This dead bulb Left in this heart that stood derelict Lighted like the full moon in a cloudless sky Upon your appearance II It’s a pity eyes can’t be privy To the bright rays it emits When your voice kisses my ears As your hands touch my layers III Flowing rivers are not my comparables […]
Many crave for diamonds Many crave for gold Many crave for cars Few hope for flowers Oh, there are the materialistics Who want all including the lipsticks But I hope for far more: Hearts and thoughts II Like a conservative liver, I wish to live in the cave of your mind Where none can dig […]
A chariot of gold Pushed by purest horses Move in bold Recovering all losses Magic holds cold Ordering love in many poses Laughter in many fold Resonates in all forces Ready hands to hold Open with no clauses Pain is sold As hearts dance with needed resources Red for intensity of the mould White for […]
Sounds of love blur ears of singleness Which seek its arrest by hatred While secretly hoping for its miracle But love is for those with traits of the sheep Traits of the dove Traits of swans Traits of the sun Traits of the moon And traits of cool breezes Not those consumed with the fierceness […]
Roll over like mat unfolding And let time be your roller As you grow and wilt You aid your hunters to feed On flesh and blood meant for locomotion II We breathe but you step Recording beautiful shames Horrible tames Gradual lames And few exciting fames So step with a crown on your secondic head […]
On the day when love sits on the throne I wish to lie comfortably in two handly mattresses Looking into the cornea seas of trust Knowing the tongue of fire awaits to lick my cold II On the day when love sits on the throne I’d love to shed the pain that loneliness moans And […]
Some see the little peacock With flowery feathers of different shades Artfully opened like a colourful fan Showing hens that they are merely plain II Some see the plain comedian Immature and never serious Living large like one immuned to problems Hopping like a little bird with a golden crown III Some see a burdened […]
Many pockets are dry As the economy squeezes tight Like a thirsty throat sqeezing a little orange Valentine’s deed promises to squeeze So minds of men plant seeds of quarrels This is no time to fan a pore As a hit will cause weeks of anger This is no time to scare away mosquitoes As […]
It is tearing down their roof Some are complacent, sitting aloof Some are hopping looking for a hoof Some are looking to clear their goof All they wanted was a proof And now they have their precious fired proof But they don’t know if it’s a cause on land A cause in the air A […]
Hide in the dark and strike to mark Cajole, I am your ultimate fool Show the world the donkey you’ve tamed Ride me like wheels on a comfy stool II Wear me no shoes in the harmattan Give me your best whips to cut in stripes Let the blood ooze to solidify After all, none […]
Pestle and mortar stay afar Until cassava and yam are well boiled They always meet to melt their guests To create a version smooth to savour II The pestle will be foolish to hit it empty As that will call for their untimely bursts But here I hear tears of fears Of the blasts of […]
Life tires; breath is a crime Dire-wired prime times in rhyme II Life shrines; a breath for dime Pain lines; as will whines in mime III Strong longs, the end of song Win belongs; hands of gong Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
When I am prompted by tired limbs And my heart succumbs to pain’s whims Like a lost puppy my fate slims As fear in my doubtful seas swims Oh how the happy world of mine dims But I am always lifted by your beautiful hymns II I know I have a king above all kings […]
As I sat in the dark corner I saw a rat jump past in fright Then a cat chased like a hunter Its paws fat like a curved sword I saw a bat sitting like a judge When its mat of leaves did little shake It flew like a tat cotton in strong wind Chased […]
Tell me a different version of the story The story of Romeo and Juliet Tell me the loving part, And kill the tragic deaths Whose moral uprooted not the roots of feuds in life So I can see hope like a star in lead And follow until I reach my sky II Tell me the […]
(As part of the World Cancer Day, I wrote this piece to commemorate it) Cancer! That canker! The worm that eats the flesh of beings II Cancer! That canker! Can even snake the birth hole of women III Cancer! That canker! Knows no old and knows no young IV Cancer! That canker! The sly can […]
In that tentacle I see a soul credible And a mind so sensible That my passions become lamentable When given instruction not to cause a spectacle Although the bars are not commendable What these eyes find digestible Is to cut the cords of the tentacle And bond in life so incredible I know my will […]
