Who really knows the face of tomorrow? None has met him yet even in dreams But wild imaginations, thoughts And itineraries unrealistic Have been drawn By you And I 2 We Have Made plans Detailed to the tee Seeing it as a vast sea A sea of fantasies and swiftness From problems which created themselves […]
Winter’s whistles are skins’ wrinkle Their cold strolls do make skins wrinkle Like caked-mud II They choose their lives’ early mornings To sound their scary cold warnings With body-marks III Waters rest from stinking bodies Harsh sprays cry on shivering bodies Like hard-cores IV When the sun appears, bodies dance Welcoming like mother in dance […]
When tired leaves fall They pray to escape the winds To escape its taunts II They need their quiet rest Under the tree they have served To decompose there III They don’t need to be Whisked by an unknown wind to Unfamiliar lands IV Let me be lucky To fall so quietly without Heeding to […]
I live in that song Among all who long Up on the Pong breeze II Chi, Chi chi chi chi A bird is my chi So there are many dangers I can’t smoke like the gangsters Lest the smoke brings in hunters I can’t fly so high Lest I’m shot by guns I can’t walk […]
EPILOGUE: When wisdom fills the old calabash, It overflows and seeps in The sun dries it to be stronger That way it lasts with experience So was the calabash of Atanga’s Granpa On his very dying bed He called Atanga to his bed And had his last stream flow to him GRANDPA: My dear Atanga, […]
In this stormy era Where sounds listen to sounds And birds bed I’m calling on you; Yes you: Death Hurt Hatred Pain Sadness Sickness Shame To stand firm And taste yourselves When you’re done, Please give us detailed reports On death’s death Hurt’s hurt, Hatred’s hatred, Pain’s pain Sadness’ sadness Sickness’s sickness And Shame’s shame […]
What if I say Humans are tadpoles in flesh Living to die to live quiet long? Would you say it’s paranoia? II There clearly is a living inn Who sits as the thoughts of every being Driving hard its machines Into a holistic reincarnation III If that were not so Then think of ghosts, think […]
Professor Yaw Darko Hated Mr. P aul Arko He claims he copies westerners While he epitomises Africanness II He wears African colours And hates all foreign “shudders” He speaks in African tongue And so feels among III He fights Mr. Paul Arko Who is not like he Darko Because he wears foreign And drives cars […]
As love is a shadow With a sharp emotional arrow So is trust; a road so narrow With a fragile bone marrow II Let us use the traffic light If red is a no go sight Yellow, a warning sight And green, a winning sight Let’s say stars are the light I have these to […]
This tree is shaking Not by my making The wind is blowing The earth is quaking II I am here and  living I’m not complaining I keep on growing My stems are spreading III If I could get many sheltering I’ll leave  fulfilling I do no whining I need no praising IV Many are roaming […]
If you draw the line I won’t be confined Many will be fined As others whine But I’ll be fine And act refined I’ll read the signs As your wish defines So no need to undermine My integrity as you dine With the mastery swine Who is not refined And pushes rocks on those under […]
Merciless men Make many mad They tend to taunt And trouble to taint Raging rantings rear Their traits Until they turn baits Baits pulling their beloveds And themselves Into the heated earth For roasting Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
(Refrain) When death conquers death He would finally get to ask His slippery mortal enemy And he would be up to the task (I) He would probably first ask What he did so wrong to its claws That its guards kept watching him From birth till he tasted those claws (Refrain) II It was first […]
The heart of bulls rule through life Are you a known bull? Your heart is …? Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia
Through the taste of tasteless teas Trippings on thrifty trusted trees To the terrible painful taunting tears Tacit teachings have grown my thoughts Throwing tantrums terrify thoughtful thoughts Teary eyes tend to blind Tests show the trusted In a mirrored gaze. Generate a light And throw it right Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Blow and bounce Bubble and breathe Balls with no bounce Are left untouched A bounce in here A bounce out there An infectious chase Will make your day So blow hard Bubble and bounce Travel far Get the chase The road may not be safe But if you bounce for a while A burst will […]
As none can chase chastity In a smoking cabaret, So must cabals never chase their hard targets In churches A caboose can be seen like chariots And there would be no hidden caldera To save the day Get a sense of camaraderie to cajole Prides hurt by you For you know not when your hammer […]
