Faces, faces everywhere Rectangular, Circled, faces of square Description uncounted Relativity of beauty Faces of a creator just and fair Faces, faces, everywhere Houses of minds unready to share I wish I could a bit ascertain Faces of angles and Faces of demons Faces, faces, look me straight Never thinking of my mind’s […]
We are like leaves Shooting in beauty Opening our arms Just to fold in dryness And eventually break into pieces Or worse be plucked unfairly in bloom So do grow another Or touch another Who will remember your touch When wilting succeeds In making you manure. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
In the past years, Stench rose with more than enough fists To welcome all first timers As people hid behind ugly filth Trying their hardest to sell their wares “Sister, please buy some for me Beautiful chains made for a queen like you, Brother come and buy tomatoes, The onions are really cheap and […]
We holding hands Running like two doves We dancing under the keen eyes of the moon And bathing with the tears of the sky We kissing, tasting the rain And wishing to possess our bodies After we knew each other, The spider’s web which entangled, got torn By the sharp claws of […]
Trees, trees Family of trees I wish you could live like bees Together as one as each the other’s mind frees Trees with leaves Trees without leaves Trees with flowers Trees with fruits Trees with colour Colourless trees Short trees Tall trees Please form a garden By living as one. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
Our hearts’ choices vary Our eyes’ lenses target differently How can the two of us marry? Love alone is not enough You hate to share, You think I’m not fair How can the two of us marry? Love alone is not enough You hate the colour blue I hate it when you’re doing […]
He who discriminates On the food table He who discriminates Around the drinking tanks He who complains Of the hard sheets Knows no pain And knows no need Come to my end And I’ll give you a mirror in which you’ll see your ingratitude. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
The fish farmer feeds the fishes In a polluted sticky pond Forcing their minds into gratefulness Until maturity feature them Their eyes then peep Through the forbidden hole The one the farmer warned Against looking let alone passing through There is that liberty which dawns A moment of thought sends them through They […]
When I think my life unfair I look at those whose lives are queer Maggots of excreta Slaves of mental diaspora I wear my smile and hop along When I think my life unfair I do all human lives compare A day to be born, an earth for a world, A day to hear […]
He stirs She stirs Facing the opposites Suppressing the love which wants to play He yawns She yawns An evidence of watching with instincts But all hands have been tied by pride Some angry opener In settled time Left its ghost on the love birds Now even in sleep, it occupies the middle […]
I smartly wear my work desire And look forward to success acquire But they all say that is not what they require They look down my skirt with eyes of fire And guess what they require I have two soft things they want as pillows I have some talkers they want as toffees I […]
We struggle in this rounded shelter With no thoughts of those we replaced Angry ghosts still bloat the earth Taking our space and breathing our air For every one we push unfairly Into the mouth of the glutton earth There is the hurt that lives unnoticed In our personal space and our personal time […]
Darkness blocks And lives as king Dawn rains And its moist is loved The sun appears And beings wake Working with the boss Of the light of the universe Each and his space in time To be king or queen But when your conscience reigns like mine You’ll be head […]
Mama’s space Is occupied by air Mama’s hug Is always done by the tree Mama’s voice Is lost in the wind So in my many nightmares I have no voice to call mama Because when the trees and the air Run there, their scare will stop my heartbeat. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
The cradle cries From the cold of loneliness As the infant cringes in the darkness Of the past What could’ve now been a blessing Ended up being a past catastrophe Which you pushed with the help Of rakes of harsh drugs Now you call on God After abandoning the gourd Of the gods […]
We were created by no one knows We live for love but none wants to show We stage comedies but none wants to laugh Geniuses create parodies Many show for the show Others laugh in their shelters and watch We end up laughing at ourselves in the mirrors of actors Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 […]
