What is this tingling sensation? What is this happy feeling? What is this dreaming on clouds I am definitely on the cloud of twelve II What is this feeling dipped in smiles? What? Am I in a huge loving ocean? What is this feeling of being captured? Being captured by a rich sweet magician? I […]
I The noise diminishes and it is left with you and me Alone with our thoughts We stare at each other Fright takes both of us II Overwhelmed by the noise from the station, We both turned. What’s the link between the two of us? I hope you are not my twin. III I want […]
Poor kitten with no hands to build Scared little thing in the winds Hungry little thing facing the storms What will you do if it rains? II The trees are protecting birds The caves are protecting lions Holes are protecting rats and snakes Oh, anthills protect even ants and others Where do you belong poor […]
I am opening the gates of my heart Look, look at it carefully I know you see its flaws You see its uglies You see its blood forcing to pump You see its scars You see its tears like abandoned rains pushed from the sky But it is all to come clean If you look […]
Meet me there There At the papleassion Where heat and cold embrace As lightening and thunder sing praise II Hold me there There At the papleassion On the waist of power and slavery And let the windy audience worship bravery III Indulge me there There At the papleassion Where speaking and listening have handshakes And […]
That I was a toy So you made a ploy Oh you naughty boy You said I’d enjoy CHORUS You treated me like your big boss Now I see you feel at a loss I really need to know the cause So I can your freedom endorse How can you say it’s not by force? […]
Thinking Thinking of someone Someone with a strong bull’s horns and eyes in care One who has the sharpest sword among all knights Thinking Thinking of someone II Thinking Thinking of someone Thinking of someone with a peacock’s self confidence One who has a lion’s strength for protection And an elephant’s weight in trust Thinking […]
Winger with waist Wearing worn-out wastes Winning will wane Wanting will wake While weepers wallop you II Winger, your wanky wannabe workings Wounding wanderers Would make you wail Waive your wantons Work for your wallet Winnings well-deserved whip well wishings Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Abena, you are generating it You are generating it manually With no good results This love you are feeling II Adwoa, you are pumping it You are pumping it manually With painful results This love you are feeling III Kwaku is just being his satanic self, Abena Wanting a temporary hole to scratch his itch […]
On the eve of Christmas, Mama pushed me out of the house In the cold Never to come back again. That dawn, When all and sundry was asleep Mama opened the door, The door of no return For me to depart. When I was being cheated, And I thought mum could help She drove me […]
Cross over From the thin line of racism The thin line of tribal rebellions The thin line of religious difference The thin line of peer pressure Into these arms with safe security love locks Just cross over II Cross over From the thin line of earthly argumentations The thin line of cheating claims The thin […]
When the rooster calls For its family to roost Oh love, use your wild imaginations And know I am she who calls For you to retire into revival For the supermatics of active beautillucations Which await us for drainage of passion Through tired night’s sweat pores II So heed with ease Lie until the soldier […]
My television is filled with flies So my ears can’t stand the buzz Those piles of emotions Causing your heart’s corrosion Can freely pass through my tunnels So why hoard them until they turn into a filthy fountain Overflowing in-out-in of you? II How is this heart of mine faring? Have you had thoughts of […]
At a glance, you were the clouds and I the earth It was like magic Your soul called for the hands of mine Your strength told my weakness it’ll be fine Your voice shattered my tall resistant wall in line And weeded clean my forests of fears II At a glance you became the healer […]
Call and forget the distance When your earthly vehicle Feels the waistly demonstration of wanting-lifers II Call and forget the distance You are a lion and I’m a lioness We’re all in passion so fearless III Call and forget the distance When the moon acts like an enlightened tent As the stars stand like disco […]
Marry my mind Please marry the thoughts of my mind Before you think of the pleasures of this bottle That done, even a hush, dash, or flush Can cause a blush I am the golden fish upstream Hiding from the rest of my being So marry my mind Be like the mathematician Get the formula […]
If I were your woman I would borrow the brightness of the sun To throw more light on you And plead for heavenly lenses To zoom all your righteousness II If I were your woman Your meals would be indigenously prepared Mostly by my hands and ours And served hot After my tongues of […]
i.mobavatar.com/broken-heart/i-dont-love-you.jpg The look on your face That anxious look Waiting for me to tell you Those creepy words I have no words for you I’m as dead as a firewood. I see nothing beyond What we have built all these years. I know you want Those words from my mouth. What do you want to […]
I read love stories I sing love songs I talk about love But I’m not in love. We’ve been friends for long I know you want more than that You have shown me to your parents But I’m still not in love. Everyone thinks we are a perfect match They all say we should get […]
As palm-wine ferments When time fans So does passion ferment to booze in time Its booze gives madness Each dose intensifying fierceness So heat in a heat Let’s dance to the beat Even if all we have are our feet And a seat II When we meet In the face of the rising night, Even […]
Do not hide me Let me, your real heart, see Then what must be must be I won’t mind making you a “Dee” II Please do not passions hide Let the rules of love we abide Then hatred will never we chide Then Cupid will in us confide III Let no third tongue hear our […]
Your arms; my bed Where I yearn to be fed And considers my sacred shed Is where I need to be led II Your eyes; my mirrors Where there are antidotes to my horrors And I consider my sacred corridors Are what I yearn to lock my doors III Your bosom My flowering pillow blossom […]
Love For love I looked above And suffered in love Even needles were like mattresses Except the piercings never ceased tears Emotional burdens were like exciting mountain climbing Slapping/hitting were thought as exaggerated pains unbothering Hyperactively, pretending to massage loving, love opened its eyes And spat into my face, wrecking my neck, suffocatingly brutalising Amoafowaa […]
