This is the entrance: And the signboard: We drove through until we saw this sign: It was a sunny day. The warthogs came to welcome us. We were briefed on the dos and don’t of the place; No littering, no feeding of animals, no touching of animals. We were also educated on how the place […]
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CHILD RHYMES
When I wake up from my bed Guess who I see in the sky Roaming up and down are birds Up and down in the sky I need you to take I need you to wake For fitness sake Let’s bath in the lake. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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NEWS FOR YOU
I am that being that is cursed To live life that many have rehearsed I’m there to be taken In trouble to be forsaken Carrying all the problems like a cow on its way to the abattoir. I’m that being that is cursed Never ever must my voice be heard I must act like […]
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IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!
The time has come, to have your say It’s a beautiful, beautiful day! Know all your pain, is experience’s pay It’s a beautiful, beautiful day! It’s not that bad, it’s just a flay It’s a beautiful, beautiful day! Don’t cry no tears, don’t hide away It’s a beautiful, beautiful day! You […]
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LET IT GO WITH THE WIND
How much time do we have? At which age do we part? Could be years, could be a year, Could be days, could be a day, What ever the problem, let it go with the wind. A life so sweet A breeze so beautifully felt A face like yours, must be looked and be […]
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MUST BE A SWEET APPLE
How will it taste like? What will it be like? Could my heart be a pump? Must be a sweet apple. I shiver when I see I run without a fee Could my heart be a pump? It must be a sweet apple. There are those goosebumps It is me who get the […]
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TO MY FOLLOWERS WITH LOVE
It is difficult getting someone to trust in you It is difficult having someone cheer you on It is difficult getting the support of your very own So I’m kind of overwhelmed that you’re here for me With every post you view my heart skips a beat With every post you view I feel […]
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WHAT WILL YOU DO?
If you knew the future of all living humans Their happiness and sadness Their hurts and pains Their failures and successes From day to day Until they join the ghost union What will you do? If you knew exactly when the world will end The disasters and turmoil Frantic efforts of ‘inhabitors’ and ‘reliers’ […]
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SWEET IN-LAW
Once I had a sweet in-law Who was as sweet as sugar He filled the boring gap Of my very messy partner He made me laugh When he made me sad I never saw a problem Until he travels for a tour Little problems then Became huge ones No matter how stuck I […]
Yἐ woowo too sie so Enti wanyini ntἐm Ediἐn nti na ἐwↄ sἐ asaase awodeἐ kutuwo? Wo were afiri sἐ w’ataredeἐ ahoↄden faribae ne fam anaa? Ahokyerἐkyerἐ bebrebe yi, ἐdἐn na wo pἐ akyerἐ? W’ako abrokyere aba Enti wo krom yἐ wo tan Akonwa a wo bἐ tra so koraa, agye ahwanhwandeἐ adikan Kasa […]
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WAKING UP
Like humans taming cubs of the wild We have been caged by our minds so mild we sit in the blessings of our wealth and beg When salt and cocoa Bauxite, diamond and gold are but a few of our wealth Whose fault is it that we have eyes but cannot see? Whose fault is […]
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BRAGGING ABOUT MY FATHER
My father did not just breed He begat completely besotted with us Knowing we are his seeds And are parts of his being and must be treated thus My father knows no mistrust Our words are his bond Our only whips of words stemming from his being just Holding our hands through storms to […]
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FAULTLESS
The government is bad The government is bad That’s enough said and enough heard If you’ll close your mouth and open your thoughts You’ll get to know the root of all Could it be the fault of you and I? Who fill our pockets And cast our votes? To choose the one to drain […]
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ON ALIEN LANDS
Human beings with many needs I leave my town to family feeds And goes far far to alien lands Where the weather is cold with different sands And people look at me like a funny television in developed lands And all I have to my stomach feed Are some alien leaves and weird looking seeds […]
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GOOD, CRITICISM
Criticism is just like lime For those whose mouths are just like slime So if you’re depressed because of mood Just check yourself, it’ll do much good. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
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GOOD, CRITICISM
Criticism is just like lime For those whose mouths are just like slime So if you’re depressed because of mood Just check yourself, it’ll do much good. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
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COME TO ME
I see in you diamonds of light I see them shining so so bright I will keep you like you deserve If only you’ll come to me Or even look at me for once Each day I sit, I look and wait Dying many times as he kills your soul He has a diamond […]
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WISHES ARE HORSES?