Agbozo spends all night and day Looking in the pastor’s way Thinking that will Satan flay And cause his goods to sell themselves Hopping on baskets after banking their sales Ha! This mind, isn’t it a playful thing? II Yaa Foowaa prays like a praying mantis Crying to God and being an apprentice To the […]
His every sight triggers a magical goldsmith Who makes a mental pickaxe and shovel Which exhumes dead hurts Leaving the best parts buried II How he caught a young flower And stepped on the fresh he plucked in young How he acted like an ostrich And flew on two legs is still a mystery III […]
I need and American who can Or a British with an ish One from France with all the chance Give me a Danish with a dish Or one from Netherlands who understands Bless me with a South African with the coolest can Or one from Morocco who is not cold Or a good to go […]
Pain Cuts through Hurts so true Doesn’t say much Sheds wings with which it flew Cares not about dying as such But craves for insanity in so much Knowing with a little tightening it will gain Calling shame to wear out legs, cramps in much Tears and fumbling in rage as such Shredding hearts as […]
I laugh like I cry I cry like I laugh Whoever saw a lion hiding behind a rat For protection from what it fears? Show me that being, And I will take bullets meant for the skies II I dance like I wail I wail like I dance Whoever saw an elephant begging an ant […]
It was a song she sung One she sung that so stung And freed blood that turned dung Manuring pain which bitterness sprung Oh I curse her tongue II I sought for the strong But clung on straw which was not strong And water longed but fire belonged I swept but wept and kept the […]
There were mountains to climb But like a great traveler You saw the path And not the pantings of breath It scarily asked for Until you reached this spot A spot where eyes watch in dynamics Eyes calling for a fall Eyes calling for shame Eyes calling for failure Eyes calling for success All […]
Huge sharp blinding stones Fall on what once was gold coast Shielded by mandate II Swords in umbrellas They cover, hit to quiver Fail to deliver III Animals run wild But will forget when swords hide Faking protection IV A little water Few gifts so swift calms all rifts Then mandate again Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Fallen in the desert of the unknown Aided by water And the daily murder of plants and animals I look up and I see the skies; House of clouds, sun, moon and stars I look down and I see me and my likes And all that we are harmful to Then I seek your face […]
Give me Love without hushes No clashes And no rushes II Hold me Fun with no evil No watching devil And be civil III Call me Name of no bitches Thinking of no riches Pushing into no stitches IV For the moon stands tall to watch And the stars flung her to […]
I smile As I make the miles For I’ve known more than a while And have tasted livers from biles Like a swift alikoto, I have swirled Like the boss fishes of some rivers, I have swarm Like the nightingale with the tinniest vocal chord, I have sang Some say I am a tortoise, but […]
As the sun lights the world You light my life With your follows, reads, likes and comments I’ve flown like an eagle Through the WordPress skies And travelled so wide Just in years of two You’ve been my armour You’ve been my strength You’ve taken me higher With your care and love Thank you for […]
May I? May I sip from the calabash of truth And spit on the lies which lie like parcelled beauty In the minds of those with power hands of command? May I? May I? II May I? May I step on the heart of deceit As truth blocks gates of ears which lies have VVIP […]
A good love is like the sun and moon A part sleeps when a part is at post They appear even if they vanish for a while Always smiling A good lover hunts for happiness For the one who holds the time of his heart And will gladly lay down his life with a smile […]
As to how we got here I do not know Except that, like a sun awoken in the night I am burning my eyes but there is no heat in sight How eagles have now turned hawks And catching little chicks to far away trees Which needs days and days of travel Beats my mind’s […]
As many try to get emancipated From problems which have roots so constipated Many are those whose problems are cemented And only need bulldozers to break them together Them; problems and beings II As students fear breathing questions With their countless Roman numerals So are many breathers living with problems With countless Roman numerals Numerals […]
Man Man who was made naked And grew to know leaves could hide And proceeded to pursue trees to be softer In order to hide more and more of himself And now thinks leaving some parts bare is a sin Man! Oh man! II Man Man who initially fed on fruits And was afraid of […]