Stones crack Metals melt The land can open But eventually closes Asaase Yaa is to be revered II I am stone I am metal What does it matter? When we all have mouths Hidden in Asaase Yaa, always ready to eat us all? Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When love turned and walked My way, cupid was hesitant Because he knew I was usurping II Knowing love was the boss Never to be challenged, he let it be Mourning my future heart demise III Then love possessed got dispossesed And saw clearly the meatful part he had crashed, Felt sorry but his bus […]
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 […]
When I Saw your handsome frame; Like a modern Japanese building, I knew you’d become my muse II When I, Heard that beautiful deep flow From the sea of your throat, I knew you’d become my muse III When I, Finally climbed your beautiful mountain, Oh the tiredness and the pleasure! I knew you’d become […]
Before we meet I must sweep the room of my heart II Before we meet, I must dust and arrange this room of my heart III Before we meet, I must weed the compound of my thoughts IV Before we meet, I must remove the fear cobwebs on my building V Before we meet, I […]
A good gift is what we strive to keep A good gift is what costs us sleepless nights A good gift is what helps us take a grand leap A good gift is what makes us shine so bright I suffer to keep What others sleep to keep I suffer to nurse What others lie […]
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 […]
Eyes in windows of the world’s shadow See all; the call, fall and the talls Like omnipotent gods in fathers Good thoughts close mouths in the shadow II When dawn’s rain fall like a sharp arrow And supposed suns make all cloud calls Good eyes cry like angry pained mothers Chaosers step with happy toe III […]
After “I do” Pleasures turn responsibilities Love becomes a lazy worker And reality shows its full self II After “I do” Carelessness sits like a new born child Magic of dazzles wanes As metaphorically blinded eyes are made clearer III After “I do” Laughables become irritants As temper holds spears In feminine and masculine oppositions […]
(Aubreysarch challenged me to write a ten line poem about love. Here it is) A thing so abstract Holds many keys to happiness A thing so surreal Its loss makes all fall into bitterness A thing so beautiful Holds the swords of the hate oracle A thing so powerful Its healing is always a miracle […]
You sit and watch, The hands which has a fenced mouth Through which your disrespectful sermons walk out with ease, Touch and caress your sacred temple As its legs kneel in the tightly closed doors of “mock to” ears And you do nothing? Shoot him! Shoot that freaking son from a rabies dog! II […]
The night is tickling With ringing passions Passions soaring on eagle wings And having flings with loneliness II Sky looks high at the sighs Breezes whisper in gossips Waiting anxiously for the complete lonely season As I lose all my reasons III As the stars pray And the moon displays all shameful longings, Fireflies pull […]
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 […]
Sight is calling might As it shines so bright But might doesn’t make it light II When natural aphrodisiacs Stand on heels of passion, Who can quench its fire? III Night’s whispers Make these walkers intense Setting heart on fire IV Calling control to quench Flying forced winds to work Bath the body with an […]
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 […]
Sometimes I wish I were a broom Strapped together with others In a tight band So I will never lack company And like an eternal love, Be together forever I would hate to be a dropout Because I wouldn’t want to be a child’s play For in the hands of the child, I know my […]
I know I don’t do much Well, I may not know much I don’t crave for so much Just crave for a lover’s touch *** Signing in symphony Smiling in harmony Settling in spendable money Non needs to frown tasting honey *** I’m not asking for much I can’t fight you in a match I’m […]
Sound the bell Let actions tell Of the tree which fell For the lovely Mel In an analogy which sells And I will step into the shoes of Mel And wouldn’t mind being the tree which fell II Long go, a huge tree fell Across a trench which was so deep It fell to […]
I am waiting Waiting for that moment, That moment when bubbles will fry And join passions in the bloodstream Sending satisfaction like a serpent in heat To this heart which is living and yearning for a step up II I am waiting Waiting for that moment When a righteous war will be waged Waged against […]
Sparks of lightening When the moon meets sun Sparks of electricity When pluses stand beside negation Sparks and sparks Is what I need Make me the moon If you need to be the sun And let’s produce many stars To help us shine bright Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When we do meet Let the nation of our eyes merge Into a nation so perfect Forcing our tyres to move with speed For our hands to lock in love I do have pots ready to cook When you bring the ingredients And stir after pouring your great waters into my river Who knows, I […]
Oh ye brokens! I bring you some few tokens Of words many mouths have spoken In their bid to calm past broken II There were two swans Who fell at once Into a ditch A ditch more like a bitch III It bit them Confined them And forced them to love So they thought it […]
Trimmed and hemmed? Oh no! You should have known There are miserly mice Who hate to share On the feast of “hand go hand comes” Especially when their hands are the longest So stop flooding the land of your face Stop looking into the hemmed holes Stop being the cat and forget the mouse And […]
Fall into my arms And let’s recite the Psalms The Psalms which draw And brings passionate beauty to the fore The Psalms which tickles And has a fragrance which sizzles When morning breezes wash their faces As the sun approaches watching its paces The gates of its arms will be opened Like red roses open […]
Vultures standing in mirrors Prepare to fight their souls None can intervene except pitch dark Then darkness becomes the hero The only hero who stopped an internal war We, With hearts, We, With minds We, With souls Are not vultures Cannot be vultures And must not be vultures In front of mirrors For we are […]
We started on clouds Now pride ties us like a rope Dangling us in air II How did we get here? Mouths playing opposition To our hearts true sounds III How did we get here? Tears for the open hidden And shed in the dark IV How did we get here? Ears […]
When an angel falls in the dark There is no place light has no mark All hidden routes are made visible Impossibilities then become possibilities She, without wings, is the she, bearing goodness I, in the dark, am the one, liberated Thousand tongues cannot sing your praise If I do ask considering the level […]
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