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PUSH THROUGH

Sit And let them happily chirp Lie And let age laugh Cry And let time fly Regrets Are irreversible in graves. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 S

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WHEN BREASTS CRY

He went fishing Hoping for good sales For you to eat For me to eat The sea swallowed him As his mother was busy preparing his favourite “Kpoikpoi” She went farming Hoping for good yield For you to feed For me to feed The farms developed canines and ate her While her mother was […]

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A SATIRE OF PAIN

The baboon wears pig hair, Wears squirrel clothes, Wears penguin feathers, And keeps snake countenance But when it is offended at any count It screams aloud and says without shame: “It is because I am a baboon” The chameleon blends all colours With every change, Behaves like a statue When chaos wakes, Acts like […]

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GREAT FEATS WITH A COST

If I lose my eyes Just to have your eyes Then I’ll have no eyes To see the colour of your eyes Must it always be at a cost? If I give my ears To have your ears Then I’ll have no ears To listen to your sounds as my words travel into your […]

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LET’S BEAT TIME

It has no legs but we can’t catch it Let’s run with it, let’s run with it It has no heart so it won’t get tired Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can’t fight it to stop running Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can do […]

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TAKE IT AS A WARNING

Roast me gently Roast me lightly Give me a dressing Befitting of an angel To enjoy this serenity engulfing our world For even sugar can be made bitter When it is pushed to the limit by fire Say that story Without any worry As long as it is right Like a motherly bridge I’ll […]

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NIGHT SALES

It’s a quarter to six Their faces fix To go to work this precious night They weed their plots And spray their lands In short and brief to give plenty a calling They fence their gardens with panty clads With very bushy mermaid hair Water the gate with red blood, of the many […]

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KNOW HER PAST

She was a weak bird Hatched in a ground nest. Her mother was hunted down By one wicked hunter. Through hazy eyes she struggled to feed Through dark paths she managed to walk Like one optimistic poor princess Never knowing what wings were meant for. Flying birds mocked her walks Flying birds […]

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THE DICTATORSHIP OF DEATH

When age married the deadly death They arranged all grown beings to the shore for their honeymoon Because death doted on his wife Now the legs of time has travelled an untraceable path He hunts the young and brings them home His wife lovingly advise age meals Carnivorous death stresses some youthful beings “I am […]

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INCOMPARABLE

Unequal fingers Makes the hand Unequal stars Help bright the sky Unequal boundaries Make round world Unequal humans Makes the world So love the children With their needs and dreams. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014

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IT’S SUMMERTIME

Throw your worries to the wind Free yourself and have your mind Play around and know it’s summertime Who is trying to catch the silly? This time each runs his own runs This time each cares no hoot, it’s summertime The many debts have no legs to run To haunt and taunt you […]

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ON PASSION’S WHEELS

She gently touches my weedless pate Knowing it is my passion’s gate Testing my very strong fate In what may be a tasteless bait I hold my own trying to let it abate She keeps going making me say Kate. Her name rises tingly passion’s hate And forces me to like the goat mate My […]

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STATIC

Post author By amoafowaa
Post date July 8, 2014
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Coffins vary The feet stay the same; Six. Riches are shown The body stays the same; Lifeless. People cry The soul stays the same; Gone. This thing, that thing, All will end at the same; Dust. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.

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THE WORSHIP OF MAGGGOTS

The edible maggots form from the palm nut tree They come out, wiggle and know they are free They worship their maker, promising their piousness and their love Promising their souls and bodies as they look above Then they touch the ground and eat their god They wiggle around the home without measure Eating […]

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MY BULB WITHOUT A LIGHT

When I need that touching And I need that loving And I need that moisture And I see that empty bulb lightless I curse my stars And I ask them why This high demand you Has no light to emit When the body calls for it To think that most for you have insulted Most […]

Tags #AFRICAN POETRY., #GHANAIAN POETESS, #GHANAIAN POETRY, #YEARNING, IMPOTENCY, LONGING, PAIN, POETRY.

