Graw graw, graw graw! Your bones are sweet You noisy yam II Graw graw, graw graw What’s with your shouting? I’ll have you anyway III Graw graw, graw graw I know you suffered Through fire and oil IV Graw graw, graw graw graw I know it’s not fair Your butchering and frying V Graw graw, […]
Meet me there There At the papleassion Where heat and cold embrace As lightening and thunder sing praise II Hold me there There At the papleassion On the waist of power and slavery And let the windy audience worship bravery III Indulge me there There At the papleassion Where speaking and listening have handshakes And […]
Abotsi is crying lion In the free mount Zion When all heads Know lions don’t live in Zion Afua, so what do we do to help him? II If we do ignore He will make shyness snore And will feel love’s bore And can’t come to the fore But what do we do when […]
God of creation For brain’s procreation I sit at this station And watch your dear nation Missing what will bring them ovation II They are like fufu eaters Hating the basic fufu heaters They are like death fearers Wanting the touches of God’s carers They are like birds Hating tree beds They are like […]
It was a ball It was a ball being pressed deep Deep into the sea By the golden legs she needed to move And the hands she needed for comfort II It was a bouncy ball Which required all her strength, Freedom and wealth To keep under the sea, From eyes seeking reverence III She […]
I’ve walked a good walk with a good faith. On the streets of Accra, I move about with a whole group of individuals from different walks of life. It was interesting with the drumming from the bandsmen who thrilled us and passers-by with versus music made from vocal folds?The sole of my old-fashioned shoe wanted […]
Thinking Thinking of someone Someone with a strong bull’s horns and eyes in care One who has the sharpest sword among all knights Thinking Thinking of someone II Thinking Thinking of someone Thinking of someone with a peacock’s self confidence One who has a lion’s strength for protection And an elephant’s weight in trust Thinking […]
Winger with waist Wearing worn-out wastes Winning will wane Wanting will wake While weepers wallop you II Winger, your wanky wannabe workings Wounding wanderers Would make you wail Waive your wantons Work for your wallet Winnings well-deserved whip well wishings Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Abena, you are generating it You are generating it manually With no good results This love you are feeling II Adwoa, you are pumping it You are pumping it manually With painful results This love you are feeling III Kwaku is just being his satanic self, Abena Wanting a temporary hole to scratch his itch […]
As the sky lies vast And watches sky beings display On its ground like a field All it can do to be sane Is to create an outlet That’s why I write II As the land takes and gives And mouths curse and bless While others defecate and spit All into its mouth All it […]
I have not broken my hand I am just going through God’s ritual of fertility I have not broken my hand My hands are just fine To carry out its responsibilities without stress II I am not hiding behind buildings Trust me, if I am, then you wouldn’t be in buildings I am going through […]
On the eve of Christmas, Mama pushed me out of the house In the cold Never to come back again. That dawn, When all and sundry was asleep Mama opened the door, The door of no return For me to depart. When I was being cheated, And I thought mum could help She drove me […]
Is this artificial merry go round necessary? When a plus sign can kiss a numeral As a multiplier unties a bolt In arithmetic complexities To free the confusion of a neuro zero Can’t laughter seduce formulas As interests are nursed out of their scare holes When you, who profess great arithematism, hold your marker And […]
SHEEP Bɛɛɛɛ! Bɛɛɛɛ! What are we to do now? Our murder loom As our bodies are being craved And seen as delicacies in clothes of spices To be grinded first by stones in their quarry And then sent to be grinded again in enclosed insatiats Who think celebrations must see us as things without breath GOAT […]
Autism Clumsy, mysterious Isolating, interesting playful Adorable, angelic, noisy, unique Untiring, destroying, cuddling Incorruptible, aggressive Neuro-disorder Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Sun Bright, hot Shining, warming, hurting High, light, gentle, smooth Dusting, powering, working helpful, harmful Solar Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
You are the palm tree Claiming superiority As you’re on your feet Just fall, you’ll see your pests From flying insects to drunk mouths II Every part of you Are needs for others Who pray for the storms to conquer you And you brag on your feet Thinking you are supreme Because you provide shade […]
Tinkorangmaa, someone poisoned me The person poisoned me through air So I have a few hours to die II Tinkorangmaa, that person doomed me He or she doomed me first by changing my name Crumbling my internal trust III Tinkonrangmaa, How does anyone take me serious? Even the antidotes hold many but none pays attention […]
