As we stand in our fallibility Like soldiers with brave masks showing our durability We’re like maize plants Moving like hungry ants When the winds place their calls To have our falls II As we claim authenticities As lesser lives cry on our artificialities Like victims whose lives were taken Before their happiness was awaken […]
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WRINKLED IN PRIME
Wrinkled, She is wrinkled in her prime Wrinkled, She is wrinkled while her mates glow Wrinkled, She is wrinkled by scorching distortion, Wrinkled by omnivorous corruption Wrinkled by familial keep-up appearances Wrinkled by fence sitting Wrinkled by money gluttons Wrinkled by horrid crime sexing Wrinkled, just wrinkled By eyes of jealousy “Ghanamanosyncratics nsempiisms” Nana Awere […]
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A JUMP IN THE WELL
He lived like a goat Taking all the beatings And wearing debt’s coats Took all the curses He rode tear boats Taking all the beggings He yielded to no antidote Until Afia asked him why. II Mr. Kadeka laughed out loud Sat his buttocks And looked so proud Craned his neck To clear the path’s […]
Where lies your heart? In the will of safety or doom? Trust your heart to a machine That can crash and maim? II Where lies your fear? Oh travelling heart? In the machete of maiming Or in the bowl of death? III Where lies your motivation? In the importance of work Or in […]
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HEAL THE NATION
Heal the nation By being doctors of sanitation Inject polythene to death And zap tins’ breath II Heal the nation By delivering pregnant gutters And impregnating bins Do make mosquitoes homeless III Heal the nation By making toilets bell Leaving nature’s smell On bushes and land IV Heal the nation By embracing neatness Banishing flies […]
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MARATHONIC PROCREATION
Maa Yaa! Come and listen! I went looking for snails Then I saw Oforiwaa strapping her newborn, I also saw her holding two of her youngs Then I asked how she was doing, She told me ” Who can be finer than me? Me who gives birth to the strength of the nation This whole […]
They fight seriously Why? Look here, ground-nuts and beans! Fighting for nothing Is like falling into grounds Full of herbivoric pests II As a leaf, I probed Beans claim superiority For being flower-borns As ground-nuts claim bosshood for Being root borns, how trivial! III You silly fighting beans, Don’t you know you depend on roots […]
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WHISPERS OF TINGLERS
Sight is calling might As it shines so bright But might doesn’t make it light II When natural aphrodisiacs Stand on heels of passion, Who can quench its fire? III Night’s whispers Make these walkers intense Setting heart on fire IV Calling control to quench Flying forced winds to work Bath the body with an […]
Banned by a Beatrice Burning bear’s bread Bertha became a bystander Being booed by Beatrice In broad bay-light II Being the best, Bertha breathed and bowed When Beatrice bought the shame Of belittling, after seeing Bertha Oh shying shame! III Best be better At being no bore When your bones get bitter At boring beasts […]
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CATS SERENADING MICE
When a cat falls in love with a mouse Certainly, it must prepare to banish hunger Form its life Or face the brightest darkness That will engulf it After breaking the bones of the one It feels great love for II When a mouse falls in love with a cat One-sidedly, It must cultivate the […]
When hands suffer to beat drums And parched throats wince as they taste rums Feet must be whipped when they stay calm II As the hands make the sounds Let the feet do the rounds Like possessed by the gods who watch III Africa is a dancing god Africans are dancers for the sun and […]
Like brooms, we must live In a belt of peace which sings, Calling hope for all II Like flowing rivers We must all join a good sea To protect fishlings III Like the wide bright sky We must make room for sun, rains Thunders and still smile IV Like the friendly moon We must be […]
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SWEET SPOONS
I Those with smooth vocabulary spoons Stir roughly emotions of weak soups Soups clutch at the spoons Hoping to be saved In possible whirl storms It could be ruthless tsunamis II I, do watch I, see the touches I, get appalled, Seeing the breakages of emotional bones Causing the murders of strong emotional soldiers […]
Poetry, is fast gaining roots in Ghana, and as such, there are modern poets who are helping give it a boost in the entertainment industry. I must commend the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW) for helping its members gain the recognition they need. Being what many call a prolific writer, I started writing poetry when […]
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TIMES
Dawn’s whispers It freshness and tears Its soothings caress Bodies smile and feel Which arena can compare? II Morning’s massages Its beauty and smiles Its vitamins like potent drugs Bodies smile and feel Which arena can compare? III Afternoon’s strength Its drying and heat Its scares and energy Bodies love in care Which […]
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DELICO CHANGE
Dawadawa and prekese Are now ruled by curry powder And white spices Ghana men hide in masks Thinking they are trending And I ask myself why? II Days when our older generation lived They lived on hwintia, pepreh and kakaduro Adding mako, making sure akoko messa Dance in soups with fowl carcasses in their rivers […]
