I can see a time standing far up on a future top With a sea-like feet sweeping this shop Acting like a white elephant cop Watching as beings intensely flop And animals, their tamed rights hop II There, I saw a wolf publicly loving a being All fangs and claws in daylight are seen All […]
A knot needs fingers to be Just as groups need a head for sanity As the earth looks upon the sky And the sky cries and shines upon the earth in fertility So must the relations between a leader and the led The leader built by positive sides of great animals II A leader […]
Baby mine Do not, for the attention of these storms pay a dime Life in suns and rains rhyme So let’s let these storms, their time chime You beautiful sun of mine II You were picked from the world of passion With wishes of building for you a happy nation Breaking backs to give you […]
I see the hollow hole At all sides How even this air turned mole And the earth dug all my sides Makes me feel like one who stole From Satan’s slides II The mouth of defeat sings piercingly Being cheered on by the drums of fear The laughter of failure resonates across the dept of […]
On this dead branch Carried by water, I thread Each step, a shocking surprise Interlaced with fear But like a blessed cat with nine lives The soul carries this body in moving on II My only cocoon is you This poem, where my bed of peace is laid My only home is you This poem, […]
A skeletal build
With veins of neglect
Blood of stress and thirst
Meat of hate and pure hunger
Skin of punches of cold in a harmattan visit
And bowl of heat in sunny days
Nails which have tasted the hammer of many quarries
Eyes which have joined the run against death
Legs which have collapsed and been whipped by need to a wake
Why do I see them so well?
If I had listened to maame I won’t be stuck in the middle of this road of life Carrying a burden that my shoulder breaks One that has taken over my sanes Farming bloody rains around my once starred eyes II She did tell me not all that glitters are metalsmithable And adviced I […]
If my tomorrow never comes And my end’s vehicle lands Will I, like a legless eagle with broken wings, soldier across To my ancestral land with a smile Or throw tantrums and be dragged there like a prisoner? II If my tomorrow never comes What will I be on tongues of others? A chewing gum […]
There is a summer hut On the roof of the moon Which all prying eyes cut Waiting for us to swoon So do those problems shut II We need our hands threaded in symphony Our feet running in a perfect dance To tickling sounds of harmony Our eyes writing our thoughts in each other at […]
Worms wriggle Dogs bark Cats mew So be careful of birthed promises When his pants are down II I know of flowers who have lived on clouds With plucked stars and moons Bedding in chariots of all their fantasies Dancing to the tune of Cupid’s best Only to fall as rains Into a hell of […]
Sitting in the past with the wrinkled As my time’s stars stood in the greenest twinkle I heard of eyes, potent in closure Even in most secluded holes Seeing hectic moles who fates stole In the near tomorrow The near tomorrow which garnishes my feet today Yet I laughed like a wise soul hearing […]
Buzzing flies In anger cry Until half baked foods call from their tables Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 16 2018
In this cave of pain Where insanity is in rain Planting needless disdain Like that felt by Cane Be the light in my train II You know thoughts which sit in the main Driving me insane Oh God of my brain! Break these haunting chain Which my good waters drain Can’t you see I am […]
At this crossroads Where good leads to bad And bad leads to good Stands the whip of fear At all ends II At this crossroads Righteousness begets pain While cruelty begets peace Yet conscience acts judge With a gavel of suffering III The lioness in me battles the sheep I am The tears in me […]
Furs in sweat Fishes in tears Heavenly misconceptions In watchful eyes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, 2018
In the wake of this breaking Where the world lives a touch away There is no need for a shaking Of wits and hurts and hate to stray For the world goes round and round II Today the best sit in an earthquake of disagreement Tomorrow a small island Might hold the reigns of power […]
There is an insect town On this beautiful living lawn But all passersby see Is the beautiful grass and its fee Yet night planes their insecti-flight And day takes them from sight It is like sweat in a fluffy wool Or vampire ants in a crown stool II What is seen may not be Once […]
