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THORNS OF LIFE
There is only a time for all Humans, animals, the world, yes, all In this rounded baited bit We have our serious parts to fit You cry you’re slow When the tortoise is low You lament of your beauty When the hippopotamus does its duty You complain of short life When […]
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MOTHER? HOW CONVENIENT!
Diaper is not for grown buttocks You should have been there when I knew not how to wear socks But felt the whips of cold creeping through my feet You should have been there when my baby teeth made noiseless beat And yearned for the natural milk only you could give, When I took those […]
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DONKOMI, THUMB POWERS
They hold it They hold it in their thumbs They hold it in pieces A great law by whomever So we will not be cheated But a handful of people come together And pat the backs of few, Grease the palms of some, Stroke the egos of some, And buy the thought of others with […]
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NIGHTS WITH FRIGHTS
When darkness folds its arms around the earth And many living things rest fearing no death Goosebumps from beneath this skin cry Wishing you are nigh When the owls take charge And the bats seek charge These eyes which must close tight Wander and know that your presence will do right So which […]
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CORPSES FOR SALE!
Corpses for sale! Many buy with huge sums Putting them in the river of the earth waiting for its sail Corpses for sale! Many run dressed in expensive clothes Hoping to win the fame bale Corpses for sale! Cars parade with expensive paintings While mouths with their keys proudly brag, “this came yesterday […]
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AMBITION’S BAIT, GREED’S MEAL
They took my pride Before my mother became a bride Something about the fair sex being used to settle some debts So I was veiled on my first cry, Veiled for one who has lived all his life in greed He saw me walking, Saw me talking, Saw me easing, On my dirty undies, […]
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FROM GRACE TO GRASS
Fitted in fitting suits With shiny shoes And smooth hands On his very own land, His covetousness leads him to the shores of whiteness His dreams have always been to surpass the surpasser But now like a donkey, his calloused hands holding alien machete, His tattered clothes shredded by unfriendly thorns, His bruised face scratched […]
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HIS FEVER
It is the way he looks, Must be the way he walks, It is the way he sings, Must be the way he talks On as second thought, it is everything. The sparkles in the eyes of his sweat, The bright calling in his glowing eyes, The assurance of security in the words of his […]
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NEGLECT
Tears! With my eyes, I scan through the contours of their stomachs And see hunger chewing their loins Filth! With my hands I feel their dry and scratched skins And battle many devouring pests Feelings! With my mind, I steal into their tattered selves And feel the whips of the dreary cold […]
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NOT A CHOICE
In hazy thoughts I lie All my holes crying with filth I feel for you who sees it all While hating on you who tests my faith The eyes flow tears The skin rains sweat The nose grinds phlegms The rear soils clothes and shame sits only in my thoughts Is this an […]
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IN THE COURT OF YOUR THOUGHTS
In your court I remain a threat to your fort All my evidence will yield no dividends Because I have been interrogated and tried in the court of your thoughts Yes, tried in absentia What more is there to say? Send me the the darkest prison Away for the sight of the sun Away […]
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STEPPING IN UNFITTING SHOES
Imagine horses or donkeys as humans and vice versa Holding the whips as we run with them and their goods Whipping the slowness off our veins when tiredness catches up Imagine dogs as humans and humans as dogs Teaching us the smell of edible games and giving the instructions Giving us a pat on […]
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PURE ADDICTION
I can stop drinking water from earth’s well But I can’t stop swimming in the river in your mouth I can stop touching the most beautiful palaces in this world But not the palace in the centre of your world I can stop riding the most beautiful horses But cannot stop riding your […]
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REAL CHAINS
Caught in a microcosm of ideas What is lost is nothing but mine I drown in rivers of a thousand mouths And slip hearing echoes by a million rocks I fly in the skies of all birds And I’m de-feathered in the same sky by mean ones How do I get to land? Still thoughts […]
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AABA EI!
