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 […]
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 […]
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