I need to swim Swim in the streams of your eyes I need to bathe Bathe in the rivers of your mouth I need to massage Massage the inner chambers of your ears Like a thumb massaging strings of a guitar II I need to fit Fit into the cave of your neck I need […]
Mid day consumes morning Knowing not evening awaits As evening consumes mid-day Always trying to blend with night Even night forgets there is dawn Which clears the path for the morning Cruel morning which carries mid-day’s bitterness Consumes dawn into its tears A chase and a chase A swallow and a swallow Even shadows lengthen […]
Creator! Maker of me! Granter! Wirer of thought of me! Like a novice I did wire Together a thought that aims to pain fire Like a coward I stand shivering Anticipating things that will cause me quivering Like a rat I feel smoke In a whole hole that is my own Hold me firm Messiah […]
Muddy minds may mar Clever courts can clear Devil dreams do drive But the sun won’t change its lane Not for your cause or mine II Bright birds breed best Cool characters can cheer Darers dare dreading details detained But note, the air won’t change its path Not for your cause or mine III Novices […]
Sing me no song of a tiger None of a lion None of a hyena For like a lost dove I can stand no scary roars II Sing me no song of a dog None of a bull None of a cow None of a goat Like the queen of quietude I can stand not […]
Night I loathe your footmat And fear your realm I dread your unconsciousness And pray away your time As I walk like a robot back and forth my dreams, The one your brother formed at his prime, His visions are like hell His thoughts; the heat that the Bible speaks of Where and how you […]
Hide and seek Is what they play The sun and moon seem very meek With a hide each slay With appearance they speak, freak, leak and peek Every second is their stirring day II We trust and curse as we seek They jump and hide as they play Hide and seek We dock, we clay […]
They plucked stars From their skies Like unripe mangoes from their trees And sent them to their dark earth To polish them in light One star after another Brought greed for more As pluckers turned merchants After turning some stars hunters of good stars Their own flesh and blood! II Parading bright stars on dirty […]
This place of yearning Owns a churning As rain seeps through the pores of the earth And the earth cries in cracks for the thirst of it So does the yearning begs attention II Withering prime! Anxious crime! The bells loudly chime! Deeds deal not with dimes! Hold me in your arms Those strong arms […]
There must be a God for each! I believe there must be a God for each! Urging on their priced creations Breeding fierce competition Creating chances Being defeated Winning and cheering While they oposing losers cry There must surely be a God for each Creator of a model being to keep Programmer of every soul to […]
As time travels to my older soul I feel, in my mind’s palms, the hot coal Dreams are like lighted coals In an airy oven Situated in lairs of lion-like vixens Lairs whose entrance is made of the soils of thorns II Legs have to pierce in tears Eyes need to see their own blood […]
Miles with its wiles Have drawn a picture of longing Drawing mind closer to you Like a magnetic wave Pulled in by a metal wrapped in its interest II Glued in thoughts Separated in body I shake like a leaf in epileptic wind waves Eyes wide open and I fall Eyes tightly closed and I […]
In our ancestors’ future Culture was the path of security Of safety Of enlightenment Of peace Of protection II In our ancestors’ future We were clothed by culture’s silk Adorned by Odomankoma’s mental gold Given extra eyes by the seer of the sky To see distractors To teach and mould aliens to follow And not […]
In your shade I fear no fade When the devil, your presence, forbids As he, my happiness, lids I will be pushed by no defeat And will get, in your court, a seat For I know your enduring treat No matter the sad drum beat Your are my knot My beautiful time slot You are […]
Strange range Change arranges not emotions It scatters to litter in bitter happiness Or happy bitterness Like a painter who is colour blind Then carves familiarity like a new wife And makes all humans new husbands II strange range Wigs were once wicked spirits’ possessions Which needed days of emptied stomachs To deliver in heavenly […]
Like seeds We need rain Sunlight and air To bond with soil In order to grow II Like young plants We need your clearance Your guidance for endurance Your protection from legs and winds To grow in thickness to fruition III Like fruiting plants We need your protection From birds and pests To keep our […]
