When my clouds formed in my sky It called the rain, I saw with my eye Then it called the storm Which stormed with lightning There was flooding and I was soaked My umbrella flew away, I nearly choked The rains camouflaged my tears So all they saw from afar was my soaked being […]
Trading chastity for a dime Dogmatic audacity for a rhyme Pimping vanity for a mime Brutal insanity for a thyme Selling veracity for a prime I need to keep my sanctity Trading amity for a dime Humping sanity for a crime Hailing mendacity for a good time Insane profanity for a chime Consuming fatality […]
Why does it change? I smiled knowing the preposterousness Of the raining promises The smiles from the heart Lighting the eyes The heat from our bodies like mild fire from the Fireplace in the cold being enough To protect us from the cold The cold sweat breaking on a cold day, […]
She tends to a farm,
A farm benevolent like heaven,
Which kills all hunger but hers
Sauntering in gutters Abysmal whiffs walk proudly and shatters Noses, avoiding hoses, holds hands With flies which feast happily on caked defecations As the mosquitoes sing happy melodies on me A toad takes advantage of darkness and winds The throats of others to make them bullhorns to fit the situations Situations of the lantern […]
All turn to mouth
Who swears to utter nothing
Our prides fought
A fight chaos bought
I You say you’re rich So you call me a bitch Because you can afford many Well, guess what, you aren’t getting any Not from me II You treat your earthly vehicle like trash While asking her daughters to hush Then you tell me, You want to board my ship, sweetie, You aren’t getting any, […]
Brutalities of traditions Clashed with civilization Like two deadly enemies My grandma said Her grandma told her of stories Of Penche Otu and how his family’s thirst Was curbed by the blood of beings The people cried and cried when civilization whipped Then the gods chose the leopard; A worse blood shedder Death and […]
I was the rotten wood Which water lifers used as food Water determined where I stood Would’ve fled if I could But I had not the power On the water, you shouted In your fuming loudest “Do you wish to be the haunted?” He went in his slowest And you picked me up […]
Caught by unseen tentacles I consulted many oracles To naught, until you magnified your miracles Now I make my car a tabernacle Because your love is sweeter than a treacle In the desert I was the dessert And my soldiers did me desert To my enemies, the timing was perfect But you appeared in your […]
As the sun sets only to rise,
As the sun, in her lifetime, is conquered in its own time
By clouds and eclipses
So is the ups and downs
I hear the hushes of the bushes And the marshes of the brushes I hear the soreness of darkness And fleeing plans of the fireflies I hear the lifting mats of the bats And weaving spectacles of some tentacles Even the headless carries a headdress A great storm is about to storm […]
Conscience stricken, Defeatism controlled I thought I saw your contrition My desolation was the attraction The wind in you embraced my storm And exploded, scattering lightning Which blinded and unblinded Like a shellfish conquered, My shell was left ashore Waiting for a picker to pick Either to grind, play with or love Luckily, an adorable […]
The centipede coils When the stick pokes The stick wanting to see its length The centipede wanting that in wraps He pokes, It coils, He pokes, She coils The sun watches in anguish Seeing fun flee from their encounter Time laughs at their clumsiness The sun closes its eyes And leaves them to the scare […]
In this dark road With many horrible noises like that of a toad With moving shadows And strange whistles from the lost meadows I stand here with only a comrade Under no shade With only a torch light And some guns in case of a fight I can be swallowed by a python No […]
I take a stance And look from a distance Chickens like famished children Wailing in anger Hens like desperate mothers Crying in anguish Cocks like men with bruised egos Sitting with capped jaws As the Hawk sits comfortably on his throne He, the hawk comes down And takes what he needs to fill […]
I cried I did not like that And you did that anyway I smile and say it’s okay And you let it go? How convenient! Knowing when to push your luck And when to keep your pocket full I know one must say what she wants But it is no fault of […]
She works in the kitchen But her ears are in the bedroom Alert and protective of her infant cradle One eye is on the road Awaiting the arrival of her beloved As the other works with her hands To put great taste on the table But her welcoming goes sour. Her beloved comes with […]
If you so much as make an effort to touch me
I’ll record every detail of the shivers that your bubbles
Of electricity travelling with every touch see
Every hormone that will show its horribles
Like a cat, Chase this mouse into no corner I can give you this fact It flutters now and has your name on a banner. That it has its thoughts, Its mood swings, and decisions Are also facts So put me in no spot What is today may change tomorrow Make me no […]
Come from the North Come from the South Come to the East Come from the West To the bar of the Word Brewer I have many different brews: A brew of happiness to curb your sadness, A brew of strength to curb your weakness, A brew of hope to curb your hopelessness, A brew of […]
The flower seed In the soil feed’ On water and sun Through the heat Before shooting It shoots With no pretty boots Just like ordinary weeds To prepare its thorns For the protection of its beauty So like the flower Sweet heart, go through life’s shower, Go through life’s heat Then stand in […]
Your fears and tears Make you shiver But even a refuge river Can’t save you now Guess who holds the whip? That lass That lass Whose mountain you climbed With deceits and lies. The lass you axed down in triumph, You should have uprooted her roots In your jubilations You, my dear Should’ve […]
At your thought Words disappeared I did them sought But none appeared At your touch I lose sight You don’t do much But my veins fight At your voice I stand erect Can’t say a choice And not a defect These feelings, This thought, These thrillings has me caught. Amoafowaa Sefa […]
