Conquer hurt Conquer diseases Conquer hurdles Conquer pain Conquer poverty Conquer loneliness Conquer failure Conquer attacks Try a smile, It works magic. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
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Tag: #GHANAIAN POETRY
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TWO IN A CLOTHING?
It is a clothing meant for one It’ll surely tear When we both force in The fault is yours The fault is mine Let’s part on a very mutual ground Two bulls will certainly lock horns When an interest turns competitive Your view is good and mine is bad My view is good and […]
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O YE CHRISTIANS!
“Lord kill my enemies” They forget they’re also children of God “Lord open success doors” Sometimes they do forget it goes hand in hand with hard work “Lord close every eye to my folly” They forget “a man reaps what he sows” “Lord why me?” Who should it be if it shouldn’t […]
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THE IRRITANT
When I hear the chuckling And sees her mouthy pouting I feel like throwing my fist and giving her a sound beating The irritant! When I see her dressing And many complementing I feel like throwing my fist and giving her a sound beating This irritant! When she does her taunting By pulling […]
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WISDOM HIDES GLARINGLY
The eye watches It is a powerful tool Good or bad, no cram needed Just pick a thing. His biodata your eye watches No matter how intense it spells fool His life’s pen cannot be weeded Neither can yours, so just pick a thing Pencils are like torches They can be on and […]
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INSOMNIA
It’s not Christmas But I need Santa To bring you from my dreams And have you work on my seams, To direct your eyes to me And see the pain I feel, To have your magic hands Massage the pain I feel, To take me on in an exercise And exhaust […]
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A WORD WHORE
I am covered by the clothes of darkness Covered as I sit in utter madness Eyes see but ears hear more So my voice runs to the fore These clothes cover my weakness This weakness of grave meekness Which makes me a word whore Although I have never read law Perhaps light would […]
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UNLIKE POLES FOR ME
Will I leave a giant tree And go for flat earth When I own no giant tree And only own a flat earth? Will I leave a broad chest To go for a standing chest When I have no broad chest And only have a standing chest? I love what I love Though […]
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SAVE THE LAUGHTER FOR LATER
Are you laughing Because you are pretty and sitting As the general factotum Is given the ultimatum To do your bidden Or risk being beaten and ridden Like a horse? It becomes pitiable and sorrowful When the fool thinks herself wonderful Even when the world sees her foolery. Look carefully And picture her in your […]
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FREE GAZA!
Be quiet! There’s stench from the old Be quiet! And listen to the voice of the child Blood which is same mix into the earth Funny how the guns seem different, Funny how the humans seem different, Funny how the language is different, Funny how the blood make love, Hold hands and enter the earth […]
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THE POWER OF WORDS
I can lie here on my bed Fighting fair with few words This does not mean I am afraid Bring your cutlass, bring your gun If I could only get my words across Destroying my body erases them not There’s no way my words will rot Until eternity they’ll ring in your head Then […]
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LET’S HOLD OUR HANDS
The tailor sows And the wearer refuses to see his nudity The writer writes And the reader refuses to read The seller sells And the buyer refuses to buy The doctor learns to heal And the patient decides to die The lawyer extends his hands The culprit chooses natural fate […]
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THE COOK WITH THE BLESSED HANDS
It has no sympathy It would have waited a while For you to taste the soup you brewed with love before having you for supper There is also the gods’ apathy Contributing to your being taken Before your soup was done Half done, I cried tears of blood, seeing as other cooks tended […]
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MONSTROUS BEAUTY
When I look at your face, I wish to have God’s grace To re-create. Why He will place a gem In a scary bottle beats my mind. You shine, Everyone flees For fear of your brutal consumption Having no thoughts of you being their messiah of peace Oh you monstrous beauty! I will help you […]
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DIFFERENT VEGETABLES, SAME GOAL
The taste of pepper differs From the taste of onion The taste of tomato differs From the taste of carrots The taste of cucumber differs From the taste of green beans But like soldiers with different abilities, They, under the commander of fire, hold hands to fight the enemy of hunger […]
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MUTILATORS
God gave me a full house To welcome a special visitor and pleasurably keep his gifts Which will prepare themselves to be my eyes When my sight fails, To be my legs When my mobility wanes, To be my mind When my thoughts fail, To be my hands When shivers overtake them. Why then do […]
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NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
I am half baked bread Not edible nor a throw away I have been tutored to call the name of the resurrected When my woes open their mouths to consume me Or call for the parents of my grandparents Who have turned gods on another planet To come to my rescue The former being alien, […]
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WELCOMING SCARY IMAGERIES
You came in like a cool breeze And left like an angry storm Who would have thought a wolf could hide in that safe wool? Maybe I must cut some skin Whenever I see a sheep Then I’ll gladly tend to the pain if the sheep is truly a sheep Step on once […]
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LET’S MEET UNDER THE COCOA TREE
Let’s dance under the moon light Where no one will put up a fight The moon will gladly give us light So our toes will be in plain sight Let’s admire our pretty natural selves With the fireflies who’ll watch themselves Me with my braided foamy hair You with your beautiful intense stare […]
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POOR POOR SOUL
Working angel be her guide Thoughts of that night hunts Threats of a repetition Hangs like a sword of Damocles On her young head She has no listener And is not old enough to have a knight in shiny armour What formed her cannot form another in her That the hands of cradle joined the […]
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HOW DO I GO HOME?
