What if I don’t want to? What if I don’t want to eat anything? Will I be held at gun point and risk losing everything? II What if I don’t want to sleep? What if I don’t want to sleep anywhere? What if I don’t want to rest? Will I be held at gun point […]
Agya aban must be a god Ooooh, Ataa, let me explain When I was growing up I heard one of my uncles died My mother told me Agya Aban killed him Because he did not fix the road And the angry road showed its anger By chewing my uncle and many others I asked who […]
Ex gratia has met its militia Its gun is lowered in front of Mahama Although few mouths are opened in awe The master, for once, aims to be fair Will we see a parliamentary demonstration? Ha ha ha haaaa, ho ho No one is penalized for wearing “kuntunkuni” to a funeral ground But wearing white to […]
They are miracles Miracles who suffer to give Giving the world miracles Too bad many don’t see II They are miracles Miracles whose love are unchallengeable Loving unconditionally Too bad many don’t see III If there were to be a fee For every second a being stays in I am sure that work will be […]
Gobbling fufu Rooted in kontomire’s blood With snails laid in state Are Shika and Randy II There are ghosts of fishes Swimming in their dishes And mouths in wishes Wanting gobbles of the dishes But caring less are the two musketeers Shika and Randy III Oh! Kumasi Adum! The labour and labour Satisfaction The hunger […]
He is fine and suave And so wears them Wears them holes like clothes II He has an overall in his huge house One that all his family knows One that God’s hands have sealed One that all close acknowledge III I am awed to a point At the overall’s removal In replacement with many […]
Hunter, zita is a bird A bird whose family needs a shooting Because they always shout in calling When even breezes step quiet in falling II Hunter, I know it is good Good to make your presence known But not when you have no poison And your enemies have catapults and guns III Hunter, zita […]
I Trees on rocks I know you fear no sand pest And you are famous Because you are unique But don’t be complacent II Trees on rocks Don’t act immortal Remember there are strong winds Which can break you in twos If it can’t uproot you III Trees on rocks Complacency is burst bile in […]
I need me an animal An animal who lives longest To study its habits To know its foods To adopt its relationships To see if I can live like it II I would give it freedom Freedom to express itself And make it know it is my teacher I will see through its eyes Eat […]
Hopeful ears help fearful eyes To pick on lies And strip truth naked To dress the lies To present them to mind Banishing glaring truth Into the evil forest of future regrets Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
It is the cook Whose blame is booked When the taste goes bad Like a stinking spoilt fish So women! Do cook the lads so right! II You worship your creation Into demi god-ship When they seek for worship From your future yous As you’ve always worshipped in tears Book your blame For you are […]
Burning and burnt Bear same papa burn But burning has hope Burnt is lost Be the best burning by swimming Swimming in honest seas II Poor power pretends Proud pets are penned When its pretension pensions Pom! Pawns then peeve pain’s Power packages Pom! Plain pests plucked like poisonous plants So power the plosives […]
I am fire I am ice I am the loudest storm of all I am a whip I am a mattress I am the perfect knife of all So sit Cut your head onto your laps Cut Open your thoughts and search so well If your heart’s legs can dance to the tunes Of my […]
Sun’s gentility Inviting those needing heat Hugging travellers II Sun’s burning fires Causing all to run into The bosom of shade Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
ko ko ko ko koooooooooooo! “Shiverings Witchcraft? It must be the badluck That is plaguing my life!“ I will say no! When you hear owls Shouting in fear or jubilations in the night Pause and think Don’t you panic You are the defaulter If you only shed the worry You wouldn’t feel this sorry Leave […]
Water left untouched for long, stinks Foods rebel by punishing noses When left for long But some people need plain words To decipher the little words From the mouth of this small calabash II Knowledge must be a fountain Flowing for all to see And filling the holes beneath Only to flow up and go […]
If i were Former President Rawlings i would be a cat While many dogs bark i would package boom After i, its disadvantages, zoom Because i would know it can cause doom II If i were Former President Rawlings i would be the diamond in the midst of gravels Charming the media like a fairy […]
