Pensive plans pets pious people Pushing poor powers to prey in their pates Pissing pride to puff and play A pent up pecker picks in power play II Pure persons pave power paths And pray to pistol preys at play Pouring petrification in pensive plans To pacify pains and pin position of pacemaker III Puffy […]
Bakers! When your hands do the mixing And your heat cry for toasting Do you get the body building To feed them your soul’s shillings? No! II Carpenters! When you kill those trees And you pay no fees And you peel their skins And maim their bodies Do you serve as the nail for the […]
Blames replace flames Flames which passions claimed Claimed in order to tame Tamed to quench and resurrect flames I blame mouths! Imagine the ride from lips to tongues And from tongues to longs So strong it digs deep down Until a farm or empty holes are created II For every sweet start Mouths star in […]
Flippy fiends not friends Faking fine in my fresh frame Fiercely fuming in furnace flight Fighting fire to flake their flames II Petty pets of pressing pains Passing pines in pissing piles Poor pulses pouting in people Present your papers in pens for peace III Do you deal with death? Drown death dens in dawns […]
If I step on your tail Don’t ask for a bail Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks II If you’ve swift tick tocks At least pause for a talk You’re so under lock And cares not for a weak flock Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks III So tick, talk Block […]
Don’t you bother telling me much I know in times past I was nothing as such Eight to eleven is a huge gap I think I need to give you and I a tap I’m no longer in amoasene You’re no longer in bente Like the spider inspired kente We have all covered our asene […]
“Sheeiiiii! Papa is gone? Agyeiiiii! I have none left! Wuoeiiiii! I’ve got to go with him” Legs go further from the unknown traveller II “Sheeiiiii! Who will feed me, agyeiiiii! My dark has fallen, wuoeiiiii! There’ll be none to bail me out of my debts” Looks into faces to find a replacement III Eiiiiii! Even […]
Make all the ruckus You trees in windy chorus Cutting tool echoes II Every Osama Awaits his own Obama To bring a hammer III You stand held by ground You rustle with hurting sound Tools seek your flesh pound IV When your doom nights fall As the machines make the call Where will your doom […]
Here I am Not a sham Quit the ram I mean you harm II Here I stand Like God’s hand Calling a band On your dry land III Don’t you wait Catch your bait Know your fate This is your date IV I’m conscience Calling your nonsense To whip you to sense To give you […]
Sleep like a sleepy sleeky bear Sent to see but has no cares Stop sure stuffs of selling sicks Of rough wrong bites of day’s teeth II Sleep like a sleepy nice kitten In a bed with huge hugging hems Heating in cold and healing in heat A yawn is bliss deserving a kiss III […]
An eating habit Freeing the soul and taste bud In tongue-land like eagle wings Could do all good Any day the sun shines, dims, blurs or goes to sleep II I don’t live like a grasshopper! My tongue might run like an alien But the same tongue runs smoother like the native I am Who […]
In mayonta The strong winds will calm And the heated sun will calm As the rains seize Only to drizzle at dawn The tsunamis will turn good breezes To embrace and caress me In mayonta II In mayonta I will stand like the moon I am In the dark followed by the stars above And […]
I have thoughts to say; Lion as chief of the forest Concatenates to Loss of smaller animals In the forest of Hanah II I’ve more thoughts to say; Leopards and hyenas know it But are afraid to Stir the nest of fearful bees Others think their stomachs precious III I still have more thoughts Coterminously, […]
Hear me blacks in arks Change the colour of your star So we can go far II You know black for death You use red for hot danger These we have, what now? III We are on travel And our star dims like black coal No wonder we stand IV We stand with no walks […]
If all I long Could fit into a song I would compose that song And cut my tongue II Because I’ll be among Those who’ll sound the gong Of bare hearted forever song And nothing could be wrong III All will sing my song Both old and young And I’ll stand emotionally strong […]
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 […]
I marvel at the way Taunters justify and say ‘tis a tradition and needs no reaction Sad! With today’s intellect and technology A pox on all those thoughts! Veins are connected A running blood goes through it Gayly working with other organs In feelings of ecstasy and Never wanting […]
