Like a gentle flower, He made his way through my highway In speed Crying for the usual jubilation So small, raising questions of his being And he made all happy Never knew he was to face hurdles gargantuan In his easily countable stay Boxing sicknesses Wrestling illnesses Damaging unwelness And the flower churned He so […]
Some men are like cockerels They praise “Your beauty! Kokrokoo kooo” Loving the rays which help them shine But always work for their stomachs only Still wanting coolers to burn their heats When their fires spark II Some men are like parrots Chirping in gossiping Living with no shame Kissing and telling and hurting and […]
I’d like to see God as a playful father One who loves for me to do my desire And warns when He sees that there is fire If I hear not, burns bring Him running II I’d like to see God as that loving father Who knows my faults and my strong hold And knows […]
Stitching skins Fixing bones Like one with God’s hands She lives like sickness’ feared zone None dares to look for any ills In her body territory But sicknesses know the saying A cat is best suited For the safekeeping of meat So what she healed Crawled like dying snakes Into her being and gained strength […]
When I told God I was emotionally broke He let me your view poke I told the Almighty He was on ‘coke’ Because I looked at the gentle you And so no equation to work us two Then I thought of Satan’s hound And thought he had me bound So I sought a rhyme I […]
They sit like wrinkled elders Staring into their coffins Mouths whose hands steer shout “Sagnerigu! Dungu! Kpalsi!” II A look at their bodies And hearts feel their failing heartbeats Bodies need to beware Lest their bones cut for revenge For their peeled skins On their tired chairs Show their shy nakedness But backs care not […]
Thoughts of childhood swim in limited freedom Thinking money, food love give happiness in this lifedom As time flirts with growth And conceives maturity through experiences We get to know There is no freedom in breath II Plants dance with the air But most breathers live on their deaths Trees bear weight Their skins pealed […]
We were like flowing rivers Free Worshipping through nature Matters of guns, bombs and brutal killings were rare Until our arms embraced Our minds did lace Our traditions turned mud And washed ashore Alien worshippings II Did we not know That their teeth will one day seek blood? Did we not know That their thoughts […]
Problems, like raw yams, Itch tongues Urging them to roll Like red carpets Aiming for knights to come through Shut the mouth tight And lock it in For ears abound Hovering to make fun forever With you on your painful problem stage II Problems like chopping onions Sting the eyes Forcing them to cry in […]
As goats’ fur hide their sweat And hens’ droppings Hide their urine Fishes’ tears drown in rivers and seas Swimming is attractive But permanent livers live suffocated As none sees their distress None feels their fears As they drown in their loving waters Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
They deemed me; a little shoot, weak Too fragile to any good seek And God did give them a puzzling trick Storms uprooted I fell and they laughed But He kept my roots intact Throwing loamy soil on them Giving them fair rains Fair sunlight And fair air II Still neglected I grew with loads […]
I whine and whine In lines and out-lines Shouting burning brimes Shouting bitter limes Shouting no time Shouting no dime As though You are in crime But You weave my success quietly like You in mime II I am not perfect Tiredness and fear soil chances of me being perfect But You show me respect […]
A branch falls from the sky And hearts rush into the mouth Rats roam for food And hearts rush onto fear horses And gallop like hell gates call for entry Songs of nightingales have turned aborminants For they are deemed allies Of faceless hands Who hurt and seize Or murder to own Even shadows of […]
A folded wonder In a living wonder Like a beautiful seed In a beautiful flower Breathes and coils Kicks and stretches Bloating up to help touch down II It is a wonder With many future wonders Blocking or fulfilling dreams with its dreams Causing a discomfort, generating anxiety Creating anticipation A space for a new […]
Stores of feeds Destroyer of seeds Sweats of beads Gluttonic deeds Like a pregnant fish out on the lands II Bloating of tummy They tell of signs of riches. Pain of an army! Oh! What? Blimey! Sure looks so ‘harmy’ Like a pregnant whale out on the lands III A beer  washing fufu and potatoes […]
That path He made Has saved the day He used a spade But is still a way All thought it fade But it still did stay A thorn here and there But that is fair II That path neglected Did work to save Its line reflected And led to a safe cave Like the stone […]
