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 […]
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 […]
“Come to me all ye that are weary and are heavy laddened And I will give you rest” So I go to Him not as a being, As a woman The strict abbess tries her hardest To test the genuineness of the decision, I remained my readless self and sailed through Little did I know […]
“Ketekee nam nnadeἐ so Esu hwam hwam hwam hwam hwam Ehefa nn’ade yi reko? Koforidua!” When I am resting, All that fills my mind is yakka yakka My temporary internal maggots and backpack come in all shapes and sizes As air of acrid smell are the hobbies of the lot My belly is the […]
Hold me close in your house of thought Bless my ears with its juicy lot Quench my yearn so I could no one sought Then wads of notes could never me bought I couldn’t your love in a million quantify A word from you could my veins electrify To light positive rays and lonesome […]
I love him, I love her, I love these, I love those, I love them all who have stayed in the inner me The ugliness of a little monkey In alien eyes Is the beauty its mother sees. Bad traits changeth no motherly love Those moons of nine, Those sicknesses of the fullness of the […]
Too beautiful to behold This hairful chest Its beauty like lightening in a cloudless sky Outshine all his human surrounding My eyes feast against my head’s warning My mouth opens like happy thirsty leaves in the virgin rain His eyes sparkle and speak in volumes As his hand, like the hand […]
If I had more lives in time I could you chase in all my prime Wasting hearts on all thy lovey crimes With trippings in all your hurty slimes I could shed a river full of tears And sit on all the hurts and fear As your words hold knives and in me tear […]
See, All the animals wailing and cursing in the jungle At their chosen master See, When like bathed pigs They went for the same dirt to soil their own clothes. See, They are the pigs and he is the lion Roaring to tame as they squeak to wail You watch, They may […]
There is the UK’s follow my leader, Double ’Dutch, hopscotch And the general blind man’s buff. Long ago in Africa; Ghana, We the children giggled and laughed As we, like little angels with no serious assignments, Circled in kneeling as a chosen chose the smart or the dull For our admiration or booing, While we […]
Breathe in the flesh suffering, no attention A breathless being ready to join the earth, full attention It’s time somebody thinks If this selflessness in making skulls money sinks Is enough to quench our thirst by serving as storer of drinks. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
“Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” The waters are still. “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” The farms are quiet. “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” The land is shaking! “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” Mouths are shivering in hiding. “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” Thoughts are wavering with […]
Languishing in thoughts Of failures of satisfying ardent passions under a moonless sky, Ama Okom sits under the talking tree of doubts and anger Little did Kwaku Aponkye know of the words Boiling in her crying bosom He stirred her doubt and suffered the burns Of her hot carefully boiled and arranged words He thinks […]
Close trees cross paths Lovingly, Harshly, Both needs make love. Close trees share a space In little, In abundance, Both needs make love. Close trees share a risk Lightly, And in severity, Both needs make love. So in the worst whirlwind Hold my hand In the craziest storm Hug me tight […]
The teacher calls that teacher “A teacher” Because the teacher cannot teach what that teacher teaches The preacher calls that preacher “A preacher” Because the preacher cannot preach what that preacher preaches The singer calls that singer “A singer” Because the singer cannot sing what that singer sings The wise man calls […]
Green Light green With no blemish Clean slate Green Pure green With little holes Soiled slates Yellow Sickly yellow With white edges And an unusable slate Brown, Earth brown Dried to break Breaking to enter its root, no slate. Such is your stay On this hardened earth Now read it again. […]
Verbal assault Wearing clothes Coming directly at you From the mouthy house Of unsuspecting heads? Arrest them with your thoughts. Feisty fist Wearing iron gloves Coming directly at you From the lovely arms Of unsuspecting shoulders? Arrest them with your thoughts. Like an empty monkey Some empty heads Think of your head Making […]
When fathers die Other fathers live Such words pouring like honey onto dry bread On hearts shattered with uncertainties, Minds lost in fear, Eyes crying rivers of tears, Mouths wailing shamelessly and pouring words of desolation, Rested hearts and consoled affected parts Reassuring security, Protection and love Little did they know Delivering Words Is a […]
Staying cooped up? You’re not a store crap Cut the doleful mien and wake up! Revolutionize and fly with wings. Living a gossip? You are like the cow oblivious of being taken to the abattoir Cut the repulsive trait secure that foul gate and carefully ruminate Living for fun? Life is a journey […]
The scent of lust The acrid scent of backbiting The bad odour of hatred The awful scent of theft The foul scent of murder I want to be the lotus flower to disinfect it all The atrocious scent of ethnicity The pungent scent of oppression of women The unpleasant scent of racism The poor […]
Hit the atumpan Hit the agyegyewa Hit the apentenmma Hit the dawuro Hit the nnawuto Hit the dondo, let the bells and rattles sing As we dance adowa. We will dance and give thanks to Otweadeampong Nyankopong Then move on to speak in languages only a royal like you will understand Both hands of mine […]
Looking at her worn out face with a tyre around her neck, Many standing and watching, a mob holding petrol and matches With all hope lost as she sadly looks on, My questions jump from my mind. Before I had time to ask, They were dangling in the air. What has this poor girl […]
They say you are the living God Whose name must start with a capital letter Because you sit in the heavens above And preside over this global earth. They say you created everything The earth, the plants, animals, water etc… And you have so much mercy, your children lack none I will ask then, Why […]
Large humorous haunter school fees drums With its feisty nails on my skull. Extravagantly dressed rent bills stand Threatening to pierce ejection sword in my heart Light bill maniachically taunts with thoughts of darkness Water bill with its compiled many zeroes sit still, peeping in my vision Making me watch a video of no drinking, […]
I wish I could stand on the stairs of the future And stare down at my cloned self in nature To see if there is any doom or happiness awaiting I wish I could be an acolyte of the goddess of love In a far off land of forever happy ever after To see […]
My wick is burning down my candle On the realms of a little conflagration Must I abase myself with the knowledge of extinction? Am I to sit watchful in this ticking competition in an exciting cabaret For fear of my wick being pulled out by a cabal of lovers within my cycle? Am I to […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
My mother my pride I’ve nothing to hide She’s always by my side Taking all love’s stride Even if it means she cries My mother my hope Trying to right words grope All my gaffes she copes I’m attached to her love’s dope Will do nothing to have her mope My mother is […]
My mama is an angel My mama is an angel There can’t be any other angel In this lifey hurdle Cos she loves, loves and loves me Out of her busy schedule To set me free She’ll sit on a huge needle When I cry she cuddles She understands when I mumble In […]
Tell me a story Tell me a story so sweet and fresh Tell me a story undiluted Tell me a story from times past When the trees provided the sound as the waters spoke Tell me that story from when the birds met as a choir to sing only cheerful songs Tell me a story […]
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