Once there was a lion Who chanced upon cats in their Zion It saw the fear his picture booked And thought if it could scarily be looked Then surely forever it would reign So its roaring, was day and night’s rain As day walked into a frightening week The cats shivered but noted its weak […]
Happiness is always an art Using the senses to break hurdicular fences Happiness is always within Waking smiles even in painful miles II Happiness is seeing the beauty through the filth Hearing the rhythms through the chaos Feeling the air through the hurricanes Loving you in surrounding hate Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 22, 2018
Maybe my engine of worship needs oiling Maybe I have, like Satan, been alienated By blasphemous thoughts which have walked miles from my past Throwing the bitter dust of yesteryears into my spectacled eyes Maybe I am a stranger in a manger of convincing But why me? The smiling sky with fair air Is not […]
On this day I severe the placenta of care With the scissors of nonsensical ties Brought forth by atrocious idiocy Nevertheless, you are my baby in my heart II On this day I make you a trap A trap made for heads drunk with bitterness Living in a forest of no- sense Should they step […]
Creativity just walked under the shed of AUCC Re-echoing its bosshood in thought Embracing bosoms ready to blossom Announcing its determination to surpass the fertility its umbrella gives Time’s tongue is yearning to tell tales of Inventions, wordy and active! Visitations thrilling and impacting! Innovations interesting and glorifiable! Trains of goodness hide in steps of […]
There was a rock that knocked my senses To see hurled life stones Amidst wincing and weeping As materials for building in this storm II You were the ink that gathered my alphabets Even when my pages got wet With rains of my tears To gather for me a crowd of cheers III You are […]
Be in my day And have your say Plaster memories so coarse with happiness Tile failures so humiliating with greatness Paint tears with infectious laughter In my body temple II Be in my say And help cut my hay In this perfect sun Help me no downtrodden shun Cover my pain With the beauty of […]
So you are aggressively flying here and there When most of your heads are hanging Some in the hands of your owners As your anger of blood gushes out like angry tap water fighting through a small hose Masters, fly your last! II Ei! Look at the mould on your sense Disgustingly hairier than abandoned […]
Some whirlwinds come for admiration Some do come to blind I have watched you take your world by storm Conquering odds to stand tall through ridiculous gait With hooting superseding ovations Disgust overpowering cheers All the while asking Is all this for Trump? II I bet you didn’t think of the battle on your way […]
Are you a meteorologist of femininity Reading through its seasons to pick? Are you a weather so changing a blue Combing through skies to lick? Are you a fire, burning through seasons to kill? You definitely must be a chameleon, reflective of every passing colour! II You picked me up like sunny season Only to […]
Mr. says she is evil Who allows more than a pestle to pound in her mortar Mr. says she is petty Who uses the many mortars a pestle pounds into to act same His reason, pestles go whole and come not less Mr. says pestles always come to their original mortars After straying no matter […]
Mama, I have seen a miracle A miracle which walks eyelessly eyeful An inspirational walking miracle Whose tail has been held by life And used as bait to be placed in a jungle of hardships Mama, but you can’t believe how hardship hides from this soul On its very grounds II Mama, I am in […]
Let’s break the legs of abuse And force some heads to conscience use Let’s break hurt’s defying legs To put under sanity wisdom’s pegs For many walls weep in their keep And many wills break in their sleep II See the macho hounding a stick None will tell you it is a prick Its are […]
There are plants that grow not in certain soils There are plants whose nutrients are found in questionable soils My soil lost to you in nutrients And age has been a witness So I had to give you up II You might not know but I dug a foundation of hard work To lay bricks […]
An angered in a fear A hurt in a tear A love in a shyness Hatred in loving All throwing tantrums bodies can’t bear to show So model what suits We are many in one Acting ourselves within Chasing models without II If our feelings will show Like movies through our countenance It will be […]
Clouds hang, umbrelling the earth To lure the perfect air to lead To lead your gentle soul to rest The sun partnered in the sky In shining dryness, to warm To warm your beautiful spirit to leave To leave this venue in happiness Words form in the sky of minds In appellations to honour To […]
At all times, in all places God is aboard my ship Through all challenges, in all pain A rock oversees my dock A storm can overthrow my form A rain can drain all my strength to strain Many a mile can feed me bile much like River Nile But at the bend to the end […]