Drunkenness steals composure But frees the inner child Armed robbery steals properties and lives But pays men in security Cheating hurts hearts But fills the void at some point One considered ugly Makes the beautiful stand out Treason is unpardonable But cautions us to watch our backs Learning is difficult […]
In your own life’s seat Check your own time and beat Step on the clutch with your own feet And move ahead. You can feel the heat, Feel the cold, crash and hush You’ll know what you need to fix You can go to the mechanic and fix But after the help, please be on […]
Now I indulge in chanty duets Not painful pushy frets I ascend the heavens, Pass cloud nines to the elevens, Held by potent electricity Lighted from my sternum, cursing my chastity Smooth cheeks take me far Bewhiskered, and we are at par The delectation of each brush Grants my vehicle a fuel stash To […]
They sit on the fury of the gods And fan them to snooze Everyone is onboard this sin against the gods Some watch as some touch The symbolic tails of the chained seer To hide their sins under its fur Some sip from the calabash of hatred Others eat from the earthenware of […]
Show me a black Jesus And I’ll change my name to Christiana Peters I’ll carry His words like a heavy cross Because I’ll know He is my life’s source I say show me a black Jesus One who was taunted with a banana And I’ll follow his steps to the tomb Believing […]
Help! He finds pleasure in autoeroticism Can that be considered cheating? Who do I fight with for my partner? Himself? Then I’ve lost the game All the twinkles left the sky of my eyes The curves have migrated from the contours of my mouth Life stares down at my soul-less being And shakes its head […]
Hannah was a sweet girl Who couldn’t hurt a weak fly Until Jack took her flower And abandoned her leaf No one saw anger developing claws In her, none saw revenge digging a hole in her What we saw was her lost frame in the sea of hate She first uprooted Jack’s roots and […]
If you ask me I’ll tell you there’s no interest Mice could live in your stomach Tell it to others and they cry Over their own stomachs If you ask me I know none cares Write beautifully, if they’ve never stepped in your word house Or wish to step in there, They’ll shun and […]
Theirs was to be the cooks And shy from books Theirs was to the weights Of the night and be baits Theirs was to be the incubators And be great spectators Theirs was to till the farms And protect little ones from harms Theirs was to be clear of dreams […]
Rains are blessings Rains can be curses Fire is a servant Fire can be a murderer Food is what we are Food can steal our treasured lives I am a near nirvana Flawed, heavily flawed In unmanageable hands I am like the fire which kills the cold But my buttons must not be pushed Lest […]
You took me to the land of ire Where there’s none called sire And made me an ire-nian And a natural believer of “Do What the Romans do When you go to Rome” I had the eyes which hatred emoted, Hands which easily smote, Mouth which spat and threw fits, Legs which stomped and […]
I’ve come from far Far, far from alien lands I swam from the ocean of life Onto a hardened ground Sans clothes, sans pride Tears being my only escape I slept, then sat, then stood Then walked, then took to my heels And I’m still running From a toddler, I jumped into childhood Then […]
Someday, I’ll walk my life away I’ll be seized from seeing day Somehow, I’ll shed this skin and bow I can no longer chew my favourite cow And These bones, these knuckles These stones will come off This water These nails This blood will dry off Some day It will all make way So why […]
My friend turned foe? I planted in sweat what can’t grow? Welcoming teeth fill my vision Hungry angry claws appear In front of my eyeless back? Not fair if you ask me Why can’t you be in front of my camera? Why hide in darkness If bitterness watered By the water from my stream grew […]
In my weakest moments The ant always has the greatest comments; Take it as a stage Or a story and hurry the page If only I had the mouths to spill My horror stories will the world fill A tooth that will break, does not need a vigorous shake It can embarrass […]
Never meeting its production, A machine lied cold Disobeying instruction And its defiance showed All productions went in the way Of other machines which were ready But this machine had nothing to say And looked keenly but had nothing to study Its master got angry And stopped its oiling And told all and […]
Set me a boxing ring And pair me with years, Bring them one after the other Years are proving troublesome With every step they give more weight to the mind Years must be slashed generation after generation backward To take back the weight on the mind Since we cannot empty the ink in their […]