Alaha lives like a bush cowboy But dopes a suit like a banker “boi” To go after one who can employ All because he needs a sweetened girl, “boi” But that is so coy He knows no taste of a milk called soy All he needs is a good cow’s milk “boi” II Alaha says […]
I am awed at the fraud Which sings tunes of stardom On the world front making us odd Like beings whose brains are pounded and eaten in a kingdom Seeking hidden masters for their golden throne All the beauties hidden within, imprisoned by strong deceitful stones II In what is hidden lies hospitality Smiling like […]
A kingdom with many a generations, A kingdom sitting on too much wealth, A kingdom worth adoration, Is crumbling due to ill health And its doctors keep poison-injecting It’s now time to act REFRAIN I spit on ignorance Enlightenment! I need assurance I pee on greed Justice, gun down and let us be freed I […]
Boring lecture drags Like a pained hungry cripple Singing lullabies For eyes weary and so wild Using snores as instruments II Industrious students Work in listening pretence Careful in quietude Ignoramuses text, play Some necks risking breakages III Why boring beings teach Beats my imagination Trashes learning zeal. Blankets of gagging, come here! Gag this […]
Spicy nice gossips Simmering from biased mouths Serving on radios II Many smacking tongues Wash with chewing sticks and wait To take hot huge bites III At a taste, they show Ignorance, wits, freedom of Expression defy IV Like taste of pepper It starts strong and wanes with time Buried in clichés Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Trippings are signs Of test of strength Of test of determination Of test of endurance Of test of need So like the eagle with broken wings Know that walking and flying low with fowls Is not supposed to be permanent When they lie in roosting Go to the mountain top and practice Defy the odds […]
‘Why is everyone going mad? Is it something we’re eating? Is it the heating sun? No. Could it be the gods are angry? Oh look at Ofosua asking me why II Last month when I went to give food to my sister I saw Ofosu Looking left, right, back and rushed Like the elephant she […]
Sometimes I want to look into blue eyes And think of a daydream on a kind blue seas But they seem like the skies So I fear their clouds I fear their thunders I fear their rains So I concede Their relatives are grey and I cannot reach II Then I think of green eyes […]
Some skies need no clouds Need no thunders Need not rain Let alone have thunders But they get so wired And are mostly fired Priests with erections Need fast corrections God any suggestions? For you are their wives Oh no, the husband in their lives II Voices of attractions Do go for confessions God do […]
Wow! Insanely gorgeous With a mouth like St. Georges You are that wow! That I need to ah! II Totally crushing Actually blushing You are that wow! That I need to ah! III A body like a rock I am awe-struck You are that wow! That I need to ah! IV A floor to dance […]
The trouble maker Found its trouble shooter And like a skilled hunter Who feels haunted by powers stronger He burst like smoke And vanished into thin air No matter how long bells of troubles sound Their shooter will get them mute and on their knees So let’s wake in wait For the trouble shooter to […]
We must be a soul In two bodies working for same goals If the goals’ tolls Demand one’s role None must seek control And kill the role No voice of a mole Must play a role We must fall, and stand tall We must talk as we walk We must hold when it gets cold […]
In a land like ours Betray bands are tired Their drums are bursting Several hands are busily beating But fem-pom chaosing Is man-dom feeling Pan pan please, We need release II Akua Attaa is a charming goddess One many war-worship But she uses her prowess To penetrate Abena Abankwa’s mari-ship Knowing not that […]
 Dead sins resurrect When their children call collect They have a perpetual connect Their catalyst, one who sternly inspect II Marrying your sins And procreating in sealed tins Make them grow fins Like live fishes with strong resting wings III As cool rains on heated days A sin child covers shame decays But does dug […]
He says I am a devil A devil because I’m evil But I still remain civil Sensing his taunting peril II Then he starts explaining “Your voice is made by Satan Sucking all breaths like harmattan Your body is in bloom like the seductive flower Your mind has too much power Making me feel so […]
This me is an illusion A sub of its real allusion Causing commotion and creating confusion Reality and dreams are in fusion There is no solution To clear this confusion It is a timed illusion Which needs to mature in tuition Until it completes its mission And pinches its allusion To wake to stop the […]
No heart lacks insensitivity Seeing loved ones strapped Injected Fed many pills As screams rush through their mouths With fear masking their pain as agonies Sizzle sadly their heads and hearts, Sends shivers down the spine of hope II Hearts which react Cursing and rebelling Are hearts most affected III Watching the ruins Is like […]
