Tamale harmattan is whipping my pulse Mmm aaah what is the cause? II It scratches my nostrils and cracks my lips Mmm aaah what is the cause? III It unevenly paints my skin and hardens my hair Mmm aah what is the cause? IV Could it be mucus or phlegms it needs? Mmm aaah what […]
“Sheeiiiii! Papa is gone? Agyeiiiii! I have none left! Wuoeiiiii! I’ve got to go with him” Legs go further from the unknown traveller II “Sheeiiiii! Who will feed me, agyeiiiii! My dark has fallen, wuoeiiiii! There’ll be none to bail me out of my debts” Looks into faces to find a replacement III Eiiiiii! Even […]
Make all the ruckus You trees in windy chorus Cutting tool echoes II Every Osama Awaits his own Obama To bring a hammer III You stand held by ground You rustle with hurting sound Tools seek your flesh pound IV When your doom nights fall As the machines make the call Where will your doom […]
She saw him In the light of innocence And loved him For she housed him nine moon travels But time showed his flaws Earth conquered his will And society came to see “Ei! What is this? It could be an ancestral curse! It could be the result of her prostitution! It could be the curse […]
Here I am Not a sham Quit the ram I mean you harm II Here I stand Like God’s hand Calling a band On your dry land III Don’t you wait Catch your bait Know your fate This is your date IV I’m conscience Calling your nonsense To whip you to sense To give you […]
All strong green flowers Basking in your rain showers Now, you’re strong towers  II When time’s rain showers You’ll be drenched like all dead fires Ashes; your empires  III Kiss the rains, workers Feel the mud, all paint workers For all beauty suffers  IV Time’s teeth; destroyers Time’s gain is life controllers […]
He was clawed to flaw Canined to chain and insane Knew not his right path Going was trouble, standing, Great pain and hunger, back? Not! II Like man, like a beast Like a feet without a land seat Like heart dead in life He walked two paces and turned Walked back two paces and turned […]
In His time He makes all rhyme He’s blessed the mime And is making it chime A book to be unveiled With 30 percent to help autism On this Ghana land Where they are seen as evil It will happen at the PAWA House Opposite Accra Girls From the afternoon of two To the evening […]
Yearn and sit On carved horse’s seat And the “n” would flee And show you “year” And the “y” would flee And be replace by “t” For the lonely “r” to call an “s” They will then travel to your eye’s land Pinch and fall like angry rains As they take you back to be […]
Cooking pots Please stop the rots When you are on fire As you get hotter Your steam must attract through smell And your pot must be hot to scare You need not break down Sending ladles down town To get many hands to carry you down Pots, it is normal to be hot For the […]
Trees placed bets on shoots Which promised to climb their world Still the young shoots aimed But many died being crashed by The feet of rain and hot sun II One tough shoot remained It climbed the biggest, tallest Tree among the lot Which bragged it was the greatest But the shoot held on too […]
I hold my soul Like the caught mole Because I’m out of control What do you expect? A beautiful flower wilting? Seeing new give bud pangs! Hearing of other colours Fill this weak bud with regrets I stand like half shadow And half flower A leg on land A leg in the soil Controversial feelings […]
Wandering pure minds Homing angelic bodies I know you are there II It takes a great while For you to catch up with us But I know you’re there III You need great control Like Christ with Holy Spirit But I know you’re there IV You have many names From cast aways to Satans But […]
Painted dolls Are blinding our eye balls Standing on sticks With borrowed head debris Of beings unknown Originals are buried Under heavy make-ups And caricature clothes Some maimed by the hands of plastic surgery Minds are gluttons Eating like pigs and wanting abstractions Abstractions which send us crazy Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Needs may justify wrongs But wants can’t say same for itself Wants in extreme Suckle from the breast milk of jealousy Which adds nutritious values of witchcraft Which in turn grow monsters of murder *** I need Some great heart may feed my need I want? Then I need hard  work Which may give me […]
Here swoons the moon And there goes the frowning sun On hurtful pontoon II When moon times out, it frowns and tears for sun to come Normal these sad hurts III When the moon crosses Sun in its time, dead witchcraft Wakes to stir trouble IV Fallibility Is all, discipline; its call That margin, so […]