What would we do If God’s number were public Some will train their voices As many try work in phoning His network would need no advert But its owners will always ask for favours Other networks would send many juicy packages Would that even make sense? Giving all lines, they will all jam II If […]
I smell the spices on my body I see darkness all around I see myself in an enclosed place That I cant turn my body here and there. I see myself in front of two transparent doors And all I can see is Joy from one door And wailings from the other My child, Come […]
In all sparks like sharks Emotions calling in harks I think to myself what it’ll be like To make love to God Blasphemy? II It’s the new worldly exchange And He moulded its organs Money for passions Materials for passions Smart telecoms for passions Mischiefs for passions And all are left after breath flees III […]
Compressed words sit in my ink When I sow, thinkers think As giant trees take, shake or make II Compressed words sit like great queens Their pairings are dense, even the means Causing all martyrs to surrender III A word to the wise, They say live in north The mouthy language of the gods heal […]
As palm-wine ferments When time fans So does passion ferment to booze in time Its booze gives madness Each dose intensifying fierceness So heat in a heat Let’s dance to the beat Even if all we have are our feet And a seat II When we meet In the face of the rising night, Even […]
Penpenaaa! Nanaa! If you answer in sexy You get gifted in richness II Penpenaa! Nana! Don’t be rude Nana needs new blood to help his system III Now let’s drop the play; Many say their pairs reject them Many say their beds are tired; Tired of praying Hail Marys Many say their pairs shift their […]
Nose of Prekese Saying dawadawa beings Smell foul is horror II Huge bowls of Etiw Claiming bowls of Akple are Unworthy, is laughable III What happened to fruits? What happened to same corn foods What happened to groups? IV Let us not pretend We’re under huge umbrellas And so we are one Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Ah urban! What have you done? Now many people own cars And everybody needs a car See how pregnant the roads are See how tired the traffic lights look Cars rebel and cast choked spell As legs cramp up under small seats We are now like clipped birds Flying on kites A deflated tyre and […]
Standing erect In a personality which deflects Akwasi Tentene With a language “menpene” Poses and rages In a brain all Akosua Kumas deem unsage II He doesn’t know What causes the blow But when Akwasi rises, He knows no no Oh sickness is foul Oh difference is pain Oh perfection is vain Oh Akwasi Tentene, […]
The dream of this launch started with a discussion with one of my mothers Yaa Asabea Asihene. She said sure Ceci, publishing is fine and I will help in any way I can. And she stayed true to her words. Although she was not here, she came a few weeks earlier and saw […]
When I Saw your handsome frame; Like a modern Japanese building, I knew you’d become my muse II When I, Heard that beautiful deep flow From the sea of your throat, I knew you’d become my muse III When I, Finally climbed your beautiful mountain, Oh the tiredness and the pleasure! I knew you’d become […]
If night walls could talk They will tell tales of crawling snakes And opened mouth holes II If night walls could talk, They would properly describe the insects Of the night and the real scarers III If night walls could talk Children will not be allowed to walk The streets alone, even in daylight IV […]
When sorrow does burrow In your heart like a fierce rabbit Know its path can only be narrow It definitely will outgrow its habit When you eventually pull your arrow So think of its pit You will be the master When you become its crime buster Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
As you cry victims and say “empty bottles make most noise, know I know I know, that there were touches Which caused the noise, whose touches? II Touches give movements and movements give noise, a choice So touch not, mouth zipped Touch and say, empty barrels and itchy hands cause most noise Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
I braced all weathers Alone, Suffered through falling Alone, I faced the anger of mean suns Alone Seeing my twin being pampered Simply because I was banana And not plantain II When she was watered, I was neglected When she was shaped, I was left in my withers Now, plantain sleeps In this weather as […]
As we stand in our fallibility Like soldiers with brave masks showing our durability We’re like maize plants Moving like hungry ants When the winds place their calls To have our falls II As we claim authenticities As lesser lives cry on our artificialities Like victims whose lives were taken Before their happiness was awaken […]
