Paintings Oral or written Empirically moral or entertaining Through sagely or silly thoughts Read or listened to to touch or tease You, I or us as a world Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Happy World Poetry day! Hope all poets found the day creative and all poetry lovers who visited amoafowaa.com were fulfilled. My way […]
GATHERER Yieeeee! Konkonsa served hot Come, it is not to be bought Bring your huge plates and fetch as you wish! Gathered? Kwame, watch the gate Now listen! Okay, guess what? Impatient? Let me open the news for it to cool I hear Kwabena-Bena went for a party Instead of greeting with his mouth His […]
Bean in a pod Use no swords upon liberation Rebel against no pod They camp you for no suppression Whether rain or shine They clothe you to safety II Until you soften in heat You won’t uncover this moral But try in thinking There’s no turning back in heat Unless of course, you are lucky […]
Who are the flowers Wearing their thorns Calling for fairness Hitting and biting admirers hard? II Who are the roses Burning opposite noses Claiming they’re bosses And hitting hard in doses? III Listen to a fellow say; Every rudeness has a pay You’re not superior in any way You fight for fairness Then be fair […]
Penpenaaa! Nanaa! If you answer in sexy You get gifted in richness II Penpenaa! Nana! Don’t be rude Nana needs new blood to help his system III Now let’s drop the play; Many say their pairs reject them Many say their beds are tired; Tired of praying Hail Marys Many say their pairs shift their […]
Nose of Prekese Saying dawadawa beings Smell foul is horror II Huge bowls of Etiw Claiming bowls of Akple are Unworthy, is laughable III What happened to fruits? What happened to same corn foods What happened to groups? IV Let us not pretend We’re under huge umbrellas And so we are one Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Ah urban! What have you done? Now many people own cars And everybody needs a car See how pregnant the roads are See how tired the traffic lights look Cars rebel and cast choked spell As legs cramp up under small seats We are now like clipped birds Flying on kites A deflated tyre and […]
When you buy a cub Be sure to know It has no trait Of a lion II When you hoard some eggs Be sure to know It houses no python With thought thorns III Pained is he who homes A thing which turns To hunt himself So just monitor Before you turn litter Amoafowaa Sefa […]
Get going Getty Goose Go get gizzards to grill Get a great gait Grease your gabbles Gallivanting for gain? Even galloping gets galumphingly gruelling So get going Getting and giving Or get grilled Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When all do talk About complexions And call mine dirty And call mine animalish, *** When all do talk Like holes without breaks About my status And call me low And call me un-classy, *** When all do talk Like fowls sensing danger And call me a taboo And call me cursed; *** I look […]
How Hardi heard The silvers bark And peeped to see The walking scents Booting the silvers here and there, Beats me, beats me II Neighbouring niceties nestling Walking in heels And rudely entering When foods at home go on strike Beats me, beats me III Booting barrels bare Hitting heads of metals Making scenes and […]
If Kwaku Ananse’s fate Of always stirring hate Incurred many baits How many would’ve had that death date Or ended on his webby plate? II Feel the hate Wait and deflate The stone-like gate Of blocked freedom in loving fate Do this or dear mate, do mate The hatred until the hurts turn and hammer […]
Kwasi is a name of peace, Winning and grace, A day of rest So I knock my wonder In gratitude of a Kwasi-blessing Good deeds have no mouths Yes, but many alien mouths Announce at no cost, their works Not new, but good clichés work best – No fears in saying A […]
When the cock wakes and crows Then you should know the real cock I am that cock Crowing in thankfulness Waking in gratefulness Making the noise in good bafflement Of the support and love shown Kokrokooookoooo! Kokrokoooookooooo! Kokrokooooo! Medamo ase ooo! Akpe na mi loooo! Menda ny3 shi o! Nawo dee so! Thank you very […]
He may have my picture on his phone Thinking I’m the bone of his bone He may feel the chaos of the lone But gently hides it from his tone II He may have me as song in his head Knowing work always feed instead He may have felt his pulse, his organs race led […]
I “There are some crying crabs Inside my blood and they’re bubbling Especially because I see him II There are some goose Being chased by cold Inside my head Especially when I spot him III What is this passion That is out of fashion And trying my attraction Forcing it to action?  IV Oh […]
I don’t want to climb I wanted to be lifted So get the okro and banku And drop the yam and others II When there’s a lift Why would I climb? Exercise of jaws? Please save my energy III Let the okro lift And lips open for a lift Get me the lifter I need […]