In the midst of storm The sweet breeze blankets from dust The eyes must take form And close to shield from the storm Who but God gives reflexes? II The arms of the cold Bites when it catches the lone But they pretend to hold When they see others and mourn Who but God gives […]
Pay per pal Or pay per pot Poor poor pets Pass poor poorly Peeving persons with plush pay-checks II Peel per power Pass by push A pattern like a pro Power all posts So pay by pal Or pay by pot But you know the latter Cannot be soft but will always be hot Amoafowaa […]
Each comes with its own songs And each wants its name among Like a battle where none belongs The songs sing themselves like an odd wrong II Travelling with time, one must mime To hear its sounds so one can rhyme To feel its pulse so one can time And work so right to desist […]
A man eater, A brain fighter A heart burner A horrid murderer Surprising it has no teeth No claws No machete No brain No gun Yet borrows to destroy Evil revenge! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
All new fascinate Guess who are the cast aways? Of course it’s the old II Like doormats they lie Hurt by steps thinking of past But legs care less. What? III The downer lacks pride When the upper falls, his pride Hurts, he dreams revenge IV Have mercy! Fallen year! Downers fear no fall but […]
The year holds for me no wishes But I certainly do You must hear my wishes Young heart seedlings must have their freedom To shoot without famishing II Let all papers of authority Know their places in this arena And with all live with conformity By signing a bond III All hearts yearning to be […]
(Happy New Year to all you beautiful people. May this year strengthen our bond and help all creators have great breakthroughs! Blessings and good tidings! This is one of my New Year pieces; enjoy) Time tells toys of travellers That it tows them to tiredness After testing them with trial treats Of beauty II It […]
The goat painted red The town, until it ended up dead Leaving its huge bread II It wore it all And all unlike poles took the fall Until that nasty call III The knife watched as it grew Time bit and fanned it as it grew It felt not the wings of time as it […]
“Tooooo, tontononto tooooooo to Tooooo tontononto toooooo to “Mmoa nyinara, bedime so rougho Na ntontom so ne hena, na obegyina masoho Na obeye me tooo, Na mensu, menpe tooo to” What a nasty song! Life is like a short puzzle No matter what it gives me a bad sizzle How can the world be so […]
Machines of running Helpers and murderers alike Shine your eyes so bright II Machines of running This pet takes off inside you Please use care and run III You’re an errant boy You, as you, need not be coy So go slow, sweet boy IV The hands which made you You’ve proven your ruthlessness Many […]
So she wore a high moke And held a nice smoke Spotting a bow tie Pretending not to lie Until the smoke caught her hair Oh the shouts: I am a rat! I am a rat! Not a human, please see me not on your plates Call for the fire service! II So she put […]
Once a fisherman went to fish He rowed his boat and started to fish On a lonely sea with many a fish Hoping for a sweet dish Then he heard, “I wish you turn fish” He looked round, saw none, and concluded it was a talking fish He run home to prevent God from granting […]
Dear doppy diary Drown my tears And be draped in its shape II How can you take these words And still close your mouth Hoping a saviour will you find? III You know you’re confined But you act so refined Yet harbour my horrors IV Dear doppy diary I know you might always be high […]
Shame always tames I went for a walk In a very unfamiliar place With mouths which spoke in earthly tongues Feeling lost and paranoid Then I heard “nyini!” I frowned II What does this person mean? “Nyini?” Could that be a name of an animal? Could that mean they want to kill me Could that mean […]
It shot very far I realized it was a star I guess I went far II Peacock in a bar How can these feathers go far To show without mar? III So I threw it far Watched it brighten like a star When it reached that far IV Oh my good good star! Can I […]
Donkeys are nothing Like monkeys The former walk like heartless robots The latter have options to walk, swing or jump II Cats are no bats The former are forever walking thieves The latter, forever banished livers of daylight Each sect nursing its scandal III Fishes have liberties in seas But know the fact that they […]
It is paint given in plain pots Another shot being added to the past shots You can make it a whisky shot Or make it a fanta shot, I now reckon My grandma told me so And put it in these see through words *** “Dear Tawiah, My only eye in this huge but small […]
Palm-wines dance and shine In fine calabashes as wine Accentuating foods so fine Calling on souls to come and dine In a happy chatty line  II The sky is filled with cloud Cloud turning, diving and proud Vultures hate the sky’s crowd And promise to build to shame the cloud Knowing it is the […]
