If all you do is wake Because day opens its precious gate Then know you are awake With responsibilities on your pate You don’t need a smack for goodness sake! You don’t have to be tagged to bake your cake! Run around, get something doing and stop being fake So you don’t fall into a […]
When the night bang bangs And sleep whistles; whee whee whee, sleep awhile I’ll say: Saintly saints send sleeping satins Sprinkled with scents of sweetened dreams Soaked with comfort of stressless strands Singing silly soothing sounds So sleep to the keep of beauty And keep your flawless spirit All happenings are gone with time New […]
So I went to a haughty club I saw a begging stinking pub Kneeling, weeping and blocking smoke From mouths of many a stinking broke II “Save me you fresh clean broke Don’t smoke me, you can get stroke Help me breathe air and not smoke I’m dying of the many travelling smoke” III I […]
Scars Remind Their bearers And taunt givers As to revenge’s time A touch, remembrance, pain But that pain can be turned gain If forgiveness smooths the bearers Not a leg walks, all strong-willed legs walk So stepping on toes in secluded space Is a giving as all reach for goals and fall down Scars given […]
Obvious waves Travelling from far caves You give chills which lift no finger to save II Visions of  your opened mouth Visions of your furious face Thoughts of your final blows Shake my body into jerks III So sail slow, oh vicious waves! Smile small, oh angry waves Seal your mouth, oh taunting waves And […]
Stars have their brightness No matter their territories They would learn to shine They won’t look at the others And won’t try being a challenge II Sky is huge and broad It has its home and abroad It makes its beings free To roam giving their own best War is unnecessary III Blend is necessary […]
I need a December to remember In another December as a happy member I need no pretending December Which will smile and my life endanger I will my life surrender If December opens its safe chamber I need no chamber which’ll make me an offender So December shed your temper And be a December to […]
Anger lies within Everything God’s breath is in It can be the sun It can also be the rain And can also be the wind II Who stands this fury? The fury of the sun burns That of the rain floods And the fury of wind kills To think they pleasure in calm III All […]
I’s without eyes Heads which never heads Nose which never knows Birds without beds Legs which beg Sheds without shirts Mouths which can’t build mounds Armpits without pits  Thighs beneath the highs Fingers without figures Toes in the lows Mics built in stomachs Buttocks without tick tocks Everything has a semblance With no semblance Once […]
Time! Travel backwards To the day of creation And take me there II Time! Make me no alien In that crucial moment Please help me blend III Time! I need to see Like a child watching TV With my eyes the order of creation IV Time! I need to fathom How initialists lived Without religion […]
If life goes for eggs And blessing goes for fowls And trouble goes for hawks And earth go for death, I would voice my peace Egg throughout Boiling to be a fowl Without encountering many hawks Fly when need be Being careful not to fall For the earth’s mouth never closes And its stomach never […]
Acquired mostly through pleasure Inducing roots of pain without measure Deadly blood sucking discomforts implant themselves Sternly with no plans of leaving one’s trail II Killer of freedom from medication Instructor of chills and headaches Leech through fever, muscle aches and more Learner of injection of pain and shame […]
If ears hear And eyes see Mouth will surely be tempted To speak Imagine a world without these No sins, I suppose They enhance To exaggerate, And infuriate into action Like the chicken from bile They attract To show the good Then put smiles and hope On faces We can’t live with We can’t live […]
Mirror mirror on the wall Who is the fairest of all? Is it the goat, lion, sheep Or the vulture? You can boldly mention me; The peacock, if I fit the position MIRROR: Only VULTURE comes close to the fairest of all PEACOCK: What? The corpse eater? MIRROR: Yes PEACOCK: Why? MIRROR: Because he takes […]
Let all saints be put together And a giant screen be mounted Let them know they’re on their own Sit, watch keenly and see how sin grows It’s root cannot be seen germinating It’s little plant cannot be seen on any path It’s odour cannot be smelt even when near Because it grows in sheltered […]
I So cold In many folds Elsewhere  II Many beings Sit shivering Elsewhere III Thanksgiving Is what trends Elsewhere IV Why is sun cooking on this land? Tamale contrasts the cold Elsewhere V But like a grateful child, I say my thanks Here Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I You are ice cold I’m in hot fold You love Jesus I so love God I’m branded sinner You’re a holy saint You hate my ways I dislike your unrealities But you love me so And I love your innocence II A heart in Russia Too good for Cecilia I need you to know […]
