We stage comedies but none wants to laugh Geniuses create parodies Many show for the show Others laugh in their shelters and watch We end up laughing at ourselves in the mirrors of actors Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 […]
Drunkenness steals composure But frees the inner child Armed robbery steals properties and lives But pays men in security Cheating hurts hearts But fills the void at some point One considered ugly Makes the beautiful stand out Treason is unpardonable But cautions us to watch our backs Learning is difficult […]
If you ask me I’ll tell you there’s no interest Mice could live in your stomach Tell it to others and they cry Over their own stomachs If you ask me I know none cares Write beautifully, if they’ve never stepped in your word house Or wish to step in there, They’ll shun and […]
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THE GAME
Cats and rats Stay in opposite rays They clap and slap Their eyes on each other; Rats desperate in outwitting Cats desperate for food “No offence intended No defence for the weak” Is the slogan of cats “No place for slacking” Be a cat or a smart rat Chances are, you live full Or you […]
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 […]
Sea shells talk to the shores like pretty dolls talk to their girls They ask for cover They ask for completeness They ask for freedom but they get captured If I’ll end up that way Under your cover Please leave me under this dangerous shade The winds may rape me As the […]
Rains are blessings Rains can be curses Fire is a servant Fire can be a murderer Food is what we are Food can steal our treasured lives I am a near nirvana Flawed, heavily flawed In unmanageable hands I am like the fire which kills the cold But my buttons must not be pushed Lest […]
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