Nyamekye felt strange looking at the lively Kumnipa and happy Ama by her bedside. Boadu sadly looked on not knowing what to do. Nyamekye intentionally closed her eyes and feigned sleep, they had no option, they had to leave. Boadu could not hold it any longer. “Nyamekye, I know you’re not sleeping. Tell me what […]
A lie is “ei go and die!” on ordinary tongues But turns a pie on extraordinary tongues Boos, jeers and anger for the former Laughs, claps and cheers for the latter Smell it, the stinking rot in polished seats! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © September 9, 2018
When poverty chains you in life And calls on need to put you in strife Even in the chains do continue to bark Look and see even in the blinding dark II When whips plant on you some aching sores Which cease and freeze your airy pores Never kneel to your chasing flies Never sing […]
We have reached the tree of hopelessness On whose biggest stool branches sit foolishness Who order for your beautified abode After their worked thoughts rode In gains of power And a presence many will cower Odomankomah gye wo man! II We are wearing clothes of indiscernible thoughts Our minds with manipulations bought Advertisements of a […]
So I craved a properly shaved Well chiselled face To be in my face and check my pace His fine red lips in loving sips His hairful hair In a fine trimmed dare I thought I had seen the perfect one Until he got under one bright lit sun Oh where is the half of […]
In this nest called earth Minds differ in colour of thinking As others sit to pray, plan and stand to tan Under the tough skies of hard work Some weave their traps like spiders To get hold of some hunting flies Others look for pliers to take out the knots on others barrows Okukuseku! Nnipa […]
Oh you tears Feeling like streams Because sadness feeds your source On this heavy pillow Think again Even your feeder tires in abusing II A sun will shine To dry you out Even rains from skies have their exits So be not prideful Your today can be erased by a happiness tomorrow Your stains can […]
Why don’t you show The frown you keep beneath your smile? Why don’t you show The fangs you keep and present as teeth? Why don’t you show The claws you keep as nails in my greeting? Why keep a friendly body in daylight And release your natural haunting shadow in my dark? II Fight squarely […]
In this cold Do me hold Even when sold Make me bold You who did me mould II We are in grasses filled with rhyming snakes We are cut weeds being chased by sharp rakes We are vehicles with destructive brakes We are bread death busily bakes Why won’t everything cause fear shakes? III Build […]
We have lived to see a fountain of example seize After watering many a revering We have lived under the disinfection of a lotus Even in this menopausal mud We have seen the rise of an oak even in thirsty soil And we have learnt to dream even in our wakefulness Busumuru, yɛdawoase o! II […]
Shame has turned into a cobweb hosting my soul As I look at my once rubbish bowl Sitting in gold Receiving rains of blessings in many fold Odomankomah, forgive this body which sat on its foresight And battled you on a crowded site II The vulture whose best saucepan was the rubbish heap Is now […]
We have travelled through riddles Where subs were added in set fiddles Who at all broke the middles To bring us to this confusion of lonely needles? II We knew familiar binary numbers of hearts In fractions birthically laid out in charts Now positive and negative integers are left to try out Spark fires of […]
It was supposed to be farm stool That every tired farmer could sit in rest It was supposed to be a river Meandering across scary deserts For tired travelers on paupering roads To quench their thirst It was supposed to be a fruited tree For all in hunger A calmer for all in anger A […]
Maame Menka! Call Owusua and Akosua Yaa Bruwaa, Ama Serwaa Afia Adutwumwaa and Eno Boowaa Selikem and Elikem Hasana and Husna To come to my compound now I have seen the area pestle Pounding and breaking mortars of our land! Including the newly built, ones in building And ones whose trees are in the watering […]
Oh how complex is age? Known to have initially been tagged with sages Until dawns saw kings living above sages in new pages! Oh what is the coupling advantage? That a lone femme traveller is seen on rampages All her ails needing attention seeking bandages One who spoke no sane languages Until her garbage can […]
I saw a sun in your heart That I stole to light me up Your proximity is a key Which sparks a playful arrhythmia In the sealed contours of my chest A thief prays to never be caught So why do I steal daily from the same spot? II I believe it is time to […]
