The sky lies emotionless Far from pates of the helpless Who like dead wood, are visibly drowning in seas of sadness I know your heart bleeds for all your seeds Lord of the earth! Rain your favours! II The earth sits hard in a sky battle Uprooting supporting trees Breaking bones of all fallen Whose […]
If I knew I would bury my seed And feel the rot which my happiness bought And rock the cot which cries of cold I wouldn’t have bothered in its plantation II If I knew the ways of death And of its throat Which swallowed more than pythons In a realm where my eyes can’t […]
Worship is in a sea of destruction Being torn apart by most of their sailors’ deceptions Shot by sins which once sat In front of their potent rifles Their congregants scattering For fear of lions of confusions And bugs of distrust II It seems those days are cutting their rope ties From the chariot of […]
(This poem was written in memory of all those who have lost their lives due to defilement, all those who are battling complications, battling stigmatization, battling injustices due to defilement, and rape. You have done nothing wrong, you are just unfortunate souls caught in the traps of the wicked. The wicked who one way or […]
As I wait patiently for you Counting the marks on this pleasureless ceiling While lonely canes whip in these dark nights Anytime sleep goes on its rebellious demonstrations Are you thinking of me? II As I walk these days Carrying thoughts of you in dilemmahood As to your existence or nonexistence Chased by flies of […]
There are flies born on a sugar plantation And like blessed tongues live entirely on the sweet There are eagles born to hens And like accursed birds, live taking instructions from their meals Luck is the stamp of fate II When the wind blows rain water into the sea It does it good Can same […]
Weeds in prized plants Mouths of hoes and cutlasses Hunger for your weeded selves Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 25, 2017.
My breaths are best in your flow My heartbeats are best in your machinations My steps are best in your architecture My will is best in your seal Oh Odomankomah! My redeemer! II You are the river of blood in my veins You are the air of life in my daily keep You are my […]
Stories in high heels Walking on tiled consciences A loud night club in serenes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©October 19, 2017
There are many with flies from the past Singing in their ears In a chorus of success Blocking out lyrics of routes Driving off trains of talents If only they can find smoke to ward off their flies II There are many being chased by bees of the past Stinging dry their peace of mind […]
On this dining table Sits gluttonous greed Whose hunger, all the food, in quench, unable Connivance knows but stooges for crumbs Forgetting the coming with roaring bellies Whose eyes may never see the feast Forgetting the frail Whose bodies can go nowhere near the monstrous Greed Forgetting the children whose growth Depend on the nutrients […]
There is this air around mine That many of yours claim is fine But to get through most streets there is a whine Of how many legs in us must dine II Our mouths are like toffees in thy eyes Our cheeks look like handkerchiefs in thy sight Our breaths sound like tickling airbags in […]
As hands in drowning wave Do, mouths whose garnished promises flee, call To the destitute save Lest we all fall II As needs outweigh our feeds Do all, in patriotic shed blood, call To drive the spirit which on our minds feeds So our confidence will stand tall III As green spirits are being, from […]
Any comfortable visitor Who fails to thank the landlord Is worse than the worst of sneaking snakes “Otwereduampong! Ananafo mu Nana! Kokromoti a yensan wo ho mbɔ pɔ” I serve my thanksgiving in the plate of my being II You built these bones as builders use stones You laid these veins as plumbers lay […]
Sitting on the chair-like forget-me-not You promised to keep our love hot To the hearing of the inquisitive air And all nature that is fair I remember the clouds turn up In their darkest colour And sent their rains to record the promise Many months saw not the veil of a year But here I […]
Citizens are protected Protected by the laws of the land Laws which beat and lock and kill to fill voids How is it that the nation of love has no laws? II When disappointment hovers around its appointments Chaos hides behind its partitions of glitters Pain waits in chambers of the capital of its royalties […]
Mobile breasts Marching on breast cancer day Pickaxes of manly tubers ***************************** Locomotive breasts On horses of varied chests Beautifully nectared flowers on the go ********************************* Heads in weird rhythms Sip from advocacy cups Not sticks of naughty passions Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©October 13, 2017