He was clawed to flaw Canined to chain and insane Knew not his right path Going was trouble, standing, Great pain and hunger, back? Not! II Like man, like a beast Like a feet without a land seat Like heart dead in life He walked two paces and turned Walked back two paces and turned […]
The road prostitutes Letting all vehicles through Why doesn’t she have a voice? Poor roads, Even in rain, you accommodate all In heat, you are accommodative of all No rest for you? Like a helpless beauty, you lie As your beautiful flower is being flawed By layers and layers of ungrateful tires The washing bays […]
I live in a skirt A skirt zipped tightly to seal To seal as a present for the deserved I’m not renting out Definitely no to-lets II I know in rat holes Many moles can be placed To trap the hole lords But this zipped hole is not a rat hole Serving as a play […]
Trees placed bets on shoots Which promised to climb their world Still the young shoots aimed But many died being crashed by The feet of rain and hot sun II One tough shoot remained It climbed the biggest, tallest Tree among the lot Which bragged it was the greatest But the shoot held on too […]
Invincible ears All listening and sieving Please don’t sieve this one II In this hot season We need an intervention One worth mentioning by mouths III He should empty eyes Ones filled with hot problemed rains Knees are bended now IV All hungry stomachs Working hard must be appeased So minds would be pleased V […]
Swing and sing As your bells in me ring Like a thumb on a noisy string I want my sound to resonate In all the realms of harmony Like a humming bird In a safety shed So let your bells in me ring Like a thumb on a noisy string Shaking me like a tingalingaling […]
I hold my soul Like the caught mole Because I’m out of control What do you expect? A beautiful flower wilting? Seeing new give bud pangs! Hearing of other colours Fill this weak bud with regrets I stand like half shadow And half flower A leg on land A leg in the soil Controversial feelings […]
A day Bare of hurts Caressed by care Dreaded by death II Emancipate us From all ear thunders Greatly warming our blankets with Heat of earthly goodies III Irrespective of our transgressions Join forces with peace to Kill thoughts too heavy Lying on our peace of minds IV Marry our hearts with kindness always […]
Fireflies are hiding their fires Knowing well that dark always hires Living amidst the normal as desired A fly here, a fly there in evenness II Be a firefly Know when to glow Be like a river, know when to flow Even if it’s difficult you just try Or try being a butterfly Amoafowaa Sefa […]
Wandering pure minds Homing angelic bodies I know you are there II It takes a great while For you to catch up with us But I know you’re there III You need great control Like Christ with Holy Spirit But I know you’re there IV You have many names From cast aways to Satans But […]
Here are my arms Under the strictest of sincerity Giving you the freedom to enter Serving you with hope II Here are my eyes Under the spell of your love Growing intense for your attention Serving you with company III Here are my ears Until your mouth like radio […]
Rose buds Together Sell beauty II A peel A fall And beauty wanes III Must be hard To depart in peeling Falling apart On different grounds IV Glad that we are humans Who can be brought back As a flower bud Even when we peel and fall On different grounds Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Needs may justify wrongs But wants can’t say same for itself Wants in extreme Suckle from the breast milk of jealousy Which adds nutritious values of witchcraft Which in turn grow monsters of murder *** I need Some great heart may feed my need I want? Then I need hard work Which may give me […]
Bad spirits! Call Satan! You are being made clothes Clothes of all deception and sins And you lie in the quiet? II Last night, I met a thief He pleaded his cause and named Satan As the blind possessor who led him astray And you lie in the quiet? III Three days ago, I heard […]
Here swoons the moon And there goes the frowning sun On hurtful pontoon II When moon times out, it frowns and tears for sun to come Normal these sad hurts III When the moon crosses Sun in its time, dead witchcraft Wakes to stir trouble IV Fallibility Is all, discipline; its call That margin, so […]
Each comes with its own songs And each wants its name among Like a battle where none belongs The songs sing themselves like an odd wrong II Travelling with time, one must mime To hear its sounds so one can rhyme To feel its pulse so one can time And work so right to desist […]
Let’s leave like leaves Blown by beautiful breezes Into our internal selves Without whimpering thoughts, Caring not of cruel sticks Nor rot agents at our landing II Holding hearts heal hellish Thoughts toiled to thrash And separate to enmity So grace mine, let me grace yours Together let’s sail and dance To the whispers of […]