If night walls could talk They will tell tales of crawling snakes And opened mouth holes II If night walls could talk, They would properly describe the insects Of the night and the real scarers III If night walls could talk Children will not be allowed to walk The streets alone, even in daylight IV […]
THE TENANT It is not a small box Which can fit into my pocket I would have gotten a chain To chain it to my pocket To stop all the drama Of landlord landladyships Houses! Look at this horrible house Does it merit my troubles? LANDLORD Horrible house? Then leave it for me! Look at […]
Being busted buying best is best than busted being bought, a brain of a she-being can beat buyers and break bouncing bounds II Determination determines dreams, doing dreams without, is daydreams which will deal dangerous dates, dance to the rhythm of “done” III I and eye are “I’s” But one stands and the other sees […]
Carnivorous ants act like fleas Wherever there are sweets Each wanting a bite Each growing greed Let the scent of sweets reek arrest, all will vanish, hide, look and laugh their victories. Will there ever be a liker of victory and defeat? Fleas singing praises like fake possessed Christians Please do sympathise in defeat And […]
Whistling winds Stalling stars Trembling thunders Dine in the sky II Taunted trees Soaring seas Beautiful breezes Can’t pass me by III Walk the waste Weave a web Wrestle waters But view the sky Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (I always follow trends, decided to have my own type of poetry writing; amoawaatype, even three […]
It’s the brink of a hot hot night My eyes still burn in cold delight Wanting sleep and needing good work On a floor mattress with duress Only comfort; fan which caress I know many mouths do not see Will grant interviews without fee And try to my hard work now, shirk Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
When accommodatings get fed-up, They shut the gates of their house And cause a tsunamic slap On the whining displayer forever II When a pond gets flooded By a sea, it gives way When its hands are full Even metals melt when they receive Too much lovemaking from fire Think, sit and ponder Or face […]
Men They are poles Poles with six and a half holes; Two in mid face Two; the windows of the head One close to the chinny end One on the rear And a little queer one with urea and bullets II Men Hoarding magnets on their eyes They see and their eyes call for touch […]
Tiredness, massage yourself And let sleep take its place II Tiredness, get some fuel And let rest have some kebab III You know you hit hard Holding joints and piercing skins IV You know you hit hard Holding the brains and squeezing pates V You know you hit hard Kicking the back in sharp seconds […]
When sorrow does burrow In your heart like a fierce rabbit Know its path can only be narrow It definitely will outgrow its habit When you eventually pull your arrow So think of its pit You will be the master When you become its crime buster Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Sword; Holders In high seats Cutting righteous Leaving the horrors You continue to weed There is a higher swordsman Who is waiting for your sinking And writing all your filthy thinkings You continue growing weeds, cutting seeds Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
He uses the rags Which someone sees as cloth And throws it in animal dung of mud But the rags get cleaned and rushes to him II She uses the doormat Which someone sees as a bed Making sure the rains do cane And pull it into the gutters But as soon as it gets […]
Fie! Artificial fires of the night Fie! You who shine off and on Jumping from the mountain of darkness To the mountain of brightness Scattering arranged futures And pulling hairs of the protected Fie! You nighters like weak but dangerous fireflies! II I wear great clothes of metal Metal to you, cotton to day workers […]
I braced all weathers Alone, Suffered through falling Alone, I faced the anger of mean suns Alone Seeing my twin being pampered Simply because I was banana And not plantain II When she was watered, I was neglected When she was shaped, I was left in my withers Now, plantain sleeps In this weather as […]
As we stand in our fallibility Like soldiers with brave masks showing our durability We’re like maize plants Moving like hungry ants When the winds place their calls To have our falls II As we claim authenticities As lesser lives cry on our artificialities Like victims whose lives were taken Before their happiness was awaken […]
Like bats, make us fly together We are trees on same land with different grounds A loud “paaa, pooom, peii” must raise our concerns II While our heads have nations with different thought legs, Their frames have carvings so similar in supplementation Their thought deeds have beautiful uglies Causing real pain to differing acts Which […]
Where lies your heart? In the will of safety or doom? Trust your heart to a machine That can crash and maim?  II Where lies your fear? Oh travelling heart? In the machete of maiming Or in the bowl of death?  III Where lies your motivation? In the importance of work Or in […]
