Nausea, Cramps, Tempers, Tears, Frustration, Hunger, Medications, Immobility, She loved through all Even through the fall Tears For your sicknesses, Insomnia, For your well-being, Struggles For your feeding, Kneeling For your faults, More tears For your weaknesses That intense love Was in only one Of all humans, only one Your success, shouldn’t erase […]
Waakye tasted sweet In ‘ahaban’ Palm wine tasted fresh In calabashes Water battled thirst Fresh from the streams Food healed best Straight from the farms We say ‘open eyes’ And we get all the harm We only get the second-handed- ‘Ofoooos’ in everything We send many But they end up choking, Choking our businesses And […]
Running after her Never catching up In this unpredictable odyssey When I got closer Her smile stayed same But she wilted as I bloomed Smiling sweat, which now fades, sat on my skin Like the sun at its peak Tired sweat cried on her skin Like the rain whipped by storms She […]
I am a lonely chicken Looking for my hen Left alone with this cock I’ll die of a spin I’m a lonely chicken Missing the hunting of my hen I’ve searched for hours, seen others being fed And can’t find a thing Many crow that she flew away Others chirp she’s caught and […]
Thrown into unfamiliar waters Without an armband? Take a swim The hand that threw Wanted to make you a fool But turn that swim into a dream Trapped in the den of a lion? With no tools? Every nail is a tool in danger’s arm Dig to the ground and turn around Before it […]
Once I had a pretty cow Who was tall and liked to show It acted old Could not be told Until it reached it’s teen-hood It walked looking at heaven Always counting to seven When he met the old It will then be bold And walk with its shoulders singing One day it […]
A weedy path to your heaven Makes me want to stay in hell An acrid scent in your treasure Makes me cough and choke So I’ll rather choose hell It’s amazing how bad a gardener you are When your master gave you so beautiful a garden Even this farm hand, cannot help harvest Because […]
Darkness’ step approaches Noise of loneliness coaches The stars open their eyes They scan my soul through my eyes The moon drags her queenly feet The worry of cold takes a seat Hey! You in my dreams Please hold my hands, Step out, take this cream And stop this soul’s screams […]
A song I’ve long’ So strong To sing So calm That balm In my palm With wings Ease songs Non-tease songs Peace songs Let’s sing To ring Dong ding For kings To love. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Contemplated, Thinking you would be doggy Hoping to skip the hole of agony You told of pain excruciating When you reached that hole of agony You don’t regret it, you said Crossing the hole was bitter But made your bones better Then I felt totally subdued But I am relaxed Your morning songs of […]
Incandescent lights, A kingly table, Shiny glasses, Singing flowers, Honorary chairs, Are but handicrafts That money manipulates You’re a wordster, So am I. Let’s paint our mood And with our minds as wings Fly into it. Let’s lay our beds With beautiful words. Let write our songs With permanent pens on stones. Let’s make […]
I am completely besotted All but you hear my endearments. Apart from breathing, my heart to you is allotted But when I see you all I remember are word fragments All pretty flowers are in full bloom All sway in songs of calls Aiming to own my dream groom I hope to conquer […]
Come to play Say okay Mum and dad are out today With their canes and shouting Please say yay Then we’ll have a fun fun time Come to play It’s a sunny day Jump about and hop around You can kneel and stretch out And shout loud No one’s here to stop us now […]
Fumes from rickety cars Debris of scraps scattered Stains of diesel paints the ground An unbearable noise from a motor on the right An unbearable noise from cars in front, back and left While the stench from the public toilet nearby Sells nasty archaic foods in the air Diesel stained finger nails feel the heat […]
Yἐyiwo baabi a kↄ baabi Nsuo kyἐre tua mu a ἐbon Asante nananom brἐἐ wↄ Abibiman atififa fa mu no, Mpanyinsἐm kyirἐmu a, Wↄn sane abusuakuo abusuakuo, bἐduru asomdwoe asaase a wↄn Asefo te so yi so Yἐyiwo baabi a kↄ baabi Mpanyinfoↄ yi faa ἐkↄm, ↄhaw, nsukↄm, mmoadoma huhuuhu anum Kosi sἐ wↄ beduru […]
A talk for the girl in me, A smile for this A laugh at that A hand that will let me be A walk for the girl in me A walk like this A hop like that A jump that will make me see A love for the girl in me A face […]
