I Arm in arm Let’s move like we swam In the rivers of beautiful but challenging Cupid Ignoring many comments like “They are stupid, Leave them be, Later they’ll see, That feeling is foolishness” II Arm in arm Let’s move like swans And step into old age’s jacuzzi Swimming as we smile and look back […]
Category: POETRY
We In the arms of armoured earth Protective of us Fight with race Fight with gender Fight with geography Fight with ethnicity And fight for what we can’t forever own II When we Crossing over into soil Take nothing but our beings Our skin being butchered by moth Our bones being powdered by age and […]
I How pretty The budding smile Of the new born beautiful flower Which feels the air And sees the sun, Tastes the rain And hears the humming of thunder II Oh how beautiful It sways in youth As all do look Her way more than once Dazers gaze for long As it dances to show […]
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LIFE’S JAIL
He’s frail And death’s quail But deserves a hail For standing on three legs after a fail Of life’s success jail II None knows his fears None can count his tears None thinks of his years None knows how he all bears It seems none cares III He may have been treated fair Or not […]
I The child in me Peeps to see The adult I am And helps me see What I’m missing II I’d like to play around And make all the healthy sounds I’d like to throw tantrums And sit on the filthy ground… Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
The peace and serenity That was with my completeness Fled into the arms of the savage Who squashed and swallowed it whole The moment my guard was down And the holder of my emotion took charge Now I am in need Of that peace and innocence […]
Future filth Stop the frown Straighten up And be around Your time is now When you can ask how When your time stops There’ll be no sound So future filth Don’t act like gold You will get old And can’t be sold Your buyers will pay For you to be hidden from […]
In the light Of this fight We find the sight In an insight And lose our might Like a kite We fascinate in light In God’s sight As our colour bright No matter our height But there is our night Which brings our plight And turns all things right On this site Into […]
The tree stands in glamour Attracting birds Attracting bees Attracting monkeys Attracting snakes Attracting eyes And singing hymns None cares About the fallen leaves Which was high above And has served its time They step on them, hailing the new And ignoring their pain Although their work is not done Like an unwanted […]
Amidst the pain And all the gain Amidst the storms And the beautiful suns Amidst the rough roads And the smooth ones Amidst the love And all the hate I’ll never change a thing Because each thing had its bearing on the me today Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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UNCHAINED
She’s like sapphire Transparent in feelings, She blabbers about her dearest Embracing her absence And wearing her yearnings like a beautiful gown I feel I’m watching a weird movie I live like her, if not more occupied So why does she try to taunt me with names? Could it be her loneliness is more […]
Associators are interested in the past Money makers are interested in the future So I used to look back; Back to a place I could not hold And into the future; Looking into what I could never see And ended up in the same place, Juggling between two poses Past and future As time placed […]
Walls climbed walls At her order Pride joined beauty at her table, Made her an unmatched princess And froze her thoughts of age Inside a wall without an opening Age minded no frozen thoughts And walked through to his territory Taking hold of her skin like wild fire Making mirrors her enemies As […]
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NOT A NUMBER BUT REALITY FOR ME
“When I call, I need you to fall” What? Talking to me? Like trees, we all have our thoughts Goats don’t know the difference Between their mothers and lovers If you ask me, I’ll tell you You’re no goat and I’m no mother of a goat Neither am I anything close to its […]
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REVIVER
An ugly fixture Can be a god A horrible mixture Can be a cure In my worst I try my best To make me a god Once in a while Then like a peacock I spring back to life, Stretch my wings And let the world see The me which slept. Dear friend, […]
“What? To marry a Muslim man, I’d rather stay single or kill myself. It is not that I aim to label. I know the religion is fine. People who practice it without greed do great and live with mankind in harmony, but now, many are confusing religion with their barbaric cultures and use the literal meanings of quotations from the Bible or the Quran to push their selfish desires. It seems the Bible helped Christian women to be human by specifically saying one man to a woman, the idea of Muslims being asked to marry as many as four and love them equally, which is ridiculous because to me because no man can love four women equally, makes me fear getting into any of those traps. I also pity the women whose jealousies are cocked on their chest forever.
Oration of chastity Parading of nudity Inculcation of sincerity Akweley passed the test of “Sonimouni” No rice or corn ingestion She was bathed in a river with admonition Of family ties and connection By the gathering of all hands to eat “Ho fufui” Her hands were trained on the culinary Her skills, […]
This leaf is raddled Saddled by the reigns of ageing Ageing which happily flaunts its job To the fascination of time And takes ridiculing as its compliment This leaf is raddled Raddled though it is It has seen all shades of the sun; Mild, seductive, angry, angered, and frightening But none blinded it […]
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