I want to stand on the heels of the stars And kiss the moon increasing my light I want to dance with the whirling of the wind And kill the beats of birds that prey I want to marry fireflies in the night And have them glow even when there is light I want to […]
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HIDDEN EYES
You hide in darkness With sharp eyes you fail to use And blame the world And curse your stars When many arms have rooms for you You try rebellion And close your ears When many are singing songs of joy You have the heart but fail to yield Cussing the world when someone’s is […]
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DO YOUR THING
Strawberry, ginger, pepper and rice Are all things mouths do crave Though some are sweet and some are hot, They all have unique roles to play Do your thing and have them say Their taste may differ but some for you will pay And will go through all the thicks and thins To have […]
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MR. AND MRS. HOPE
Are storms raging and cursing your life Browbeating you to hide in fear? Breathe the breath and have good thoughts The sun is coming to clear the sky. Are mouths convening to plan your coup? Looking on with no clue as to what to do? Breathe good breath and have good thoughts Hope is […]
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PEACEFUL WAR
Blended colours will dance Blended colours will happily fight For the little rounded peacemaker On many beautiful peaceful grounds. Sweat will merge In seriousness and play Misunderstandings will arise Not between individuals but nations Every nation becomes one people Every person, no matter where, Becomes an officer defending his nation Cheering on when […]
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EATERS OF OURSELVES
Fishes convene for a solution on safety The president of anchovies narrates his loss His world is evaded each blessed day His subjects are killed in million folds The herring president narrates his plight His country has alien eyes which watch their growth Many like prisoners are caught, killed and caged To please a […]
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TO MY FOLLOWERS: A POEM OF THANKS
A million kisses A million smiles A million hugs Are less honours I want to dance And sing along I want to cry And kneel for you Because you believed Enough to follow This sad young life Whose belief had no strength I’m pouring many blessings In your rich corners I’m sending […]
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BEFORE THE AXEMAKERS
Happiness lived with us Its family was enough for every house Before the Paleolithic era When we discovered the armoury of Homo Habilis It is no Gordon Bennett that happiness developed wings Due to the intense afterglow the taste of worldly dominance brought Volcanoes and storms must have been the only firemakers Animals being […]
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PASSIONS
Sitting lugubriously Watching as juveniles engage in a bacchanalian orgy She reaches deep in her passions’ cache And finds a bottomless fleapit of madness She dawdles, anxious at what perished within All the pain she feels are deadened With every step, with every thought As she sees that old screen flecked with dust […]
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I HAVE SEEN THE FACE OF GOD
I have seen the face of God Pouring nothing from a gourd I have seen it You have seen it They have seen it. For happiness He employs the sun For meditation and approachability, He employs the moon and stars so we will not from Him run For anger, He employs darkness and the storm […]
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THINKING OF MEN
In times past, men were the gods of our homes. They were worshipped and never challenged. They never bothered to lend a hand in household chores. Women were their slaves and their incubators. They gave birth and worked tirelessly. They tended to their kids when they were ill, washed clothes, cooked meals, did the dishes […]
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A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE
When I lie awake in tears And my heart speaks in only fears Like a soldier without weapons at the war front, I bow my head in my head and think of bolting from the human front When stories are told of the meek And eyes look down on the weak Like a grass […]
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THE FILTH
From afar, It is a pile of filth Until you step in Then you become part of the filth So speak not When people talk and are disgusted about the filth They do not know They are the filth You are the filth I am the filth. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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IN THE WORLD OF SHARKS
I am left alone In this fence of sharks But when I say it Many think I am not well in the up My parents travel first to the land of the spirit Left me here with four sets of twins And just three cowries To breath and eat We have no food […]
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VICTIMIZATION
Eyes stand Eyes look Eyes insult Eyes whip Raise your head high Mouths open Mouths talk Mouths insult Mouths condemn Walk confidently Hands stand Hands point Hands say no Hands turn murderous Get away in a cool way You will be the star Of every other eyes that saw Of every other […]
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SAY THE WORDS
If you can settle your heart I will abdicate my throne And hold your hand Looking in no other eyes but yours If you can only stretch your hands I can cut through a great wodge of pain Throw my crown to my enemies And walk barefooted just to be with you If […]
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THE HEAD BATTLING THE HEART
In my head I live knowing not what tomorrow brings In my head I see a picture of a tattered me side by side ‘granders’ In my head Hurting words dance “kpalongo, agbaza” and “adowa” In my head Nothing I aim for will be achieved In my head I am a […]
