Overflowing Blood of hearts merged and urged by fate In there, everyday models Valentine’s deeds Harvesting laughter in serene happiness Many are in the embrace Eating from the plates of love with the fork of contentment It makes me turn Michael Bolton’s tune into a question Are you the one he sings of for me […]
Clouds of wishes mostly fall from the sky of dreams Funny how they mostly land in far seas Sending echoes of their ovations and screams Breaking hearts of wannabes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 27, 2018
Do not grovel even in a hovel For each of our remains will taste the dig of a shovel Idolize your mirror reflections Even when you face constant rejections For you are a soul in a body And a spirit not at all shoddy You are like a myth in passing But a warrior on […]
Our elders ask Only one saw so who is the witness? I am a victim of circumstance One caught like an innocent antelope In an unknown hunter’s trap One set in a cage meant for an unknown One substituted by chance with a lucky being Protected well by a worldly antagonist whose apparel fits me […]
Like water They seep through rocks of hearts Engraving themselves as reference sources Marking themselves beside their makers II Words… So powerful that elders analogise Their retraction to spittle thrown into gutters Which have seen no cleaning for decades Branding royals servants of poor tongues Pushing crowns from heads cemented by fate III Words… Ordinary […]
When the gods speak into mouthpieces Let the people get their earpieces If the street listens to beats Legs get massaged by the rhythms Who are legs to complain? II Generations die for generations to live A kiss in the dark in some archaic moments Sex on the street in contemporary times Leafs of innocence fall […]
Serious basket sent to the stream of ambitions To fetch heads which sync with hands In hardwork to weave the nation Suddenly developed comedic holes Posing pictures of ridicule In a nation whose teeth can’t afford a smile Talk less of laughter II Fishes flawed and thrown out Have majestically managed to catwalk Into the […]
We are our illnesses We, golden children Conceived painfully and graciously By Asaase Yaa, the goddess of nature How can we heal? II Our legs flirt with fine dust of deceit Enthroning it to build mansions In our priced noses Distributing coughs of fear Digging pain of panic Blinding us and Developing weaknesses which deepen […]
Sigh The infra dig man-cue For flowers of honour Is not part of the deities I worship II Sigh Bombastic preachers Robed in cover of their leeched skin Can’t make me sleep No matter the soothing of their evoking lullabies III Sigh Mouths which work in the dark And mute in light Can never move a […]
Pushed by loving winds from my home tree Onto dead leaves I have smelt much unpleasantness Tasted rot Been blown here and there A pawn of the air II I have searched deserts And felt the pelts of sand Barely made it out with visible holes all over A poor little leaf like me I […]
This heart Wears a hat Dodging difficulties In mythical thinking II This head Has an umbrella Covered in blessed rains But seeing its fall III These legs Want to be in congregation Why then do they Feel no move IV I feel you are there But eyes have no proof The proof of mind Cancels […]
The farm is a farmer’s livelihood He lives in toil, defying sweat Battling insects, birds, all pests When harvest fully blooms Lazy papers eat best Crumbs for hands toiled Callouses Heal not Growth Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
Time walks in a rush With no ears for stops No eyes to turn back No mouth nor stomach to stop and feed No breath to feel tired let alone pause to rest It sure is the creator’s robot Set like a watch man to impartially measure us What tough scrutiny it gives! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
In bright daylight Dark clouds have formed Blinding eyes and raining heartaches *E*ven the dust was preferred *V*astly over this daylight blindness *A*dɛn? Nukejɔ? Maaba? Mini sani po nɛ? II Death has bitten into a delicious mind One whose pages were enriched With harvests of higher learning One whose ink had so much And was […]
You sit like bloated bread With cuffed fingers in the air Calling attention and claiming hold Of a healthy hottie breed Are you the only hungry fish in the sea? II You have paid hands to wash and clean With instruction as your only deed Who but a fool will serve a flu? Wake your […]
Explorations of the past Led to greedy seeds sewn like monster plants Monster plants which grew to take what it never owned Cruel “beela” traps were set up In black hunt Aims of strength harvest causing mean arrests As molestations manifested in attestations Ah! Chained beings turned to dogs Were forcefully pulled to hop like […]