As morning stretches On dawn’s mat In thought’s cover cloth, Fears wear high heels Looking for who to attack. Just who is willing to be that pawn? II What pain on earth has never, ever tasted life Or is never, ever going to taste lives That you sacrifice happiness for fear? Those heels, will never […]
They fight seriously Why? Look here, ground-nuts and beans! Fighting for nothing Is like falling into grounds Full of herbivoric pests II As a leaf, I probed Beans claim superiority For being flower-borns As ground-nuts claim bosshood for Being root borns, how trivial! III You silly fighting beans, Don’t you know you depend on roots […]
Banned by a Beatrice Burning bear’s bread Bertha became a bystander Being booed by Beatrice In broad bay-light II Being the best, Bertha breathed and bowed When Beatrice bought the shame Of belittling, after seeing Bertha Oh shying shame! III Best be better At being no bore When your bones get bitter At boring beasts […]
When a cat falls in love with a mouse Certainly, it must prepare to banish hunger Form its life Or face the brightest darkness That will engulf it After breaking the bones of the one It feels great love for II When a mouse falls in love with a cat One-sidedly, It must cultivate the […]
Like brooms, we must live In a belt of peace which sings, Calling hope for all II Like flowing rivers We must all join a good sea To protect fishlings III Like the wide bright sky We must make room for sun, rains Thunders and still smile IV Like the friendly moon We must be […]
Dawadawa and prekese Are now ruled by curry powder And white spices Ghana men hide in masks Thinking they are trending And I ask myself why? II Days when our older generation lived They lived on hwintia, pepreh and kakaduro Adding mako, making sure akoko messa Dance in soups with fowl carcasses in their rivers […]
I am a bright star I need to see brighter sun Help! Help Mister Dark II I am a bright star Sitting dazed like trapped by clouds I need to see sun III With sun in deep sleep While I am fully awake How do I meet her? IV Please Mister Dark, help I help […]
Dan drooled down amidst dears Deeming deans daffy Drawing dears dull Damning daughters deep, Deep drowning his density Dan deems it a dago And dallies getting a dahlia Dating back to get his daguerreotype Drown in dangerous dens Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Twins Born wins Twins oh twins! Conceived to pair From the bed in womb To the parting to the tomb They are competitors and team Jealousy stays and sleeps in their midst They need discipline and love to conquer Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Inspired by a […]
Tomatoes, onions Pepper and salt, fish, water Groundnut or palmnut Should I bring in the others? They live independently II Living by themselves So conceited like bosses Never knowing they will leave Together in pots On flames with fingers like swords III Sad that is not all Their carcasses travel through Odours, crashing stones With […]
Tingly tickles tell trophies, Trials tails tops and turns Try twinkling like a twinkling star Or trip in trails while training But trophies laughed and told tt That they are the top many must reach While tt is the fuel which drives seekers to them What I learnt from the discourse? Everything has its grand, […]
When the cats are mewing And the dogs are backing And many birds are chirping And many snakes are hissing Trying to get the lion’s attention, Trust me, all it hears are meats Yes, meats calling to be chewed *** Instead of planning a trapping And getting a catching So they can get ears to […]
Why sin was made ineluctable, Abena, I do not know Its terribly sweet whispers Its beautiful shapes and colours Its mysterious rush of adrenaline Its promises of gain Rubbed by its soothing balm of satisfaction after success, Erase thoughts of its consequences II There I was Standing at the threshold of sin Watching Amidu cuddle […]
Fans and heaters Fire and ice Cold marries shivers Heat drains sweat II Suns and rains Brightness and drinks Bright leads all Drinks satisfy thirst III Again suns and rains Dust and flood Dust gives cold Flood kills in cold Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
All great prekeses Prepare before meeting great dawadawas, facts II Scents battling with scents Sharpen their scent skills lest they Get lost in high scents III I wish most scents blend. The power of their result May kill enemies IV Complacency shames Hurts, destroys and kills always Who is not aware? Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
While day flirts with air Thinking it can ward off night And air flirts with day Thinking it can light its path The trees nod their heads, watching II They see this all times Expectations in firing They all leave town and die down Being bombed by darkness How I wish some use their heads! […]
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