A little pleasure Causes a seizure Or a treasure; Individual differences A little mistake Can make or unmake So please do take Your thoughts with you to pleasure-land For passion Without vision Is like swimming without water. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 (Picture from www.russianpaintings.net)
A leg in the cold, A leg in the warm, My arms battle to fold. I hear threats of harm As I plod on a strange land. My head is under the money charm Rendering my heart sold I yearn for a familiar arm To ease this cold But feelings of homely needs do my […]
I’ll say my confession Hoping for an absolution And a subsequent redemption or salvation. I could perform an ablution If that can stop my obsession Or I could subject myself to gyration As an anointed wheel me in his direction I am in a sinful generation Correction is nothing but disruption I’ve gone from fabrication […]
To my consternation She harshly caused an abrasion On her skin and poured a libation For what she deems beautiful, an abomination! She tactfully told her maker That He was too careless a baker For watching her blacken in the burner Making her decisions sterner If a cook causes a blunder, Can the […]
In your hands Like the shell of the tortoise on distant lands Do me keep Draw a boundary And make it my country And like a protected bird, make me fly In your band Like kids play in the sand Keep me happy I hear the bangs And teeth of enemies clang […]
What do we want? What are we doing? Why are we aiding time When we need our souls to race time? It is vanity upon vanity Crying in seclusion Shattering our own hearts Into million pieces Under the teary eyes of dumb ceilings, It is vanity upon vanity Quickly putting together our hearts […]
Inventions, to die for. Theories, treasures. Some have no measures And no sense Why will one make a god Of paper which can cause us to Kneel in degradation? A giver for need A taker only to give One without needs accumulates As the needer kneels in shame As the common paper taunts When bored […]
She was a good carrier And a pain reliever She is a pure lover And a life keeper She is a tower And can be a flogger She is way stronger And makes her opinion clearer She is my bearer And my corrector She is my pain sufferer My mother. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
Polished legs thread from far To the cenotaph of the martyr Outside this cenotaph is an expensive son et lumiѐre Some ears are cocked in pretence When they obviously take strolls In the opposite direction! He gave his life on a strange land But who cares? Male minds respond to the calls of the brazen […]
Your oration of war abeyance Reduces no annoyance I won’t be used as your lance To ride pretty horses as you dance To the tune of their rhythm while keeping your balance There’s been the wasted chance That makes me look askance At your words whose flaws are enhance’ Nothing will suffice, publishing banns […]
It was a rainy day When you said your nay To our hearts’ yay The storms destroyed my chest engine With every step you took making me lean And branding me a melancholia Darkness shielded me from jubilating eyes The moon became my friend and foe The glowing greens my confidants Amoafowaa Sefa […]
When the trees in love sway, The dogs in love lay, The horses cheer in a sleigh, And the chickens with their chicks stray, You are all that fills me and so I pray That I’ll meet your stay. When you made me choose between you, the station The children or the nation A […]
My limb was given for the safety of humanity
To stop their being slaughtered like chickens
His is as a result of an unfair accident
Hers a natural disaster
Mouths which yap before knowing
When they do you push Into the bush Confuse the crowd and act proud When they push you into a ditch And call you a bitch Confuse the crowd and act proud When they dig a pit And you fall in the shit Confuse the crowd and act proud When they sit […]
Conquer hurt Conquer diseases Conquer hurdles Conquer pain Conquer poverty Conquer loneliness Conquer failure Conquer attacks Try a smile, It works magic. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
Your physique has made you rabid Your growth in anger rapid Many have put on you a bid That you’ll soon grow stupid. Why this sudden morbid Fascination of the sordid? Sit back, let them judge from what you did Instead of doing what will make you a kid Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
It is a clothing meant for one It’ll surely tear When we both force in The fault is yours The fault is mine Let’s part on a very mutual ground Two bulls will certainly lock horns When an interest turns competitive Your view is good and mine is bad My view is good and […]
