You were beautiful Your coconuts’ early openings just wonderful Your need to lead Overbearing but powerful Why do you now look pitiful? II Most of your children now roam Roam the forest of doom Leaving the street of morals Because a cane on a skin Draws your judges’ hammer, Your youngs now fly with flawed […]
If eyes marry ears Many stones of disappointments Will be thrown at fears The sun tells of its birth With its mildness as all bodies carry, Even the albinos’, Scares almost all bodies into corners When it stands on its podium of peakhood And loses its light To make way for weak eyes To see […]
I have gone beyond the fear of ginger and pepper Its taunt of burning my rear Through the vengeful fingers of my elders And forming tears With which brothers and friends used as fun O I have blended with its road of hurt II I have also gone beyond the fear of canes Many strokes […]
You saintly quacking parrot Sit on your legs On the biggest tree of the land And look at all like a slug on a couch Watching a tragedy on a giant screen And quack like tongues of a quack pastor Who even knows not what he says Remember there is a sea which feeds your […]
Enchanted By your alluring care Beautiful flowers crush intensely II Heatingly Viewing light from hell’s hall Devils crave to break free and capture III Engraving Upon the sky their hearts Thunders curse with force that touch no earth IV Lovingly Flying from tree to tree Doves dote on your graceful handsomeness Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
Sounds of love blur ears of singleness Which seek its arrest by hatred While secretly hoping for its miracle But love is for those with traits of the sheep Traits of the dove Traits of swans Traits of the sun Traits of the moon And traits of cool breezes Not those consumed with the fierceness […]
Roll over like mat unfolding And let time be your roller As you grow and wilt You aid your hunters to feed On flesh and blood meant for locomotion II We breathe but you step Recording beautiful shames Horrible tames Gradual lames And few exciting fames So step with a crown on your secondic head […]
Life tires; breath is a crime Dire-wired prime times in rhyme II Life shrines; a breath for dime Pain lines; as will whines in mime III Strong longs, the end of song Win belongs; hands of gong Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
As I sat in the dark corner I saw a rat jump past in fright Then a cat chased like a hunter Its paws fat like a curved sword I saw a bat sitting like a judge When its mat of leaves did little shake It flew like a tat cotton in strong wind Chased […]
It was a song she sung One she sung that so stung And freed blood that turned dung Manuring pain which bitterness sprung Oh I curse her tongue II I sought for the strong But clung on straw which was not strong And water longed but fire belonged I swept but wept and kept the […]
Huge sharp blinding stones Fall on what once was gold coast Shielded by mandate II Swords in umbrellas They cover, hit to quiver Fail to deliver III Animals run wild But will forget when swords hide Faking protection IV A little water Few gifts so swift calms all rifts Then mandate again Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
I smile As I make the miles For I’ve known more than a while And have tasted livers from biles Like a swift alikoto, I have swirled Like the boss fishes of some rivers, I have swarm Like the nightingale with the tinniest vocal chord, I have sang Some say I am a tortoise, but […]
May I? May I sip from the calabash of truth And spit on the lies which lie like parcelled beauty In the minds of those with power hands of command? May I? May I? II May I? May I step on the heart of deceit As truth blocks gates of ears which lies have VVIP […]
Run after the deer In full gear without fear And forget claws which can tear Follow your rear When the claws dip your skin to tear Talk of no pain you cannot bear For the life of the deer Is like yours, very dear Hear it though queer Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c)2016 (Photo Credit:Â www.designzzz.com)
I want to be like the tree Planted beside the Okuafuom well So I will  never lack as I stand guard And will never have to be cut down “Ahunuabobirim”, please be my planter II I need to be like a pious lamb Kept in the house of sinful innocence Serving all scrupulous like a […]
Suns so differ From breathers They rise like smiling golden crowns And set with clothes of serenity Although they bite at their peak And show their youthful exuberance They leave with an aura of contentment Leaving sights blessed with their partings in great reverence II Breathing beings shout shrilly When they appear Only to grow […]
When I hear the death of death I shall be a worthy ghost One lower spirits will fail to host And higher spirits will use to boast As satisfaction sits like a queen on my coast Watching pain roast Like a live coward losing breath II When I do hear news of the death of […]
