Some skies need no clouds Need no thunders Need not rain Let alone have thunders But they get so wired And are mostly fired Priests with erections Need fast corrections God any suggestions? For you are their wives Oh no, the husband in their lives II Voices of attractions Do go for confessions God do […]
Mirror of mine What is this you show? I see eyes guarding a nose I see lips hugging and pushing I see ears, standing erect Cheeks show support Chin and forehead holding their own Is this me or what you want me to see? I did ask clear water It shook its head And made […]
The trouble maker Found its trouble shooter And like a skilled hunter Who feels haunted by powers stronger He burst like smoke And vanished into thin air No matter how long bells of troubles sound Their shooter will get them mute and on their knees So let’s wake in wait For the trouble shooter to […]
We must be a soul In two bodies working for same goals If the goals’ tolls Demand one’s role None must seek control And kill the role No voice of a mole Must play a role We must fall, and stand tall We must talk as we walk We must hold when it gets cold […]
 Dead sins resurrect When their children call collect They have a perpetual connect Their catalyst, one who sternly inspect II Marrying your sins And procreating in sealed tins Make them grow fins Like live fishes with strong resting wings III As cool rains on heated days A sin child covers shame decays But does dug […]
This me is an illusion A sub of its real allusion Causing commotion and creating confusion Reality and dreams are in fusion There is no solution To clear this confusion It is a timed illusion Which needs to mature in tuition Until it completes its mission And pinches its allusion To wake to stop the […]
No heart lacks insensitivity Seeing loved ones strapped Injected Fed many pills As screams rush through their mouths With fear masking their pain as agonies Sizzle sadly their heads and hearts, Sends shivers down the spine of hope II Hearts which react Cursing and rebelling Are hearts most affected III Watching the ruins Is like […]
A house devoured all homes As the skies sat to watch The only saviour was an anthill Which stood still filing its nails, Caring not about the chaos II A mouse chased a lion As all cats hid behind trees, watching The only saviour was a housefly Who sang and sang and cared not About the […]
I wish today were tomorrow At least I could have slept till six I wish today were tomorrow For the strain in my drains the rains could drain II I wish today were tomorrow When responsibility could sleep and wake at another dawn I wish today were tomorrow Tired sorrows could be killed by restful […]
There are times as these Times when the mind’s gig seems full Heating beyond the highest temperature And calling to a stop all body parts but more knowledge begs for place II There are times as these When sleep dresses in a sexy apparel And sits on a heaven far from human Singing lullabies like […]
Paint us colourless Former and builder, please paint us colourless Let us be like water Seeing each of our shadows in us to the latter To make our hearts reason better II Paint us colourless Master Craftsman, oh Great Artist Let us be like mirrors Seeing our reflections in each other to the latter To […]
Somewhere Dreams are tied by tiresome sires Like caught slaves in comfort caves Serving the deserving who live in heaven II Somewhere Dreams are being chased by an angry faced Like a hungry lioness with sharp rawness As it taunts in haunt to flaunt III Somewhere Dreams beg on a leg Like a beggar who […]
We are like beans In different pods But you are like the sun, air and rain On my comfortable grounds In a sky where darkness has a portion You are that patient god Hiding in the heavens Rooting for this little star When I lose my light in the fury of darkness You tear through […]
Crumbling blocks Caving beams Lord give me eye contact II Raging seas Ravaging seams Lord give me eye contact III Wrecking rails Wincing realms Lord give me eye contact IV While troubles are bubbling And hearts are smoking Lord, please do give me eye contact V This pain is a cancer This train is hell […]
Drained of thoughts Its mouth suckling the best out Like a hungry wicked baby lioness Rendering me headacheful It pulled what was there Pulled what was not there Perturbed what dodged And rendered me exhausted Examinations Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c)2015
The moon has its shine And trains the stars to also shine It needs no light from the sun, Although it shares the same sky, In order to guide its fans So darkness fears her time Although it chooses her time to reign Oh yeah, darkness loses itself in her If the sun is man […]