I Beings So close; Their small hurts Pierce like sharp swords The bleeding won’t stop And their mind-walking too Talk of their bad mood arrest I try, to sit, to stop, the spin I try, to walk, to stop, it’s tight hold But it never, ever, leave […]
I See dashing dresses On very wet mattresses Soaked from owner’s sweat II She leaves consciousness And becomes oblivious of Her treasure’s tear III We wear nakedness When we descend underground Why this greedy stress? IV No human, none, can Fill a bed let alone room To talk of a house V Realization! Dawn on […]
I Natural alarms are blowing Kokrokookoooooooooooo II They’re blowing in waking Kokrokookoooooooooooo III Who but God has set it? Kokrokookooooooooo IV Please wake up and heed it Kokrokookoooooooooooo V It’s yet another time for lessons Kokrokookoooooooooooooooo VI You know we’re like boarder students Kokrokookoooooooooooooooooooo VII A falling here, A rising here Then we come back […]
I love packaging But humans hate packages Humans keep un-packaging Hating their own packages So they show their presents Which make many resent Their presents Why hate packaging? Why hate the packaged Who live in their packages? Why love the presents Who love to live outside packages? Package the un-packaged And stop un-packaging the packaged […]
I Jealous threads Threading paths unbeknownst To a new visitor Needing some services? You need time Patience and endurance II A wrong cut of one May end the lives of three A wrong aggressive pull May sharpen a thread to cut Hurting the puller in great anger So you need time Patience, observation and endurance […]
I With a bow so low Who can flow and show Her prowess in the go To give defeat a blow? II And if it were nigh and high Who can fly to the sky And be so fly to be by To strengthen the wings of the shy? II Please cry You’re free to […]
I When you always chase the Ivys You sail through unscathed Lovey-taunty Sackey-laughy Well, that was because Poison Ivy Was preparing II You bathed in their streams Faking heavens in their dreams Powdering on their tears Shaking their grounds to intensify their fears Well, that was because Poison Ivy Was preparing III Funny how you […]
Some Osofo Moko is born I know he took a soundful horn And divulged his visions loud and clear That Ghana will be wiped smooth and clear From the football plate and be placed in its rear For sins in Brazil which made God swear To hold the grudge But his words will now be […]
I Sighs Side Is sin’s head II Tear’s Side Is revenges’s heart III Hate’s Side Is murder’s sword Shinning to be taken Pledging to submit And hiding its abandonment to eyes IV Care’s Use Works magic I’ve been there Trust that care works magic with hate Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I Mouth; The only stone quarry Of the body Which cannot be legs But can travel faster II Its proceeds Linger longer on minds Than the proceeds of legs It is a pestle-mortar combination Which can burn and crash a nation And can help stop a chaotic situation III Mouth: Its odour cannot hurt Than […]
No matter the anger Of the waves It goes not beyond its surroundings Without a push from the winds So the winds must have a say In its calm So listen to the voice of reason Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
It is one Before two Not two Before one A jump may do Huge jumps may be disastrous So from one to three, Perhaps One to ten A fall which can be devastating Learn Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I Air rose from the sea Stretched on the shore And proceeded to town II It visited the trees Greeted the shrubs And fanned beings III Even animals were fanned All were satisfied And hailed air IV It was branded important Then its job became a cliché Complacency set in on earth V They neglected […]
I A bundle of sticks A bundle of brooms, both dried Battled each other II They were to compete Both showing togetherness By never breaking III Sticks laughed very hard At their small competitors Brooms looked but said naught IV Muscles were called in They picked the bundle of brooms They couldn’t break them V […]
This small larva Knew no butterflies Knew no birds Let alone know eagles But your great feet Lifted it to your great tree And introduced it To all these giants Giants so friendly Giants so supporting Giants so helpful As to turn a fly into a butterfly And implore the winds To drive it safe […]
I Bright sun shines Caring not that light whines Light, as in bright electricity II For electricity is no competition It will always live in the shadows of the sun Burning eyes in some contact with them III Light lives in frustration Till its death Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Talks tend to trail To taint Disappointing days Derail Let’s look, listen, learn And leap Stop singing silly songs Sealing sorrows Our optimism Overrule When we work well We’ll win Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