He looks famished In tattered clothes As he holds his dog chains Waiting to be sales blessed But, oh, poor lad, I hear “aaba ei!” And he takes to his heels The bread seller trips him In her quest to escape And the uniformed helped him not to rise By letting his baton painfully talk […]
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GO! YE ZEALOTS
Hearts must have their decisions Yours is to lay bare and not to force Religious zealots! Heads must have their decisions Yours is to lay bare and not to cajole Education zealots! People must decide Yours is to candidly lay bare your capabilities Political zealots! All zealots, bow in shame A time […]
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PUSH THROUGH
Sit And let them happily chirp Lie And let age laugh Cry And let time fly Regrets Are irreversible in graves. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 S
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THE DAGGER OF WORDS
Now you have to listen! Tools, poison can harm and kill But cruel words supersede them As they act as painful anesthesia Numbing the body, daring death To attack in any form At that point, death fights a lost cause It can borrow the face of fire, Can borrow the face of drowning, Can […]
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WHEN BREASTS CRY
He went fishing Hoping for good sales For you to eat For me to eat The sea swallowed him As his mother was busy preparing his favourite “Kpoikpoi” She went farming Hoping for good yield For you to feed For me to feed The farms developed canines and ate her While her mother was […]
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A SATIRE OF PAIN
The baboon wears pig hair, Wears squirrel clothes, Wears penguin feathers, And keeps snake countenance But when it is offended at any count It screams aloud and says without shame: “It is because I am a baboon” The chameleon blends all colours With every change, Behaves like a statue When chaos wakes, Acts like […]
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GREAT FEATS WITH A COST
If I lose my eyes Just to have your eyes Then I’ll have no eyes To see the colour of your eyes Must it always be at a cost? If I give my ears To have your ears Then I’ll have no ears To listen to your sounds as my words travel into your […]
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I AM FALLIBLE
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LET’S BEAT TIME
It has no legs but we can’t catch it Let’s run with it, let’s run with it It has no heart so it won’t get tired Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can’t fight it to stop running Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can do […]
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WHY SPIDERS LIVE IN WEBS
Once upon a time, there was a village called Nsem Pii. Nsem Pii suffered from famine for years. People died of hunger, heads of families died of shame of not being able to cater for their families. But Kwaku Ananse, the great spider used his brains to make his family live. One day, there was […]
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TAKE BOTH
Salt it from the land Yet it is sweet Pepper comes from a plant from the same land Yet it is hot You don’t dote on salt And trash pepper Know its management And enjoy its taste Throwing it away You say goodbye to your nauseous fighter Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (© 2014.
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TAKE IT AS A WARNING
Roast me gently Roast me lightly Give me a dressing Befitting of an angel To enjoy this serenity engulfing our world For even sugar can be made bitter When it is pushed to the limit by fire Say that story Without any worry As long as it is right Like a motherly bridge I’ll […]
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NIGHT SALES
It’s a quarter to six Their faces fix To go to work this precious night They weed their plots And spray their lands In short and brief to give plenty a calling They fence their gardens with panty clads With very bushy mermaid hair Water the gate with red blood, of the many […]
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KNOW HER PAST
She was a weak bird Hatched in a ground nest. Her mother was hunted down By one wicked hunter. Through hazy eyes she struggled to feed Through dark paths she managed to walk Like one optimistic poor princess Never knowing what wings were meant for. Flying birds mocked her walks Flying birds […]
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EXCERPTS FROM THE DRUM CARRIER
You make me cry When your thoughts cross that of mine What have I really done To merit carrying this heavy beautiful drum at no cost? Just last time, I met your father Hand in hand with his beautiful drum They laughed and called me sweet in law When I have no right to […]
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THE DICTATORSHIP OF DEATH
When age married the deadly death They arranged all grown beings to the shore for their honeymoon Because death doted on his wife Now the legs of time has travelled an untraceable path He hunts the young and brings them home His wife lovingly advise age meals Carnivorous death stresses some youthful beings “I am […]
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INCOMPARABLE
Unequal fingers Makes the hand Unequal stars Help bright the sky Unequal boundaries Make round world Unequal humans Makes the world So love the children With their needs and dreams. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
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IT’S SUMMERTIME
Throw your worries to the wind Free yourself and have your mind Play around and know it’s summertime Who is trying to catch the silly? This time each runs his own runs This time each cares no hoot, it’s summertime The many debts have no legs to run To haunt and taunt you […]
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THE SAGE IN ME SAYS:
One who associates with gossips always hears the laughables, except his own, even when his generates the most laughter. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia.