Eno Adwoa-Okua Please cross the ancestral line And put your sleepy buttocks On my shocked seat And listen I am so interested in what you will have to say to this one II An Adam claims I am his Eve Says something about dancing in front of the naked skies Drinking the virgin dew of […]
Ye gods of the land Open your hidden eyes And take these feathers Almost stripped of its skin To distill your ears To hear the prayers I pour Through the ‘nsafufuo’ my meek calabash has to give And help the land respond ‘ewie!’ To all the points of prayer II Let the evil fishes in […]
In the whims of the torturous wind Was I, a little leaf Onto the doors of your masters You looked and found a stem And got a flower pot For this random leaf Watering after getting the permission of your masters As I grew, you were there like ghost Unseen but always a feeling to […]
The airs of the piper Have no authority They flow at the command of the tune payer Giving power when power is needed Giving sadness when requested Going at the pace of dancing feet Who show their gladness by moving I know all that But the piper can turn tune payer After working like a […]
As you crow One calling, others responding Know hearts are different And there exist the unfortunate As the fortunate bounces around II There are fears like a little soft cotton wool Lying gently without your air like crows Now you blow and they wake Rudely whisked to the unknown Stirring pots of bravery like “banku […]
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is for the thorn nest That turned midwife to my royal thoughts II Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is for the many broken and weak birds I came to find And those who came to meet my caring gaze III Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggg This is for the tiresome years I built a safe nest Which tore under our […]
Walking into the secrecy of minds Locked deep in wishdom I met yearnings of many kinds Hidden deep in needdom With huge parcels in binds Hoping for God’s grantdom As shy nails shout of their fears for giving ways II Minds who need partners occasionally sit and stare keenly Into the eyes of preachers Shouting […]
Like a sheep grazing a green field Like a lion fishing through much antelope meat Like hawks in the midst of wingless fowls Like a saint sitting on thoughts of God Minds wish for slates of perfect abundance With no thoughts of who gets hurts From grass to fowls All know feelings of pain Who […]
Whispers of passions Like voices of seductive airs Roam the streets charming II With gifts and curses Snaking like brown snakes in brown leaves Confusing their caught III Electrifying Are kisses known to be greetings Minds lose their thought zones IV Whether gifts of breath Or future centre shame Most actions, though lame, can’t be […]
Let’s get this dance And shame the dunce Who wants a chance To our pain enhance Oh dear sweet romance Let’s take that stance And so advance Like the god of elegance It is a good ambience One that anger must not trespass and given chance To over-reaction enhance Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Woe Onto Men       Engaged in    Naught Like seeds forming trees before fruits Which then give back seeds, nothing comes easy Like leaves swaying their heads, not all is breezy Sponge needs to work with soap and water In order to be freed from the thick claws of […]
Some on the grounds of my mountain See me as the volcanoe none must dare to be near While others see me as the lucky soul In the spotlight of the magnanimous sun Those on other parts of my mountain top See me as a soul free and wild While those with eyes of hawks […]
Pain Insane, weary Feeling, worrying, fighting Hate, prayers, thoughts, dreams Uplifting, preparing, confusing Blue, pink Hurts Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Mighty and great art thou who thought Of the many hurdles beings will battle in lot And caused the sky to close its eyes To massage out some heat and ease the sighs II Now I take off my worry robe On this small bed in your creative globe Hoping to shed anticipation And wake […]
As the skies close their eyes to de-stress Squeeze out, like water in a cloth, the stress Making sure nothing poses a threat, not even a dress Just as sun mates the moon to beget stars, Â do me bless If only the seas had mouths, they would confess How the waves thrust and press With […]
There are new shoots begging to see the world Airs are ringing bells For leaves to leave their creators And follow the air to the land of their birth Or other lands for fertility Like all, the earth partners great trees Shedding breaths long overdue To make way for the new So creation is like […]
