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 […]
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BEST TO DO NAUGHT
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 […]
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THE SICK’S ATTENDANT
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
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GHANA SUCKLEMENTS
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 […]
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COME BACK
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 […]
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PROPHESY TO ZIMBABWE
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 […]
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HAUNTING A GIGOLO
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 […]
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GETTING USED TO
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 […]
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BE MOTIVATED
Present winds cuddling sands Current stars in time’s vehicle Into past destinations Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © November 9, 2017
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LEST WE FORGET
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 […]
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PAUSE TO THINK
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 […]
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CHANGE THE SCRIPT
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 […]
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DANCING ON STARS
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 […]
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IN THE HEART OF TRUTH
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 […]
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UNCANNY ASSOCIATIONS (CRAZY STANZAS)
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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RAIN YOUR FAVOURS
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 […]
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IF I KNEW I WOULD BURY MY SEED
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 […]
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THINGS FALL APART
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 […]
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ANIMAL TAILS IN HUMAN TROUSERS
(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 […]
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TIMELINESS
Weeds in prized plants Mouths of hoes and cutlasses Hunger for your weeded selves Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 25, 2017.
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ODOMANKOMAH
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 […]
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CONSCIENCE TALKS
Stories in high heels Walking on tiled consciences A loud night club in serenes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©October 19, 2017
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THE CHASE OF THE PAST
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 […]
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THIS FEAST OF THE STRONG
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 […]
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IN MY GENDERFULNESS
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 […]
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CALL THEM
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 […]
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FORGET ME NOT
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 […]
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THE NATION OF LOVE
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 […]
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NO BRA DAY
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
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PERSPECTIVES
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 […]
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A MAP FOR PASSIONS (ADULT POETRY)
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 […]
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A KITTEN IN THE LION’S SEAT
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 […]
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TOOTHLESS DOGISM
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 […]
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THE GIRL COMING OUT OF THE SHADOW
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 […]
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IN A FOOL’S HARDY
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 […]
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A TEACHER
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 […]
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THE POTS CALLED BREASTS
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 […]
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IN YOUR GARDEN
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 […]
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THE MASK OF CLASS
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 […]
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A MOTHER’S SPECTACLES
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 […]
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