Abena Mansa is a great cook It is not that she knows book She knows that tomatoes stand on their feet When pepper stays to beat And salt stops the bragging of onions When it steps into the zone of the house of oil What is good is they all make an army To trash […]
If we were made like you As spoken by the oracles of beliefs In their many incantations and codifications Then may I ask How big your hands are? Are they as big as the pate of earth’s head? Are they as big as the back of the mat-like sky? Are they as big as the […]
We have lived to finally see What youthful limbs have fixed as bill And presented to cheering hands as fee Sums which aim for nothing but to kill II Now the lions’ masks have finally fallen Showing clearly their frame of donkeys As the sheeps’ paint erase appalling To show lions and hyenas’ breed with […]
There is a reason Even the spelling of hell Is shorter than that of heaven All fingers of suffering Point to the breasts of heaven As eyes of fun invite From the gates of hell But why does the way to hell seem farther? II As heaven promises a smooth end It taunts and haunts […]
Run after the deer In full gear without fear And forget claws which can tear Follow your rear When the claws dip your skin to tear Talk of no pain you cannot bear For the life of the deer Is like yours, very dear Hear it though queer Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c)2016 (Photo Credit: www.designzzz.com)
I want to be like the tree Planted beside the Okuafuom well So I will never lack as I stand guard And will never have to be cut down “Ahunuabobirim”, please be my planter II I need to be like a pious lamb Kept in the house of sinful innocence Serving all scrupulous like a […]
The same water Which quenches the flames Of the body Comes out like humans from different temples of women And change their names from water To sweat Water to urine Water to tears Water to saliva Let’s spare ourselves of its thick transformations Bottom line is We came like water into throats As to where […]
Suns so differ From breathers They rise like smiling golden crowns And set with clothes of serenity Although they bite at their peak And show their youthful exuberance They leave with an aura of contentment Leaving sights blessed with their partings in great reverence II Breathing beings shout shrilly When they appear Only to grow […]
I heard the deafening silence Of the shocked New Year, In the belly of a hall called mall Which sits on the streets of Accra, Right before its first day’s neck Touched the knife of the dreary executioner II A deafening silence which spoke volumes Into ears which deflected the messages And caused my mouth […]
A death and a birth Sorrowful happiness hang like a cross and a hope The dead year not being given a death bed In the jurisdiction of the new born Its death chained by unfulfilled dreams And banished into the evil forest archives of failure Never to return ever II Harsh words are not said […]
No matter how tight A rope ties a tree In order to see the face of the sky In ambitions to tie the sky To see the heavens It coils back to hug The head of the tree After realizing the sky gives no ladder II We of the “dumsor”clan Danced to the disco rhythms […]
I am cooking wishes Whose dishes Need to clear hisses And shut disses Growing horses to give me kisses And correct my misses II I want to be like a bright and lucky sun One whose clouds clear at dawn To give way to its brightness To bless its times Burn its sluggish subjects And […]
Lying like a soft egg left to cool The airs mould for stamina and or tombila Sitting with curtains of innocence Blinding hurdles, cuddles, muddles, struggles Like a light tent pregnant with a child But seeking war with wild winds Few more breaths held legs and hands And injected them with the strength of mobility […]
When I hear the death of death I shall be a worthy ghost One lower spirits will fail to host And higher spirits will use to boast As satisfaction sits like a queen on my coast Watching pain roast Like a live coward losing breath II When I do hear news of the death of […]
The compass Did come to pass Amidst the chaos of sinful bass And the hellwind of confused gas Which nature has come to has II Now there is a peace storm A non-conforming form Sublime chaos Surrealistic realism Bad-good consciences Archiac modernity And like a mystic order An earthly sun Drawing in sky dust III […]
I have hind eyes Which see behind masks of Christ Masks wrapping traditional spirits Like prized gifts Giving them out as miracles For those who hate their very essence Chai! II I see behind these masks Faces of greed masked With appeals for the Lord When I see monies needed for needs dire Walking into […]
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