On the head of the land I dwell Knowing its stomach is my resting place But the appealing skies Beckon for me to have a taste Before I sink into the mouth of the earth And taste its teeth and be moulded into its belly thing But the flies I see on this ground Are […]
In You I have a shelter A shelter for my woes When all those spears do filter Filter from my foes You have the skin to counter To counter and heal my lows In the army of disaster Disaster with many bows You melt for me all arrows Which like planes in air do row […]
Maame Yaa! Wake up please Maame Yaa ei!!! Wake up Wake o! Wake and look at the professors of supposed servings Look at them seeking to butcher themselves Just because they, like servants, want to make the poor royals Just open an eye And look at how humans are madr goats ob paper Substituting heads […]
Rolling stones remain seen No matter the farthings of age Like stones, souls which roll Shed traces of life’s painful whips I know legs which take no strides shrink But those which do Make their reigning eyes proud And their beating hearts grateful in fulfillment Throwing stones for wakefulness sake Has no barriers As even […]
What is and what is not Are hidden in the cover of darkness A heart covereth well in determination for pride Some thoughts have no stairways for none So I stand blocked Looking into eyes with no known gates II His mouth does talk Into my bothered ears His voice so high Like a fearful […]
The owl claims it fears death So shuns daylight But shouts so loud in darkness Forgetting hunters are not deaf And also roam at night II The bat says it fears brutal death And hates ending up as a delicacy for the Kwahus But hangs on its legs On trees that even some children can […]
I have been deceived Deceived like an idiot thinking seas give fins To determined humans who use them as route But I should have known That although swans may give ambitions to fishes No fish must make the mistake of wanting to fly and swim like swans Lest dissapointments hit them like bullets from a […]
The world is a church A church which has welcomed all From the petty thief To the grand liar From the hungry pauper To the ambitious climber From the true worshippers To the hypocrites If the church is shaking silly And its winds are turning murderous Let’s empty our stomachs and kneel  As we pray […]
I think I know there is a God But why do I mostly feel His rod? Does He not know it makes me bored To all his lack of helping hoard? How can He whip our linking chord And give me pain I can’t afford? When He really knows I have no sword And all […]
In this lonely cloth Are the fingers of cold The channels of heat of when I will be sold By the price tag society has placed On my determined mind II In this cloth Are thoughts playing pi lo loo Only without the happy giggles Shrivelling the grounds of peace III In this cloth Are […]
The ant that thinks to bomb its kind Forgets there exist danger which needs battalions What is the cause of murdering minds? What is the payment: Of sending souls Into the dark Of crocheting minds to think so dark Of mirroring deaths without a mark Of rearing dogs to hunt same dogs? Sad sad sad […]
You turned into the swaying shrubs Which stood at the mercy of the mastery air And waved so wild like a crying child At the debris of my speeding vehicular air II Sad they have no mouth as you To convey a message involving us two To clap in happiness or shout a boo At […]
My ears woke before my eyes In a night whose journey was neither here nor there Hoping to hear songs of beautiful-voiced birds Who sang to souls for eyes to search for their star selves Instead, they heard weak chirping complains Of a handfuls of pest-like sort of birds Accompanied by a feeble taunt Of […]
Suns have been pimped by light In courts of riches no matter how high Once upon a time Suns were the only eye leaders The only dry heaters And the only tools of light wherever So they were named after gods II None wanted to see suns frown “Of what use are frowning suns?” They […]
There is a weak voice Coming out of your lungs without choice Squeaking overwhelmingly like a mouse Which has found itself in a mad house But your love for me is highly aroused II. Your eyes tell it all Your pains through your fall Your confusions through my call Bottling in transparency, making you dull […]
I have a dream A dream to erase labelling With a thought eraser A dream to render all colourless With a fairy love charm for all colours I have a dream II I have a dream A dream to mash all weapons, Like colour inks, into words Words for discourse in misunderstandings To spare the […]
As the wise Asante studied The creative spider at work for shelter And wove the beautiful kente Which has become the Asantes pride I will study the rainbows of heaven And carve the most beautiful colours Study the brightest of suns And tap its light Study the most innocent of darkness And create for you […]
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