There is a charm Against sleepy harm So lie a while And wear a smile Think of you In a city of two Chatting nature And smiling to future The soft winds embrace The birds run a race To help them trace Your happiness at your pace Your companion is you Yes, everything you yearn […]
No flowers, Grandma says she received a whistle Then roasted cocoyams And huge smiles Which forced the eyes of her heart To meet her beloved’s II No clubs, They met under the huge ‘odum’ tree, When the sky shone Its face brightened by the hands of cleaning lime, And danced to the throaty sounds he […]
In eyes of day sky Sun dims to doom like the dark Scaring the starers II In eyes of night sky Moon enters darkness’ gate And connives for baits III Dependants! Adopt! Sky refuses to spoon-feed The earth in future IV If the abused starts Abusing the abuser The latter knows pain V In sky’s […]
Round the bend of deceit Is a block of defeat Housed by a huge heartache Caging a humble and weeping trust II Round the bend of betrayal Stands the chaotic vengeance Holding a spear of bad thoughts Housing many ill-wills III Round the bend of regret Hides the mighty remorse Which awaits admission To get […]
If sweet salt could taste Itself, it won’t go through the Pain of heat and cold II If hot pepper knows Its power, it wouldn’t need Chewers and eaters III Mouths of perfections Screaming their self-perfections Stop the annoyance! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
In the land of Parts of Speech All resolve my yearnings to teach But indulge in verbal breach Rendering me an outcast II See, they couple by inflections And I couple by base, no inflections My lonely sound bounce back in deflections Because of the addition of ‘s’ to my name; ‘Shows’ III Now Tables […]
In this deep hot night All thoughts don’t go right For no light shone bright In my dream so I woke with a fright II I saw shadows in high height Threatening to fly like a kite And scaring me with all their might So I screamed at the sight III It could be the […]
Scents of ‘momoni’ Repellent of noses but Delicacy of tongues After going through heat II Faeces of the grass-cuter Disgusting at a sight Pleasant smell to the nose When on the raging fire And a delicacy on tongues After their fire refinements III I guess humans can be droppings Rejected at a glance And accepted […]
If Ntikuma studies Ananse The future must weep And all knowledge must be kept Far away from his house II Ananse is the puzzle Which rattles wisdom To dupe gargantuan gallants And leaves loopholes of escape III Ananse is the master planner Who flirts with death And emerges victorious That’s Ananse, Kwaku Ananse IV An […]
When mama acts mad My mates make fun of me Asking why my mama is mad II When mama acts mad She kisses me in school And ruffles my hair III When mama acts mad She speaks in no language “dibadibamy babybobobo” And shakes her head From side to side IV When mama acts mad […]
Row, row, and row right Ringing rings in reasoned realm Rearing renewals in raging wrecks Racing, riding and rinsing real even when raddled Radiant reaches rinse recklessness Raise right rings and ramble in raid For rainfall mostly comes with a rainbow Real raiment repels rotten cold Ricki, Racka rock in rock Rays return right after […]
Let them answer me Let them make me see Let my thoughts side with thee By letting the words the Bible harbour that “We were made in the image of God” Clearer in my thoughts daft shade II Can the pious God Who is known as a sage And speaks in parables Mean we are […]
If the goat could swallow lust It wouldn’t have to go through the Pain of castration Feeling bloated and empty In preparation for its meat metamorphorsis II If the cat could stop stealing It wouldn’t have to go through The pain of mewing at the painful canes Whenever theft walks in And out of the kitchen […]
Dear diary, Days die distracted Days dance in dew Dreams dance in hourly heads I sit like a book Being flipped by the wind Knowing not my end Because I know not my weight II Dear diary, Desperate days die young Dreading dreams dumped on another Deepening darkness of dawn Dressing deepness of dew And […]
Goats Change right Like smart stoats Acting stubborn Tasting like heaven From all angry runnings To all the naughty chewings Their sins are forgottten when their Scents hit noses and their taste hit tongues Just as human corpses lose  sins to death Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Brooms wearing one belt Sweep the good, bad, ugly, dust And do grow short together Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I was there And struggled to be here I am here And struggling to be back there The nauseous smell of the cold Makes me wish for the smiles of the sun The sorry faces of race Makes me wish for my root race I am here; My dream come true My mind is there; […]