A land of plus A land of negative, A flower of happiness A flower of sadness, Life Death, They are three and three Though everyone identifies with the flowery, The negatives have been ordained from above So their powers bluff rejecters Because they know they are boarders to their journeys When rejecters reach their […]
By a dint of thought She realised she’s always fought Fought for the general umbrella of her faith Fought for the general umbrella of her tribe Fought for the general umbrella of her gender Fought for the general umbrella of her family Then why do the rains flog her? All the rains flog […]
Askimo sits on the wall dejected, what in God’s name just happened? Did Selina just sleep with him and sack him out of her house? He of all people? God’s gift to women like him? Considering the many women who will die to have him in their beds forever, he thinks back. All the women […]
It started like the whirlwind Shifted from darkness by an unknown steam This barrel wept seas of tears And complained of being taken away by the wind Now I cannot imagine your broad beam As you looked into my steps in a few years There were heavy barrels which capsized in the beam […]
Come to play Say okay Mum and dad are out today With their canes and shouting Please say yay Then we’ll have a fun fun time Come to play It’s a sunny day Jump about and hop around You can kneel and stretch out And shout loud No one’s here to stop us now […]
Yἐyiwo baabi a kↄ baabi Nsuo kyἐre tua mu a ἐbon Asante nananom brἐἐ wↄ Abibiman atififa fa mu no, Mpanyinsἐm kyirἐmu a, Wↄn sane abusuakuo abusuakuo, bἐduru asomdwoe asaase a wↄn Asefo te so yi so Yἐyiwo baabi a kↄ baabi Mpanyinfoↄ yi faa ἐkↄm, ↄhaw, nsukↄm, mmoadoma huhuuhu anum Kosi sἐ wↄ beduru […]
A leg in the cold, A leg in the warm, My arms battle to fold. I hear threats of harm As I plod on a strange land. My head is under the money charm Rendering my heart sold I yearn for a familiar arm To ease this cold But feelings of homely needs do my […]
Your oration of war abeyance Reduces no annoyance I won’t be used as your lance To ride pretty horses as you dance To the tune of their rhythm while keeping your balance There’s been the wasted chance That makes me look askance At your words whose flaws are enhance’ Nothing will suffice, publishing banns […]
Namerl stands in front of the assembly hall of Prestige Senior High School. Certainly, there should be a way out of this. This poor girl cannot go home like this. Where did the world go so wrong that teachers will rape students and go scot free? And if the student is pregnant, shouldn’t the said […]
If you play the low, I’ll leave, you know Stop it, no do it I’m feeling the heat under the beat Stop it, no do it I’ve lost control and I’m going slow Stop it, no do it Where will it end if I don’t pretend Stop it, no do it […]
Kwansema sits in front of her father’s house, thinking about her life. Her brothers are all in school studying for their future while she sits idly waiting for the sun to go down to prepare the evening meal. It is strange how she feels wronged. She wants to be a president one day. She […]
Abena thinks of a way to escape this mess called home. She looks on her right and on her left and sees her friends sleeping soundly. What is it they love about this place that makes them sleep without thoughts? This is the street. Girls die everyday without any one bothering to find out how. […]
Young girli you no fear? You touch lion’s tale without a care Shebi you want your house to be broken through You fear consequence but you want to play Young girli hold on tight This night your nyash go cry foul “If I close your eyes where can you touch?” He can touch it […]
It’s a cold, cold night And I am so so sad I think of all the pain And what my pride has gained And sings this melody of love, regret and yearning ooooh CHORUS: If I have another chance: I will move the world to fetch the sky and bring the stars […]
Age must be a curse Especially when it comes with an empty purse No one thinks to take a guess If at a point it was worth something, this mess Even shit once had a price Many might have fought for them with audience and money dice But saying this will not suffice A […]
I don’t need only a fan To always kill my heat I also need the mirror To see my flaws I don’t need only a shoulder To always be my shield I also need some arms To push and cheer me on I don’t need only a shield To always block my battle […]
Mamavi climbs the tree on one of the chain of mountains that encircle their small village and sees the Hohoe River. How beautiful it lies with its serene obedient waves playing on its surface. The Lawoe Mountain sits close to it as the waves gently stroke its roots. There is nothing as beautiful as […]
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