Stars watch sun-moon play Shinning bright and wishing strong For their dreams to be They giggle, wriggle And blush in nice fantasies As long as it lasts The sun burned the moon The moon saw its mark and cried Thoughts: never again […]
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“For you, The moon is at arm’s length For you, The sky is like the shortest roof For you, The stars like night lights will walk at my command For you, Trees will shake, shrubs will clap as birds sing at my command […]
A mouth keeps opening Dressed by a walrus moustache Its door at every opening Shows two crooked chairs Which tell tales of collapsing in kola But voices dressed in words so horrid Dawdle to battle the strong And guess what? They win A […]
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ABOVE PAIN
At this point The hunter can gather its game In the forest And tell it the story Of the eater and the eaten I do not care At this point Time can walk like a taunting trolley Ringing its irritating bell Waking the dead To know its […]
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 […]
Sorry, In the heat of the fire And the temper of the sticks Say sorry to calm the stakes With the heat of anger And the thirst of the guns Say sorry to calm the stakes Caught in the hunger Of the cutlass and the heat of […]
Thoughts of pepper Thoughts of salt Thoughts of sugar Thoughts of onions Thoughts of oil To bring them together Singular thoughts gives not all Thoughts of rivers Thoughts of land Thoughts of fishes Who live and follow Thoughts of trees Thoughts of stones […]
“Please m’aam? How do you do m’aam? How may I help m’aam?” And so the words started to walk From a mouth hiding murderous words Honorifics clothing horrifics Rely on me like the Odum tree And I’ll protect you like the mountain With a soul Go this […]
In the mirrored eyes of the world I see myself as the vulture parasite Spewing fire Wanting to kill and devour The movie of me in their eyes Scares me So I made to get a mirror of myself Struggling and struggling I get the mirror […]
Open stores With free goods Which have unfathomable price tags And no attendants to protect them But none dares to think of stealing Open doors With beautiful furnishings Which invite but scares And no caretaker to answer the door But none dares to enter A beautiful church Which many instruments Which giggle for […]
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MONEY RULES
Any time I fly past the rich I see a good picture of the poor But the funny thing is The rich only sadness pours What is it they need? The rich cries like a proud peacock And the poor laughs and cries any time he […]
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EMBRACE THE AIR
Embrace the air And enjoy their caresses They have so much to give Though they have no bodies They can fan you to cool And sing you to sleep They can give and give Without taking anything in return Close your eyes For as long as you like […]
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IT MUST BE FATE
How quick clocks tick How meek the weak seeks How grand the brand of the land It must be fate, it must be fate How sorry the tears of Worry How sappy that wealth is happy How moody the shoddy of the dead pocket It […]
In this place In this time It is a story time Around my territory Some ears are corked Enjoying my honey Flowing into them Wanting the thickest to feel the surge And it shows The hush hushes The eye eyers The unhearable mumblings are its evidence It is a past Made into a good story […]
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MADLY INSANE
Every one thinks him mad Like a story told from days of old The tellers believe it And so does the told So the mad thinks the sane mad And the sane thinks himself mad In the presence of the mad. Who has the eyes to see? The dunce dances As the mad […]
This is a poem I’ll forever treasure. I wrote it together with a very good father, being one who always wondered about my real father who I never got the chance to meet, I took a tour with Nana Awere Damoah into his thoughts in the grave. What a beautiful poem we came up with, […]
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SIGNALS
His fitting nomenclature for her was Bitch She felt his pocket It was to her satisfaction so she accepted Knowing too well she’ll end in a ditch Embarrassing garnish on cakes of parties Was her All night usage after possession of medicinal potency And she was the target of unbothered sorries In minutes of contact […]
Maa Abena walks in disappointment After seeing her world of indifference “The earth is for Mr. Government Litter it! The money is for MR. Government Embezzle it! This chit is for Mr. Government Steal it!” She thinks not and feels not Until she hears the chorus of the young “…And make our ration hate and […]