Veins hold each other Tight, opening their arms to Let blood flow for good II To make a being work Veins forget their differences And tirelessly work III A single break down And all demonstrate for a Hurried attention IV A block at a point  All stop, a rising notice To save their own piece […]
Soft flowers are lined From the doorway to the bed Bowing to the new Madam of the temporary Bed who looks like an angel II She blushes in white; White as pure as snow for all To know that she is The luck filled being in motion She is filled with emotions III She smiles […]
Crickets cry so loud In the cover of darkness Knowing their sizes give shade II Which busy bee would Want to go for the dark hunt? You win dear cricket in dark Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
When moon sits in state Stars gather to see him shine Praying to be him In nights unborn to lead the Shine in lighting the dark earth II When moon sits in state All stars shine in their own fate Their yearnings shirked to The background for light to rule Brewing their oneness III What […]
Daylight enhances The bee’s nuances An innocent flower Smiles like a tower Thinking it has power Buzzing in attractiveness It hovers until the flower gets powerless It then perches, sits, gets comfy and sucks Thanking God for its lucks The nectar weeps Hating where its soul seeps Until its shouts diminish Into the bees beaky […]
In her eyes Love with him flies His every whim is her desire And she does all his needs require Even when her body bleeds II In my eyes Hurt with his motive flies Cheating being his only desire And is bound to all his desires acquire And laughs as she bleeds III She is […]
Let’s chew fashion And get full in its elation Who cares about stinky farms? Who wants to be at the end of its harms? Slugging? We must keep sleeping Prouding? Then let’s dance famished If clothes and prestige cannot feed And none wants to touch or be touched By leaves, Then I’m sorry for me […]
Sounds differ Scars differ Sanes differ Shivers differ Even the world’s wakefulness differ II What is this? I’m asleep He is awake It’s 7:00am here It is 2:am there The world is baffled at its own trait III But time travels same Retaining its discipline Of not looking back nor slowing down No matter its […]
Fireflies, save your glow You capture my eyes in order to glow Now the moon serenades the sky Sending sweet light to you and I II Where is your mouth to brag? Where are your wings to nag? Look up to the sky And hear darkness cry III Lovers of secrecy cry foul Seeing as […]
We are here In this hot sea together Why should one cry the loudest? Water, please stop screaming Pepper, garden eggs, onions Tomatoes, are lost in your world Only their colour seves a reminder through you So why must you make the loudest noise? We are all unfortunate beings Who among us was able to […]
A day in a life Many are alive II A day in a life Pain is rife III A day in a life Who carries whose strife? IV A day in a life Same time, same place Different thoughts travel through Same and different minds V A day in a life Satisfaction, cheating, hurts Greed, […]
If all you do is wake Because day opens its precious gate Then know you are awake With responsibilities on your pate You don’t need a smack for goodness sake! You don’t have to be tagged to bake your cake! Run around, get something doing and stop being fake So you don’t fall into a […]
For those with cover cloth of darkness Which hides many of your scary weakness Darkness enclothen Weaknesses unfolden I know you feel embolden’ II Sophisticated sweet sweats May cause you to dance to your own beats No matter your many a soothing day After scaring many to decay Know one night might turn to day […]
What if I say humans are fishes? We are fishes with air as our water Swimmingly walking with our hands as fins Would you all say I’ve lost my brain buttons? II What if I say humans are leaves and fruits? We are leaves and fruits according to our deeds So the leaves produce nothing […]
Scars Remind Their bearers And taunt givers As to revenge’s time A touch, remembrance, pain But that pain can be turned gain If forgiveness smooths the bearers Not a leg walks, all strong-willed legs walk So stepping on toes in secluded space Is a giving as all reach for goals and fall down Scars given […]
Stars have their brightness No matter their territories They would learn to shine They won’t look at the others And won’t try being a challenge II Sky is huge and broad It has its home and abroad It makes its beings free To roam giving their own best War is unnecessary III Blend is necessary […]
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