Mako, gyeene, Nkyini,ntↄrewa Koobi,mↄmↄni, Kako ne apesie ἐnwu gu so a Na asἐi koraa Brↄdeἐ, kↄkↄↄ kakra Mako, gyeene ne enkyini, Ayowa su wↄ tapoli nsἐm, Na enwu fↄ wↄn nkabomu mu a Na nsuo a emu adwo tena nkyἐn hyἐ bↄ a ἐneἐ na w’awiewie me koraa Banku gugu ne hu Na […]
It was a moment, A moment that turned us opponents We were oblivious of its peace components I, without doubt am a proponent Of peace and you, the proponent Of justice, but what we’re doing is development Postponement Never seeing the glaring amendment, We only manage to foment Chaos and torments Bothered audience are giving their […]
Nausea, Cramps, Tempers, Tears, Frustration, Hunger, Medications, Immobility, She loved through all Even through the fall Tears For your sicknesses, Insomnia, For your well-being, Struggles For your feeding, Kneeling For your faults, More tears For your weaknesses That intense love Was in only one Of all humans, only one Your success, shouldn’t erase […]
Running after her Never catching up In this unpredictable odyssey When I got closer Her smile stayed same But she wilted as I bloomed Smiling sweat, which now fades, sat on my skin Like the sun at its peak Tired sweat cried on her skin Like the rain whipped by storms She […]
I am a lonely chicken Looking for my hen Left alone with this cock I’ll die of a spin I’m a lonely chicken Missing the hunting of my hen I’ve searched for hours, seen others being fed And can’t find a thing Many crow that she flew away Others chirp she’s caught and […]
Once I had a pretty cow Who was tall and liked to show It acted old Could not be told Until it reached it’s teen-hood It walked looking at heaven Always counting to seven When he met the old It will then be bold And walk with its shoulders singing One day it […]
A weedy path to your heaven Makes me want to stay in hell An acrid scent in your treasure Makes me cough and choke So I’ll rather choose hell It’s amazing how bad a gardener you are When your master gave you so beautiful a garden Even this farm hand, cannot help harvest Because […]
A song I’ve long’ So strong To sing So calm That balm In my palm With wings Ease songs Non-tease songs Peace songs Let’s sing To ring Dong ding For kings To love. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Contemplated, Thinking you would be doggy Hoping to skip the hole of agony You told of pain excruciating When you reached that hole of agony You don’t regret it, you said Crossing the hole was bitter But made your bones better Then I felt totally subdued But I am relaxed Your morning songs of […]
Incandescent lights, A kingly table, Shiny glasses, Singing flowers, Honorary chairs, Are but handicrafts That money manipulates You’re a wordster, So am I. Let’s paint our mood And with our minds as wings Fly into it. Let’s lay our beds With beautiful words. Let write our songs With permanent pens on stones. Let’s make […]
I am completely besotted All but you hear my endearments. Apart from breathing, my heart to you is allotted But when I see you all I remember are word fragments All pretty flowers are in full bloom All sway in songs of calls Aiming to own my dream groom I hope to conquer […]
Fumes from rickety cars Debris of scraps scattered Stains of diesel paints the ground An unbearable noise from a motor on the right An unbearable noise from cars in front, back and left While the stench from the public toilet nearby Sells nasty archaic foods in the air Diesel stained finger nails feel the heat […]
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 talk for the girl in me, A smile for this A laugh at that A hand that will let me be A walk for the girl in me A walk like this A hop like that A jump that will make me see A love for the girl in me A face […]
A little pleasure Causes a seizure Or a treasure; Individual differences A little mistake Can make or unmake So please do take Your thoughts with you to pleasure-land For passion Without vision Is like swimming without water. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 (Picture from www.russianpaintings.net)
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 […]
I’ll say my confession Hoping for an absolution And a subsequent redemption or salvation. I could perform an ablution If that can stop my obsession Or I could subject myself to gyration As an anointed wheel me in his direction I am in a sinful generation Correction is nothing but disruption I’ve gone from fabrication […]
In your hands Like the shell of the tortoise on distant lands Do me keep Draw a boundary And make it my country And like a protected bird, make me fly In your band Like kids play in the sand Keep me happy I hear the bangs And teeth of enemies clang […]
What do we want? What are we doing? Why are we aiding time When we need our souls to race time? It is vanity upon vanity Crying in seclusion Shattering our own hearts Into million pieces Under the teary eyes of dumb ceilings, It is vanity upon vanity Quickly putting together our hearts […]
Inventions, to die for. Theories, treasures. Some have no measures And no sense Why will one make a god Of paper which can cause us to Kneel in degradation? A giver for need A taker only to give One without needs accumulates As the needer kneels in shame As the common paper taunts When bored […]
Polished legs thread from far To the cenotaph of the martyr Outside this cenotaph is an expensive son et lumiѐre Some ears are cocked in pretence When they obviously take strolls In the opposite direction! He gave his life on a strange land But who cares? Male minds respond to the calls of the brazen […]
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 […]
It was a rainy day When you said your nay To our hearts’ yay The storms destroyed my chest engine With every step you took making me lean And branding me a melancholia Darkness shielded me from jubilating eyes The moon became my friend and foe The glowing greens my confidants Amoafowaa Sefa […]
My limb was given for the safety of humanity
To stop their being slaughtered like chickens
His is as a result of an unfair accident
Hers a natural disaster
Mouths which yap before knowing
When they do you push Into the bush Confuse the crowd and act proud When they push you into a ditch And call you a bitch Confuse the crowd and act proud When they dig a pit And you fall in the shit Confuse the crowd and act proud When they sit […]
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