When the gods speak into mouthpieces Let the people get their earpieces If the street listens to beats Legs get massaged by the rhythms Who are legs to complain? II Generations die for generations to live A kiss in the dark in some archaic moments Sex on the street in contemporary times Leafs of innocence fall […]
We are our illnesses We, golden children Conceived painfully and graciously By Asaase Yaa, the goddess of nature How can we heal? II Our legs flirt with fine dust of deceit Enthroning it to build mansions In our priced noses Distributing coughs of fear Digging pain of panic Blinding us and Developing weaknesses which deepen […]
Pushed by loving winds from my home tree Onto dead leaves I have smelt much unpleasantness Tasted rot Been blown here and there A pawn of the air II I have searched deserts And felt the pelts of sand Barely made it out with visible holes all over A poor little leaf like me I […]
Kola and cowries and water and seats Fight against our moving beats A little for one A call to many Culture cheats as misers feed II If all buttocks that seats do carry Treat it well to make it swell Its dirt would diminish as its bones get cover But ‘adjeiii’ its creaks Sing in […]
Explorations of the past Led to greedy seeds sewn like monster plants Monster plants which grew to take what it never owned Cruel “beela” traps were set up In black hunt Aims of strength harvest causing mean arrests As molestations manifested in attestations Ah! Chained beings turned to dogs Were forcefully pulled to hop like […]
The creator wove his world Like Kwaku Ananse weaves his web Carefully Giving unto each gifts to fend I can’t fathom the choas in chimes If goats were elephants Can you? II From the hair of the sky To the toes of the earth Everything in and without Would shiver and hover At the visit […]
Clicks with flicks On lawn at dawn Born anger seems torn Like a cool dress turned rag II The waving-swooning-moon The sympathetic gazes of the tickly-giggly-stars The tired-dozing night birds Who are fighting sleep to catch this climax Make me wish for wings III Like a cozy teddy bear I have hugged you a million […]
Lord I need For you to breed My inner seed In your kind deed II I need to feed So I try to weed And try to heed But I flaw my creed III Free my mind Free my soul Free my body To sour like your dove When I fall in the mud I […]
Just a glance At an entrance And it fell into a trance Never asking for a chance To get enchanted Are you a dog on climbing duty? II Agya Waadwo! So I met a goat on heat It failed to bleat And chased on three feet Hoping to me cheat Me, that bloody future meat!!! […]
Come Let hands touch hands If sparks flow Let them worry about their lightening As we enjoy their shine Dancing to the whispers of the air Exploring the contours of our bodies in our minds Fishing for golden information From the seas of our eyes II Come I’ve made a pact with the sky Who […]
Whoever best fits the crown of hypocrisy Must best answer in awareness And not in disgust And end this difficult conundrum Our mouths scream hatred Hatred for even those who are trying To remedy the ills of their ancestors While bitterness sits in our hearts Like complacent royals II We cry ‘we aren’t like them’ […]
Sneaking to take Forcing to break Risking the stakes Is nothing for boasting A break of sweats With no soul’s hurt Movements of hands Meant to honestly feed Panting of breath Chasing care Are like blessings from above No work is blow down Honesty is all it takes To pass the candidacy of May 1 […]
I am no being in a fridge Hallelujah to creation!!! I hide not in clothes Flaunting my figure I live with the sun Massaged by its rays I dance with the air Caressed by its tunes I partner light footwears In travel, not carrying their weight And bond with the earth Like its trees and […]
How are beings of the land To see the tears of beings in the sea? How does the sun see the light of a torch at its peak? How can the fish feel an aching wing? Can a whirlwind listen to the voice of the gentle breeze When it sees its dancing mate? II Daughter […]
Gone are the bright Saturdays Where pots danced on happy heads As giggles followed gay girls Like their shadows to streams And hot gossips coloured their tongues like “alewa” Now the streams mostly come to them Following their instructions to flow Oh Clever gods!!! II Gone are the anxious hunters Those who yearned for their […]
Muddy minds may mar Clever courts can clear Devil dreams do drive But the sun won’t change its lane Not for your cause or mine II Bright birds breed best Cool characters can cheer Darers dare dreading details detained But note, the air won’t change its path Not for your cause or mine III Novices […]
There must be a God for each! I believe there must be a God for each! Urging on their priced creations Breeding fierce competition Creating chances Being defeated Winning and cheering While they oposing losers cry There must surely be a God for each Creator of a model being to keep Programmer of every soul to […]
