No matter how sweet The voice of a bird sounds It has to read times For it to grace ears of the earth II Who knows? The melodious sounds Can walk into ears connected to taste buds Which crave for bones with melody And whose bones will those ears go after? III We are in […]
As night hurries in packing darkness To bolt seeing as day tosses to turn in minutes What thoughts are wearing heels Disturbing your head chambers? II As day prepares to take off its blanket And sun’s door is being opened by the moon What fears are taking over the strength of your legs Forcing you […]
If I were your woman I would borrow the brightness of the sun To throw more light on you And plead for heavenly lenses To zoom all your righteousness II If I were your woman Your meals would be indigenously prepared Mostly by my hands and ours And served hot After my tongues of […]
After the ticktocking into days of seven Bodies so comfy in sinful clothes think of heaven And wear clothes of purity which is a burden To crying God’s houses whose mouths are deaden II As if white masks are cold and heavy They act like sheep when their wools are wavy And after the heavens’ […]
She left her smiling alter Knowing not she was going in for a slaughter Oh why is she being pounded in a mortar? Somebody’s precious daughter! II I hear she had the greatest court Knowing not those days were for her to be bought Now she sits in thorns smiling but hot Can’t say what […]
As monkeys dress in suits And pigs dress in cloths And monkeys eat with cutlery As pigs feed with fingers All mouths shut As tummies receive Forgetting all standing beefs II Talks of climbing and sky defecation Talks of dirt and defecation feeding Talks of the best as compared to the rest All rest, […]
In all sparks like sharks Emotions calling in harks I think to myself what it’ll be like To make love to God Blasphemy? II It’s the new worldly exchange And He moulded its organs Money for passions Materials for passions Smart telecoms for passions Mischiefs for passions And all are left after breath flees III […]
Once there was a farmer Who thought he was a charmer He needed a skilful planter So he called on a mighty hunter Who shot and tore the land and the farmer Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Great walls of churches Throw shadows on the unsaved Why is sin reigning? II Great mouths of prophets Use energies to nourish Souls, so why the filth? III The many dirt soils Sit on the few righteous deeds Strainers fail to see IV A small world consumed By a bigger realm, pity, End times cry […]
In all my trauma You promise me my manna You preach to me of Karma And fan forgiveness’ aroma Please listen Elohima CHORUS: To you I look Hoping to be in your book I know a great life you took To this hardened heart of mine cook II My heart runs high Like a fish […]
Worship Soul, heart Singing, thanksgiving, praying Tears, love, hands, minds Loving, glorifying, Exulting Relief, might Magnification Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
As palm-wine ferments When time fans So does passion ferment to booze in time Its booze gives madness Each dose intensifying fierceness So heat in a heat Let’s dance to the beat Even if all we have are our feet And a seat II When we meet In the face of the rising night, Even […]
Hate helms hearts like ships Hoarding in humans horrid flips Hurting horrendously by hitting grips A heart for hatred; a heart like chips II Serpent seething under a carpet like foam Sharpening its teeth with every on-step When its fangs are seen By naked eyes Hate loses its potency When hearts knock heads And heads […]
GATHERER Yieeeee! Konkonsa served hot Come, it is not to be bought Bring your huge plates and fetch as you wish! Gathered? Kwame, watch the gate Now listen! Okay, guess what? Impatient? Let me open the news for it to cool I hear Kwabena-Bena went for a party Instead of greeting with his mouth His […]
Bean in a pod Use no swords upon liberation Rebel against no pod They camp you for no suppression Whether rain or shine They clothe you to safety II Until you soften in heat You won’t uncover this moral But try in thinking There’s no turning back in heat Unless of course, you are lucky […]
Who are the flowers Wearing their thorns Calling for fairness Hitting and biting admirers hard? II Who are the roses Burning opposite noses Claiming they’re bosses And hitting hard in doses? III Listen to a fellow say; Every rudeness has a pay You’re not superior in any way You fight for fairness Then be fair […]
Nose of Prekese Saying dawadawa beings Smell foul is horror II Huge bowls of Etiw Claiming bowls of Akple are Unworthy, is laughable III What happened to fruits? What happened to same corn foods What happened to groups? IV Let us not pretend We’re under huge umbrellas And so we are one Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Do we need ancestral heads to understand The lyrics in this patriotic song of ours? “Yɛn ara asaase ni ɛyɛ abuↄ dendene ma yɛn Mogya na nananom hwiee gu nya de too hↄ ma yɛn Aduru me ne wo nso so Sɛ yɛbɛ yɛ bi atua so“ If blood, precious, were poured to attain this […]
