Earth Pregnant, kind Polluting, fazing, caring Harmed, used, hurdled, captured Freeing, hurting, spoiling Abused, wronged World Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Today is World Earth Day, please take a moment to think of something you can do to better the earth)
Tag: #AFRICAN POETS
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YOUR SWEET FLOW
When I lie in quietude With emotions in multitude Bubbling like potent soap bubbling I think of you II When your thoughts flow into mine Like smooth river flowing into a great sea The merging is surreal It harmonises and smoothens all rough edges III My veins are just empty holes You are like the […]
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NO RIDICULE IN TRICKLES
Even when clouds do sky shroud, Caging the sun and its rays Sun misses no little hole To announce its presence Even a trickle must never be frickled Life sits not but moves II Bickering thoughts freckle Or clash in insanity Rejecting the protection of parts Living in the middle of the whole Leaving opposite […]
He whom summer burns Seeks shelters under rivers When winter’s sun calls for setting II He whom winter “pneu-moans” Stooges under the skirt of summer Crying fie on winter as he gathers dry woods III None needs light to see flames When darkness sits on its sky throne “akyekyede akyi” fears no cane But “akyekyede” […]
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I KNOW A SNAKE WITH ONE EYE (ADULT POETRY)
I know a snake with one eye Which has some milk And bless and curse Instead of biting to poison It snakes straight Crooked and tears Opening its victims in screams so weird II I know a snake with just an eye An eye which sometimes serves as mouth It opens and closes when it […]
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AS WE PART
At the dawn of our goodbye The sky weeps Tears whose ingredients are Pain Loss Loneliness Uncertainty Failure And fear But these tears fall to toughen The grounds of our hearts II Unfairness has a head none wants to see Tribal voices stopping in one’s track Their enemy before the notice Of his footprints Is […]
I think a mosquito bit Nelson Mandela An anopheles mosquito He caught it But saw it as waste If he killed a mosquito which could not give him back his blood And so he let it be Such a mistake it was II So this mosquito went ahead to breed And bred barbarisms Lazy cocoons […]
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BRAINS WITH EAGLE WINGS
I wish I can be an arrow Which could pierce without sorrow And enter into brain marrows Of those who cause humans sorrows But I am like all They fall and I fall They call and I call They stall and I stall Shadows of shadows of shadows! And the shadows are painful arrows! II […]
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PRAYER OF GOSSIP
God, I call I, Your creation, Planted on black sands, call I thought loamy grows best But apparently, I thought wrong II We shine in light, Oh what beauty! Why then do mine portray their minds Like their bodies of doom Only, the minds shine not but destroy, maim! Kill! III God, I call And […]
Shivers in rivers which quiver Chanting in rants which amount Bouncing in announcing which pounce Twinning alikoto, dancing of Akoto, The sun sits on the golden stool II Tongues of longs so strong Walking in talks which stalk Thinking of things which blink Perfuming prekese Flying paper kites The sun sits on the golden stool […]
Ignoramuses have no armours Paramount is their thoughtly deceits Amounting to their failure and disappointments Like a miser who thinks God needs money Like a stranger who thinks different countries are heavens Like a snail who thinks itself a tortoise Ignoramuses are dead sticks waiting for fire In ashes, their brains act in duress As […]
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Your thoughts are my reflective mirrors My reflective mirrors which take me back Back to the dilemic paths of errors Paths of errors and correct themselves automatically Making me pious II Your thoughts are my spears Spears of healings and tamings All you need is speak And they take me to that hurt dilemic path […]
We are in a cue We will dock when we’re due There is nothing like immortal few And there’s no one to really sue Let the natural tongue speak of life’s curfew CHORUS “Mere bi bÉ›ba Nↄti bÉ›kↄ nↄte mu Ama nↄte abobↄ nompe mu  ɛse bÉ›guan atua agyaboↄ Na nↄte akyire nhwi deduam Onua […]
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WHEN LIES PIERCE
Shaking in heart roastings Thoughts of hurts in boastings Boastings carved on historic trees Trees sending the writings like spears into hearts  Hearts which gave it them lives Now suffer by the sharpness of their tips Ah! When lies pierce! II When lies pierce They pierce fierce Sending trust into horrid hearse III It is […]
When hearts meet fears and flee And groans turn to songs as dirges Where brides must sing of joy – When indigo streaks our faces – *** When stolen voices become Serial callers with borrowed Phrases, Where old plasters cover the wounds Where real heroes fall Then new martyrs rise to build Our […]
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SILLY OLD ME
What is this tingling sensation? What is this happy feeling? What is this dreaming on clouds I am definitely on the cloud of twelve II What is this feeling dipped in smiles? What? Am I in a huge loving ocean? What is this feeling of being captured? Being captured by a rich sweet magician? I […]
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WHERE CURSES BREAK
My blood boils like water on fire! Who steals from a sacred temple That once gave him sleeping space? Must be an it! II Who acts evil Grazing holes that hid him from his enemies When they chased his formation? It must be an it III Who embarrasses a goddess Whose tears turn into rains […]
When the hands of night embrace As sounds tell of mosquito hunts And beds cry for their weight And rains fall on benevolent roofs Loneliness sit close to this bedside Marking time in loud tickings II Then thoughts become restless Walking on the mind of this old maid Whose society deem useless because it has […]
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CHICKS FOLLOW HENS?