With one mind All sought to find Freedom which in bondage hid to blind But none triumphed but one in a kind Kwame Nkrumah! Stopper of the colonial grind! II We have travelled a long way Graduated to adulthood so can have our say Way past our childish play Not so easy a stay But […]
Kwame Osei climbs trees Whenever he me sees He says he’ll pay my fees Then whine like bugged bees But whenever papa sees, he flees II Kojo Dzakpasu agbadza dances Whenever he me sees in his chances He, his muscles enhances As he my face glances Warning all to watch their stances Behaving like a […]
You were beautiful Your coconuts’ early openings just wonderful Your need to lead Overbearing but powerful Why do you now look pitiful? II Most of your children now roam Roam the forest of doom Leaving the street of morals Because a cane on a skin Draws your judges’ hammer, Your youngs now fly with flawed […]
If eyes marry ears Many stones of disappointments Will be thrown at fears The sun tells of its birth With its mildness as all bodies carry, Even the albinos’, Scares almost all bodies into corners When it stands on its podium of peakhood And loses its light To make way for weak eyes To see […]
I have gone beyond the fear of ginger and pepper Its taunt of burning my rear Through the vengeful fingers of my elders And forming tears With which brothers and friends used as fun O I have blended with its road of hurt II I have also gone beyond the fear of canes Many strokes […]
Life tires; breath is a crime Dire-wired prime times in rhyme II Life shrines; a breath for dime Pain lines; as will whines in mime III Strong longs, the end of song Win belongs; hands of gong Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
It was a song she sung One she sung that so stung And freed blood that turned dung Manuring pain which bitterness sprung Oh I curse her tongue II I sought for the strong But clung on straw which was not strong And water longed but fire belonged I swept but wept and kept the […]
Huge sharp blinding stones Fall on what once was gold coast Shielded by mandate II Swords in umbrellas They cover, hit to quiver Fail to deliver III Animals run wild But will forget when swords hide Faking protection IV A little water Few gifts so swift calms all rifts Then mandate again Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
May I? May I sip from the calabash of truth And spit on the lies which lie like parcelled beauty In the minds of those with power hands of command? May I? May I? II May I? May I step on the heart of deceit As truth blocks gates of ears which lies have VVIP […]
Run after the deer In full gear without fear And forget claws which can tear Follow your rear When the claws dip your skin to tear Talk of no pain you cannot bear For the life of the deer Is like yours, very dear Hear it though queer Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c)2016 (Photo Credit: www.designzzz.com)
Suns so differ From breathers They rise like smiling golden crowns And set with clothes of serenity Although they bite at their peak And show their youthful exuberance They leave with an aura of contentment Leaving sights blessed with their partings in great reverence II Breathing beings shout shrilly When they appear Only to grow […]
I know a turkey from Turkey Who thinks Thanksgiving and Christmas are red and dark Their final destinations are so murky That they find no way to their presence mark II The turkey complained about usurpers in Turkey And how they colonised them in charm And threw their beauties in the murky To spice their […]
Eno Adwoa-Okua Please cross the ancestral line And put your sleepy buttocks On my shocked seat And listen I am so interested in what you will have to say to this one II An Adam claims I am his Eve Says something about dancing in front of the naked skies Drinking the virgin dew of […]
Ye gods of the land Open your hidden eyes And take these feathers Almost stripped of its skin To distill your ears To hear the prayers I pour Through the ‘nsafufuo’ my meek calabash has to give And help the land respond ‘ewie!’ To all the points of prayer II Let the evil fishes in […]
In the whims of the torturous wind Was I, a little leaf Onto the doors of your masters You looked and found a stem And got a flower pot For this random leaf Watering after getting the permission of your masters As I grew, you were there like ghost Unseen but always a feeling to […]
As you crow One calling, others responding Know hearts are different And there exist the unfortunate As the fortunate bounces around II There are fears like a little soft cotton wool Lying gently without your air like crows Now you blow and they wake Rudely whisked to the unknown Stirring pots of bravery like “banku […]