I am a bright star I need to see brighter sun Help! Help Mister Dark II I am a bright star Sitting dazed like trapped by clouds I need to see sun III With sun in deep sleep While I am fully awake How do I meet her? IV Please Mister Dark, help I help […]
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UNIFICATION IN DEFECATION
Sometimes I wish I were a broom Strapped together with others In a tight band So I will never lack company And like an eternal love, Be together forever I would hate to be a dropout Because I wouldn’t want to be a child’s play For in the hands of the child, I know my […]
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BORN TO PAIR (ETHEREE)
Twins Born wins Twins oh twins! Conceived to pair From the bed in womb To the parting to the tomb They are competitors and team Jealousy stays and sleeps in their midst They need discipline and love to conquer Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Inspired by a […]
Tomatoes, onions Pepper and salt, fish, water Groundnut or palmnut Should I bring in the others? They live independently II Living by themselves So conceited like bosses Never knowing they will leave Together in pots On flames with fingers like swords III Sad that is not all Their carcasses travel through Odours, crashing stones With […]
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SKY DRAMA
Tears, like cloud in sky When rained, clears the sky so right Paving way for sun II Pain, like snow on earth When cleared, cleans the earth so well Showing neat beauty III Let it rain till dawn And help the sun rise with ease To heal all pain Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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No Images; Please Think
A talk will help with the walk A lock can’t help to block *** Prep does help in bold step No bumper comes from slumber *** Cats are lions when they yearn to reach Zion As bats are eagles when they battle daylight *** Wise words have smooth road In the ears of one who […]
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KOLIKOLIKOS
When the cats are mewing And the dogs are backing And many birds are chirping And many snakes are hissing Trying to get the lion’s attention, Trust me, all it hears are meats Yes, meats calling to be chewed *** Instead of planning a trapping And getting a catching So they can get ears to […]
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WHEN HE CALLS
When he calls I keep rolling like a ball I keep moving like a sound I keep flowing like a river *** When he sighs I keep over reacting like a mouse I keep worrying like a lost parrot Tears keep overflowing within me like a fountain *** When he stumbles I keep diving like […]
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SEDUCTION OF SIN
Why sin was made ineluctable, Abena, I do not know Its terribly sweet whispers Its beautiful shapes and colours Its mysterious rush of adrenaline Its promises of gain Rubbed by its soothing balm of satisfaction after success, Erase thoughts of its consequences II There I was Standing at the threshold of sin Watching Amidu cuddle […]
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PARADOXICALLY SILLY
Fans and heaters Fire and ice Cold marries shivers Heat drains sweat II Suns and rains Brightness and drinks Bright leads all Drinks satisfy thirst III Again suns and rains Dust and flood Dust gives cold Flood kills in cold Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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FLIRTATIOUS BACKFIRINGS (TANKA)
While day flirts with air Thinking it can ward off night And air flirts with day Thinking it can light its path The trees nod their heads, watching II They see this all times Expectations in firing They all leave town and die down Being bombed by darkness How I wish some use their heads! […]
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THAT LOVELY MEL
Sound the bell Let actions tell Of the tree which fell For the lovely Mel In an analogy which sells And I will step into the shoes of Mel And wouldn’t mind being the tree which fell II Long go, a huge tree fell Across a trench which was so deep It fell to […]
The bulb brightens Like a higher version of candles Knowing air can never get close Knowing its life will end not with a wick It knows it is not immortal But feels it can brighten longer than most candles I am that bulb And until a hot iron brings me down Or a hot current […]
Sparks of lightening When the moon meets sun Sparks of electricity When pluses stand beside negation Sparks and sparks Is what I need Make me the moon If you need to be the sun And let’s produce many stars To help us shine bright Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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ON THIS DAY WHEN LOVE CALLS
When we do meet Let the nation of our eyes merge Into a nation so perfect Forcing our tyres to move with speed For our hands to lock in love I do have pots ready to cook When you bring the ingredients And stir after pouring your great waters into my river Who knows, I […]
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FOR THE BROKEN
Oh ye brokens! I bring you some few tokens Of words many mouths have spoken In their bid to calm past broken II There were two swans Who fell at once Into a ditch A ditch more like a bitch III It bit them Confined them And forced them to love So they thought it […]
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LEFT: VALENTRIMO
Trimmed and hemmed? Oh no! You should have known There are miserly mice Who hate to share On the feast of “hand go hand comes” Especially when their hands are the longest So stop flooding the land of your face Stop looking into the hemmed holes Stop being the cat and forget the mouse And […]