I may be nothing Nothing worth something To have touched hearts of the future To openly declare II I hate being a plantain tree Peeling off my leaves while growing others But I love that most peeled, Climb for the heavens After falling off me III A thought of a goner And this heart flutters […]
Love me Love me with the whole you Love me like you never loved Make me your grounds because you are a giant tree Love me and I’ll be a perfect sea If you turn into a fish II Breath me Breath me like your very last breath Breath me like you see no other […]
At the touch of the magic stick Beauty pricks As brightness licks Innocence flies after high hot kicks II Style rears its poky head Over confidence uses its left finger To direct agers to stubborn hell At the touch of the magic stick III Bathing Ladying Shyness And consciousness The magic stick is like the […]
Show me Show me where the gates of pleasure end As its treasures start from the doors of love II I don’t want to be in the realms of hell Where lust flees replaced by fires which burn only hearts As it taunt souls in roasting pain III Show me Show me where pleasures’ borders […]
As seconds speed into minutes And minutes gallop into hours As hours run into days As days walk into months As months cross over to years Stagnant fears Tend to stink Sympathetic tears Are given a wink A giver today May be a crucifier with time’s transitions So get under the showers of hard work […]
Mexico puts on screens How social stratifications Are breeched by love sensations And many of the lovers are in their teens *** Koreans put on their screens Deeds of kings who lived in days of old Depicting their cultures in many fold Breaking clean the outmoded in keens *** US puts many stories […]
There are varying animals In this rounded ball This rounded ball Whose hairs are weeds and feeds II Each has its loves and likes Only the lost knows not theirs So I will tell you Feed not my eyes Feed my mind So I can draw you in III I am a good book With […]
It is a queer world Where pain has a money cage A queer world Where the hungries fight To see the fighting stage A queer world, queer world indeed II It is a queer world Where the voices get the choices A queer world Where pretenders get fast horses Dressed in fortune While the land […]
Home Cozy, comfort Welcoming, pampering, correcting Love, hurts, friends, foes Supporting, quarrelling, blackmailing Care, rare Family Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
The radios blasts happy God’s songs The folded clothes cry iron long Discarded Bibles now belong Some high heels will sing sensual songs To get to hearts of the many strongs Still, the church’s bell rings, digi digi digi digi dong! II I know heart clothes many will wear Those needing good husbands to stare […]
I hear the winds singing Drumming delighted leaves I hear the cockerels’ sounds Praising the master and waking all generations While caging others The “kramokok⊃” is crowing Calling on all to come and pray Now, what do I say? You are the mighty one You see, hear, feel and judge You are the merciful father […]
At the meeting of tornadoes, storms, Lightening and thunders Whirlwinds keep dancing Only calm diffuses their excitement Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
All ablutions apt Proud pious people praying Bow before Allah II Aboabo is chaste Showing good of Ramadan Abuse? Forgiven! III I remember a Day after Ramadan left Its footsteps were heard IV Abudu just said “Shegia!” and his mouth was snatched By sharp machetes V Amina just puffed And her body was found in […]
I thought the world said “Female” is a fee for the male So what is this? In a tie where the fees for the males Charm in accoutrements And amassing attention Men are taunted to pension To a point of trying to metamorphose Into a fee for a male II The K’s have succeeded Pushing […]
It is not a dream You are in the troubled stream Smeared in the shame body cream You feel like one in a team None of those are as they seem So come out and SCREAM! II It is day And you have no say Death has given you its pay And you feel you […]
I don’t want to love you But adrenaline has conquered The fighting forces of control Like a match taking possession of petrol And has left me helpless II I don’t want to love you But I am like the boiled cassava In between your mortar and ready pestle Even an escape, spells my doom […]
Anger battles anger Mountainous chest heaves in desperation As flat chest curses in confusion Each back turns And tears flow into the secret coffers of darkness II Strong masks on weak faces Wearing off in few paces Like chalk paint on stained mansions in rain Oh what a tragedy! III Why can’t there be hearts […]