Walking into the secrecy of minds Locked deep in wishdom I met yearnings of many kinds Hidden deep in needdom With huge parcels in binds Hoping for God’s grantdom As shy nails shout of their fears for giving ways II Minds who need partners occasionally sit and stare keenly Into the eyes of preachers Shouting […]
Whispers of passions Like voices of seductive airs Roam the streets charming II With gifts and curses Snaking like brown snakes in brown leaves Confusing their caught III Electrifying Are kisses known to be greetings Minds lose their thought zones IV Whether gifts of breath Or future centre shame Most actions, though lame, can’t be […]
Woe Onto Men Engaged in Naught Like seeds forming trees before fruits Which then give back seeds, nothing comes easy Like leaves swaying their heads, not all is breezy Sponge needs to work with soap and water In order to be freed from the thick claws of […]
Drama can be really fun and the same can be with poetry when they are experienced separately but have you imagined what the blend of drama and poetry could spark up? The enactment of poems supported by good music produced from instruments like the keyboard, flute, and acoustic is what a group of young artists […]
Pain Insane, weary Feeling, worrying, fighting Hate, prayers, thoughts, dreams Uplifting, preparing, confusing Blue, pink Hurts Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Mighty and great art thou who thought Of the many hurdles beings will battle in lot And caused the sky to close its eyes To massage out some heat and ease the sighs II Now I take off my worry robe On this small bed in your creative globe Hoping to shed anticipation And wake […]
There are new shoots begging to see the world Airs are ringing bells For leaves to leave their creators And follow the air to the land of their birth Or other lands for fertility Like all, the earth partners great trees Shedding breaths long overdue To make way for the new So creation is like […]
On the head of the land I dwell Knowing its stomach is my resting place But the appealing skies Beckon for me to have a taste Before I sink into the mouth of the earth And taste its teeth and be moulded into its belly thing But the flies I see on this ground Are […]
In You I have a shelter A shelter for my woes When all those spears do filter Filter from my foes You have the skin to counter To counter and heal my lows In the army of disaster Disaster with many bows You melt for me all arrows Which like planes in air do row […]
Maame Yaa! Wake up please Maame Yaa ei!!! Wake up Wake o! Wake and look at the professors of supposed servings Look at them seeking to butcher themselves Just because they, like servants, want to make the poor royals Just open an eye And look at how humans are madr goats ob paper Substituting heads […]
What is and what is not Are hidden in the cover of darkness A heart covereth well in determination for pride Some thoughts have no stairways for none So I stand blocked Looking into eyes with no known gates II His mouth does talk Into my bothered ears His voice so high Like a fearful […]
I have been deceived Deceived like an idiot thinking seas give fins To determined humans who use them as route But I should have known That although swans may give ambitions to fishes No fish must make the mistake of wanting to fly and swim like swans Lest dissapointments hit them like bullets from a […]
The world is a church A church which has welcomed all From the petty thief To the grand liar From the hungry pauper To the ambitious climber From the true worshippers To the hypocrites If the church is shaking silly And its winds are turning murderous Let’s empty our stomachs and kneel As we pray […]
You turned into the swaying shrubs Which stood at the mercy of the mastery air And waved so wild like a crying child At the debris of my speeding vehicular air II Sad they have no mouth as you To convey a message involving us two To clap in happiness or shout a boo At […]
Suns have been pimped by light In courts of riches no matter how high Once upon a time Suns were the only eye leaders The only dry heaters And the only tools of light wherever So they were named after gods II None wanted to see suns frown “Of what use are frowning suns?” They […]
I have a dream A dream to erase labelling With a thought eraser A dream to render all colourless With a fairy love charm for all colours I have a dream II I have a dream A dream to mash all weapons, Like colour inks, into words Words for discourse in misunderstandings To spare the […]
Once upon the time There were no claws to lazy rhyme All heeded the call of work in their prime And corruption gained nothing, not even a dime But now even steering banku has become a crime As dead foods do the fresh ones mime II Once upon a time Cotton flew and danced with […]
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