NEEDFUL WANTS

I live here in lonely wants Going only in troubled fronts All the hollow ears open At every steppy country All the many hands open At every steppy country But I want only those ears of yours And only those hands you wore I want it all to come from the grave To listen and […]

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THE PROPAGANDA OF THE WIND

Post author By amoafowaa
Post date July 7, 2014
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When the clouds are mating The winds throw dust into the eyes of interested parties Then even highly inquisitive eyes will shut Until each body in the mating posture cools Minds are so wonderful, That though they know something sinister is ongoing, They bury them deep and live in the day Moving on with new […]

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BABY FOX TURNS INTO A TIGER

Post author By amoafowaa
Post date July 6, 2014
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Baby fox turns into a tiger In the mind of a paranoid sailor Who like a greedy dog hated to share So bolted with all the world had to give many On the blood of many, many heads He paddles through the angry storm Who seeks to sit on heavenly throne When he takes […]

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SAKAWA

Post author By amoafowaa
Post date July 6, 2014
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It takes a smell to attract flies Dirt always attract pigs and not penguins A magnet always attract pins So consent is key for it to be Eyes must always be used to see Carelessness always comes with a fee You sit in the comfort of your canoe in your pool Looking keenly for […]

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SAY MY NAME; DAWADAWA

Say my name with a careful thought Don’t say it like I’m some disgusting thing For I have seen many who have because of me fought And many others who have for me sing I know you cannot stand my stench I stink, I know Ask yourself, did I create me? And say my […]

Tags #AFRICAN POETRY., #DISCRIMINATION, #GHANAIAN POETESS, #GHANAIAN POETRY, DETERMINATION., POETRY., THE CORNER STONE

AGYA THE VILLAGE DRUNK

I am standing on coal Mmmmm, on coal, So I cannot walk, Cannot walk properly “Bue! Santa Maria! Agya gyinagyina, Gyina, gyina bↄkↄↄ” I am a quaffer, A quaffer of apio So I cannot think, Cannot think properly “Bue! Santa Maria! Agya gyinagyina, Gyina, gyina bↄkↄↄ” But you too are a […]

Tags #AFRICAN POETRY., #GHANAIAN POETESS, #GHANAIAN POETRY, #LABELLING., DRINKING, GOSSIPS., POETRY.

I AM A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER

I am a flower, yes I am a beautiful flower I am that beautiful flower Which chooses to wither in time Than be scattered into pieces with no shred of dignity After my blooming I may use my eyes to see beautiful things And beautiful places I may use my scent to dazzle critic […]

Tags #AFRICAN POETRY., #GHANAIAN POETESS, #SELF WORTH, AFRICAN POETESS, freedom, GHANAIN POETRY, POETRY., WOMEN EMANCIPATION

PASSIONS OF A NUN

“Come to me all ye that are weary and are heavy laddened And I will give you rest” So I go to Him not as a being, As a woman The strict abbess tries her hardest To test the genuineness of the decision, I remained my readless self and sailed through Little did I know […]

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THE WALKING TRAIN

“Ketekee nam nnadeἐ so Esu hwam hwam hwam hwam hwam Ehefa nn’ade yi reko? Koforidua!” When I am resting, All that fills my mind is yakka yakka My temporary internal maggots and backpack come in all shapes and sizes As air of acrid smell are the hobbies of the lot My belly is the […]

Tags #AFRICAN POETRY., #GHANAIAN POETESS, AFRICAN POETESS, HUMILITY, POETRY., RESPONSIBILITY, TRAINS

INDULGE ME

Hold me close in your house of thought Bless my ears with its juicy lot Quench my yearn so I could no one sought Then wads of notes could never me bought I couldn’t your love in a million quantify A word from you could my veins electrify To light positive rays and lonesome […]

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THE HEART OF GRIEF

The heart weeps The pain seeps Thoughts go deep And so fast the mind cannot keep The mouth yearns to speak But its trembling has reached its peak It shivers and hates all eyes that seek To make it sympathetically weak But such is the depth of loss No amount of words can […]

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THE LOVE OF HOUSERS

I love him, I love her, I love these, I love those, I love them all who have stayed in the inner me The ugliness of a little monkey In alien eyes Is the beauty its mother sees. Bad traits changeth no motherly love Those moons of nine, Those sicknesses of the fullness of the […]

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SLEEPY GOODIES

Too beautiful to behold This hairful chest Its beauty like lightening in a cloudless sky Outshine all his human surrounding My eyes feast against my head’s warning My mouth opens like happy thirsty leaves in the virgin rain His eyes sparkle and speak in volumes As his hand, like the hand […]

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TO HER COY MASTER

If I had more lives in time I could you chase in all my prime Wasting hearts on all thy lovey crimes With trippings in all your hurty slimes I could shed a river full of tears And sit on all the hurts and fear As your words hold knives and in me tear […]

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UNSAYABLE!