Gifted hands do plait Armpit hairs forgetting head Attracts public eyes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Take a seat And feel the beat I will make you neat Relax and give me your feet You walker who feel defeat CHORUS I will massage them Following through to your leg stem For they are gems Which must be clear of germs They have worked hard II Give me your hands As you […]
Heads rightly occupied Are like heaven with God Who sends angels to protect II Hands rightly occupied Are like golden hens Who lay golden eggs III Mouths rightly occupied Are like widely listened to radios Which gains high dues IV Legs rightly occupied Are like expensive vehicles Which drive beings to divine places V All […]
Like plantain leaves We roll up Bloom Extend our hands to enjoy the weathers And are heated to dry As the tree of life shoots up And generates new leaves II We are leaves In the winds In our newness We dance In our brown age We fall III I pray new shoots Live in […]
I know I know our eyes are other worlds Worlds which keep other beings Beings who are forced to sleep When we shut them And die when we fade in our mud II I know I know our skins are other worlds Worlds which hoard many a soul Like a planet filled with pore […]
When love turns sour All hormones bore Oh! How I wish there was a law A law which forces love to tour Tour and catch happiness to the fore To calm all “the-bored”, Store “fore ever “ And stamp “Happy Ever Afters” CHORUS Oh carnivorous bitterness Oh taunting thoughts of unfairness Oh forceful streams of […]
Take them off Take them all off and leave me naked So naked as the day I was born And make sure all my troubles are gone II Take them all off, all off! The clothes of labelling The clothes of gender Take off the clothes of need And help me feed III I say […]
They say huge trees sit on huge roots Abena, “Abetifi nana nkansoa” My roots are not even as huge as little worms *** I can be uprooted by angry winds raging storms piercy rains And can be killed by heavy footsteps heated sun bites by ants But I am striving In this soil of driving […]
I see you I feel you needing the shine now I have to tell you how I, abject horrors, did bow in my quest to be here after hurting and bruising pulling on the ropes of hard work II I have to tell you how hunger dragged me through shameful mud as […]
Search and research The birds who perch; Their wings lurch To twat all searches Of guns, stones and sticks II Search and research Ants always hunt Even in faces of being stepped on Crossing streams Even in the face of drowning III Search and research Bees see many a places Before honeys are cooked And […]
The foot mat of the heavens Shows its grandness The capable hands of the earth Shows God’s magnificence “Ahunuwo abobirim” This is your exaltation “Tonsuo bↄ awia” I do thee worship II Like the cock and its dawn praise I do your great name in gratification raise You are the greatest thought One without […]
Hounding heart Pounding pass Calling cruelty Healing heart A pea in a time pot II Sailing saints Beaming beasts Daring demons Fighting fair A pea in a time pot III Giving gains Jailing jests Loving lanes Mending most A pea in a time pot IV A pea in a time pot A burn in the […]
Another strong promising leaf Plucked by ignorance Plucked like a weakling Plucked without warning Sending shivers to fetch tears II Another strong promising tree Cut down by many on tall fence Cut down by watchers and head shakers Cut down by greedy animals Leaving in its place nothing but agony III When will closed mouths […]
I took you in reluctantly, one who has been wounded by a storm, fears little winds II Now you are this star’s heart, When huge trees fall, Their sounds travel far, so I am shivering III Anxious for good and bad, I am like a swan and porcupine Ready to love and or fight IV […]
Hug layered onions Hold fumes of tear gas, waiting For knives of awe hurts II They are on their marks Gunning for eyes which lead knives To their quiet temples III Onions with cool souls In detecting the rots, stay Knowing no betrayals IV Who calls them mean things? In fighting fair, weapons are Allowed […]
You can trace the fantasy And see the needing ecstasy On faces with many dreamy fake fallacies True, because boys use flowers Men use deeds II They will come like militants Bow like slaves Raise their flowers And beg like prayerfuls Yes, boys use flowers And men use deeds III They have pipe mouths Which […]
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