It is sad Very sad when a rotten nut Destroys the sweet flavour of a whole pan of soup Who can; tired legs, Needful minds and broken palms run to? A whole tree thought to be Odum Ended up as a beautifully rotten pawpaw tree Waiting to murder an unsuspecting leaner Who made the laws […]
The lightless sky smiles with doom This heart’s sigh responds with gloom For you are the lie which walks the night with no moon II All the promises made in fantasy And all the raw wishes saved in fallacy Still battle these stitches binding this heart III Yet you yell in my deepest cell Still […]
I love Accra Which exist like heaven to a village dreamer But in reality, is a cane soaked in kerosene And smeared with pepper On the skin of a greener pasture traveler II I love the name of Accra Whose birthed names can fill the Korle Lagoon And litter its centre While its pregnant ones […]
All are folding Folding into touches of feelings Eyes will see but won’t know Ears will hear but can’t translate Minds will sit, only calling on feelings To search To seek and tell In the end II A crow may turn vulture in spirit An eagle may look the part of a hen A bark […]
A good farmer tills his land and digs out stumps before planting He is sure to protect the planted Until germination After germination, he sees to irrigate Makes sure the sunlight and air are all apt for the farm He wards off weeds And fertilizes to ensure smooth growth Pesticides are provided to make sure […]
Meet me there There At the blue kiosk right by the street of Nyansakrom For sips of sympathies which sink unfairness in oceans of insanities II Meet me there There To fathom with the power of kabi kyerɛ w’ase Why thoughts of society seem more complex than man Man who is their sole author III […]
Your talented fingers Can make wholesome my figure From arms to thighs Neck to knees Vein to vein Help, help put me together II All the feelings of yesteryears Bottled and dusty All the failings of months past Suffocating and harming All the brighter routes Missed in blindness All the calling stars in the clouds […]
In this myth we live No matter who conceived All that we believe Is the magic of breath II It lights the eyes So let them look It opens the ears So let them listen It opens your mouth So let it say All that it needs to say III It powers the heart So […]
Fireflies glow to charm the night Darkness always playing their best partner From the intruding moon right down to its stars Charmed eyes only see targets Relegating others into nonexistence I am the one you need to have Not one you have to need II Hearts speak even in separation Minds bond even in absentia […]
The boldness of darkness in deceptive acquisition Is a mystic and hypocritical existence Which abhors the steps of light Even in far distances It’s a little wonder legs turn three Moving without support for the third Chests grow mounds Hoping with no straps for decorum When the law chases II Wigs are rigs in these […]
As existence of breezes Is seen in the dance of a tree I wish you dance in my hair or body For all to see You hidden monsters in my arteries! You surely make me a walking corpse In a walking stalk Not that you care II Haven’t I looked for plasters to you seal? […]
Pain is looking at a difference, in molestation, afar Devastation is seeing your reflection in the bins of others Sadness is seeing minds trapped by slavery And tracing their roots to yours Bitterness is knowing it all with a helplessness That imprisons your confidence Brewing unshed tears in the sky of your heart II When […]
The starting point of every race Births successes The rising point of the sun Births light Just as palm trees have no useless parts Mothers, even in graves, shelter our souls In spiritual protection Who is without a mother’s is Or, in sad terms, a mother’s was? II Like hens, they struggle to hatch Like […]
If structures could turn see-throughs In these cold powered days Many would find what stands true In this raining May II Would be fun to watch As lightening hugs get sticky With eyes magnetizing eyes Lips calling in other lips Veins in arms sending hands on exploratory hunt For pleasures abominable In leisures of weathers […]
Now the day is awake The sky is serving light All that hands will take Will base on a heart so bright II I hope that for life’s sake We work with all our might Like bread in an oven bake Our ends will shine so bright III We have to burdens shake And face […]
It slowly rose like smoke Making eyes teary and red Baking minds like loaves for their feed Then became the weed of love Making many kowtow with their all Presenting their successes and their falls It has now graduated to opium and cocaine combined Building addicts out of thinkers II High on this drug-like serve […]
Imagine your feet on no solid ground Your ears, no tree in sound Imagine your shelter in a hanging And life without farming Now follow the reasoning II Dress not the earth in your mess Even if you are a pig thinking it a sty For you live in the borrowed And should leave it […]
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