Left like a dirty rag The fruit had no tag It rolled abandoned like a stray cat All fled its way like an ebola bat Until it was pronounced forbidden II It began calling like angelic tuned Stirring those all thought most immuned Developing sexy alluring legs Appealing to eyes to stay glued like clothes […]
Thirst’s tantrums tend to taint Trailing torture in its passion’s tent Soiling its living flowing scents Earth is the healer The purifier of its taints But thirst is insatiable until breathe leaves Why it gets to arrest its quencher And does the same things As tainting its structure again and again I won’t know But […]
As the clouds hang to rain And the body sits in stain When the soul sits in pain I remember the story of Cain II What’ll eyes do when they see disdain? Sets look doomy so tears it gain What is painful is it is set on refrain, Again? III Is there a thought bin? […]
I am a lost lioness Lost for losing her young Lost for not watching her sail along In my un-cleverness My punishment? Mercy, conscience, have mercy! Whip me not like a wayward child Whip me not like a stubborn one Whip me not I know I have erred Erred because I live in a wrong […]
Here I am in a studying mood While memorizing and understanding brood My name walks into my ears There I watched and a hot colleague stood II I brave a smile And he goes a mile Sat and peeked like a love struck bull ‘Not today’ I muse to me, rising to my throat some […]
She was bright When she said she was right “You need no fright Because coupling makes life light” And my mind went quiet because I needed no fight It was her time and I needed her bright But now she sings like an owl, after three stone throws, her pained songs to me After her […]
The Creator is a creator For His worldly creation Talk about the earth; Its dancing air The flowery vegetation for feeding and healing The varying livers, The flowing streams and rivers Into the biggest seas, The complex and brilliant thoughts; Creating after being created Talk about the sky And its alternating lights and clouds Talk […]
Measured breaths Measured steps Measured seeings And measured intakes There are supreme beings at post II Measured sayings Measured thoughts Measured laughter And measured life There are supreme beings at post Lost and lost we say we pray but we are puppets who must be together and fight Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Modern gods are to blame African modern gods are to blame They are to blame for our shame; Our in-robbery oh so lame shame Those who previously had fame For sins they did tame Now know no shame Because they live on stolen fowls And watch not for devilish owls Fanning wars which stem from […]
 When I am down I think of a clown Who gets a crown For wiping many a frown In a sad sad town  II Described by children as foolish And by the critiqued as brutish Described by the stressed as funny And by a lover as a bunny What reigns supreme is he […]
Colour is choice Of the artist turned creator Colour is naught But a paint to grace II Colour is naught But misinterpretation hails some And like the idiots who fight for paints And leave the house for ants and rats We hail it so, living in hate III Black is deep White is pale A […]
Deeds abound Calling all around To pick their choices In the wake of their voices Choices of good Will be the soul’s food Choices of bad Will beat the soul hard So through the torture and the pain Through the suns and through the rain Through the Shame and all the fame Through the smart […]
 God, I hate to ask this of You But I have to ask anyway I need an erection Give me an erection An erection as hard as the Kwahu Mountains To gain the attention of all domineering To call them to order  II I need to replace this flat land With a gargantuan […]
‘Wↄi wↄi, wↄi, wↄi wↄi!’ Islamic rules wear traditional smocks Sweating under oblivion in locks Powering croaky voices and attracting flocks Who open fem-stalls and put in stocks Hammering submission like traveling seconds of clocks They proudly say they are the cocks  II ‘Wↄi wↄi, wↄi, wↄi wↄi!’ I am sure when Islam reached […]
Part stone, part metal, covered in mud She is carved Even sharpened venomous teeth seep not They only scratch her mud coverings which you easily rebuild Your mood while carving, I am curious Packing so much strength in that small a frame Carving so many angels to watch over her This soul stands afar and […]
In these times I humbly enter into the shelter of the veiled And call on Allah for a brief chat On how to free heads in veils From oppression in the savannah wombs turned tombs  II In these times I humbly ask Allah, why voices of the veiled are evil And why the veiled […]
Birds sing tunes in happy dew Dozing leaves are far from few Winds stir pots with unknown brew Another test of life is simply due II I know that God does keenly peek From clear spectacles He does right seek Many of His homes do corruption leak Sneak peek at its peak, a stenchful reek […]