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PEACE TURNED CHAOS
Inhibiting filthy aggressions Show when our interests tempts An order came For a continental meeting For world peace All reps were in seat Battling for their own to rule the world A voice A louder voice The loudest voice Chaos, no voice was heard Until a money bone fell in their midst The trusting pushers […]
Once in the land of the wild God staged a judgement in the mild He called king lion Who sought to sing to enter Zion But sang the song of the murderous The crowd cheered in happiness Their terrorist has been fairly judged by His Holiness They sang and praised God’s name was raised […]
Tears no go save All face go shame Choppers go bi chopped Like Lapeewa Ghanaians de suffer Wey you guys dey steal Abeg ooo, na who talk you say Make you steal money Wey no dey reach? Poor men’s money Dey have plenty eyes If for say we no do You notin […]
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PASSBEAUCEITERS
Passions erupt Angels corrupt Decisions abrupt Goodness disrupts Mouths of redness Ears of goldness Nails of clawness Chestlies like two munchness You are a deception You do have an attraction But deceit is your caption Though you do get true attention In a hurry The fury Due truly Will you bury Amoafowaa […]
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NONE SO DAFT
If the spider served as teacher To the mighty kente weaver, The antelope served as teacher To the Efutu indigenous dancer And the ant was made a teacher Of we thoughtful life livers Then there’s none so daft To the tee In this rounded earth of ours I’ll look, Learn And add in wisdom. Amoafowaa […]
You push men into the limelight And serve as mouths of a future bright But men are men and claim are men When they become fertile money hatching hen’ Poor heads which hurt to push Sorry for being forced into the bush After you make comfortable roosters Of hen boosters I know it is a […]
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A TRAVELLER’S BUTTOCKS
A travellers buttocks His seat of comfort A traveller’s buttocks Never spared in pains A traveller’s buttocks Bearing all the weight They ask help from legs Who ask them to work their time No matter how long the journey With no beds, A traveller’s buttocks Suffers it all No wonder relief Makes them dance On […]
From the soothing balm of shea To the ginger, pepper suppository Through to hunger which was queer And quenched with thick breakfast of ‘coco’ With plenty sunshine, my happiness was sealed By the creator I, like an angel, knew no colour I knew no difference I knew humans, black, white, yellow and whatever And […]
The rhythm of falling Plays not in one house But all Esi’s roots were in solid gold Abena’s roots were in filthy gutter mud Their minds were in contrast Esi’s complacency showed Abena’s hard working mind prayed To ascend the ladder of gold Time held no hands The golden tree developed gutter […]
The eagles are fowls The fowls are eagles The houses are the sky The sky is the houses In her world. Elephants are ants Ants are elephants Lions are the cats Cats are the lions In her world Food goes through the rear Feaces come through the mouth The back houses the babies […]
So one came With thoughts of putting me to shame His goatee looked so lame Yet he sought to me tame I let him go with ego deflated Completely different from how he came Another came Betting to have me tamed His antagonistic tricks I had defamed His time belled out and he was […]
Before your hungry appetite is curbed I ask that you treat me fair and square Give my ink freedom to do its work Until my tinniest ink is dropped Let my name be on all the ink Unbloating tears hiding in all things phony And be the light of future men, Who will need […]
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BLACKMAILED
Fingers in between his teeth He stirs like a python Making me dizzy Taunting me to stir So I can have the sole blame For losing them But I am still Fingers in between his teeth Hitting his pate is an abomination Not for him, for me Because his stomach will receive What I […]
Trees, trees Family of trees I wish you could live like bees Together as one as each the other’s mind frees Trees with leaves Trees without leaves Trees with flowers Trees with fruits Trees with colour Colourless trees Short trees Tall trees Please form a garden By living as one. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
The fish farmer feeds the fishes In a polluted sticky pond Forcing their minds into gratefulness Until maturity feature them Their eyes then peep Through the forbidden hole The one the farmer warned Against looking let alone passing through There is that liberty which dawns A moment of thought sends them through They […]
