Muddy minds may mar Clever courts can clear Devil dreams do drive But the sun won’t change its lane Not for your cause or mine II Bright birds breed best Cool characters can cheer Darers dare dreading details detained But note, the air won’t change its path Not for your cause or mine III Novices […]
It is tearing down their roof Some are complacent, sitting aloof Some are hopping looking for a hoof Some are looking to clear their goof All they wanted was a proof And now they have their precious fired proof But they don’t know if it’s a cause on land A cause in the air A […]
The seas will roll non-stop today The sun will be at its brightest today The air will be more flirtatious than ever today Mouths may do as they wish today Smile Frown Cry Shout Shut Whatever they wish As brown rhymes with crown And they both share no blood of understanding So can unequal hearts […]
If huge bodies are the only known for powers Great minds would never spend hundreds of years Looking for ways to battle tiny mosquitoes There is power Power in every living thing II If hard bodies are known for strength Huge trees would never show rope marks On their hard like frames There is strength […]
A Bet Created in a cave unknown to sun Dances and hops like an antelope Expecting to find its God Fearing not its God’s heartbreaks Gathering speed while being chased Hurdling its moulders Inviting panic in their home direction Just in time it finds the sun Kola nut’s royalty prevents it not from browning teeth […]
A kingdom with many a generations, A kingdom sitting on too much wealth, A kingdom worth adoration, Is crumbling due to ill health And its doctors keep poison-injecting It’s now time to act REFRAIN I spit on ignorance Enlightenment! I need assurance I pee on greed Justice, gun down and let us be freed I […]
Modern gods are to blame African modern gods are to blame They are to blame for our shame; Our in-robbery oh so lame shame Those who previously had fame For sins they did tame Now know no shame Because they live on stolen fowls And watch not for devilish owls Fanning wars which stem from […]
Could you be just name and fame? Could your spirit be all fake and lame? Why will you and your sons Replace your taste form slaves to leopards? Did you not know what leopards were Did you not know leopards never give their paws freely? Or did you plan a huge royal massacre? Were the […]
There are pointers That ingratitude, like breath, is inherent And is produced by the human heart Like bile is produced by liver II Let mouths wavering mute for a minute And listen to reason As validity, like water to the dying thirsty, Is all III Why will a teething child Bite mercilessly nipples which still […]
If I fall into the centre circle of breathlessness Please be gentle with the leftovers For it has carried me well It took my sorrows And suffered as such It took my hurts and bore my scars It took me places and left good traces It might not be much But it served me well […]
Soft, weak arrivals Like fresh “koobi”, we’re Being dried for earth’s dish Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (For the benefit of foreign viewers, “koobi” is salted tilapia dried with salt for preservation and subsequent consumption)
The tree that is processed Into toilet tissues Did nothing to see and feel such horrors Nothing is fair II Nothing is fair The land which gives us food Did nothing to carry horrors of its gift Really nothing is fair III One who wants to play and is played Needs no loud voice in […]
Too much rains flood Too hot a fire burns Wisdom like Kwaku Ananse, stupifies Who wants to leave his freedom To hide in little corner nests? So Okonore Yaa please advice Little Ntikumah do weep in good plea When a burning hut is close to a safe hut Only foolish smiling teeth will dance Amoafowaa […]
Being busted buying best is best than busted being bought, a brain of a she-being can beat buyers and break bouncing bounds II Determination determines dreams, doing dreams without, is daydreams which will deal dangerous dates, dance to the rhythm of “done” III I and eye are “I’s” But one stands and the other sees […]
African tales have tails of morals refrains of chorals and sometimes show hearts of abhorals II African tales hold wise mails, show hurting fails, clarify heavenly bails III African tales can cause wails, narrate heroic hails and their wounding nails IV African tales are now like its porridges; dilutings severe, erasing its sweetners making its […]
Harmattan effects; Burning fresh leaves, kindling ills Favouring orthodox? II Attacking the nose Scratching and biting the chest Murder in cold blood? III When your pinch shivers As your air wrinkles like cloth Of linen, your problem? IV You’ll say I accuse Unfairly, but you know how Right I am. My chest! V Leave my […]
An audience so full Enough to break many bulls Offering to be tools Trying to feign all the cools On the veranda they pull II As the breathless leaves Their loyalties go with it Fitting perfectly Into its six feet with ease What are left behinds to do? III A peak at a sound Show […]
With threads of money Snaking and tying minds Who is free on this life tree? II Even breath is painful Getting eateries are awful What about wearings? Stressful III Eyes don’t make it easier Seeing is loving, loving is wanting Unnecessary wantings become craving needs IV What about belonging? Even those with […]
All strong green flowers Basking in your rain showers Now, you’re strong towers II When time’s rain showers You’ll be drenched like all dead fires Ashes; your empires III Kiss the rains, workers Feel the mud, all paint workers For all beauty suffers IV Time’s teeth; destroyers Time’s gain is life controllers […]
Winds! Connive with earth To overturn existence Making the sky threadable And the earth the heavens II Winds! It would be good For the earth to house all sky beings For the sky to house all earth beings For a change III Winds! Please imagine Travelling in the sky-like fog Without dust finding […]
Have you? Have you ever drunk the fecal water of the unknown? Have you stayed even for a day with scents of the expired? Have you? Have you ever been made uncomfortable enough to Walk barefooted with care, lest you are pulled into the realm of tetanus? Have you? Has your home ever been considered […]
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 […]
Symphony, Your breath and mine are in harmony So going in different paths will be a felony Blimey Asking for more will be pure gluttony We, even in a desert, will form a colony Isn’t it an irony That we lived like cat and mousy And now our union is branded as […]
Words shout and clang In a bouty bang […]
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