The stance of an eye And its distance Determines the visions thereof Like plants in the different pores of the earth We stand in view of a portion So how can our mouths be in judgement seats Audienced by other eyes and ears In marking right from wrong? II God may appear in different beings […]
Stars have their spots When the curtains of daylight fall There, they shine brightest There, they sync well in their work of lighting This body, is like your sky of darkness Take a tour and know the star spots II Your fingers are like combs for a reason Planted hair needs its massaging fertility To […]
How do I find my way? In this jungle of life Where fangs chase on this careless mother earth As claws chase in the indifferent sky? II How do I find my way? When hurtful thorns are ever ready to butcher my skin And have them on their necks as conquerors? Hisses with poisonous spittle […]
The butterfly which sits on the tip of an uneatable leaf In hope of a wind taking it to the flower with a nectar cup Without lifting its healthy wings in direction Is bound to blame its God For the sluggish crime of itself II The mosquito which sits on a pore for long, Like […]
If historic eyes had seen this future Where a kitten mounts a lion’s seat They sure would have cemented their feet And stopped the clock Before seeing their shadows fall II How can a kitten paw fit into a lion’s? How can a kitten rule over fierce tigers? Golden fishes? Huge elephants? Fearsome crocodiles? Mischievous […]
Our breaths have been marked Marked for the roars of freshness And the silence thereafter like that of toothless dogs II Our sad songs continue on world stages But why do sympathies sit uninterested Sipping their “serves you right” wines Even as our hurtful passions sync with their instruments? III Could it be the need […]
The dark is a cool place to hide But a cruel place to be Every leg can boot, step on her Every spittle can fall on, bathe her Every phlegm can plaster, plaster her Every urine can shower, shower her Every fecal matter can smear, smear her like disgusting pomade And no sweat can be […]
Once Kwaku Ananse met a Baboon One who was fetching water with a basket from a river At the feet of a mountain Into a drum at the pate of the mountain Out of pity for an artificial brain tiring a living body He stopped to help He called on the Baboon to use his […]
Every teacher is a potter One who digs the clay of the mind And gives it moisture Amidst pounding and kneading To get the right texture Setting it on the wheel in direction To mould the right item through heat in finality II Every teacher is a farmer One, who prepares the land of all […]
I have known rivers that have run out Their sleeping places weeping on blame of thirst But you in your small spots On varied chests, feed the world From vacant suckers to the teeth full II Not only do you subdue man Into knowing his forever child-like nature You give women the pride of shape […]
In your scented garden You left many flowers Maybe for your precious lavenders Maybe to heal foul scents Maybe to sooth the thirst of precious birds in their prime Maybe to multiply and beautify the land But the harvesters of scents have been harvesting the nectar Before they blossom to bless the temples of noses […]
What does it mean to be my friend? Is it the whispering rumouring Like naughty airs being tossed by blocking walls? Or the sharing of secrets Which are kept in our brainy books of memories? Or even the taste of our handkerchiefs At the sips of our overflowing eyes In the heat of sadness? What […]
This class mask Is it not a daunting task? This heat of a task Does it have a dawn and a dusk? Even chameleons tire of stealing reflections So why model your deflections? II I see a whore in clothes of virgins An unscrupulous you modelling pious clothes Why is a pedophile rocking a priestly […]
A mother’s spectacles Is like a fairy oracle Her love, making her a congregant in her children’s tabernacle In them is her miracles So in their diabolicals, she gets no logicals Even their unfunny jokes act comical On a stage most find horrible Oh her love is so adorable! II Who forgets the stretch of […]
Kokrokooooo! Gather all ye unhappy hens From the coops of your watching owners Gather, ye who need chicks to follow their cocks Come all ye aggrieved Water has lessons to show II It tastes heavens and licks the earth It knows the hearts of mountains and The feet of the earth It convenes to carry […]
Which is the right way? The rough route with sharp stones The smooth route with the slippery oil? Or the cool road built with a painful patience? II Which is the right way? Rebellion to conquer slavery Battle to kill desires Or dialogue to smoothen seams? Which is the right way? Which is the right […]