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WHEN HUNTERS MEET
In its nest It waits for mum To come with the best And feed having none In the forest It waits for its mother To come with the best To feed its hunger In her house She waits for her man To come with the best And feed them both […]
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MARKET PALAVA
Noisy chattering Hands clapping Metals chiming Smells fighting In the Kaneshie market Beings crowded Strength reigning Weakness falling Lovers walking-hugging In the Kaneshie market Second-owners plotting Market-sellers watching Owners clueless As valuables vanish with mystery In the Kaneshie market People fighting Others insulting Some watching Some excitedly talking In the Kaneshie market […]
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GAMES
It is again that time when football seems to succeed where peaceful organizations have failed in their bid to maintain peace. A game played with an ‘unspeaking’ little football. I don my cap to you Football! Games always have the power to charm peace I must confess but many end up fuelling the fire of […]
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IT’S GOING TO BE A COLD NIGHT
The cloud has formed Trying to the rules of the winds conform Darkness has become a one man soldier Pouring the scary sounds and forming a merger The cold arrests everything it sees It doesn’t make room for any exempting fees I ran being guided by instincts, oh man It’s going to be a cold […]
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IN AFRICA, LONG, LONG AGO
Good days have walked Good people have talked Good writers have chalked In Africa, long, long ago Children were born right Children thought of sin with fright Children stood while adults sat bright In Africa, long, long ago The younger, the older respected The older, the younger corrected The older, the younger good […]
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SOME LITTLE TWENTY SIX
Finding comfort Is a great fort I find them in you Though you’re only some little twenty six You aren’t that many And strength, you don’t have any In isolation. But together, you can conquer many Though you’re only some little twenty six I hurt a lot And lones a lot But with […]
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TAKE MY HAND
Thinking of how to feed Or how to get money to buy seeds When there are no pockets talk less of money? Take my hand Sitting in loneliness Looking on while some are held in arms and feeling the unfairness When you too have emotions at play? Take my hands Feeling the heat […]
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A DANGEROUS GAME OF FOOTBALL
A poor girl sees her friends playing football In a very crowded hall Each struggling in pairs In pleasure and many shares She is attracted to play She musteres courage to say “Please play a ball with me” With an unknown stranger she sees It isn’t as nice as it seems She with pain beams […]
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ADULTS ONLY
Lying cold in the dark I see a strong you coming from the dark To draw many a tingly sweet mark Of love, of passion, of pleasure, a mark Of possession, of addictive sweet mild scents, a reassuring mark On this love famished body I see it start from the soles of my feet […]
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NEGLECTED
Farmer, I have some few words for you Today, please let me have your attention You have been coming daily to this farm Your own this farm But when it comes to harvesting I think you do me no good If you open your eyes widely, You will know that I am the most resourceful […]
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HIS EXCELLENCY CORRUPTION.
Corruption wears the platinum and golden crowns And sits on thrones even royals are forbidden to sit In many parts of the world Wearing and changing frequently by day many expensive apparels Being driven in the most expensive cars With many servants licking his feet In the hopes of many favours. Corruption is a fierce […]
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I AM NO EVE
I have heard so many things in my life. “You are a girl, walk like a girl You are a girl, look down when men are speaking You are a girl, never shout no matter the pain Are you crying because of this little thing? What will you do when delivering a baby? You are […]
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THE SUN WINS
In the laughing Sun, she bathes The Sun stops laughing A mood swing none understands But it smiles. Then a change, Wrinkles of a frown form on her face What are these mood swings? What could he be doing wrong to antagonize this being? Before he had an answer to this, another change This time, […]
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BUCHRIHINIS
Some have submitted themselves to the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama Hoping to be awakened and their sufferings ended Through either Theravada or Mahayana counting on The Three Jewels But Friedrich Nietzsche said emphatically, with many agreements, that they practice nihilism Some have surrendered to the expression of ecumenical creeds Learning meaning from Abrahamic teachings […]
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YOU ARE A TREASURE
Walking, walking and walking? Just sit and listen See with your mind’s eye; A very clear blue natural sea Surrounded by beautiful trees On which birds with the most amazing voices live The gentle wind blows As your tired limbs are being massaged by smooth marbles The clear ocean dances to the beat of the […]
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THE BUTCHER OF HEARTS
He fanned my heart in the heat And held it from those who hearts eat He stood behind me and was neat Like a loyal butcher tending to his future meat I was fed and made relaxed all the time in a seat. Even when I needed to dance to a beat He held up […]
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