The sins of the fathers Are crosses on sons and daughters Crosses heavier than their shoulders can carry If so Why are eyes of fathers closed To their personal sins? The sky heats today The handiwork of past, present and future fathers It’s end result, sky blasting On innocent children The sins of the fathers! […]
I Swimming in sweet and sour Sounding so strong and sad Struggling but striving and safe Searching for sin’s setback II Sweet sounds, sell sweet sources Sour slices, slip from this shore Sending songs scented in sorrow Sealing our safe and sound serenity Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 […]
I Know this, in times past Kwaku Ananse, Ghana Taught children the right II His taunts, jeers, cunning Mostly nearly made him a Frankenstein Monster III Yet he lived on in Fresh new episodes brewing Trickeries and mischiefs IV Children loved him? Yes. Children loathed and feared his taunts Yet waited for more V Yes, […]
I Wise words, said in politeness, impact In songs and rhyme, they attract Sure, hearts will contract Dirt don’t act Ooops! II Men in companionship interact In hope to bores counteract Nice! Friction is fact In great pacts Whoops! III Handle it all and make them exact Words uttered […]
I Scents in high heels Rudely preceding your bearer Pulling him on strings Laughing through my toffee And spewing nonsensicals to maim my heart II Scents with noise In a loud voice Carrying daggers of separation Do you have buttocks for a seat? Do you have ears for a talk? II Please have a care […]
I Men make mockery Men marry mockery Men mock mockery; Mockery on mocked screens II Men do not mend mockery  Men mess mockery Men miss mockery Excerpt theirs on live lips III Make mocks on mocked screens Make mocks in mocked clothes Make mocks on known platforms And men will troupe fancifully to watch Yes, […]
You have time to eat You have time to drink You have time for friends But no time for the one who hurts for you Please listen! Only goats have time for all things But those who care about them Only goats go places No matter how much they’ll hurt there Only goats love mating […]
My first anthology is finally ready for purchase on Smashword for $4.99 Here is the link for purchase. I am an educational worker in an area where education of girls is not given that much importance, so the girls mostly lack confidence and consider marriage the better option. Most end up being abused, used and […]
I A naughty fly left Its humble beautiful home To look for riches II It hovered around The food of a helpless child And ate to its fill III It saw excreta And decided to eat some It realised it stinks IV It searched more for cash And realised it has no safe To keep […]
I I walked into his senses Through his lens And broke all his fences II I walked into his fences Through his many lens And  damaged all his tenses III I walked into his senses My perfume taking him to heaven And tossing him painfully to hell IV I walked into his senses Through his […]
Through it all If you ask me why I walk I’ll tell you I’m in no mood for loss Look at me Years and years of study And nothing to show for it They say, I should generate work What if I’m not wired that way? Did they start this campaign long ago? I never […]
I took a journey On a revelation sea Funny, how the waves Roll to blind me when none sees I think I sea But I see the see I think I’ve reached But I fall in Then I grope for my boat Just when I settle in, The waves come in furious And turn my […]
The sickness, her life craves The preacher promises a god which saves So her mother leaves her in his care At night he gets his share He, like the preacher he claims, For her beads, to pray, aims, Gets possessed and damages her more Gaining more pleasure and leaving her sore His nightly prayers continue […]
I A choice To be the noise The voice Or live in the joys And rejoice adds to his many apparels II The smile, could be a veil The smile, could be a nice mask The smile, could be a nice cologne Hiding the scents of ache, Insanities, yearnings for goodness, trials and tribulations III […]
The smile of summer The frown and tears of winter Coupled with others Strengthen the year Dynamism is what breaks free Be static, and all will be lost I know the sun Alternating times with darkness Keep the mystery alive Be this Be that And in all positivity You’ll have a great trip In life’s […]
I The cricket sings In the arms of darkness The same darkness Which makes beings sleep II The bat sees clear In the time of darkness The same darkness Which blinds beings III Might be good for you But not be good for me Might be a blessing for her But no blessing for him […]
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