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ON PASSION’S WHEELS
She gently touches my weedless pate Knowing it is my passion’s gate Testing my very strong fate In what may be a tasteless bait I hold my own trying to let it abate She keeps going making me say Kate. Her name rises tingly passion’s hate And forces me to like the goat mate My […]
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STATIC
Coffins vary The feet stay the same; Six. Riches are shown The body stays the same; Lifeless. People cry The soul stays the same; Gone. This thing, that thing, All will end at the same; Dust. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
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THE WORSHIP OF MAGGGOTS
The edible maggots form from the palm nut tree They come out, wiggle and know they are free They worship their maker, promising their piousness and their love Promising their souls and bodies as they look above Then they touch the ground and eat their god They wiggle around the home without measure Eating […]
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MY BULB WITHOUT A LIGHT
When I need that touching And I need that loving And I need that moisture And I see that empty bulb lightless I curse my stars And I ask them why This high demand you Has no light to emit When the body calls for it To think that most for you have insulted Most […]
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NEEDFUL WANTS
I live here in lonely wants Going only in troubled fronts All the hollow ears open At every steppy country All the many hands open At every steppy country But I want only those ears of yours And only those hands you wore I want it all to come from the grave To listen and […]
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MUTE MOUTH
Your heart will ache In pain, no gain If you close your mouth In desire, don’t require Acts go hand in hand with wants Entering always succeeds the knock Fold your arms and harm your heart. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c)
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THE PROPAGANDA OF THE WIND
When the clouds are mating The winds throw dust into the eyes of interested parties Then even highly inquisitive eyes will shut Until each body in the mating posture cools Minds are so wonderful, That though they know something sinister is ongoing, They bury them deep and live in the day Moving on with new […]
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KYEWOPA A EKO MA SIMPAPANYIN
Simpa panyin te abrempong adwa so Wↄn a ἐwↄ sἐↄhwἐ wↄn ahobanbↄ anya amane Gyata ἐkyekyere bi we Ama ntwea mpo anya akukuduro mmorosoↄ re bubↄ ebi nnompe mu Ne deἐaaa ne sἐ, ↄresiesie ne ho de gye nkamfoↄ Eneἐ daa na wa yἐ shἐpἐἐ Nnumaa kↄnkↄnsafoↄ na ↄgye wↄn diee Nguan a ἐborↄ nnye […]
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BABY FOX TURNS INTO A TIGER
Baby fox turns into a tiger In the mind of a paranoid sailor Who like a greedy dog hated to share So bolted with all the world had to give many On the blood of many, many heads He paddles through the angry storm Who seeks to sit on heavenly throne When he takes […]
Originally posted on Nana A Damoah:
Apagya R/C JSS is a basic school in the Adansi South district of Ashanti region serving about 5 communities within its catchment area. The school is made up of a decent six (6) unit classroom block plus a headmaster’s office. A recent rainstorm caused severe damages to the school…
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PLEASE DO ME READ
Please do me read I am in the book Not on its cover Just open the door of the book And read me I am tired of being hidden in this book My beauty not gracing your eyes nor accentuating your looks My story fading within me Like a stack of gold forgotten in poverty […]
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SAKAWA
It takes a smell to attract flies Dirt always attract pigs and not penguins A magnet always attract pins So consent is key for it to be Eyes must always be used to see Carelessness always comes with a fee You sit in the comfort of your canoe in your pool Looking keenly for […]
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MY SINCEREST APOLOGIES.
Sorry to all those who post comments on my blog and never get to see them. Somehow I am having troubles using Askimet. It seems it automatically deletes every comment automatically marking them as spam. Rendering my sincerest apologies.
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SAY MY NAME; DAWADAWA
Say my name with a careful thought Don’t say it like I’m some disgusting thing For I have seen many who have because of me fought And many others who have for me sing I know you cannot stand my stench I stink, I know Ask yourself, did I create me? And say my […]
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AGYA THE VILLAGE DRUNK
I am standing on coal Mmmmm, on coal, So I cannot walk, Cannot walk properly “Bue! Santa Maria! Agya gyinagyina, Gyina, gyina bↄkↄↄ” I am a quaffer, A quaffer of apio So I cannot think, Cannot think properly “Bue! Santa Maria! Agya gyinagyina, Gyina, gyina bↄkↄↄ” But you too are a […]
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I AM A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER
I am a flower, yes I am a beautiful flower I am that beautiful flower Which chooses to wither in time Than be scattered into pieces with no shred of dignity After my blooming I may use my eyes to see beautiful things And beautiful places I may use my scent to dazzle critic […]
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