When brains fear strength Chaos stands tall The body of the pen Must fear no muscles Because its voice is the loudest Let the pen talk And the muscles bow Power like that Needs no coward for an ink I am a pen A pen without muscles But I will never stand To be crashed […]
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APPEASE OUR ANCESTORS
We struggle in this rounded shelter With no thoughts of those we replaced Angry ghosts still bloat the earth Taking our space and breathing our air For every one we push unfairly Into the mouth of the glutton earth There is the hurt that lives unnoticed In our personal space and our personal time […]
Fame abounds on the humble Like fire on light ice It makes the ice so hot Parched throats fear to touch But those feeling the cold weather Get to use the hot water for coffee or tea Neglecting the thoughts of its original state Many might have loved to sip it It might have wanted […]
Drunkenness steals composure But frees the inner child Armed robbery steals properties and lives But pays men in security Cheating hurts hearts But fills the void at some point One considered ugly Makes the beautiful stand out Treason is unpardonable But cautions us to watch our backs Learning is difficult […]
There is quietude in the midst of the noise There is noise in the midst of quietude There are humans amidst the inhumans There are inhumans amidst the humans No, there are the inhumans lurking in every human Yours may spark with the light of materialism His may spark in the light of the centre […]
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DOPED IN HIS AUTOEROTICISM
Help! He finds pleasure in autoeroticism Can that be considered cheating? Who do I fight with for my partner? Himself? Then I’ve lost the game All the twinkles left the sky of my eyes The curves have migrated from the contours of my mouth Life stares down at my soul-less being And shakes its head […]
If you ask me I’ll tell you there’s no interest Mice could live in your stomach Tell it to others and they cry Over their own stomachs If you ask me I know none cares Write beautifully, if they’ve never stepped in your word house Or wish to step in there, They’ll shun and […]
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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 […]
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THE PLEDGE
“I’ll close my heart And stop it From taking in any possible breaker I’ll immerse myself In work which keeps me fulfilled And will never look into attractive eyes I swear to live by myself Doing good and neglecting all males Let them drown for all I care” All these are promises […]
Rains are blessings Rains can be curses Fire is a servant Fire can be a murderer Food is what we are Food can steal our treasured lives I am a near nirvana Flawed, heavily flawed In unmanageable hands I am like the fire which kills the cold But my buttons must not be pushed Lest […]
You took me to the land of ire Where there’s none called sire And made me an ire-nian And a natural believer of “Do What the Romans do When you go to Rome” I had the eyes which hatred emoted, Hands which easily smote, Mouth which spat and threw fits, Legs which stomped and […]
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SMILE, I SEE YOU
I see you With sadness sitting on your face Impatience running you a race Uncertainty holding your pace And all the pain you brace I see you With the mentality growing in your mind The fears you hide for none to find The complacency of hatred you happily bind And all the revenge you […]
Standing on a mountain top I have the eyes to sadly pop The ills which never seem to stop In the full glare of the big cop He is a big moral flop Who has from his sanity gladly hop He is being awarded a disgusting crop To say no word to make them […]
“Who would’ve known The one who made the powerfuls terror known Could be taken down In an open town By one whose name rhymes As his and lived in his same times? Who would’ve known The one whose fear was never shown Would have no voice And no choice And would be stripped off […]
I see, I hear, I laugh, I yearn, I hurt, I cry, I turn to you My sacred diary Dear open diary blog I hope you never Wash in-shore Swear you’ll always be here And hold my thoughts Without judgement On and off In and out Be my server Though I’m a thorn […]
Maama, where is the past? I think I’ve grown too quickly Walking is seized Mobiles are sent And people speak to machines Maama, where is the past? I think I’ve travelled so quickly Televisions are old The internet trends Air relieves firewood in cooking Maama, where is my thought? My brains have been […]
Flowers wilt Plants wilt Weeds wilt So do you You step on it; The earth You spit on it; The earth You ease into it; The earth You’ll also end up in it; The earth So like a treasured mattress, Step on the earth With respect, Spit on the earth With apologies, Ease […]
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