I saw your birth And I feel your dying heartbeat You are a babe who came with the birth of many ambitions And like all babies, you had your needy conditions II The footsteps of time has seen many changes From many ranges Plucking down hopes like ripe oranges And hanging hopes like fake bells […]
I am like a peacock Feathery in coloured beauty All eyes see is the pride that hides my painful ride All mouths rap are rumours in parcelled fancy About my stretches which naught fetches for their eyes Most ears love the sound of my wrong in the spit of a tongue None sees the scar […]
(Merry Christmas to all! Have the best of the season) We wake with will of a win Cling to the song of Christ’s birth Flinging all that carries burdens in a bin His birth signifies sin’s death Oh Hallelujah, the king is born! II We whistle with warmth wherever Knowing our lows will never flow […]
Many minds have different layers of thoughts Superstition leading their mental institutions Abena, I believe in human fallibilities We are mostly like stubborn goats Pushing to the very places whose whips Still lick their mouths From the burst skin they plucked from our bodies Why? II Some drivers have turned fishes in alcoholic seas Driving […]
When the crowers of today turn peckers at dawn Feasting on feeds of hens and chicks While time walks without turning back Their future in saucepans of history will be painful As the only spices on their bodies would be pepper of frustration Ginger of hurts Salt of under development Tears of penury And cubes […]
Let, let your kindness walk In sneakers on these slippery tiles of need Let, let your kindness walk In knighthood in this festival to feed Let, let your kindness walk Like Santas who give to goodness lead Let, let your love walk the talk of giving II There are bodies living in nakedness Walking in […]
Eno Bowaa, Akusua Duku, Ama Afarewaa eeei! Kofi Amoabeng, Opare Kusi, Agya Obuo eeei! When the sun travels east in settlement each day My thanksgiving becomes as tall as fading shadows For your smiling teeth which held daggers in the dark And worked on a battle with my back II Is it fair? Is it […]
You know the spine of every palm frond Holds it firmly Even in the slaps and blows of the wind You know a seed holds the future of its fruit You know divinations of norms Twist paths of stories I am on this drive which the winds of life turn Abrempong mu Obrempong Lead my […]
These eyes still have their seals Primitive living Oblivious of a world on wheels A cup for mouths and animals Like Abels in a Jesus world They live laughing in loving misery II I have seen anuses feeding their soil At the full glare of many As flies chorus the pushing I have seen the […]
Many a steps are forced by need Many a man’s need suffereth from greed One’s seen need is another’s goldmine I am that hen Looking for the feet of the mythical hawk Stepping on the wellbeing of my chick II All many eyes see Is the flower with different colours Standing tall in the […]
The fallen is like an egg You kick with an intent of destruction Variety in lacking, is perfection of His creation So let your feet be kind II Consider the legless and help the hopping Consider the struggling and help the ill Consider the suffering and bless the helpless Please let your feet be kind […]
You have cut the ribbon of shyness From our very eyes All contours leading to remorse Have been made comfortable From the slippery slope it was Why? Because sins grow into norms with time And you are the programmer of the dramatic brain Which engines us II I wonder if you peep through the anus […]
When daylight sleeps Prepare your foot to heed to the call of my beads For surely You must dance in my wet ground Whose rains began at the first tear of dawn II Mow your lawn And clean your gun Load it to perfection There sure must be a fat game of pleasure At the […]
Bouncing conflicts Dancing frustrations Fishnets of successes and failures Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Nov. 24, 2017
When chains police beings In hollow caves of innocence At the audience of culprits Who like sheep giggle with eyes of a lionesses Fate sits on a slate of unfairness! II Sounds of feet with rifles! Sounds of breaths with struggles! Sounds of deaths which plant fear Watered by self mourning! Sounds of freedom of […]
Let the hen dance in the midst of hawks To the appeal of the vast sky Its bones would never fail to lie naked Before their beaks So sometimes, it’s best to do nothing II Let the snail run as fast as the rabbit of its fantasy In the angry survival of the hippopotamus It […]
Many a pain holds no stamp on bodies Many a pain stems from sight and hearing Many a pain give no pleasure gain So place no insensitivity on this anger This anger you feel towards you II Every pain in your being plants my insanity Every stain on your life My very frustration Watching death […]
