When poor brick layers Lay their bricks Many turn spitters Many; urinators Extremists turn breakers Only determined layers Those who foresee their buildings finish Work on through the hurdles Ignoring the shouting metaphors Like unfeeling bulldozers Discerning minds get the puzzle Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Category: POETRY
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SPECTACLES OF INNOCENCE (CRAZY STANZAS)
When I wore spectacles of innocence And wore the clothes of fancy daydreams When I walked the grounds seeking swift knights And had the smile of complete trust When I walked in authority Thinking dreams could be commanded When I had the shape of a perfect heart And had a mind untainted by bitter experiences […]
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SEDUCTIVE WHISPERS
Whispers of passions Like voices of seductive airs Roam the streets charming II With gifts and curses Snaking like brown snakes in brown leaves Confusing their caught III Electrifying Are kisses known to be greetings Minds lose their thought zones IV Whether gifts of breath Or future centre shame Most actions, though lame, can’t be […]
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NIGHT MYTHS
What do nights hide That it fails to give cowards ride? II What do the nights see That they frown until morning shows? III What do nights do That ugly beings make it a shield to live? IV What strong are nights That beings build strong mansions to hide Under the guise of sleep? V […]
Shadows Why do you show your true height When darkness falls And faint light glows like a candle in the wind? II Shadows Do you have a fear For the high priest called sun? So much To measure up in height when he sits on his throne? III Shadows Appearing left, right, back and front […]
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AID TO AIDS
(As part of the World AIDS Day, I present to this piece) Pure pleasure puns perfect pains Strange silliness, like several served syringes With holes unsealed, Drain blood of importance The calabash keeps, That’s what is so attractive about it So spillage can be pardoned But smart hands that value their liquid Seek sky protection […]
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TRIBAL HULLABALOO (CRAZY STANZAS)
When I ‘broke my hand’ And sought a band Nana and Maame met in a band To sing tribal tunes II They started by singing of Ewes And how they are named after an animal And raised their vocals like daunting pianists To sing tales of the wickedness of the animal tribe Their love for […]
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NEEDS AND WANTS
I will need what needs to be needed Not what should be wanted I will love what needs to be loved Not what should be liked Needing a want Is killing a need Loving a like Is like killing a love Even in breathers Needing one who should be wanted Is like selling your soul […]
There are many animals In this jungle called life And their minds are like varied poles Each and its facial path Whereas dogs think humans God Cocks worship dawn in all earnest As horses carry humans as their masters Goats see no reason to respect their killers But are not as hostile as lions The […]
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NOT WITHOUT AN ATTITUDE
No matter its dancing Many birds keep prancing Most insects keep hovering Their facial thoughts expressing II No matter its worth All they seek is the nectar No matter its colour None cares to look, or see or know III Breaking its gate and getting the nectar Destroying its leaves and getting the factor Reaching […]
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ATTENTION GOD (ETHEREE)
Stored So bored Many hoard Oh Most High God! Life must fun accord Like dust, blend with sand Mouths can no laughter afford Hearts await hideous painful blasts Setting ears, like guards, on watchful gates Please delete danger, make the baits playful Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Images from Google pics)
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PLEASE DON’T CAST ME
Please don’t cast me In your burdened script For you are like Shakespeare Whose pen hoards many a tragedy II I don’t want to be in your cast Please don’t make me The bat knows its ugliness So operates only at night Minds keeping videos of my sorrowful stardom Is what I hate most in […]
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THIS CHANCE
Let’s get this dance And shame the dunce Who wants a chance To our pain enhance Oh dear sweet romance Let’s take that stance And so advance Like the god of elegance It is a good ambience One that anger must not trespass and given chance To over-reaction enhance Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I know a tadpole Which lived in clear but shallow waters Visited by many of its killers But grew to be a frog Whose croaks did scare men with muscles II I know a weak worm Which lived under a beautiful flower One visited by many of its hunters for its nectar But like a […]
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FUN AND BLESSED (CRAZY STANZAS)
Woe Onto Men       Engaged in    Naught Like seeds forming trees before fruits Which then give back seeds, nothing comes easy Like leaves swaying their heads, not all is breezy Sponge needs to work with soap and water In order to be freed from the thick claws of […]
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WHEN TWO HEARTS MAKE THE SOUND
When two hearts do make sounds They know they have truly found And their blend will truly hound Those who seek for them crude mounds II When two hearts make the beat There is nothing like defeat On wheel of love, each has a seat As sparkles form when their efforts meet III When two […]
No matter the weakness of a graceful flower It receives the blows of rain As it does sun which makes it visible To its audience It even embraces the winds No matter how strong Knowing it will be stronger if it succeeds And if it is lucky distribute its seeds to some fertile land Being […]