(Today is World Poetry Day. Let me start my day with a walk with my president. I love and respect the headship because he represents Ghana, my motherland. When things go wrong, writers have the pens. And this is how I choose to use mine today) Nothing is by mistake Even a mistake, when used […]
When you buy a cub Be sure to know It has no trait Of a lion II When you hoard some eggs Be sure to know It houses no python With thought thorns III Pained is he who homes A thing which turns To hunt himself So just monitor Before you turn litter Amoafowaa Sefa […]
Weak? No! Never! Flowers from Ghana are never weak And I’ll tell you why II Long ago, while warriors were killed And the king was caught And what bravers there were hid, Yaa Asantewaa stood tall And she was a flower from Ghana III Even those who raised their hands And flagged gender opposites as […]
When all do talk About complexions And call mine dirty And call mine animalish, *** When all do talk Like holes without breaks About my status And call me low And call me un-classy, *** When all do talk Like fowls sensing danger And call me a taboo And call me cursed; *** I look […]
How Hardi heard The silvers bark And peeped to see The walking scents Booting the silvers here and there, Beats me, beats me II Neighbouring niceties nestling Walking in heels And rudely entering When foods at home go on strike Beats me, beats me III Booting barrels bare Hitting heads of metals Making scenes and […]
Love For love I looked above And suffered in love Even needles were like mattresses Except the piercings never ceased tears Emotional burdens were like exciting mountain climbing Slapping/hitting were thought as exaggerated pains unbothering Hyperactively, pretending to massage loving, love opened its eyes And spat into my face, wrecking my neck, suffocatingly brutalising Amoafowaa […]
If Kwaku Ananse’s fate Of always stirring hate Incurred many baits How many would’ve had that death date Or ended on his webby plate? II Feel the hate Wait and deflate The stone-like gate Of blocked freedom in loving fate Do this or dear mate, do mate The hatred until the hurts turn and hammer […]
Stones crack Metals melt The land can open But eventually closes Asaase Yaa is to be revered II I am stone I am metal What does it matter? When we all have mouths Hidden in Asaase Yaa, always ready to eat us all? Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When rats Feel threatened They think of all tricks But changing their scents “Akura Woyo w’adi atwi” II When threatened dogs Bark loudest They fail to think That sounds attract “Agya nsem atukwan” III When cats See, blink and quieten They fail to think That fire can flood “Agya! Yani atan” IV A finger of […]
The dream of this launch started with a discussion with one of my mothers Yaa Asabea Asihene. She said sure Ceci, publishing is fine and I will help in any way I can. And she stayed true to her words. Although she was not here, she came a few weeks earlier and saw […]
There is a never dying plantain plant Which is rooted in the centre Of a coast initially golden When it is cut down, other shoots emerge When it is uprooted, new shoots succeed Funny, how a plantain drains And never ceases to create holes of mouthings Holes of horrid deceits Holes of disappointments Holes of […]
When love turned and walked My way, cupid was hesitant Because he knew I was usurping II Knowing love was the boss Never to be challenged, he let it be Mourning my future heart demise III Then love possessed got dispossesed And saw clearly the meatful part he had crashed, Felt sorry but his bus […]
He may have my picture on his phone Thinking I’m the bone of his bone He may feel the chaos of the lone But gently hides it from his tone II He may have me as song in his head Knowing work always feed instead He may have felt his pulse, his organs race led […]
Quintessential queens’ quill Quarantines qualms And quieten quaffers quagmired II A quaint quintessential queen Makes unqualifiers quake Even the qualified is thrown into a quandary III Quintessential queens get queasy When quarrels’ quest quenches questions They quickly quell as though they have quiff IV Quintessential queens Quick and quirk Even quotes in the Quaran Can’t […]
I “There are some crying crabs Inside my blood and they’re bubbling Especially because I see him II There are some goose Being chased by cold Inside my head Especially when I spot him III What is this passion That is out of fashion And trying my attraction Forcing it to action? IV Oh […]
Mama said she had no eyes She had no eyes so her mama was stolen Her two eyes were not enough So an invisible hole stole her mama whole II Mama told me she had no power No power to get to the whole Because the hole would have swallowed her whole As it owned […]
