As the many land With golden spoons And the many land With silver spoons With others landing With a bronze spoon How can you sit there watching While I land with no spoon? As the many reject The many clothes in boos And the many reject The many shoes With the many loving […]
On this shore I sit My tears being The water source Reminiscing the pace Of my steps from the womb On this shore I stop At the time You crossed my path And try to meander Past your gaze to no avail On this shore I fight To resist your gift And to […]
Once in the land of the wild God staged a judgement in the mild He called king lion Who sought to sing to enter Zion But sang the song of the murderous The crowd cheered in happiness Their terrorist has been fairly judged by His Holiness They sang and praised God’s name was raised […]
A noise, I stop, Turn, Shiver, Panic And rush back into my hole If that is my trait as an ant, Would I be a master Going down the annals In the school of Christ? Amidst the fears, I strive For the times of the rains I gather In the promising sunlight, […]
Our seeds are sewn In love and growth We land on the hands Our seeds are sewn In love and growth We land on the hands Of the earth with faith But mostly attract frowns on faces Why? A little angelic animal lands in the cradle Why? Human expectation has been breeched […]
None to inform No light for television No interest in falling currency The people of Crotoa village Only think of feeding They owe no one They feed themselves But in trying to feed others They come at a cost, A cost the government bears Ghana, ghana Gold turning sand Thieves of the poor […]
Bubbles in the blood Yearning suddenly flood Eyes are closing Hands are holding Breathes suddenly rule A dance as sweet as honey Change of names into honey Legs in rhyme Feelings like crime Cupid stands smiling “Abena, Tawia, wake, please wake There’s chaos that needs unravelling” Damn these dreams. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
Upon the directive of the government All streets must have a numerical adornment To make it easier for settlement Agreed, seemed like a good judgement Hehe haha hehe, I must laugh in this ville When in Ghana, I see Loiusville And I come across Eddyville I wonder what happened to Kojovile Africopiers Extreme […]
Croaking frogs sing in fear Scared antelopes run to save their lives so dear The pain in the owls’ voices, so clear Nothing seems mere In these times, in this jungle Ants are hiding in their tiny holes Snakes are hiding in borrowed anthills The lions’ den is crowded by strangers But the lions […]
Stony, stony, stony mountain No water, no food, no assuring fountain Heart on fire No heart’s desire I’ve lost my bid on the painful counting Stony, stony, stony mountain Fearfully, heartlessly and horribly daunting All you’ve made me is a crier As the sun do me frier And some hungry lions keep on haunting […]
Hospitality Brutality Extreme poverty Queer animosity On this continent of love Rare corruption Thoughts on a mission To accomplish their visions Of filling their pockets with grave decisions On this continent of love Like ants around wood Looking for food If we work as they stood Our forefathers will be in the blessing […]
I woke in the morning To the calls of crowing And loved the air blowing And saw the trees swinging I loved the birds singing And loved the bush brushing Happily, happily, to the stream I went singing The stream kept waving The rats kept strolling The sun kept smiling The dust kept dancing […]
Faithfulness! A word as beautiful As a flower With many opened Holes of deceit in deed Love! A word sought From mouths of worthy beings But heavily utilised By pain, mockery and hatred Trust! A word which lights The face and tingles the heart Only to be a pawn In the hands of […]
You push men into the limelight And serve as mouths of a future bright But men are men and claim are men When they become fertile money hatching hen’ Poor heads which hurt to push Sorry for being forced into the bush After you make comfortable roosters Of hen boosters I know it is a […]
I need to feel the sun I need to feel the sun in my land I don’t need blankets When it is too hot for clothes I need to drink water I need to drink potent water I need no liquor When thirst warns to drown me in the sea of death I […]
On a happy sea tour Our love blossomed to the core All sores aimed to heal But the sea goddesses hated for it to be real We sailed without mails We shared in all the sails We loved, and held I forgot, the soldiering limpy loss I held Until your unfortunate slip Reminded […]
Gentle sunlight tries hiding behind The trees to no avail Gentle rivers blow beautiful breezes Which set the soul’s peaceful fantasy at sail Breath in, Breath out and relax your brain Worry is never in the land of this great read Imagine the birds singing your lullabic chorus And the air fanning your heat And […]
Streams sleep sad Skies sit straight Lands lie loathing Our unthoughtful usage Trees’ talks tell Birds’ boos bell Air actually angers At our insensitivities We destroy Without thoughts, Kill Without planting, We pollute And laugh Thinking We’re superior To them “Beware!” They say Their renewed anger May turn to collapse mankind. Amoafowaa […]
The eagles are fowls The fowls are eagles The houses are the sky The sky is the houses In her world. Elephants are ants Ants are elephants Lions are the cats Cats are the lions In her world Food goes through the rear Feaces come through the mouth The back houses the babies […]
A trickster, an afflicted An ordinary, a spiritualist Met at the path of need The former in monetary need The latter in need of freedom The stick which fails to be a branch And goes wandering, ends up in The gutters of the mouth So darn right, this adage Thus, the dried leaf faced […]
So one came With thoughts of putting me to shame His goatee looked so lame Yet he sought to me tame I let him go with ego deflated Completely different from how he came Another came Betting to have me tamed His antagonistic tricks I had defamed His time belled out and he was […]
What if Shakespeare’s thoughts Slept, sat, woke, ate, drank, slept And followed him to the grave? What if Thomas Eddison’s thoughts Slept, sat, woke, ate, drank, slept And followed him to the grave? What if Alexander Wolcott’s thoughts Slept, sat, woke, ate, drank, slept And followed him to the grave? What if […]
Sing me a song Sing me a song whose cords Will massage my scalp better than shea butter A song whose notes will make the tightest jeans Self-destruct and make all pain flee From this headstrong being Sing me a song which blends All the voices of the choir A song with no accompaniment […]