Beaming bricks bear balls of bests Blistering bricks bear blows of bills Brimming sorrows of loneliness and pain Tears like rain in terrible torrents Fall on the latter whose mouth is sealed And has eyes which can’t be concealed The former’s life is but a hall of smiles Success reigns and honour calls loud In […]
I saw it It was so fit A flower to be given to the bride Before she took the hand of her father I wanted it But there were these mirrored walls Which failed to let me be Then I saw her father take it He had six eyes on his face Such a weird […]
I am shivering thinking of the fowls many will be slaughtering forgetting the children hunger will be slaughtering II I am crying thinking about boxing day of gifts and the many children pain will be boxing in a session of reminiscence where giving must reign III I am yearning for hearts which will open like […]
There was a hen Which lived wrong Its resolves were strong Although its father was stern II It went to work Looking very bright And giving all fright Its responsibilities shirk III It perplexed humans to bits Making women cry out And scared children to shout Making men throw fits IV Then celebrations dawned And […]
If the moon fails to swoon and dives Into the clouds in fear and surrenders Who thinks of where the stars would be? II If one is to victory And two is to failure We all know the equation to life is 1/2 III If three is to strength And four is to weakness We […]
Circling the circle Of the circled Is still a circle II Squaring the square Of the squared Is still a square III The rain will fall The sun will shine The wind will blow The earth may shake The birds will fly Into the sky Upon my hi’s So play I will And never stand […]
Amidst the chaos And the raucous God saw it good To lighten the hood So he formed an angelic human union II The chosen of chastity Was filled with charity And light lightened dark light With no man putting up a fight Of the outcome of the angelic union III There was no speciality Even […]
With toiling eyes And failing health The weather adding on And nature pinning dry I plea for some time To sort myself out I’d miss all The many good posts, The many good laughs The many good smiles And the many good hearts Blessings to all of you. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I protect my chicks like An impenetrable building Against hawks and eagles Quacking like a troublesome duck to show my love But my chicks end up producing chicks Chicks of chicks! What kind of hen am I? II I teach my she-chicks how to bathe I teach my she-chicks how to live to peck and […]
Light is poison To the eyes of an owl Its fear of light is like Human’s fear of darkness II You light your path in the dark Knowing not you’re woe to an owl And its generation And you attribute your snooping to its help? III Flat lies are too shameful When they walk in […]
Peacocks of beauty, have it all Saints in duty, get it all When your nights fall Pride will shine to fan you in darkness II Members of earthly heaven; spend it all The paupers’ tears; drink them all When your nights fall Sins of corruption will wake to help you fight termites III Fans of […]
If I quietly serve In a world which men’s ego reserve Would I be treated like I deserve? II Sleep, and I’ll sleep My mood is bad, weep, and I’ll weep Will they be so good as to the peace keep? III And if my children lie On mats of dreams, would their thoughts Buy […]
Kisses in grave heat Tends to all high passions beat No good comfort here II Kisses in cold breeze Blend with passions and honour; Blessings if you like III Why fall to timing When best songs do the rhyming? Good times rightly bless IV I need to be there Under wings of timely time To […]
Mary epitomised the mother of God And shunned all her dad’s seeings through the gods After he prayed countless times holding his gourds II Her favourite sayings: A Bible for Satan A good heart fears no harmattan And a high sun gives a nice tan III Her father told her: “You’re born of the gods […]
Minds with jobs live through Snobs. An empty tin of milk Fears no known kicking Kick it here, kick it there, it Will follow without complaints II Stars’ stories are told In so many different tongues Their successes thrived: They adorned the naked sky Until their faded and dimmed III They sat in sadness Watching […]
He created the womb Who intended the tomb He created the foetus Who nursed breast-milk So mouths of suckling Must do the suckling The creator knows The power of noses Please give to the Child who Needs It Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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