(Happy New Year to all you beautiful people. May this year strengthen our bond and help all creators have great breakthroughs! Blessings and good tidings! This is one of my New Year pieces; enjoy) Time tells toys of travellers That it tows them to tiredness After testing them with trial treats Of beauty II It […]
The goat painted red The town, until it ended up dead Leaving its huge bread II It wore it all And all unlike poles took the fall Until that nasty call III The knife watched as it grew Time bit and fanned it as it grew It felt not the wings of time as it […]
Machines of running Helpers and murderers alike Shine your eyes so bright II Machines of running This pet takes off inside you Please use care and run III You’re an errant boy You, as you, need not be coy So go slow, sweet boy IV The hands which made you You’ve proven your ruthlessness Many […]
Once a fisherman went to fish He rowed his boat and started to fish On a lonely sea with many a fish Hoping for a sweet dish Then he heard, “I wish you turn fish” He looked round, saw none, and concluded it was a talking fish He run home to prevent God from granting […]
Shame always tames I went for a walk In a very unfamiliar place With mouths which spoke in earthly tongues Feeling lost and paranoid Then I heard “nyini!” I frowned II What does this person mean? “Nyini?” Could that be a name of an animal? Could that mean they want to kill me Could that mean […]
It shot very far I realized it was a star I guess I went far II Peacock in a bar How can these feathers go far To show without mar? III So I threw it far Watched it brighten like a star When it reached that far IV Oh my good good star! Can I […]
The sun’s claws of heat And the harmattan’s beak of Cold are different but Their similarity strikes They make lovely cute dawn cry II How two enemies Can step on a meek lady Is like the ladle Which stirs fear in my mind’s pot I’ll make no bones about it III But dawn loves its […]
I caught his fever And begun to shiver All I needed was his river To calm my shivers and fever II I called a driver And became a believer That once he me delivers And I fell into his river, I’d truly be delivered III I went with this fever Into the hall of this […]
Donkeys are nothing Like monkeys The former walk like heartless robots The latter have options to walk, swing or jump II Cats are no bats The former are forever walking thieves The latter, forever banished livers of daylight Each sect nursing its scandal III Fishes have liberties in seas But know the fact that they […]
Once in a flowing dress I walked along the sea in duress Hoping the breeze would help caress My soul, and tow the wrecked pain on my mind Then I saw her; A woman of women and men With hair like protective bush Too beautiful with no room for transparency A face like God Looking […]
Paaa, paaaa, paaa, paa, paaa A child is born One who deserves a horn II Paaa, paaaa, paaa, paa, paaa Grab your coat And board a boat III Paaa, paaaa, paaa, paa, paaa Who cares to hate Please grab a plate IV Paaa, paaaa, paaa, paa, paaa I hear the love Which streams from above […]
Days have dragged us to Christmastide hoping for love Urging mouths to smile II Harmattan pampers African soil, winter frowns Loud on foreign lands III It is a challenge For blood to boil in live terms So let goodness flow IV Don’t murder birds to Chew alone, try thinking free And bless the others V […]
I am looking up So I know The clouds hang on your sky And rains tears on your head I see from far I don’t see how your heart churns But trust me, your sun is fast approaching So don’t give up II During these times, I know failure stands tall Mocking you to give […]
Palm-wines dance and shine In fine calabashes as wine Accentuating foods so fine Calling on souls to come and dine In a happy chatty line II The sky is filled with cloud Cloud turning, diving and proud Vultures hate the sky’s crowd And promise to build to shame the cloud Knowing it is the […]
Who is there? Oh all are here! I see the things Which Christmas brings But my pocket cries out And my mouth does pout II Who sees it? Oh all feels it Many are those Who’ll think of overdose To end the shame And get a loose name III Who is happy? Oh the sit-and-eats […]
Beaming bricks bear balls of bests Blistering bricks bear blows of bills Brimming sorrows of loneliness and pain Tears like rain in terrible torrents Fall on the latter whose mouth is sealed And has eyes which can’t be concealed The former’s life is but a hall of smiles Success reigns and honour calls loud In […]
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