“Chicks follow hens” he says So nothing will cost him in pays The “neck-bottle” is willing That’s why it has rope tied to its neck Pull, while you have it, pull When the two balls Were begging to swerve blue balls As vein-mouths opened crying burning passions You forgot of the chicks being transferred into […]
Under umbrellaic underlings Wonders of winning winces Spell satanic sellables In infinite impropriety II How hurt heavens Watch what works Baffles better beings. No nudity nurturings III Emancipation era Speaks not of serpentious sicklings Giving guts to gullibles To turn into torturers IV Lies of eyes which dies Sighs of byes in highs Strange serenades […]
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MALE BRAIN ELECTRIFYINGS
In all that is fair No vein in male brain is fair II In all that is fair Quick wakes at sight always need a share III In all that is fair Their great thoughts can never temptations bare IV In all that is fair They are wires connected by desires so rare V In […]
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PREGNANT GUTTERS
Pregnant gutters Labour in downpours Caging and taking lives In barbarism And the living cries foul? II Who makes sweet love By pushing bottles, polythenes and tins Into its wombs? They too have ends III Wait! What’s with the buildings Usurping water heads By the aid of hands so feeble and at risk? Humans are […]
Faith in God Able and lord Teacher and friend Hearer and punisher Earth’s owner Reasons know no gate of His thoughts Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I shiver And I don’t know why I who battled dark quarries And emerged bathed with light II I shiver And I don’t know why I who battled with poverty And won with no debt mark II I tremble And I don’t know why I who was forced into the anus of the great sick […]
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THE SUN’S LESSON
Once, There was a sun Whose light went off Any time he saw its moon II Like all females The moon complained And threatened looking for another sun Whose sun could melt her light in glowing togetherness III Still, the sun’s light went off It knew not its problem But knew he could shine One […]
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SONG OF THE KOKROBITE SEA
I’ve seen those with fees Wanting to dance naked in my sees But end up peeing in me And what of the many babies who think me a womb? II I’ve seen human rear-holes Of mafia Gas trumpeting in tows Fearing no eyes, putting eyesores in my mouth Slapping me with angry tissues III I […]
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INVINCITAS
Invincible invincible hands of these takers Taking what they don’t own Or do they own? Do we owe? We may owe Like a magical thief Death takes and shatters hearts! Like a carnivorous borla beach With machete teeth It swallows and break bones If only there can be an all seeing eye What wouldn’t I […]
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YOUR PRAISE
I hear the praises Of all daisies I hear the whispers Of windy winners I hear the clappings Of stones being stepped on How can I sit like a caged doomed man When life smiles through my veins? II Here is your praises Here, your exultation Here is your adoration Sit comfortably and receive them […]
Ghana Sunny, DARK Politicking, loving, insulting Peaceful, inflation, freedom, nature Touring, entertaining, promising Riches, poverty Sikaman Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Meet me there There At the papleassion Where heat and cold embrace As lightening and thunder sing praise II Hold me there There At the papleassion On the waist of power and slavery And let the windy audience worship bravery III Indulge me there There At the papleassion Where speaking and listening have handshakes And […]
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MISSING THE POINT
God of creation For brain’s procreation I sit at this station And watch your dear nation Missing what will bring them ovation  II They are like fufu eaters Hating the basic fufu heaters They are like death fearers Wanting the touches of God’s carers They are like birds Hating tree beds They are like […]
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FADING FOOTPRINTS
That I was a toy So you made a ploy Oh you naughty boy You said I’d enjoy CHORUS You treated me like your big boss Now I see you feel at a loss I really need to know the cause So I can your freedom endorse How can you say it’s not by force? […]
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SHATTERED FRUITS OF KENYATTA
Stare! Is this fair? Splattered young fruits At that square? II Stare! Don’t you care? Many capable future leads weeded Can you bear? III Stare! Dare to stare! They just wanted to fit in But a blasting this glare? IV Stare! Whoever did dare Would you ever trade places? All you who dared? V Stare! […]
Thinking Thinking of someone Someone with a strong bull’s horns and eyes in care One who has the sharpest sword among all knights Thinking Thinking of someone II Thinking Thinking of someone Thinking of someone with a peacock’s self confidence One who has a lion’s strength for protection And an elephant’s weight in trust Thinking […]
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HEED THE CALL
