I Like rivers travelling to sea Like airs roaming with no fee Like mountains sitting in glee I need to be free II I am a river Looking for my sea I am an air Looking to be good breath I am a mountain Waiting for that one climber Just give me space And make […]
Category: NATURE
Gone are the days When Ghanaian children feared ‘kakai’ Now only villagers, coastal children and children with naturalistic parents get to bath in natural waters What was a swimming pool then? An anachronistic thought II Now, ‘mpotompoto’ and ‘coco’ Are for the villagers and children with grand mothers Ei! With the lac lac lac in […]
He has risen He has risen to many cherry bosoms Making sales on street beds In the mouth of the Kwahu Mountain He has risen II He has risen He has risen to countless stinking pubs On many holy grounds He has risen III He has risen He has risen to bleached bodies On many […]
I smell the spices on my body I see darkness all around I see myself in an enclosed place That I cant turn my body here and there. I see myself in front of two transparent doors And all I can see is Joy from one door And wailings from the other My child, Come […]
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TIMES
Dawn’s whispers It freshness and tears Its soothings caress Bodies smile and feel Which arena can compare? II Morning’s massages Its beauty and smiles Its vitamins like potent drugs Bodies smile and feel Which arena can compare? III Afternoon’s strength Its drying and heat Its scares and energy Bodies love in care Which […]
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DELICO CHANGE
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 […]
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USERS
Bakers! When your hands do the mixing And your heat cry for toasting Do you get the body building To feed them your soul’s shillings? No! II Carpenters! When you kill those trees And you pay no fees And you peel their skins And maim their bodies Do you serve as the nail for the […]
If I step on your tail Don’t ask for a bail Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks II If you’ve swift tick tocks At least pause for a talk You’re so under lock And cares not for a weak flock Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks III So tick, talk Block […]
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DETERMINERS (TANKA)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Many talk of Africa The poor poor Africa The dessert placed Africa Mother of bushes, poor Africa The wild rearing Africa The illiterate realmed Africa The ill bred Africa The jungle Africa No! I am in Africa Born and bred in Africa Knows its boundaries, this Africa Feel its warmth, sweet Africa I have tasted […]
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SAUCY LIVERS (DIAMANTE)
Goats Stubborn, smelly Perverting, destroying, terrorising Noisy, fast, pitchy, smart Sniffing, intriging, licking Tasty-in-death, scenty Chevon Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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 […]
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 […]
When it stretched and stretched There were complains upon complains Why one unattractive plant Could occupy important space Beats the imagination of all But time shut all mouths As it stored in its huge body Vitamins A, B and C With potassium Stifling fats, potassium and sodium And also hoarding 91% of water Such a […]
I Bright sun shines Caring not that light whines Light, as in bright electricity II For electricity is no competition It will always live in the shadows of the sun Burning eyes in some contact with them III Light lives in frustration Till its death Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
The sins of the fathers Are crosses on sons and daughters Crosses heavier than their shoulders can carry If so Why are eyes of fathers closed To their personal sins? The sky heats today The handiwork of past, present and future fathers It’s end result, sky blasting On innocent children The sins of the fathers! […]
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TOYS AND BOYS
I “Let’s talk about toys And forget boys Mortars do cover Pestles never do” Akosua says II “But I do boys And don’t like toys What’s with all the coys? They can’t produce any joys” Amina replies III “But think of toys They never break hearts And do as told They never break rules too” […]
I Seeing heaven open and close In a sheltered happy home Counting the stars lying on back Feeling sky’s tears and its angry scratches Are tucked safely in my happy mind box II Our farms gave us food As streams quenched our thirst The air had flings with the many trees And whispered in the […]
I A choice To be the noise The voice Or live in the joys And rejoice adds to his many apparels II The smile, could be a veil The smile, could be a nice mask The smile, could be a nice cologne Hiding the scents of ache, Insanities, yearnings for goodness, trials and tribulations III […]
I As fowls search for corn, Hawks search for chicks Eagles search for fowls Some snakes search for eggs Forgetting others’ search for snakes II As plants draw water, air and sunlight Sheep and goats search for plants Cows search for plants Even dogs search for some plants Forgetting others search for dogs III As […]
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BALD TREE (HAIKU)
I The bald lonely tree Gets no sympathy from birds Even when it is in pain II Birds chirp in dancing Flying here and hopping there No weather bother III The tree sits under Be it hotness or coldness No deliverance IV Who sees its hot tears? Who knows its coldness and fears? Who can […]
I Why? Why will we work too hard to get cars, Ignore walking Thinking we sit in comfort Think of our being And pay to be told Our prescription is walking? II Why? Why will we throw away nature, Taste every alien meal Ignoring what it’s made of Drink every alien drinkable Think of our […]