I went with some geography students of Tamale Senior High school on a tour to the Buabeng Fiema Monkey Sanctuary and proceeded to the Kintampo Waterfalls. Knowing Ghana, my homeland, is now a passion, so I decided to share our experience. The road to Buabeng Fiema from Kintampo was 32km and only some 300m of […]
Heal the nation By being doctors of sanitation Inject polythene to death And zap tins’ breath II Heal the nation By delivering pregnant gutters And impregnating bins Do make mosquitoes homeless III Heal the nation By making toilets bell Leaving nature’s smell On bushes and land IV Heal the nation By embracing neatness Banishing flies […]
They fight seriously Why? Look here, ground-nuts and beans! Fighting for nothing Is like falling into grounds Full of herbivoric pests II As a leaf, I probed Beans claim superiority For being flower-borns As ground-nuts claim bosshood for Being root borns, how trivial! III You silly fighting beans, Don’t you know you depend on roots […]
Banned by a Beatrice Burning bear’s bread Bertha became a bystander Being booed by Beatrice In broad bay-light II Being the best, Bertha breathed and bowed When Beatrice bought the shame Of belittling, after seeing Bertha Oh shying shame! III Best be better At being no bore When your bones get bitter At boring beasts […]
Like brooms, we must live In a belt of peace which sings, Calling hope for all II Like flowing rivers We must all join a good sea To protect fishlings III Like the wide bright sky We must make room for sun, rains Thunders and still smile IV Like the friendly moon We must be […]
Dawadawa and prekese Are now ruled by curry powder And white spices Ghana men hide in masks Thinking they are trending And I ask myself why? II Days when our older generation lived They lived on hwintia, pepreh and kakaduro Adding mako, making sure akoko messa Dance in soups with fowl carcasses in their rivers […]
Tomatoes, onions Pepper and salt, fish, water Groundnut or palmnut Should I bring in the others? They live independently II Living by themselves So conceited like bosses Never knowing they will leave Together in pots On flames with fingers like swords III Sad that is not all Their carcasses travel through Odours, crashing stones With […]
In a world which sniffs And coughs suffering and good The toad must test all waters Before embarking on all its leapings into swimming Even fishes hold water thermometers If trust has become so stubborn As to dive deep into unforgivable tests Then you and I are but pawns Pawns set on each other to […]
When legs lift the balls At all ambitious goals’ calls Nets cry, touched by balls II As a section falls Another does climb joy’s walls Worshipping the balls III Goal, goal, goal; the calls Where we will head are the malls We are the stand-talls IV All those with the galls Just because you took […]
Baron bought bread brought by Berth Beating Ben by bribing Berth Brewing beverages bought by Ben Belittling Brown by buying beef Brought-up by Brown’s best boys II “Bring my bread Bring my beverage Bring back my beef in the best bowl” But Baron boasted by biting the last bite Betting Both Ben and Brown That […]
Caused by uncontrolled division of abnormal cells, cancer grows to take lives, irrespective of personalities and fame II Early detection Is needed for a fair fight Once outweighed; no hope So stop tobacco intake Eat well, cut down alcohol III Exercise is key Learn to enjoy monrning sun Do practice safe sex Green tea is […]
Selling sin sores Satan saw such seal; Saints seek supremacy, So Satan sold to series of saints II “Send sinners to the stakes” Supposed saints say in symphony Silly, scents of sins Sorrowfully stay on the saints III Stop sending sinners to the stakes Saints are sentenced to sell sins too And if saints say […]
The internet rocks Being the gossip which knows all And readily shares II As just as it can It produces all it’s given Like a tutored child III So many regret When their weaknesses are keyed Looking for cover IV Those with self goodies Always need circulations For fame and stardom V It is the […]
I miss, I miss, I miss The plays which lived in the past When the sun went to sleep All the children gathered to play in a circle As the alien runs round Looking for an alien to join the circle And the circle sang this song “Antowankire ei! Tinkon! Dwaaso mankani Tinkon! ɛtↄ a ne […]
Behold Ghana Has lifted the Banner And though the Savannah Rather listens to adverts of Sultana And Guinea has a Forfana Hearts are beaming Hypocritically leaning Praying for their continuing And eventual winning II They are the famous Black Stars Who shine bright even in the dark Disappointing pessimists till their mouths are ajar A […]
Who gave it breath? To eat and live And act like the wolf Which eats beings without fangs? II Who gave it eyes To see all colours To judge and harm Souls of beings with no known knives? III Who wore it clothes To make it perfect To taunt all beings Who’re being flogged by […]
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