What are fires without heat? Light without shine? Drums without beats? Houses with no gates? II What are voices without sounds? Cars without mobility? Eagles without wings? Rains with no water? III I believe proceeds are the all Without them, then we fall So when the occasion does call We must be prepared to give […]
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WHY I WRITE
As the sky lies vast And watches sky beings display On its ground like a field All it can do to be sane Is to create an outlet That’s why I write II As the land takes and gives And mouths curse and bless While others defecate and spit All into its mouth All it […]
Through sin’s sweet bosom Many hurts did blossom Gaining roots Acting as boots And in cahoots with punishments II We cherishing Though perishing Sweet peas In acidic seas Bubbles of heart ripples Weapons masked in angelic pebbles III Sweet hurtings Like peace’s chaos Soul’s dirt bowl Like heavenly hellish creation Sweet Lord Please come on […]
Many will be stranded Being left empty handed After enjoying the fat Lamb killing And being shamed with a resurrection II Many will sell their talkers After being drained by suckers Many will pawn their shoes Just to get a place on a troski III Many will turn to beggars After being the money taggers […]
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OMNIPOTENT (DIAMANTE)
God Fearful, merciful Calling, loving, helping Just, immortal, wondrous, jealous Punishing, luring, tempting Destroyer, thief Lord Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I have not broken my hand I am just going through God’s ritual of fertility I have not broken my hand My hands are just fine To carry out its responsibilities without stress II I am not hiding behind buildings Trust me, if I am, then you wouldn’t be in buildings I am going through […]
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YOU, ONLY YOU
You are my model And the face on my magazine cover You are my light In the darkest on nights You are my warm bed And my storm shed Who but the creator pierced us together? You are an interesting needle So I’m in your hole Let’s just keep threading Until we sew a full […]
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CROSS OVER
Cross over From the thin line of racism The thin line of tribal rebellions The thin line of religious difference The thin line of peer pressure Into these arms with safe security love locks Just cross over II Cross over From the thin line of earthly argumentations The thin line of cheating claims The thin […]
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WATCHING YOUR PASSING
As the fires lick Your dried fallen leaves And bite into its bones As it shouts in pain II I stand teary Prompted by the smoke that it emits With genuine fears of no protection from age Shiverings! Oh shiverings! III Scary, how time only wears high heels Making sure ears hear its footsteps To […]
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THE ELEPHANT AND THE MONKEY
An elephant gave It gave so much money So much money to buy monkey’s loyalty Spider looked on and laughed II The elephant did things And monkey kept watch Kept watch on trees close As lion lost so much on its farm III Lion offered a reward A reward for the one who unveiled its […]
Call and forget the distance When your earthly vehicle Feels the waistly demonstration of wanting-lifers II Call and forget the distance You are a lion and I’m a lioness We’re all in passion so fearless III Call and forget the distance When the moon acts like an enlightened tent As the stars stand like disco […]
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WHEN THE FROG NAUSEATES (TANKA)
Folks climb tall mountains With their voices as day wakes Pledging commitments? Funny flaws’ flaked forces fan Into action when day smiles II What are we on then? Noise pollution with no track? Time’s irritation We may hear the earth shout “bue!” Like ones whose ears itch and hurt III In wake of that time […]
Marry my mind Please marry the thoughts of my mind Before you think of the pleasures of this bottle That done, even a hush, dash, or flush Can cause a blush I am the golden fish upstream Hiding from the rest of my being So marry my mind Be like the mathematician Get the formula […]
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FIGHT FAIR
When the domestic fowl calls for a fight with the guinea fowl in the full glare of all eyes, none must interfere because fairness count’s in win II We live, love, work in all view we each have mouths, to talk hands to wave legs to walk what else is there? coverings in clothes don’t […]
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IF GOD’S PHONE NUMBER WERE PUBLIC
What would we do If God’s number were public Some will train their voices As many try work in phoning His network would need no advert But its owners will always ask for favours Other networks would send many juicy packages Would that even make sense? Giving all lines, they will all jam II If […]
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CURSES FROM THE PAST
What have I not seen? “Abro-dua” for t. roll? Acheampong for plasters? Ginger suppository to cure candidaisis? What haven’t I seen? II What haven’t I seen? Slapping of mouth challenging elders? Whippings for tribal marks never intended? Knocks of elders never seen? III What haven’t I tasted? Hunger’s sweet bowl full of axes? Thirst’s huge […]
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