I When hurdles pile dirty in a long long while And visions get blurry like a mirror in steam Then you are almost getting to the end of the cliff II When passions get confusing like illusion so sore As hearts battle heads at the crossroad of sanity and madness Know you are almost getting […]
I wan say am But ibi like say I can’t Why? Last time, when person opened im mouth And said those people be fools, dem cut im head like chicken Another person too go say that them be like dogs And cats and lions He too, im body turn meat wey was shared for dogs […]
Mother Ghana wake! Wake from thy slumber! Wake too late and you shall curse your fate!! II Mother Ghana wake! Suns are roasting heads of your savannah children Meat has sanity beaten, causing peace to flee III For meat, your children turn meat Slashing ears and slashing heads Piercing eyes and pulling hearts like dogs. […]
SHAMIMA “I am going to kill myself Yes, kill myself Society says an old man is my portion Because his white hairs shine wisdom and care I can’t live like a defiant fighting death off him So I will kill myself” ABLAVI “Kill yourself? Wait let me join you to kill ourselves Society says I […]
I Deep within each heart Are halves searching for their completion Once time stalls, frights start And bitterness takes control after yearning’s depletion II Deep within each heart Are arts to cart the right To attract even those asleep on many a mat To be drawn to features loving and bright III Deep within each […]
Beginners were educated by nature No barter education Money now changes hands for a paper future Like it changes hands for the pride of the nation Crumbling the nation No skills seep through head veins of many creatures But they hold certificates worth the adoration Who are we cheating? Fake peacocks’ wings will be revealed […]
Indomie and ‘deli-aliens’ replace ‘akara, tubani’ Because African televisions scream they are the ‘ish’ Banku, fufu, tz, local rice Are but bush foods meant for bush people No wonder ‘etor’ is fading in minds No wonder ‘aprapransah’ is deemed so evil No wonder we hide to ‘face the wall’ See, we are like cocks without […]
Death painful, sad abandoning, scarring, shocking hurts, tears, relief, ends dissipating, spoiling, burrying hugs, love passing Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Fondness burns As the spirit turns It may have a spiritual lens To see our yearns Eyes fetches from the drum of pain Sad II The left space Who can find the trace And be that face? None, so legs pace As pain embraces giving us its weight Sad III Additions heal no subtractions These […]
Ao! She has told me blankly I went to bath my hair But I ended up staining my ears Abena, I have heard it all now II She says I have a hole like her And I need a digger, lest it fills up with dirt She said she has been studying me like a […]
Earth has peeled off its dark pull over once again Sun will show its muscles No matter how much it heats Some will survive Others hellishly will perish to nourish him Others giving him their hands seeking for rest II I am in love with watching his muscles The way it moves and gives his […]
Mama said I needed a man A man who will care and be my fan A man who will take an arrow And hide me in his shadow But she warned me not to borrow Or I will get stuck when I become an unknown widow II Mama said I needed a clan To form […]
Dimples are jingling Simples are singling Principles are mingling Let your tight clothes loose baby II You wear your disciplines like a corset Wearing your pride like a huge helmet You wear your need like your underpants Who will tear through to see its needles? Let your tight clothes loose baby Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
If Jesus was bruised and killed Then I think this is karma Oh! What else can best explain this enigma? Of sticks needing sticks And mortars needing mortars? II If indeed Jesus was bruised and killed And He was sent by a human-like God Then who can stand and watch his own abused? Oh! This […]
I Bats and owls have gone to bed On huge trees with great great shade Cats and bowls may be in shed In an Ewe’s cravings grade II I am here like a soldiery bridge Having crossed from a darkened night I may be faced with a hardened ridge But I’ll make sure I get […]
The breezes are whispering After they hid in the whirlwinds To swell the dust As the sky threatened to spit In the face of the earth II The breezes are fanning After they stirred the pots of dust And blinded eyes to shut As the sky frowned and yelled Sending beings to seek cover III […]
I have reached the middle of a rose Through the bushes And all the thorns Seeking more colour to brighten Seeking more scent to attract I pray the Sky gives its nurturing II I need the sun in gentle doses I need the breeze like livers need breath I need the rain in moderate doses […]
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