My tongue is pampered Like a mushroom on an anthill Crowned by the fertile farms of mother nature Ghana, my motherland! II So much do they give Plants and trees Leaves and all Yam boils to accommodate many My favourite; “potogum hwiegum” Led by the great garden eggs With koobi as angels at post Add […]
I need, need and need The love they speak of I want to be a cassava And meet a plaintain, yam or cocoyam And together be pounded In the mortars of life by its pestles And blend in the perfect fufu II I need, need and need I need the friction of missing Photographic memories […]
The creator wove his world Like Kwaku Ananse weaves his web Carefully Giving unto each gifts to fend I can’t fathom the choas in chimes If goats were elephants Can you? II From the hair of the sky To the toes of the earth Everything in and without Would shiver and hover At the visit […]
Each being is a problem A problem with a formula A formula which stands as key To unlock at appropriate times For all to see So I am studying hard II Like maths There are those like simple sets Those like easy fractions Those like intriguing surds Those like scary simultaneous equations And those like […]
Crawling snails Are scarier than jumping goats They are armed by silence And aided by care Let all heads be still in listening Do snails have noisy footsteps? Do they have loud voices to call for alertness? Don’t they have such cool touches? Ones to make fantasies real? Like shadows they penetrate Their shapes and […]
Sire Now the situation is dire Grant my desire And all the pride for you I will acquire Even as I walk through this fire I do know enemies, for me, this pain hire I know there awaits a mire And the beatings of struggling wire For they never tire Sire All they pump are […]
Cry rain, light, thunder Blossomed roses flirt with all Dust, filth included Kisses that misses disses Hit hard harbouring hatred II Where is harmony Without ha-money? When hands seek to be seen in waves Instead of fighting for farms? III Love a flower Love its thorns, not only the nectar Love a shower Love its […]
The she in me Is like a traveling soul Stuck in a robbed hut Needing hands to help her transport Into a he frame A he frame that can visit the gods II Who can blame her? She too craves for a voice for choice To exorcise loneliness She too craves for the chance To […]
When my heaven in daylight turns to hell Calling to keep a countenance none can tell I always yearn to recoil into my shell Like a tortoise in danger smell II Oh how I wish there was a bell To help me skip any problem cell So none can say “she fell” And carry me […]
What do you see? Birds in flight with different wings? Different sizes of animals On all fours living as they please? Those struggling on twos And those sailing with wings? Rivers screaming for seas? Clouds clutching on skies? Airs roaming Invisibly aimlessly Touching with no fingerprints? Look Look hard Tell what you see Think the […]
Lord I need For you to breed My inner seed In your kind deed II I need to feed So I try to weed And try to heed But I flaw my creed III Free my mind Free my soul Free my body To sour like your dove When I fall in the mud I […]
We have crossed Crossed the rubicon And can never get a head To dream of change Change which can alter positively II We have, like gluttons, dined Dined with the undinables Food whose stench can never be removed Let alone hidden from its seekers Who have the light to chase We who have no light […]
Just a glance At an entrance And it fell into a trance Never asking for a chance To get enchanted Are you a dog on climbing duty? II Agya Waadwo! So I met a goat on heat It failed to bleat And chased on three feet Hoping to me cheat Me, that bloody future meat!!! […]
Listen! Sweet scented gums of today Your parceling is cool Your taste is sweet Beware of teeth of grinders II When they get you They will strap you naked Prepare their tongues In their horrid holes And put you in between their monstrous teeth III They will chew and chew Chew and chew Like grinding […]
If the sky had no earth It wouldn’t need the sun to shine Nor the moon to brighten Nor darkness to necessitate invention of light Mamas!!! You are the earth Which take what the sky gives And work to make them worthy For recycling To keep creation going II Like swans you love to shine […]
That I am a feminist Does not make me a porcupine Shooting at anyone or anything When I feel threatened Afterall cuddling moves the heart to work In satisfaction and hope II That I am a feminist Makes me no violent hen Pecking and chasing Just because I can The fact that I am treated […]
Come Let hands touch hands If sparks flow Let them worry about their lightening As we enjoy their shine Dancing to the whispers of the air Exploring the contours of our bodies in our minds Fishing for golden information From the seas of our eyes II Come I’ve made a pact with the sky Who […]
