The skin that society dug deep The wound that society scratched to keep Is now free to heal For we have heard of its broken claws Claws sent in the direction of a stronger soul A soul which has severed society’s fingernails II Auntie Anti lived like a screen painting Her eloquence causing dreamers fainting […]
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CRAVING FOR MAGIC
Sweet sensational pangs Hold my being and hangs Twisting my heart and lungs Showing their powers and fangs My passion’s head is in their fangs as they bang Making it forget the song that sanity sang When it once fell into hands of cruel boiling gangs II I swear I want to feel like Ana […]
Righteous to a fault Too pious, Satan fears to stain A voice like the softest touch Eyes like the vastest, cleanest ocean Many climb and reach far But he stands supreme II Innocent and fine Funny with unbended trust flowing like a fountain A vine without doubts A shelter ready to protect Many climb and […]
When I turn cold I know you hurt But I hurt in ten-fold And I need an outlet II When I turn cold I know you fret But to you I am sold As you cuddle a safe bet III I am bold I need, to strength, get I need a hold Or I will […]
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WHEN I SAID I LOVED YOU
When I said I loved I was like a caught bird Under heated water in the saucepan of society Being cooked for being alone Now that I see a hole in the pan I see my true heart and I am sorry II When I said I loved I was like a lone soul Deserted […]
Give me magic Magic of thoughts Give me magic To salvage all rots II Give me magic Like a superior angel To know and touch broken angels Called and humiliated, abandoned and garbaged III We call those we need They are called by their own and taunted Give me a magic thought And a magic […]
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FLOW AND MAKE ME GLOW (ADULT POETRY)
Cool cloud, come and rain Into my drain And clear the stain Causing this chest pain *** Now I refrain *** Cain my pain Gather my gain As long as you call me no Jane I will gladly soak, giving you my main So flow and flow and flow and flow Until I glow Amoafowaa […]
Kwaku gave Ama a stone A white nice stone as a gift of love She kept the stone like a saint And worshipped its very grounds II It so happened that a flood came by Stared at the stone and Ama’s family And swept all of them into the belly of death Ama searched and […]
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LOVE BLINDS?
“Aaaah! I say he has changed And will always remain so” The elders say Only the child sees the eyes of the crab As a stick, Look at Selina now She too told me She was the wind of change in his life When his pleasures waned She said she was blinded By Cupid’s thick […]
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LIKE A KING
Walk like a king No matter what annoying bells ring Because you are the sky Which a great moon yearns to embrace II Walk like a god No matter who gets bored For you are that spirit That a great priestess worships III Smiles must make your miles All suns must create you tiles All […]
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I WAIT
Pants of can’ts Excuses in rants Even firewood crave fire Wanting to lead in light Wanting to be a star bright Although being in ashes is no delight But you, like a firefly, tease with your faint glow Saying this and saying that On a day when emotions weep For a play in your tower […]
Me, I can’t share my man o I am no hypocrite so I won’t lie I met a terror called jealousy When I saw a taken-cuddling meant for me I never knew its claws really lived deep down my guts When it decided to show It was like a lioness tearing my soul There I […]
I don’t know what to do I am like a nail With a magnetic force Which uses all its strength to repel magnets But I am now locked in a greater force II I don’t know what to do He is everything I dislike: Location, God-channels And all But I feel trapped Like a mouse […]
Emotions dance in veins of the holies And I am a holy The weather’s fan is fanning vain whims And I have a vain whim The sky’s complexion is dark and light And I am the sky At this point, fans are suicide Air conditioners, murder The air is rudely entering pores without knocking And […]
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IMPRISONED (ADULT POETRY)
When I spotted him It was like magic His light travelled to wake dead feelings Buried under the earth of my skin He was the electricity And I the wires II So I found myself asking “Is he too taken?” If he is, then I committed adultery Adultery of thoughts Because he looked […]
“I love you, I can’t live without you, You are so beautiful! Hey no one compares to you I will die for you I am so into you Hush and feel my heart beat for you” These are old rags Buried by some ancestors Who died thousands of years ago A real lover is one […]
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FIX THE NEEDS OF A LADY
Fix the needs Fix the needs of a lady Wrangling of nothings Glitters and twitches are naught Just fix them Fix them needs of the lady II Who are you impressing? The world with jealous eyes? Or the flashes which attract the jealousy of the sun? Fix them needs Just fix them needs of the lady […]
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BRUISED AND CRUSHED
Mama you should have magically told Of the possibility that love could have me sold You are the one who carried my mould Are you satisfied that I am broken into many a fold? II Papa, you should really have magically warned That love stands a better chance of having me harmed You […]
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CARESSING YOU (ADULT POETRY)
The sound of an L The circle in an O The tingly tips of a V I write in your heart climbing the ladder of an E II Open your thoughts And let your eyes, be independent And sit behind as I write my words on them like a slate. *** Tongues will […]
Walking through the doomy path Of jumping in my final bed I stumbled on a being so dirty Resting on earth in clothes of naught II Funny how I saw the face of God And felt what He really has in store No words did come from the mouth so sore But his posture did […]
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WHERE ARE THE REAL STORIES?