Vessels of love! Beautiful houses of homes! Owners of completeness! Fertile lands of the earth! Faces of welcomes! Bosses! Clearer of loses! Visions of clearer choices! Hearts like springs of goodness! Plants with nutritious breasts of vitality! Skies with lighted suns and moons! With stars which work to train fireflies To replace them to lead […]
(As part of the International Women’s Day, I composed this poem to congratulate all women. No matter where you are, no matter who you are, no matter what you are going through, no matter your status, Happy International Women’s Day! Be the queens you are and rock your worlds. You are special and nobody can […]
At the mercy of the sentient being Whose breath was like mono gas With an elephantine emotion Which jumped like a servant at his command I croaked like a choked frog In his hidden gutters Gutters which obeyed their master In soundproofing, aiding and abetting the crime of pain II Daylight now flood the candle […]
They say life begins at forty A year to pension, what have you gained? Marriage to many lands in bonds of servitude? Knees kissing gravels to lower thy face? A broom to sweep your dirt under your tattered mat? A choir to sing your horrids as flourishes? A heart to collect unwanted scraps And use […]
With one mind All sought to find Freedom which in bondage hid to blind But none triumphed but one in a kind Kwame Nkrumah! Stopper of the colonial grind! II We have travelled a long way Graduated to adulthood so can have our say Way past our childish play Not so easy a stay But […]
Kwame Osei climbs trees Whenever he me sees He says he’ll pay my fees Then whine like bugged bees But whenever papa sees, he flees II Kojo Dzakpasu agbadza dances Whenever he me sees in his chances He, his muscles enhances As he my face glances Warning all to watch their stances Behaving like a […]
Tears Falls Bruises Strength Weakness Frailty Like weak plants We are tested Some uprooted The un-needed weeded The favoured pampered Until we grow Shed our fruits into barrenness And are cut down to be replaced By needed planta or seeds Such is we who think in foreverness Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
You were beautiful Your coconuts’ early openings just wonderful Your need to lead Overbearing but powerful Why do you now look pitiful? II Most of your children now roam Roam the forest of doom Leaving the street of morals Because a cane on a skin Draws your judges’ hammer, Your youngs now fly with flawed […]
It has appeared Whether loved or feared Whether hooted or cheered Until the curtain of darkness appear None can actually clear II It will choose its mood Whether bad or good Whether confusing or understood Whether there is famine or food Whether estated or hooded Whether hanging or rooted III You can choose to remember […]
Ah! Ordinary fly I am too plain for you to strain So you sigh And look at me with disdain You love the lie And all those who like paintings live in colour Thinking not of any disorder II Chase the “real” butterflies Know their nectar taste and oh! Pray not for rain Fall for […]
It was a worried night One which caged all things bright II It was a worried night in a cave One which refused to behave And craved to be saved III It was a worried night One which croaked and roared in slow flight Like the ghost of a materialistic demon Forced to exit its […]
I know you swallow it all Green or brown in lastly fall Weak or strong when they’re slashed by the “amuntum” call A call of croaks from the throat of “Yaamoa Owuo” II Is conscience lacking you Or you lack the pit to carry its pot? Who eats the little bitter mangoes When ripe ones […]
If eyes marry ears Many stones of disappointments Will be thrown at fears The sun tells of its birth With its mildness as all bodies carry, Even the albinos’, Scares almost all bodies into corners When it stands on its podium of peakhood And loses its light To make way for weak eyes To see […]
When a lioness puffs loudly in chase Its game triumph For they know Their fleeing tactics drain their murderers So even when caught They face death with a smile II When the goat bleats loudly in running All know there is danger That is, if nanny is not in sight Chances are, its deeds do […]
When mama arrested me She did not say why All she did was form And force me to conform With each spit I thought she cleaned With every mood swing I thought she cleared With every heartbeat, I felt some love No rules for living Resided in the jail, Jail of urine You should have […]
Cocks always smell something foul In the cloth of a hen When success crowns her head As she sits in their midst And their combs feel numb at the ego hit II Loudly crowing cocks then turn At the slightest chance Using their wings to sweep the ground Beckoning her to turn her back To […]
Cruelty sings today and mourns tomorrow like owl without feet and home Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