Chant me into dispossession Ye who held my navel And crossed to the shores of earth As my voodoo watched your fragile steps With no evil stone cast II Chant me into dispossession Ye who fed through the clays of my pot In the dirty dust you now so abhor Deliver me from the spirit […]
Whispers of the air Majestic walks of the sun A sign of life’s ticket Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 17th Nov. 2017
When the same breast nurses many mouths From stomachs of greed and or promises Milk evaporates and calls for the blood of the mother Showcasing paleness of her body Awo Yaa! May this portion of yours change for the better! II This building which has seen the palms of many masons And still suffers from […]
Videos keep playing Where you shyly, with roses In sweat, called Holy Moses In proposing II How a perfect vehicle Zoomed into a thorny bush And saw itself in an empty desert Has opened my sky of tears III The video of you playing horse In the shore of peace Me, playing sheep In the […]
Dust for powdered pepper Or powdered pepper for dust? Which blows now with the air of Mugabe In the Zim Nation? I see chicken to hawk, hawk to eagle In a devilish transition II Destruction sure needs some action From any faction with an apt reaction But the leg of time shortens celebration And or […]
Since age knocked its understanding tag In my infantile brain I was given a telescope Whose only visions were of the past A telescope which killed the zeal of laughter Planting in its stead a vile rage for revenge Watered by society’s hails at my target And its many chains of laws for my kind […]
Day has broken from the clutches of darkness Aiding eyes, like a pathfinder To see all in clarity If breath stands at post And health is on wealth’s coast I say “anyame mu Nyame” Nhyira nka wo din! II I can see hens leading their chicks And cocks looking for stocks Through the warning of […]
Let mouths allow eyes to roll Instead of calling sounds in heels To defile lung’s peaceful siesta What is “ayoo” today Might have been “bue!” yesterday But will be “ahaaa!” tomorrow Harvesting ovations on all stages II New things raise brows Coming with scares which snake into veins like poison But when they simmer Minds […]
Present winds cuddling sands Current stars in time’s vehicle Into past destinations Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © November 9, 2017
There is a volcano of needs Needs which fill not the belly of satisfaction Instead dig bottomless needs Which gobble time needed to look Look to love Love to smile Smile to laugh Laugh to live Live to write memories on our beloveds’ minds Spank our senses Lest we forget our paths Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
We Carry burdens like abused porters Forgetting the immobile end Which for few moments trends Only to turn garnish on memories of the past II We Cloud our emotions to rain our eyes to drain Forgetting life’s refrain is transiency Gathering rubbish which may outlast our taunting gibberish III We Sit with thoughts that over […]
The gate of another day opens With varied happenings written in the future slate of fate Like a marathon, we run with enthusiasm Hoping our baton would reach our target But if we hurt ourselves Or have our breaths arrested by tiredness You who writes it all Change the script to fit our emotions! II […]
I bless that day When a whirlwind swept me from serenity into doom Only to be rescued by your light Like a Samaritan Knight from hell’s pot II I bless the day When words meekly walked with shaking legs Out from the private street of your tongue To plead for a table in my heart’s […]
In the heart of truth lies an ocean of despair Flanked by trees of fear For the rejection of abnormal normalcy In a sea of friendship II In the heart of truth stands a tent of loneliness Where each greedy finger points like a gun With intentions that can form spiritual bullets To kill the […]
Legs take crowns to ordered places To taste the grounds of its worship Hearts engine dreams To feel the pulse of success in the end Tongues channel foods to intestines To sip a taste from every bite All the above with pinches of truth Our elders did us in with some wise sayings You lick […]
I am from a land whose hair is gold Chin is salt Stomach is petroleum And feet are rocks I am from the heart of the strong II I am from a land boxed by colonialism But with a strength which broke free And stands in the wrestling ring with corruption A country whose women […]
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