See, All the animals wailing and cursing in the jungle At their chosen master See, When like bathed pigs They went for the same dirt to soil their own clothes. See, They are the pigs and he is the lion Roaring to tame as they squeak to wail You watch, They may […]

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A MOUTHLESS HEART

I had a brain without watchful eyes I had a heart without an expressive mouth I had a head filled with meat and coloured water You came Gave eyes to my brains, A good mouth to my heart And filled my head with thoughts Who would’ve ever known That your about-turn Could turn your […]

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HAILING TO LET GO

Sing to the birds of one tree And they will make it their hobby to sing to birds of many trees Your very private song Will be heard everywhere in the sky before long Some songs must not be sang in the face of collaborationists We must turn into worry abortionists To do away with […]

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SKULLY TANKS

Breathe in the flesh suffering, no attention A breathless being ready to join the earth, full attention It’s time somebody thinks If this selflessness in making skulls money sinks Is enough to quench our thirst by serving as storer of drinks. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.

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DANCE WITH ME

When the moon dances in the flirting sky With the stars giggling and cheering their mother on And the wind making love with the leaves In the clear view of all shapes of eyes without a care And the fireflies light in love and happiness I shrink into a little ball, hiding in the dark […]

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WHEN THE MASTER SPEAKS

“Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” The waters are still. “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” The farms are quiet. “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” The land is shaking! “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” Mouths are shivering in hiding. “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” Thoughts are wavering with […]

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THE STORY OF THE APONKYES

Post author By amoafowaa
Post date June 26, 2014
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Languishing in thoughts Of failures of satisfying ardent passions under a moonless sky, Ama Okom sits under the talking tree of doubts and anger Little did Kwaku Aponkye know of the words Boiling in her crying bosom He stirred her doubt and suffered the burns Of her hot carefully boiled and arranged words He thinks […]

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SOFTER NOT HARDER

Red petals Yellow petals One needs no metal Just these will be instrumental Smooth words Beautiful words Those are no puzzled surds Just pour these into ears and bodies will satisfy heads The fist may break The land may shake But words spoken can have no brakes Hence no control once it from […]

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THE TEACHER MADE YOU

Standing like a peacock On a pulpit of deceit Forcefully opening mouths of pockets To afford a golden bed and disrespecting them, No matter what you’ve become, the teacher made you! Sitting and being fanned like an angry lesser god ready to explode On a stage of many eyes Spewing commands upon commands, Belittling […]

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YOURS IS YOURS

Even vultures know Yes, vultures sympathise with their village corpses Like their own families, they eat but leave a little to be seen. On other lands, new meat, different taste If care is not taken, even bones cannot be seen. I was told but I thought not And just like a child viewing a beautiful […]

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LOVE IN ODDS

Close trees cross paths Lovingly, Harshly, Both needs make love. Close trees share a space In little, In abundance, Both needs make love. Close trees share a risk Lightly, And in severity, Both needs make love. So in the worst whirlwind Hold my hand In the craziest storm Hug me tight […]

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THE BEST’S BEST

The teacher calls that teacher “A teacher” Because the teacher cannot teach what that teacher teaches The preacher calls that preacher “A preacher” Because the preacher cannot preach what that preacher preaches The singer calls that singer “A singer” Because the singer cannot sing what that singer sings The wise man calls […]

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GIRLY WITCH

Looking at her worn out face with a tyre around her neck, Many standing and watching, a mob holding petrol and matches With all hope lost as she sadly looks on, My questions jump from my mind. Before I had time to ask, They were dangling in the air. What has this poor girl […]

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IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!

The time has come, to have your say It’s a beautiful, beautiful day! Know all your pain, is experience’s pay It’s a beautiful, beautiful day! It’s not that bad, it’s just a flay It’s a beautiful, beautiful day! Don’t cry no tears, don’t hide away It’s a beautiful, beautiful day! You […]

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MUST BE A SWEET APPLE

How will it taste like? What will it be like? Could my heart be a pump? Must be a sweet apple. I shiver when I see I run without a fee Could my heart be a pump? It must be a sweet apple. There are those goosebumps It is me who get the […]

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BRAGGING ABOUT MY FATHER

My father did not just breed He begat completely besotted with us Knowing we are his seeds And are parts of his being and must be treated thus My father knows no mistrust Our words are his bond Our only whips of words stemming from his being just Holding our hands through storms to […]

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FAULTLESS

The government is bad The government is bad That’s enough said and enough heard If you’ll close your mouth and open your thoughts You’ll get to know the root of all Could it be the fault of you and I? Who fill our pockets And cast our votes? To choose the one to drain […]

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