Stagnant waters Sitting still on their buttocks Like gods worshipped by idiots Will invite them Yes; them All that is small Not firm Orchestrating elasticity on stagnation Poisonous to a fault Heeding no cries Elevating themselves on precious red liquids Leaping from skin to skin Expressing themselves noisily Spreading fevers which battle immunocities II Breathrens […]
Wake ‘them’ dead To wake their brutalised dead Rupturing slave membranes like witch doctors freeing their captives Ushering them back into their original places Mapping them to their umbilical cords Pillaring them in their own As God rightly did Making them litter their world with their generations Do that or like a lizard Open not […]
The once fertile mother Who grew to feed all And had more in store Now sits like a skeleton Her plumpy figure reduced to naught As her once overflowing breastmilk Hide in scacity Pushing her blood out for feeding Turning the children who are culprits of her woes vampires II Who made her so? Could […]
Dear man She is not a woe unto man That will make you a woe chaser Neither is she a witch of man For that will make you a witch craver She is not a worker of man That would make you her employer She is not a watcher of man That will make her […]
As you plan a kill To your ego fill You plan a humiliation Craving felicitation If God grants Realities to your rants You will be like a terrorist Bombing your enemy II He should end like a goat His pestle cut He should end up on a roaster His hairs crying foul He should end […]
One day I will climb that tree From its top to its root Making it flop For it to give its fruit And jump down From its root to the ground And pay no heed To taking its seed Many are the times This tree does tease With its bright flowers And succulent fruits Its […]
When night’s shadows beckon Loneliness holds a wire whip With an inward magical scar power To keep the mind company II Moon’s light turn taunt television To show the beautiful moments of others’ passions Shelving the worst dirts of coupling Making ease turn tears III Stars’ twinkles show the fantastic flutters The heart misses The […]
How are beings of the land To see the tears of beings in the sea? How does the sun see the light of a torch at its peak? How can the fish feel an aching wing? Can a whirlwind listen to the voice of the gentle breeze When it sees its dancing mate? II Daughter […]
Dear Moon Ply your night Like the nocturnal traveller you are For your crown of brightness To be seen by earthers From the throne of your sky II Do not jump into day Like a greedy human star Trying to usurp the glory of a budding For sun holds day’s glory And will make you […]
Pidgin language rules this land As ‘danduruwa’ rocks their world The rough voices of fans Working like ‘nikanika’ Can be heard from all corners In kiosks and single rooms As their curses of blowing heat Chase their footsteps While illegal wires cry their heated fates Some night workers Whose market flopped have mouths like pigs […]
Cupidic clothes Wrap me up I don’t mind the stupid Make this heart clap I need to feel bubbly like a fulfilled girl Happy like a champion Busy in thoughts like a fancy day dreamer Peaceful like an unstired river Flowy like sea waves Giggly like a plugged Barbie And drive on wheels of heaven […]
Heads abound In this room like a very fertile tree With many fruits to show Young heads show their flowery leaves Some dark brown Some black Some heads are like paths to bush farms Very cleared middles Forest on both sides Others; like farms with uneven bush burning Ha ha ha ha! Agyeiiiiiiii! Some heads […]
Like the gates of life The heaven are fully opened Its crown solidly on its head Its smile nicely in place Its arms widely opened It takes just love in spirit To get one through II Like the paths of streams The ears of heaven lie Waiting to be reached no matter the obstacles All […]
Gone are the bright Saturdays Where pots danced on happy heads As giggles followed gay girls Like their shadows to streams And hot gossips coloured their tongues like “alewa” Now the streams mostly come to them Following their instructions to flow Oh Clever gods!!! II Gone are the anxious hunters Those who yearned for their […]
Oh stone angel! Born in the palm of heaven With coolness and serenity As servants and companions Beautiful abodes As her eyes’ bonafied properties Healthy trees dancing on mountain tops Her protectors and breath givers Like a free bird She was born to fly in dancing Watching the rivers snake happily down her feet As […]
When furious winds wake Some trees are uprooted Others break in two Others break into several pieces Others lose their branches Others lose their fruits Others lose their leaves But the toughest ones are unaffected And all affected have faith of resurrection When blessed rains visit Their only prayers; not to be visited by fire […]
I saw the blinding light Which shielded the dark I saw not the hidden fight Which was on its mark Until the light retired to sleep And the dark did the fight keep Hoping to victory reap II So I fought without a weapon Knowing the light took away my eyes And if I, my […]
A doll Its god A love No knowledge A break A hurt A fix Its fitness All secrets No memory to store You are the odd lines I am the even lines My God Your doll; me Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
The butterfly envies The flight of birds in higher realms And thinks it will do anything Anything to be higher II What the butterfly does not know Is that there are birds and there are birds There are birds ugly and wild There are birds beautiful and vulnerable There are birds normal but filthy There […]
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 […]
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