Whoever best fits the crown of hypocrisy Must best answer in awareness And not in disgust And end this difficult conundrum Our mouths scream hatred Hatred for even those who are trying To remedy the ills of their ancestors While bitterness sits in our hearts Like complacent royals II We cry ‘we aren’t like them’ […]
Sneaking to take Forcing to break Risking the stakes Is nothing for boasting A break of sweats With no soul’s hurt Movements of hands Meant to honestly feed Panting of breath Chasing care Are like blessings from above No work is blow down Honesty is all it takes To pass the candidacy of May 1 […]
I have loved Loved like a mother hen Loving a wild cock In the midst of many young and vibrant hens II I have loved Loved like a meek sheep Loving a very potent he goat With so many options And no eyes for love detection III I have loved Loved like an obedient donkey […]
I am no being in a fridge Hallelujah to creation!!! I hide not in clothes Flaunting my figure I live with the sun Massaged by its rays I dance with the air Caressed by its tunes I partner light footwears In travel, not carrying their weight And bond with the earth Like its trees and […]
Who is best here? One who smells the loo And sees through the eyes of her boo Feeling the outside through hearing Or one shut to the outside With no eyes and mouths on the ground? Knowing and not feeling Seeing in chaining Shut in acceptance Oh I need none None at all No chains […]
The once fertile mother Who grew to feed all And had more in store Now sits like a skeleton Her plumpy figure reduced to naught As her once overflowing breastmilk Hide in scacity Pushing her blood out for feeding Turning the children who are culprits of her woes vampires II Who made her so? Could […]
How are beings of the land To see the tears of beings in the sea? How does the sun see the light of a torch at its peak? How can the fish feel an aching wing? Can a whirlwind listen to the voice of the gentle breeze When it sees its dancing mate? II Daughter […]
Like the gates of life The heaven are fully opened Its crown solidly on its head Its smile nicely in place Its arms widely opened It takes just love in spirit To get one through II Like the paths of streams The ears of heaven lie Waiting to be reached no matter the obstacles All […]
Gone are the bright Saturdays Where pots danced on happy heads As giggles followed gay girls Like their shadows to streams And hot gossips coloured their tongues like “alewa” Now the streams mostly come to them Following their instructions to flow Oh Clever gods!!! II Gone are the anxious hunters Those who yearned for their […]
It is a game of healing And gives great feeling An emptying so fulfilling Frees strength jailing II Knock your mind To knock your lips To show your teeth In a smiling pose Touch your stomach And raise a sound Ha ha ha Isn’t it a great feeling? II Laugh it out Rain out the […]
The butterfly envies The flight of birds in higher realms And thinks it will do anything Anything to be higher II What the butterfly does not know Is that there are birds and there are birds There are birds ugly and wild There are birds beautiful and vulnerable There are birds normal but filthy There […]
Mid day consumes morning Knowing not evening awaits As evening consumes mid-day Always trying to blend with night Even night forgets there is dawn Which clears the path for the morning Cruel morning which carries mid-day’s bitterness Consumes dawn into its tears A chase and a chase A swallow and a swallow Even shadows lengthen […]
Sing me no song of a tiger None of a lion None of a hyena For like a lost dove I can stand no scary roars II Sing me no song of a dog None of a bull None of a cow None of a goat Like the queen of quietude I can stand not […]
There must be a God for each! I believe there must be a God for each! Urging on their priced creations Breeding fierce competition Creating chances Being defeated Winning and cheering While they oposing losers cry There must surely be a God for each Creator of a model being to keep Programmer of every soul to […]
Miles with its wiles Have drawn a picture of longing Drawing mind closer to you Like a magnetic wave Pulled in by a metal wrapped in its interest II Glued in thoughts Separated in body I shake like a leaf in epileptic wind waves Eyes wide open and I fall Eyes tightly closed and I […]
With one mind All sought to find Freedom which in bondage hid to blind But none triumphed but one in a kind Kwame Nkrumah! Stopper of the colonial grind! II We have travelled a long way Graduated to adulthood so can have our say Way past our childish play Not so easy a stay But […]
Kwame Osei climbs trees Whenever he me sees He says he’ll pay my fees Then whine like bugged bees But whenever papa sees, he flees II Kojo Dzakpasu agbadza dances Whenever he me sees in his chances He, his muscles enhances As he my face glances Warning all to watch their stances Behaving like a […]
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