I am pepper A red hot pepper I can nausea repair And can food prepare II I am not dumb So do not into me bump Make me no water To wash your dirty fingers III If I’m treated with respect I’ll never you suspect And my fire will be hidden From your harm and […]
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A SAVAGE OPINION
The earth sat millions of years ago And ruled that he won’t take part Of the competition between beings And plants And she resolved to watch Then, the plants ruled Their pests hunting beings down Their trees killing beings instantly Their leaves poisoning to depletion […]
Once in the land of the wild God staged a judgement in the mild He called king lion Who sought to sing to enter Zion But sang the song of the murderous The crowd cheered in happiness Their terrorist has been fairly judged by His Holiness They sang and praised God’s name was raised […]
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A DREAM OF FEAR IN THE LAND
Croaking frogs sing in fear Scared antelopes run to save their lives so dear The pain in the owls’ voices, so clear Nothing seems mere In these times, in this jungle Ants are hiding in their tiny holes Snakes are hiding in borrowed anthills The lions’ den is crowded by strangers But the lions […]
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VILLAGE BLISSING
I woke in the morning To the calls of crowing And loved the air blowing And saw the trees swinging I loved the birds singing And loved the bush brushing Happily, happily, to the stream I went singing The stream kept waving The rats kept strolling The sun kept smiling The dust kept dancing […]
Gentle sunlight tries hiding behind The trees to no avail Gentle rivers blow beautiful breezes Which set the soul’s peaceful fantasy at sail Breath in, Breath out and relax your brain Worry is never in the land of this great read Imagine the birds singing your lullabic chorus And the air fanning your heat And […]
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THOUGHTLESS
Streams sleep sad Skies sit straight Lands lie loathing Our unthoughtful usage Trees’ talks tell Birds’ boos bell Air actually angers At our insensitivities We destroy Without thoughts, Kill Without planting, We pollute And laugh Thinking We’re superior To them “Beware!” They say Their renewed anger May turn to collapse mankind. Amoafowaa […]
Trees, trees Family of trees I wish you could live like bees Together as one as each the other’s mind frees Trees with leaves Trees without leaves Trees with flowers Trees with fruits Trees with colour Colourless trees Short trees Tall trees Please form a garden By living as one. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
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FOOD IGNORED
Beauty Leading to fashion Fashion Leading to spending Spending Leading to thinking Thinking Leading to sin Planting is neglected While eating Is imperative Benevolent animals With no sense, please help the ‘senseful’ Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
There is quietude in the midst of the noise There is noise in the midst of quietude There are humans amidst the inhumans There are inhumans amidst the humans No, there are the inhumans lurking in every human Yours may spark with the light of materialism His may spark in the light of the centre […]
I chew groundnut in its shell I eat maize on its bell Okro in my stew flows from my backyard Plucking plantain is not hard Getting cassava just needs a tool If I want, I’ll eat like a fool Pepper calls to be plucked As tomatoes’s lipstick aims to seduce… Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 […]
An oven when the sun fumes A freezer when the rain spews Chaotic battlefield when tempers rise Pauper worshippers without shame in the light But true serenity stays in Tamale Strong muscles dazzle at work Loud voices call for customers Angry consumers get into their own way Fuming and cursing the patient ones But affordable […]
Someday, I’ll walk my life away I’ll be seized from seeing day Somehow, I’ll shed this skin and bow I can no longer chew my favourite cow And These bones, these knuckles These stones will come off This water These nails This blood will dry off Some day It will all make way So why […]
Technology has come to stay. Each day, there is a new invention, discovery, and history being made. Technology helps us, no doubt, but we agree it is one aspect of life which must be blamed for backstabbing and the ever increasing scamming. Now families live in houses but their mouths have turned into their mobile […]
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BONKERS TURNED BEAUTIFUL?
I have lost my way I saw Ama And I didn’t know what to say She took Yaa’s man and made her single Could it be karma at play? She had her lips and cheeks Soiled with blood And her eyes blocked With divided whiskers of rats Her hands disabled With claws of a tigress […]
The same tick tock Which grows the plant Is the same tick tock Which kills the plant Every leaf, stem and stalk Will dance to the tune It grew to love And learn to detest its hands and discipline A time for one, Tick tock will pass And will never bother To take […]
Exhausts venomously deplete I cannot stand many’s tune as they fashionably compete Unseen fumes from coolers happily maim While inventions to revive crops have a common aim Of hurting the rivers of my eyes And changing its colours with their respective dyes Bones of machines lie on my flesh and heavily pinch The little hair […]
Here and there We go High or low We flow Winged in wizardry They claim our show But we are the planters They chew The singers Who help their hearts soothe And the beautifiers Who fill their view Our homes now keep them warm Our foods they lick in pleasure But have no pity […]
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NATURE ABOUNDS
In your stead we stand For your sake we band To your satisfaction we hand Our struggles with the land For your healing we boil For your effectiveness we toil We make love to the soil To make sure your mobility does not coil So why are we shedding tears At the hands […]
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