Lord God Your fallibility tool in the living Is a great disservice to you Yet magnanimity is one of your gracious parts You sure are the only thumb Without whom no rope can be tied The I am that none is Jehovah! II The crow of a cock in the day Might be complaints but […]
The beginning of bad thoughts Marked the end of harmless nakedness That I know II The beginning of birth Birthed the beginning of death That too I know III The beginning of want Dug the endlessness of need Well, took a while to harvest that on the tree of thought IV Greed is sometimes a […]
When rivers stood in their dreams They forgot of days they acted as streams And tasted filth, felt the sharp teeth of stones And travelled miles in the lone They, now in pride, bloat As they on top of seas float Blocking streams and rivers Who in need of strength shiver in quivers Forgetting tsunamis […]
Improper waist beads Shouting in least bumping Your thread tears in fears of tear Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © September 12, 2017
We are like trees Problems are like our earth Each can’t be If the earth refuses entry Roots are like our will Meandering through sand Around rocks On worms and running rats Hunting water and food II We know God is at post His all seeing eyes watching his little garden Knowing the roots making […]
I know not much I am no Methuselah as such But I do know whatever war touches Does with chaos marches II Like monsters of the night, hurtful words hold no soothing balm In their flight to the land of any mind Like terrorists on their site, bullets have no hearts, hands or eyes To […]
There are many roots beneath a single tree Yet it needs many others to break winds There are many brooms running and breaking free But their strength in numbers, all fear rescinds II Sometimes, even fecal worms, do space need Sometimes, even water, do drops be But a sea stands more chance of waving at […]
One day The mist of this pain will blur As the reality of this living clears Minds will think of me as a cloud Which fell in a moment to give the thirsty rain Not as a thirsty whose tears quenched the dryness in other throats Under the drought of helplessness II One day […]
In celebration is the key Of seeing you and I as we And learning to in harmony be Like a mighty flock of bees II In solemn prayers is the need To all intimidatory sins, like bothering weeds, weed Making sure all mouths feed Giving respect to all living seeds III We are a living […]
Many sicknesses walk On the body of my motherland Causing it to walk naked on the global market Every pore battles an unhealing sore Sore of greed concreting each founding ailment Why doctors are like its grim reapers I am still sitting under the sky of reasoning Trying to catch a raindrop of understanding Which […]
Me I no know wetin man go give me Wey I go be like im sick chick moder Going to scatter to bring him choo to fill im bɛllɛ When im hands dey lie in perfecsion If I no heaa anyting for elder person im mouth koraa Ino be hand dey go, hand dey cum […]
Once upon a time Our land was a loamy rhyme Our airs sang for happy trees to chime A bite was meant to tease tongues from lime But all that, now, means no dime II When the cloth of colonialism Met the scissors of independence And freedom apparels were carefully tailored by hope Little did […]
It is like the best servant of mankind It is like the humble air holding our precious lives It is like the great explorer and traveler When it is given its due II Time has travelled to a place Where many things imprison this saving servant To think river channels lie in even mobile beings […]
There is an irony in sight Where vision is concerned That part where the blind looks forward to tomorrow Despite all the sorrow That part of the mind which no one borrows No matter how shallow Is the lid of hope So why will I mope? II Even snakes, dwelling on their venom Instill fear […]
Alien things are swallowing ours Their gluttony making them relegate their teeth to the background As their tongues fold to push Through the mortar of their mouths Everything with an African tag II Civilization first removed our eyeballs And replaced them with artificial ones Making seers the abominations they abhorred Banishing themselves through shrines they […]
Poisoned hearts Holding rifles in monstrous hunt Heavens watch without words Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) August 14, 2017
The sounds of nature stamps your existence Your bodiless presence calls for some insistence Of evidence of your presence Despite many testimonies of the taste of your essence II You are who you are Though we know not when you were But are dying to share In your kingdom at any fare III We wish […]
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