Where are the mouths? The mouths wherein lie the real stories? The real stories guarded by fiery soldiery intents of deceit? II Let them loose! The stories which have true buildings True buildings in which kisses never solves all Yes, never solves all hurt puzzles III Let them loose! The stories which house horror habours […]
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MOTHERS, YOUR BLESSINGS
We are like hens Hens are the pens Which write lives Hens pave way for cock men To help write lives So I tell mothers: You are the lands Which keep the well You are the hands which feed all mouths You are heavenly gateways For blessings untold You are the pores of heavens Which […]
Mothers Takers, keepers Carrying, tiring, giving Sacrifice, care, play, pain Protecting, loving, worrying Work, pray Mums Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
They are miracles Miracles who suffer to give Giving the world miracles Too bad many don’t see II They are miracles Miracles whose love are unchallengeable Loving unconditionally Too bad many don’t see III If there were to be a fee For every second a being stays in I am sure that work will be […]
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THE GREEDY CHASER
He is fine and suave And so wears them Wears them holes like clothes II He has an overall in his huge house One that all his family knows One that God’s hands have sealed One that all close acknowledge III I am awed to a point At the overall’s removal In replacement with many […]
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FIRE AND ICE
I am fire I am ice I am the loudest storm of all I am a whip I am a mattress I am the perfect knife of all So sit Cut your head onto your laps Cut Open your thoughts and search so well If your heart’s legs can dance to the tunes Of my […]
I may be nothing Nothing worth something To have touched hearts of the future To openly declare II I hate being a plantain tree Peeling off my leaves while growing others But I love that most peeled, Climb for the heavens After falling off me III A thought of a goner And this heart flutters […]
Love me Love me with the whole you Love me like you never loved Make me your grounds because you are a giant tree Love me and I’ll be a perfect sea If you turn into a fish II Breath me Breath me like your very last breath Breath me like you see no other […]
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TOUCH OF THE MAGIC STICK (ADULT POETRY)
At the touch of the magic stick Beauty pricks As brightness licks Innocence flies after high hot kicks II Style rears its poky head Over confidence uses its left finger To direct agers to stubborn hell At the touch of the magic stick III Bathing Ladying Shyness And consciousness The magic stick is like the […]
Show me Show me where the gates of pleasure end As its treasures start from the doors of love II I don’t want to be in the realms of hell Where lust flees replaced by fires which burn only hearts As it taunt souls in roasting pain III Show me Show me where pleasures’ borders […]
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PURE HEART
Sure and pure None can lure His presence can cure So I will the storms endure God can feed his success manure Because he is really mature I just had to say it raw Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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FEED MY MIND
There are varying animals In this rounded ball This rounded ball Whose hairs are weeds and feeds II Each has its loves and likes Only the lost knows not theirs So I will tell you Feed not my eyes Feed my mind So I can draw you in III I am a good book With […]
Home Cozy, comfort Welcoming, pampering, correcting Love, hurts, friends, foes Supporting, quarrelling, blackmailing Care, rare Family Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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THANK YOU FATHER GOD
I hear the winds singing Drumming delighted leaves I hear the cockerels’ sounds Praising the master and waking all generations While caging others The “kramokok⊃” is crowing Calling on all to come and pray Now, what do I say? You are the mighty one You see, hear, feel and judge You are the merciful father […]
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I DON’T WANT TO LOVE YOU (ADULT POETRY)
I don’t want to love you But adrenaline has conquered The fighting forces of control Like a match taking possession of petrol And has left me helpless II I don’t want to love you But I am like the boiled cassava In between your mortar and ready pestle Even an escape, spells my doom […]
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HIDDEN WORDS
Anger battles anger Mountainous chest heaves in desperation As flat chest curses in confusion Each back turns And tears flow into the secret coffers of darkness II Strong masks on weak faces Wearing off in few paces Like chalk paint on stained mansions in rain Oh what a tragedy! III Why can’t there be hearts […]