When tough times are mandated to reign As horrors get the stage to feign And saviours hung in unreachable skies As doubt tells unimaginable lies Pause Look like an owl because Life is a knife Whenever unpleasantness rife So strive to thrive Live in spirits well alive Like the cry-laughing child Who knows no wild […]
In this fiery winds Where hurtful dust blinds I need your sling to cling In this death ring II No matter how strong The arms of the winds I know I You belong So I wait as Your angel finds III Bounded, I crave you as a slave Haunted, I hide like a lion in […]
For all that I am lent For all the time I have spent To stand or bend I have learnt Because this world is nothing but a rent With my cents come my dent I am sent And will leave this tent And after I turn, none will know where I went So now I […]
(Today is World Read Aloud Day, and as part of my contribution, I present this poem.) When we read aloud All that is in shroud Clears from the confusion cloud And  literacy becomes loud Making the mouth proud In the midst of a crowd Making all shame heads bowed So I have vowed To always […]
As I search around for the money tree Whose leaves I need to live life free I come across her long huge beak Which did a very huge name seek “I want nothing but one on peak Just a pizza from Tacorobama” And I go like “what from where or what?” II Ei Awuraba yi […]
I have gone beyond the fear of ginger and pepper Its taunt of burning my rear Through the vengeful fingers of my elders And forming tears With which brothers and friends used as fun O I have blended with its road of hurt II I have also gone beyond the fear of canes Many strokes […]
My thoughts set for you a giant screen Since your cloak stole an engine piece of me As you passed my route and looked not my way II Oh how naughty and mean Your cloak seemed, for having hands to tear And no mouth to prompt its owner III You back did pull its charming tongue […]
Oh thou phantom without breath Do I seek your needed concoction To have you formed in my boiling pot? II I know you need a mouth to ask “Why the hesitation?” Yes, I was so made into this Yes, and was so brought to this realm But do I wish this on another? III I […]
I met a hen Who asked God when He will drag hawk to the den Of a famished lion And I went like huh? II I also met a cock Who hated occasional clock And asked God when He will extinct all men And I went like huh? III I met a sheep Who needed […]
You saintly quacking parrot Sit on your legs On the biggest tree of the land And look at all like a slug on a couch Watching a tragedy on a giant screen And quack like tongues of a quack pastor Who even knows not what he says Remember there is a sea which feeds your […]
Times have turned upside down Although their legs race changeth not Funny How their shovels Turning minds of beings like reckless farmers tilling land Has bought dizziness for my visual chords II What do you say of this abomination? Where gyms take strength meant for lands? These are hard times Hard times when plants and […]
Craving crumbs, caning climbs Serving sterns and stopping soars Heaping hells, hopping hisses A lesson leans to be learnt and loved II Chirping churns, crossing curses Silly slims and swerving stills Hearing halts, helpers hate A lively leap loathes a dying move Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
Enchanted By your alluring care Beautiful flowers crush intensely II Heatingly Viewing light from hell’s hall Devils crave to break free and capture III Engraving Upon the sky their hearts Thunders curse with force that touch no earth IV Lovingly Flying from tree to tree Doves dote on your graceful handsomeness Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
The spine of a leaf Will bend to betray dew drops If the drops become too heavy As to cause it to break The hardness of a tortoise back Does not mean it can carry a tractor As the dog hops to catch flies Which digs its wound to cause it pain So will hands […]
Time rolls days like mat Days roll months like light blankets Months roll years like beds Years kneed decades like real dough Squeezing ghosts from beings Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
As Cupids little beings and arrows abound Tigers and tigresses show claws of protection Fencing their zones with stinking urinals of suffocation Their significant others, their heat baking II I know sheep will stand to be cheated Seeing as all they know is baa and foolishly roam Like zombies needing direction all times So roam […]
Before the first cry of dew Stepped on the ever thirsty leaf Minds which thought of the Omnipotent were few Because they behave like the deaf II He who crocheted you like a cloth Hoards true love for you as your God He who made you up from scratch Loves you no matter how much […]
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