We live, Through the snaking smiling gutter maimings To the sitting smokes which puff to mate into killing II We live Through the dotty salaries To the gargantuan prices on needed edibles III We live, Even though we are being ruled By a rich dead goat who fears no knife IV We live, Even though […]
If night walls could talk They will tell tales of crawling snakes And opened mouth holes II If night walls could talk, They would properly describe the insects Of the night and the real scarers III If night walls could talk Children will not be allowed to walk The streets alone, even in daylight IV […]
“Hu me abɛ” And let its scent have running legs “Hu me abɛ” And dress it with crawling crabs Let the salmons shine in their numbers “Hu me abɛ” If prekɛsɛ walks through with its scented self It will leave it as sweet as an angelic perfume “Hu me abɛ, ma ɛman nbↄn mu” And […]
Ghana glammed gifted grandly On inception like a princess from a rich kingdom Until her marriage to usurpers Who started with her adornments And left her in short skirts II After the usurpers divorce She married herself Only to realise that she feasted on herself And now she has near bones III What causes this? […]
When witnesses fail to talk Righteous men are eaten by the hands of the rope Yet some call themselves witnesses And witness when eyes need to close Akosua is a tier She ties herself by the Witness she has become Becoming bounded and hounded by celebrations Like a monkey whose tail is knotted on a […]
Carnivorous ants act like fleas Wherever there are sweets Each wanting a bite Each growing greed Let the scent of sweets reek arrest, all will vanish, hide, look and laugh their victories. Will there ever be a liker of victory and defeat? Fleas singing praises like fake possessed Christians Please do sympathise in defeat And […]
Fiery fire! Fall on fake farms who feast and feed forests fantasies which fume fecal forces II Fiery fire fall fast! For fermentations feel fabulous as fabrications shed clothes of facade and few faultless feel fear III Fiery fire flip fences! Fan the few and fall the fakes, fire facelift facetiousnesses as you flame all fake […]
When fate goes to sleep Fear wakes and tends to seep Showing his muscles And giving all hassles Then failure gets dazzled II When fear walks on eye And will acts too shy Uselessness takes a grand seat As ambition falls at his feet Giving mouths words of a defeat III Dress fear in hope […]
When I think of churches, I think of their riches and all their ungodly breaches. Why do riches make some men of God “sɛbi” bitches? II They must cherish all paupers But they live for only the “shadders” “Witchising” all poor mothers Whipping under all weathers How money develops wings To fly nicodemously into secret […]
Sword; Holders In high seats Cutting righteous Leaving the horrors You continue to weed There is a higher swordsman Who is waiting for your sinking And writing all your filthy thinkings You continue growing weeds, cutting seeds Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Peace amidst chaos Helpful amidst helplessness Healing in murder Embracing ruthless shooters He must be a good woman II Climbs against advice; He holds hands and drops gently. Bad demonstrations; He protects, love and give all Why is He not a woman? III He acts motherly So He must be a woman Catching all our […]
As you cry victims and say “empty bottles make most noise, know I know I know, that there were touches Which caused the noise, whose touches? II Touches give movements and movements give noise, a choice So touch not, mouth zipped Touch and say, empty barrels and itchy hands cause most noise Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
He uses the rags Which someone sees as cloth And throws it in animal dung of mud But the rags get cleaned and rushes to him II She uses the doormat Which someone sees as a bed Making sure the rains do cane And pull it into the gutters But as soon as it gets […]
You sit and watch, The hands which has a fenced mouth Through which your disrespectful sermons walk out with ease, Touch and caress your sacred temple As its legs kneel in the tightly closed doors of “mock to” ears And you do nothing? Shoot him! Shoot that freaking son from a rabies dog! II […]
Fie! Artificial fires of the night Fie! You who shine off and on Jumping from the mountain of darkness To the mountain of brightness Scattering arranged futures And pulling hairs of the protected Fie! You nighters like weak but dangerous fireflies! II I wear great clothes of metal Metal to you, cotton to day workers […]
I braced all weathers Alone, Suffered through falling Alone, I faced the anger of mean suns Alone Seeing my twin being pampered Simply because I was banana And not plantain II When she was watered, I was neglected When she was shaped, I was left in my withers Now, plantain sleeps In this weather as […]
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