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POOR EARTH
The grey hairs of the earth Must be as white as snow Not a moment passes without an action on its head In its belly And possibly beneath its feet Living things run shifts to act like they own earth Who also behaves like a dog serving its masters Only to break bones like a […]
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BREAKING BITTERNESS (PLOSIVE ALLITERATION)
Brute brows bow Before bitterness Bursting for businesses bestowed By babel of baboons Burning like bacchanalian bacons Breaking backgrounds of backlit blessings Becoming blowers of backlash bubbles Backwardness backstage become baseless Based on banality of bitterness Butterflies become beasts Beauties burn Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
Some on the grounds of my mountain See me as the volcanoe none must dare to be near While others see me as the lucky soul In the spotlight of the magnanimous sun Those on other parts of my mountain top See me as a soul free and wild While those with eyes of hawks […]
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MANDELA MINI ARTS FESTIVAL AT DUBOIS
Drama can be really fun and the same can be with poetry when they are experienced separately but have you imagined what the blend of drama and poetry could spark up? The enactment of poems supported by good music produced from instruments like the keyboard, flute, and acoustic is what a group of young artists […]
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PAIN (DIAMANTE)
Pain Insane, weary Feeling, worrying, fighting Hate, prayers, thoughts, dreams Uplifting, preparing, confusing Blue, pink Hurts Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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WATCH OVER
Mighty and great art thou who thought Of the many hurdles beings will battle in lot And caused the sky to close its eyes To massage out some heat and ease the sighs II Now I take off my worry robe On this small bed in your creative globe Hoping to shed anticipation And wake […]
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SQUEEZE OUT THE STRESS
As the skies close their eyes to de-stress Squeeze out, like water in a cloth, the stress Making sure nothing poses a threat, not even a dress Just as sun mates the moon to beget stars, Â do me bless If only the seas had mouths, they would confess How the waves thrust and press With […]
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INNOCENTIA BLISSILICA
Who did wean Me from the nipples of innocence? That being is mean For ripping my happy confidence Those days when sand was rice And mud was banku Those days when dust was rain And even urine was water so pure Those days when rainbow was the keeper of all that were golden And thunders […]
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AS YOU WISH
The seas will roll non-stop today The sun will be at its brightest today The air will be more flirtatious than ever today Mouths may do as they wish today Smile Frown Cry Shout Shut Whatever they wish As brown rhymes with crown And they both share no blood of understanding So can unequal hearts […]
You seem like my negative When I am draped in postive And you are like my positive When I am immersed in negation What is this force pulling us like strings on puppets? What at all is this electrification so magnified? At this rate, none dares to touch Who will dare? Breathes are too potent […]
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RUNNING STORIES, SLEEPING DEEDS
I know mouths of my land are like machine guns Digging bullets of the past Putting them in golden throat guns Soiling voices meant for firing monsters And firing through Gunning for hardworkers And yelling into international microphones Their unfortunate past Seeking sucking sympathies While real works stare our faces Like infants needing their parents’ […]
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GIVERS AND LOSERS
There are new shoots begging to see the world Airs are ringing bells For leaves to leave their creators And follow the air to the land of their birth Or other lands for fertility Like all, the earth partners great trees Shedding breaths long overdue To make way for the new So creation is like […]
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FEAR OF THE SKIES
On the head of the land I dwell Knowing its stomach is my resting place But the appealing skies Beckon for me to have a taste Before I sink into the mouth of the earth And taste its teeth and be moulded into its belly thing But the flies I see on this ground Are […]
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POWER IN EVERY LIVING
If huge bodies are the only known for powers Great minds would never spend hundreds of years Looking for ways to battle tiny mosquitoes There is power Power in every living thing II If hard bodies are known for strength Huge trees would never show rope marks On their hard like frames There is strength […]
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ROLLING STONES
Rolling stones remain seen No matter the farthings of age Like stones, souls which roll Shed traces of life’s painful whips I know legs which take no strides shrink But those which do Make their reigning eyes proud And their beating hearts grateful in fulfillment Throwing stones for wakefulness sake Has no barriers As even […]
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LOVE AND PRIDE
What is and what is not Are hidden in the cover of darkness A heart covereth well in determination for pride Some thoughts have no stairways for none So I stand blocked Looking into eyes with no known gates II His mouth does talk Into my bothered ears His voice so high Like a fearful […]
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HYPER CRAZY