“Lord kill my enemies” They forget they’re also children of God “Lord open success doors” Sometimes they do forget it goes hand in hand with hard work “Lord close every eye to my folly” They forget “a man reaps what he sows” “Lord why me?” Who should it be if it shouldn’t […]
When I hear the chuckling And sees her mouthy pouting I feel like throwing my fist and giving her a sound beating The irritant! When I see her dressing And many complementing I feel like throwing my fist and giving her a sound beating This irritant! When she does her taunting By pulling […]
The eye watches It is a powerful tool Good or bad, no cram needed Just pick a thing. His biodata your eye watches No matter how intense it spells fool His life’s pen cannot be weeded Neither can yours, so just pick a thing Pencils are like torches They can be on and […]
It’s not Christmas But I need Santa To bring you from my dreams And have you work on my seams, To direct your eyes to me And see the pain I feel, To have your magic hands Massage the pain I feel, To take me on in an exercise And exhaust […]
I am covered by the clothes of darkness Covered as I sit in utter madness Eyes see but ears hear more So my voice runs to the fore These clothes cover my weakness This weakness of grave meekness Which makes me a word whore Although I have never read law Perhaps light would […]
If you play the low, I’ll leave, you know Stop it, no do it I’m feeling the heat under the beat Stop it, no do it I’ve lost control and I’m going slow Stop it, no do it Where will it end if I don’t pretend Stop it, no do it […]
This is me So let it be I do not have those long legs That will call for the begs I don’t have the heavy chest Which many will seek their rest I don’t have the perfect look Which will cause many to have me book This is me, Short me, Short legged me, Ugly […]
Will I leave a giant tree And go for flat earth When I own no giant tree And only own a flat earth? Will I leave a broad chest To go for a standing chest When I have no broad chest And only have a standing chest? I love what I love Though […]
Are you laughing Because you are pretty and sitting As the general factotum Is given the ultimatum To do your bidden Or risk being beaten and ridden Like a horse? It becomes pitiable and sorrowful When the fool thinks herself wonderful Even when the world sees her foolery. Look carefully And picture her in your […]
Be quiet! There’s stench from the old Be quiet! And listen to the voice of the child Blood which is same mix into the earth Funny how the guns seem different, Funny how the humans seem different, Funny how the language is different, Funny how the blood make love, Hold hands and enter the earth […]
I can lie here on my bed Fighting fair with few words This does not mean I am afraid Bring your cutlass, bring your gun If I could only get my words across Destroying my body erases them not There’s no way my words will rot Until eternity they’ll ring in your head Then […]
The tailor sows And the wearer refuses to see his nudity The writer writes And the reader refuses to read The seller sells And the buyer refuses to buy The doctor learns to heal And the patient decides to die The lawyer extends his hands The culprit chooses natural fate […]
It has no sympathy It would have waited a while For you to taste the soup you brewed with love before having you for supper There is also the gods’ apathy Contributing to your being taken Before your soup was done Half done, I cried tears of blood, seeing as other cooks tended […]
When I look at your face, I wish to have God’s grace To re-create. Why He will place a gem In a scary bottle beats my mind. You shine, Everyone flees For fear of your brutal consumption Having no thoughts of you being their messiah of peace Oh you monstrous beauty! I will help you […]
The taste of pepper differs From the taste of onion The taste of tomato differs From the taste of carrots The taste of cucumber differs From the taste of green beans But like soldiers with different abilities, They, under the commander of fire, hold hands to fight the enemy of hunger […]
God gave me a full house To welcome a special visitor and pleasurably keep his gifts Which will prepare themselves to be my eyes When my sight fails, To be my legs When my mobility wanes, To be my mind When my thoughts fail, To be my hands When shivers overtake them. Why then do […]
I am half baked bread Not edible nor a throw away I have been tutored to call the name of the resurrected When my woes open their mouths to consume me Or call for the parents of my grandparents Who have turned gods on another planet To come to my rescue The former being alien, […]
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