How do I go home? With empty hands and a clean conscience Or A full hand and a tainted conscience? How do I go home? Pouting like a barking dog Or swimming like a satisfied swan? How do I go home? With smiles on the faces of senders Or tears? How do […]
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GIVE THANKS; CRAZY STANZAS
They bow, any time she speaks At a glance, many squeak and steal peeks They stand even when he wears a band At a glance, everyone extends a hand Then my eyes look at me, then at you And your eyes look at you then at me Fishes caught in the same boat? […]
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MY SKY
One day my sky will open And there’ll be no burden I’ll hear sweet sounds From angelic mouths And all my pains will run One day my sky will open And eat up all my mountains It’ll quench my thirst And dry my sea To give me way to travel One day my […]
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THE DRUNK’S PERSPECTIVE
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 […]
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POETRY IN SONG
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 […]
I am a half-baked potato I belong here, I belong there I belong not here, I belong not there When I do some awesome feat All sides will claim it is their trait Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
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UGLY WRINKLY WORDS
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 […]
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BE ALL OF IT
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 […]
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CLOTHING OF SHAME
There is yam on the roasting board Acting now as the celebrity of shame Many eyes shine in mouth attraction As it employs huge ears to fit its seams What is the importance when it is the seams of shame? I wish she knows she isn’t the first There was a time when the […]
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WORDS FROM THE HEART
Unequal toe nails complete the feet So some go on the clouds On the backs of their partners Who act as paraglides to prove themselves? And some receive the gifts of stars On the handless bodies of their lovers Who exchange their hands to prove their worth? Oh! Some watch with tears […]
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BITTEN BY THORNS OF CUPID
I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Its teeth chewing deep into the bones of my heart, Its claws digging deep into my knee bones Rendering me immobile I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Like a fool, I saw only its beautiful roses Like a fool,I decided to decorate […]
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THORNS OF LIFE
There is only a time for all Humans, animals, the world, yes, all In this rounded baited bit We have our serious parts to fit You cry you’re slow When the tortoise is low You lament of your beauty When the hippopotamus does its duty You complain of short life When […]
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MOTHER? HOW CONVENIENT!
Diaper is not for grown buttocks You should have been there when I knew not how to wear socks But felt the whips of cold creeping through my feet You should have been there when my baby teeth made noiseless beat And yearned for the natural milk only you could give, When I took those […]
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DONKOMI, THUMB POWERS
They hold it They hold it in their thumbs They hold it in pieces A great law by whomever So we will not be cheated But a handful of people come together And pat the backs of few, Grease the palms of some, Stroke the egos of some, And buy the thought of others with […]
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NIGHTS WITH FRIGHTS
When darkness folds its arms around the earth And many living things rest fearing no death Goosebumps from beneath this skin cry Wishing you are nigh When the owls take charge And the bats seek charge These eyes which must close tight Wander and know that your presence will do right So which […]
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CORPSES FOR SALE!
Corpses for sale! Many buy with huge sums Putting them in the river of the earth waiting for its sail Corpses for sale! Many run dressed in expensive clothes Hoping to win the fame bale Corpses for sale! Cars parade with expensive paintings While mouths with their keys proudly brag, “this came yesterday […]
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AMBITION’S BAIT, GREED’S MEAL
They took my pride Before my mother became a bride Something about the fair sex being used to settle some debts So I was veiled on my first cry, Veiled for one who has lived all his life in greed He saw me walking, Saw me talking, Saw me easing, On my dirty undies, […]
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FROM GRACE TO GRASS
Fitted in fitting suits With shiny shoes And smooth hands On his very own land, His covetousness leads him to the shores of whiteness His dreams have always been to surpass the surpasser But now like a donkey, his calloused hands holding alien machete, His tattered clothes shredded by unfriendly thorns, His bruised face scratched […]
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NEGLECT
Tears! With my eyes, I scan through the contours of their stomachs And see hunger chewing their loins Filth! With my hands I feel their dry and scratched skins And battle many devouring pests Feelings! With my mind, I steal into their tattered selves And feel the whips of the dreary cold […]
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NOT A CHOICE
In hazy thoughts I lie All my holes crying with filth I feel for you who sees it all While hating on you who tests my faith The eyes flow tears The skin rains sweat The nose grinds phlegms The rear soils clothes and shame sits only in my thoughts Is this an […]
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IN THE COURT OF YOUR THOUGHTS
In your court I remain a threat to your fort All my evidence will yield no dividends Because I have been interrogated and tried in the court of your thoughts Yes, tried in absentia What more is there to say? Send me the the darkest prison Away for the sight of the sun Away […]
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STEPPING IN UNFITTING SHOES
Imagine horses or donkeys as humans and vice versa Holding the whips as we run with them and their goods Whipping the slowness off our veins when tiredness catches up Imagine dogs as humans and humans as dogs Teaching us the smell of edible games and giving the instructions Giving us a pat on […]
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REAL CHAINS
Caught in a microcosm of ideas What is lost is nothing but mine I drown in rivers of a thousand mouths And slip hearing echoes by a million rocks I fly in the skies of all birds And I’m de-feathered in the same sky by mean ones How do I get to land? Still thoughts […]
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AABA EI!
He looks famished In tattered clothes As he holds his dog chains Waiting to be sales blessed But, oh, poor lad, I hear “aaba ei!” And he takes to his heels The bread seller trips him In her quest to escape And the uniformed helped him not to rise By letting his baton painfully talk […]
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GO! YE ZEALOTS
Hearts must have their decisions Yours is to lay bare and not to force Religious zealots! Heads must have their decisions Yours is to lay bare and not to cajole Education zealots! People must decide Yours is to candidly lay bare your capabilities Political zealots! All zealots, bow in shame A time […]
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THE DAGGER OF WORDS
Now you have to listen! Tools, poison can harm and kill But cruel words supersede them As they act as painful anesthesia Numbing the body, daring death To attack in any form At that point, death fights a lost cause It can borrow the face of fire, Can borrow the face of drowning, Can […]
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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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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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