The owl claims it fears death So shuns daylight But shouts so loud in darkness Forgetting hunters are not deaf And also roam at night II The bat says it fears brutal death And hates ending up as a delicacy for the Kwahus But hangs on its legs On trees that even some children can […]
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CUPID’S DECEPTION ON SCREENS
I have been deceived Deceived like an idiot thinking seas give fins To determined humans who use them as route But I should have known That although swans may give ambitions to fishes No fish must make the mistake of wanting to fly and swim like swans Lest dissapointments hit them like bullets from a […]
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LET’S PRAY
The world is a church A church which has welcomed all From the petty thief To the grand liar From the hungry pauper To the ambitious climber From the true worshippers To the hypocrites If the church is shaking silly And its winds are turning murderous Let’s empty our stomachs and kneel  As we pray […]
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WITCH OF BRIGHTNESS
There really is a twitch To this notion of a witch There is a reason witch rhymes with rich When hardwork flies in hands Of those we deem less in capabilities We develop lenses to magnify their flaws Making goodness turn evil My oh my! There is a reason witch rhymes with rich So calm […]
I think I know there is a God But why do I mostly feel His rod? Does He not know it makes me bored To all his lack of helping hoard? How can He whip our linking chord And give me pain I can’t afford? When He really knows I have no sword And all […]
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CLOTHES OF LONELINESS
In this lonely cloth Are the fingers of cold The channels of heat of when I will be sold By the price tag society has placed On my determined mind II In this cloth Are thoughts playing pi lo loo Only without the happy giggles Shrivelling the grounds of peace III In this cloth Are […]
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SADLY DEMENTED
The ant that thinks to bomb its kind Forgets there exist danger which needs battalions What is the cause of murdering minds? What is the payment: Of sending souls Into the dark Of crocheting minds to think so dark Of mirroring deaths without a mark Of rearing dogs to hunt same dogs? Sad sad sad […]
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SOME SAD BYES
You turned into the swaying shrubs Which stood at the mercy of the mastery air And waved so wild like a crying child At the debris of my speeding vehicular air II Sad they have no mouth as you To convey a message involving us two To clap in happiness or shout a boo At […]
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HARMATTAN HUES
My ears woke before my eyes In a night whose journey was neither here nor there Hoping to hear songs of beautiful-voiced birds Who sang to souls for eyes to search for their star selves Instead, they heard weak chirping complains Of a handfuls of pest-like sort of birds Accompanied by a feeble taunt Of […]
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GULLIBLES IN EMOTIONAL METAL CHAINS
Suns have been pimped by light In courts of riches no matter how high Once upon a time Suns were the only eye leaders The only dry heaters And the only tools of light wherever So they were named after gods II None wanted to see suns frown “Of what use are frowning suns?” They […]
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YOU’VE FALLEN FOR ME
There is a weak voice Coming out of your lungs without choice Squeaking overwhelmingly like a mouse Which has found itself in a mad house But your love for me is highly aroused II. Your eyes tell it all Your pains through your fall Your confusions through my call Bottling in transparency, making you dull […]
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I HAVE A DREAM
I have a dream A dream to erase labelling With a thought eraser A dream to render all colourless With a fairy love charm for all colours I have a dream II I have a dream A dream to mash all weapons, Like colour inks, into words Words for discourse in misunderstandings To spare the […]
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A SAFE NEST FOR YOU
As the wise Asante studied The creative spider at work for shelter And wove the beautiful kente Which has become the Asantes pride I will study the rainbows of heaven And carve the most beautiful colours Study the brightest of suns And tap its light Study the most innocent of darkness And create for you […]
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ODDITIES AND THE NEW
Once upon the time There were no claws to lazy rhyme All heeded the call of work in their prime And corruption gained nothing, not even a dime But now even steering banku has become a crime As dead foods do the fresh ones mime II Once upon a time Cotton flew and danced with […]
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THE DUMPSTER
From all corners Strong arms throw problems Like they are in some form of javelin match Into the dumpster that I am Expecting me to wash them clean And return their dirts in gold forms Funny, how they bury my dreams In the trashes of their problems So much so, hands of God fail to […]
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DEEP FREEZER CARRIERS AND TUESDAY WEEDERS
Kwaku Amponsem is mad He is mad of a tag He claims makes him feel like a rag And so calls the taggers bad And is threatening to open an evidence bag In hopes of getting a tagger to gag And make a scape goat to honour his dad The tag? That he carries a […]
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HAVE YOU EVER LOVED?
Oh eyes with laser twinkles Mouths with flapping tongues Ears ready to hear the sounds Of my heart’s eruptions I have one question Have you ever loved? II Have you ever loved? So hard like the balls of a mating bull? So wild like hell fire’s senior in a rage? Wider than the ends of […]
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