When Ghana was hit and sat on by snow Gallant Kwame Nkrumah felt the blow He watched as the Gold Coast sunk so low Watched and learned so hard to tow their glow He succeeded and with genius thoughts held the snow And eventually succeeded in banishing her with a 1957 blow And sat on […]
There is a place where I belong It seems I’ve always there belonged Even while I’m resting under this earthly tree Its eastern corridors reek freedom song Freedom from self, the lyrics of the song From the stitched, to the fried heart From the sick, to heads needed to be heard From the thorned, to […]
When our minds get together In a bind that can’t go asunder Peace dances as chaos cries Harmony jubilates as jealousy lies So let’s flee in our good highs II Let claps shout And love be stout Let peace be still And like broom, feel The hope standstill Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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TRYING TIMES
Tied to trouble’s tantrums, Today, I turn to You totally Turn around and talk to the times Like the omnipotent that You really are To calm the tantrum of troubles II Here, herald the realms Hear my heart’s heaviness Heal my heat and replace with happiness Helping my hand always To cease all hurts III […]
When the cameraman dies Many accuse the camera of lies As his image is searched But none can be fetched He got lost behind the scenes While he was busy fetching other scenes Never did he think to be needed in a frame Until his soul answered the call Causing chaos in the hall And […]
Here I am Sand close to the sea Always wet like a condemned prisoner Even when the weather is warm As other sands turn dust Dancing in the corridors of the breezes, I stay where I am Bounded by seawater I know I’ll eventually be washed ashore And get lost in the same sea of […]
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PUPPETS (HAIKU)
We started on clouds Now pride ties us like a rope Dangling us in air II How did we get here? Mouths playing opposition To our hearts true sounds III How did we get here? Tears for the open hidden And shed in the dark IV How did we get here? Ears […]
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BITING BOUTS
Baron bought bread brought by Berth Beating Ben by bribing Berth Brewing beverages bought by Ben Belittling Brown by buying beef Brought-up by Brown’s best boys II “Bring my bread Bring my beverage Bring back my beef in the best bowl” But Baron boasted by biting the last bite Betting Both Ben and Brown That […]
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SWEPT OFF HER FEET
“Oh saintly mermaid! One with a heavenly touch! You are the breath I need to have! II Oh beautiful princess Of a higher kingdom Look down in love On this pitiful patient of love” III Ordinary Abea Thought she had landed Looked down and danced For the one who beckoned in humility IV The dance […]
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VALENTINE ANTICIPANTS
“He would buy me some shoes Which would themselves give boos We will never slip in twos Because we work well as twos” II These are words from novices You all need some services Your minds do have some crevices So come for the services III Even those bonded by bands Showing always on their […]
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NO BURDEN OF GUILT (HAIKU)
“Bone of contention? He lived with a chain of thoughts Ringing in his mind II Kong tang yang kang kong! They rung, rung, rung rung non-stop Until Pantan called III Those loads he carried Those in his goodness married Shunned him totally IV Funny how life sailed There was no burden of guilt None asked […]
When busy legs lie Being neglected by hearts which sigh Watching others move As minds think of all its loss Doom blankets future wishes II Will I ever rise? Will I ever leave like them? Will I ever laugh? Will I ever get my wish? Dilemic songs sing themselves III If God watches now Let […]
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OUR SACRED TEMPLES
Deep within hearts Are yearnings never to be satisfied Many dramas never to be acted Hurts turned shame never to be seen Tears buried under pride never to be dug Words hidden in fear balloon never to burst And so the story is never complete As seated deep our these hidden In a safe like […]
Caused by uncontrolled division of abnormal cells, cancer grows to take lives, irrespective of personalities and fame II Early detection Is needed for a fair fight Once outweighed; no hope So stop tobacco intake Eat well, cut down alcohol III Exercise is key Learn to enjoy monrning sun Do practice safe sex Green tea is […]
Pretty as flower Rotting within, sharp contrast Oh hearts of the gods! II You have soothing words “He whom the gods love dies young” Ye gods, please hate me! III I don’t need your love! I do not need your warm love! But your protection! IV Let me win this time Let me win again, […]
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FARMS OF GREENS
When farms of greens are cultivated And the farmers are without harvesting tools And the farmed lack the strength of nutrition Chaos abounds How these farms get farmed By allowing the farmers to farm to harm Beats minds which care for ready farms Please get green farms to term Please get green farms to grow […]
Selling sin sores Satan saw such seal; Saints seek supremacy, So Satan sold to series of saints II “Send sinners to the stakes” Supposed saints say in symphony Silly, scents of sins Sorrowfully stay on the saints III Stop sending sinners to the stakes Saints are sentenced to sell sins too And if saints say […]
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