Under the dark dark sky With fireflies as our light, We cared only about our hearts’ rhythms And shunned the noisy mosquitoes Hunger tried but failed in its bid for our separation Money tried but failed woefully And aimless tongues tried all they could but ended up Hiding under the skirts of their mouths […]
“I’ll close my heart And stop it From taking in any possible breaker I’ll immerse myself In work which keeps me fulfilled And will never look into attractive eyes I swear to live by myself Doing good and neglecting all males Let them drown for all I care” All these are promises […]
Tonight, I need to sing a duet I’m equipped with this high tone set On this stage where many have bet Tonight, I need to blend in bliss In a shivering electrifying kiss To make enemies extremely hiss Tonight, I need to sleep for long In a world where I’ll safely belong Blessed […]
“Who would’ve known The one who made the powerfuls terror known Could be taken down In an open town By one whose name rhymes As his and lived in his same times? Who would’ve known The one whose fear was never shown Would have no voice And no choice And would be stripped off […]
In my idleness and tiredness Of hearing the screams of pain, I decided to take a stroll in Africa And what did I see? I saw indifference chewing an unmeasured stick Sitting on our wall, watching and shaking its head I reached out but it had sold its ears to disappointment And had thrown […]
I need us to sit In chairs that will fit And speak abjectly Because I am bereft of happiness And I can see the clouds of sadness hanging on your head Forget the pain And think of what we stand to gain We’ve cast aspersions, loathed for public viewing We’ve sat in wild silence […]
The love story of the sea and shore Pushes me the fore The sea met the shore Merged and formed the sea shore They went for many tours Aiming to extend their territory They shared their all; The sea cooling the shore, The shore being the chair for the tired waves They held hands […]
Words shout and clang In a bouty bang […]
Atia the tailor met a sailor On a dreamy angry shore He made his scissors his siren to call The coiny pocket of the sailor who toured He got what he wanted And won the contract Of an oldy tattered shirt He cut away the hands in broad day The sailor saw he […]
I am from here But I’ll not hide it under a sneer The Africa to detest Must be detested by all Under the bright sky, A lone traveller walked Time beating him As the moon kept him watched My continental people saw he was vulnerable And thought of what their spiritualist had said […]
For a mystic unknown Much hatred is shown For a mythical blessing There are many hate lessons So this one says hurtful things to that one And that one cuts the ear of this one And the brother of this one kills that one What is their aim? To please one who has never been […]
I can tell you pride has been sold For power in my home For the first man status, a sheep clothe was worn. To be the keeper of all, A known affluence was paraded But a lion could never stay in a sheep clothe forever It tore free immediately it landed on the stool […]
An ugly fixture Can be a god A horrible mixture Can be a cure In my worst I try my best To make me a god Once in a while Then like a peacock I spring back to life, Stretch my wings And let the world see The me which slept. Dear friend, […]
I am at a yellow position Watching your quick reds And your greens As they switch in fast paces against me Giving my thoughts no rest And my heart no peace I have been at this position Waiting for you to come to a decision And help me be at ease My chest cannot […]
Oration of chastity Parading of nudity Inculcation of sincerity Akweley passed the test of “Sonimouni” No rice or corn ingestion She was bathed in a river with admonition Of family ties and connection By the gathering of all hands to eat “Ho fufui” Her hands were trained on the culinary Her skills, […]
This is a clarion call You saw the dirty fall There is none in your net, no ball So why can’t we form a happy wall? This is a clarion call Let’s meet in the hall And walk hand in hand to the mall No need to be blinded by a blindy pall […]
We cannot be the sun and moon Whose shuttles orbit hundreds of miles To keep their distances and painfully swoon Light repels light no matter their differences But this light wants to merge in a cocoon With the light that is tearing its eyes For its weak rays need yours to happily swoon And sack […]
Hehehehe, one plus one is one But what is this I hear? That Paa Ekow wants a nice earthenware To be his one and only bowl. Not a bad idea, after all, a man must have a bowl But, what is this I’m hearing? That he wants a last-hand bowl? This bowl I know, is […]
Her hands are not for grabs She is the cook, the cook for all mouths Those hands cannot be broken like the legs of crabs They must be together for the sake of all mouths The cook cooks and the eater eats What is this about one wanting all her bowls? And what is […]
I remember,
I remember my love for darkness
For grandma sat on her story throne
With trickles of fire-lights showing her face
And deepening the darkness at her back,
Like a muse, she poured down all the secrets of Kwaku Ananse; the spider
Who like a chameleon, went from doing good to being bad
And from being wise to acting foolish
When my clouds formed in my sky It called the rain, I saw with my eye Then it called the storm Which stormed with lightning There was flooding and I was soaked My umbrella flew away, I nearly choked The rains camouflaged my tears So all they saw from afar was my soaked being […]
Trading chastity for a dime Dogmatic audacity for a rhyme Pimping vanity for a mime Brutal insanity for a thyme Selling veracity for a prime I need to keep my sanctity Trading amity for a dime Humping sanity for a crime Hailing mendacity for a good time Insane profanity for a chime Consuming fatality […]
Why does it change? I smiled knowing the preposterousness Of the raining promises The smiles from the heart Lighting the eyes The heat from our bodies like mild fire from the Fireplace in the cold being enough To protect us from the cold The cold sweat breaking on a cold day, […]
She tends to a farm,
A farm benevolent like heaven,
Which kills all hunger but hers
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
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 […]
I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Its teeth chewing deep into the bones of my heart, Its claws digging deep into my knee bones Rendering me immobile I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Like a fool, I saw only its beautiful roses Like a fool,I decided to decorate […]
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