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LOVE: GLITTERS, SPARKS AND BURNS
Love has many definitions. It has been described by many as beautiful, surreal, while others think ill of it. If love were a human being, many are those who would have fought because of him or her. Whereas some would have wanted to keep it, others would have wanted to maim or lynch it. It […]
The presence of breeze is announced by close leaves on a giant tree II Their strength of closeness tell others the presence of intruders and praise those who bless III What rings a bell on a bald tree? Nothing! So like many siblings of leaves on a great tree, let’s entertain one another Until horror […]
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DREAMING FANTASIES
I want to set a moon table On blue sky grounds With seats made of stars To gently light our love And help it merge into oneness Under the very eyes of God II I want to borrow the voice of a nightingale Hoping an eagle will lend me its wings So I can […]
High heels High bills Hot chest foods Like succulent mangoes Stop joking If you’re hot, you know it No mouth must draw your attention II When legs are crossed And chest swing in call While eyes look far, The brave knows his call If you are brave, you know it You don’t need a shouting […]
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VULNERABLE
I took you in reluctantly, one who has been wounded by a storm, fears little winds II Now you are this star’s heart, When huge trees fall, Their sounds travel far, so I am shivering III Anxious for good and bad, I am like a swan and porcupine Ready to love and or fight IV […]
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BOYS USE FLOWERS, MEN USE DEEDS
You can trace the fantasy And see the needing ecstasy On faces with many dreamy fake fallacies True, because boys use flowers Men use deeds II They will come like militants Bow like slaves Raise their flowers And beg like prayerfuls Yes, boys use flowers And men use deeds III They have pipe mouths Which […]
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GOATSABROS
I am dazed I still feel amazed You turn me this crazed Why can’t your thoughts ever faze? II I am now an onion With many a companion Layers of layers, a group in Zion I think I fear nothing like a lion III Auntie Akosua said to be careful That filth in bottles like […]
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YOUR SWEET FLOW
When I lie in quietude With emotions in multitude Bubbling like potent soap bubbling I think of you II When your thoughts flow into mine Like smooth river flowing into a great sea The merging is surreal It harmonises and smoothens all rough edges III My veins are just empty holes You are like the […]
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LOVING (DIAMANTE)
Love Touchy, beautiful Electrifying, hugging, companying Hope, security, fear, loss Hurting, crying, hating Wrong, cruel Breakup Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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A KING FOR ME
I am a queen A queen deserving a king A king with a capable armour An armour whose sight Will give horrors frights II I am a queen A queen deserving a statesman Not a coward Nor a sniffer I am a queen Deserving the deserved One who is a warrior king And will give […]
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AS WE PART
At the dawn of our goodbye The sky weeps Tears whose ingredients are Pain Loss Loneliness Uncertainty Failure And fear But these tears fall to toughen The grounds of our hearts II Unfairness has a head none wants to see Tribal voices stopping in one’s track Their enemy before the notice Of his footprints Is […]
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MY SWEET CRUSH
It is a natural No, supernatural You in my fantasies Like a good movie on television I, a hopeless watcher Enjoy your sight and might Enhancing your good With my magnifying glass Dazing and erasing insignificant flaws You are a tree Whose roots reside on the fertile ground of my heart You are the only […]
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IN THE SEAS OF YOUR OBSESSION
At this point, I am a nagging thought head Jealous at your lollipops Though they are licked never to surface II At this point, I am like an unrecognised rival Jealous at your tight shirts Though they wear off and are discarded III At this juncture, I am like a love struck puppy Jealous at […]
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Your thoughts are my reflective mirrors My reflective mirrors which take me back Back to the dilemic paths of errors Paths of errors and correct themselves automatically Making me pious II Your thoughts are my spears Spears of healings and tamings All you need is speak And they take me to that hurt dilemic path […]
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