On this  peak Seeing another peak Jumping I seek But fear makes bleak Thoughts are weak Many wet blankets leak Making me meek I sometimes squeak But I know I will defeat the parasite “weak” Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
He who matters Is he who shared my travelling womb And came on same day of the week as me Onto the shores of this earth II He who matters Is he who sailed On stormy seas Anchored by my weak hands Knowing and holding his own To climb the ladder of success III He […]
Fire and ice Sun and rain Bubbly meets gentility And we are midway II We have a life for fire A life for ice A life for the sun And a life for the rain Combined, we live in fairness IV Too much is poison Too little is none Enough is godly You and I […]
Pressed in Tightly pressed in are the desires of life Into the heart that is tied and prevented from growing There are ambitions begging to be chased Freedom begging to be worn As heat lives in a body of clothes There are bodies begging for sunlight Bodies begging for air Voice begging for a song […]
A house devoured all homes As the skies sat to watch The only saviour was an anthill Which stood still filing its nails, Caring not about the chaos II A mouse chased a lion As all cats hid behind trees, watching The only saviour was a housefly Who sang and sang and cared not About the […]
I wish today were tomorrow At least I could have slept till six I wish today were tomorrow For the strain in my drains the rains could drain II I wish today were tomorrow When responsibility could sleep and wake at another dawn I wish today were tomorrow Tired sorrows could be killed by restful […]
] Bubbles Beautiful, bouncy Brightening, blooming, beaming Attention, smiles, eyes, hands Bursting, breaking, disappointing Phantom, pathetic Soap Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
There are times as these Times when the mind’s gig seems full Heating beyond the highest temperature And calling to a stop all body parts but more knowledge begs for place II There are times as these When sleep dresses in a sexy apparel And sits on a heaven far from human Singing lullabies like […]
Paint us colourless Former and builder, please paint us colourless Let us be like water Seeing each of our shadows in us to the latter To make our hearts reason better II Paint us colourless Master Craftsman, oh Great Artist Let us be like mirrors Seeing our reflections in each other to the latter To […]
Mama, Dada did not dada maybe because you didn’t look like a mama To Dada II Mama, you didn’t need to mention Dada when I erred in any era for me to remember I had no Dada III Mama, I am not in anyway Dada who left you even when you were sadder so please […]
Somewhere Dreams are tied by tiresome sires Like caught slaves in comfort caves Serving the deserving who live in heaven II Somewhere Dreams are being chased by an angry faced Like a hungry lioness with sharp rawness As it taunts in haunt to flaunt III Somewhere Dreams beg on a leg Like a beggar who […]
In a home prepared so well It takes no seer to tell There’ll not be a sound of bell To alarm chaotic cell There’ll be no mouth to sell News of how anyone fell And no voice will ever yell To create scenes of gossip gel CHORUS So clear the bushes And cut the hushes […]
We are like beans In different pods But you are like the sun, air and rain On my comfortable grounds In a sky where darkness has a portion You are that patient god Hiding in the heavens Rooting for this little star When I lose my light in the fury of darkness You tear through […]
In this heat You are my waterfalls So lukewarm like a mild cooler Because of your good communication with the sun When I trip in you You giggle and hug me in dance Bouncing me ticklish You quench my anger Like a skilled fireman Washing my sins Like water washing sand Many are those who […]
Crumbling blocks Caving beams Lord give me eye contact II Raging seas Ravaging seams Lord give me eye contact III Wrecking rails Wincing realms Lord give me eye contact IV While troubles are bubbling And hearts are smoking Lord, please do give me eye contact V This pain is a cancer This train is hell […]
If I am made to write “My Best Friend” I will think of all the time My stomach rumbled as you sheltered my rear I feed you filth But you provide a seat And when I am cornered by an angry mob You are my fortress My hiding place On your head, I have thought […]
Drained of thoughts Its mouth suckling the best out Like a hungry wicked baby lioness Rendering me headacheful It pulled what was there Pulled what was not there Perturbed what dodged And rendered me exhausted Examinations Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c)2015
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