I need me an animal An animal who lives longest To study its habits To know its foods To adopt its relationships To see if I can live like it II I would give it freedom Freedom to express itself And make it know it is my teacher I will see through its eyes Eat […]
Tag: #GHANAIAN POETS
Hopeful ears help fearful eyes To pick on lies And strip truth naked To dress the liesĀ To present them to mind Banishing glaring truth Into the evil forest of future regrets Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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CREATORS OF gODS
It is the cook Whose blame is booked When the taste goes bad Like a stinking spoilt fish So women! Do cook the lads so right! II You worship your creation Into demi god-ship When they seek for worship From your future yous As you’ve always worshipped in tears Book your blame For you are […]
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ON HOT PLOSIVES
Burning and burnt Bear same papa burn But burning has hope Burnt is lost Be the best burning by swimming Swimming in honest seas Ā II Poor power pretends Proud pets are penned When its pretension pensions Pom! Pawns then peeve painās Power packages Pom! Plain pests plucked like poisonous plants So power the plosives […]
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NIGHT OWLS
ko ko ko ko koooooooooooo! “Shiverings Witchcraft? It must be the badluck That is plaguing my life!“ I will say no! When you hear owls Shouting in fear or jubilations in the night Pause and think Don’t you panic You are the defaulter If you only shed the worry You wouldn’t feel this sorry Leave […]
I may be nothing Nothing worth something To have touched hearts of the future To openly declare II I hate being a plantain tree Peeling off my leaves while growing others But I love that most peeled, Climb for the heavens After falling off me III A thought of a goner And this heart flutters […]
Love me Love me with the whole you Love me like you never loved Make me your grounds because you are a giant tree Love me and I’ll be a perfect sea If you turn into a fish II Breath me Breath me like your very last breath Breath me like you see no other […]
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TOUCH OF THE MAGIC STICK (ADULT POETRY)
At the touch of the magic stick Beauty pricks As brightness licks Innocence flies after high hot kicks II Style rears its poky head Over confidence uses its left finger To direct agers to stubborn hell At the touch of the magic stick III Bathing Ladying Shyness And consciousness The magic stick is like the […]
Show me Show me where the gates of pleasure end As its treasures start from the doors of love II I don’t want to be in the realms of hell Where lust flees replaced by fires which burn only hearts As it taunt souls in roasting pain III Show me Show me where pleasures’ borders […]
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GHANAIAN PALAVER
Mexico puts on screens How social stratifications Are Ā breeched by love sensations And many of the lovers are in their teens *** Koreans put on their screens Deeds of kings who lived in days of old Depicting their cultures in many fold Breaking clean the outmoded in keens *** US puts many stories […]
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FEED MY MIND
There are varying animals In this rounded ball This rounded ball Whose hairs are weeds and feeds II Each has its loves and likes Only the lost knows not theirs So I will tell you Feed not my eyes Feed my mind So I can draw you in III I am a good book With […]
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QUEER WORLD; FLONNY
It is a queer world Where pain has a money cage A queer world Where the hungries fight To see the fighting stage A queer world, queer world indeed II It is a queer world Where the voices get the choices A queer world Where pretenders get fast horses Dressed in fortune While the land […]
Home Cozy, comfort Welcoming, pampering, correcting Love, hurts, friends, foes Supporting, quarrelling, blackmailing Care, rare Family Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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THANK YOU FATHER GOD
I hear the winds singing Drumming delighted leaves I hear the cockerels’ sounds Praising the master and waking all generations While caging others The “kramokokā” is crowing Calling on all to come and pray Now, what do I say? You are the mighty one You see, hear, feel and judge You are the merciful father […]
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RIGOROUS MEETINGS
At the meeting of tornadoes, storms, Lightening and thunders Whirlwinds keep dancing Only calm diffuses their excitement Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
All ablutions apt Proud pious people praying Bow before Allah II Aboabo is chaste Showing good of Ramadan Abuse? Forgiven! III I remember a Day after Ramadan left Its footsteps were heard IV Abudu just saidĀ “Shegia!” and his mouth was snatched By sharp machetes V Amina just puffed And her body was found in […]
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FLAUNTING TAUNTERS
I thought the world said “Female” is a fee for the male So what is this? In a tie where the fees for the males Charm in accoutrements And amassing attention Men are taunted to pension To a point of trying to metamorphose Into a fee for a male II The K’s have succeeded Pushing […]
Gifted hands do plait Armpit hairs forgetting head Attracts public eyes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Heads rightly occupied Are like heaven with God Who sends angels to protect II Hands rightly occupied Are like golden hens Who lay golden eggs III Mouths rightly occupied Are like widely listened to radios Which gains high dues IV Legs rightly occupied Are like expensive vehicles Which drive beings to divine places V All […]
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WORLDS IN WORLDS
I know I know our eyes are other worlds Worlds which keep other beings Beings who are forced to sleep When we shut them And die when we fade in our mud II I know I know our skins are other worlds Worlds which hoard many a soul Like a planet filled with pore […]
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SPARKS OF BOREDOM
When love turns sour All hormones bore Oh! How I wish there was a law A law which forces love to tour Tour and catch happiness to the fore To calm all “the-bored”, Store “fore ever “ And stamp “Happy Ever Afters” CHORUS Oh carnivorous bitterness Oh taunting thoughts of unfairness Oh forceful streams of […]
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TAKE OFF THESE CLOTHES
Take them off Take them all off and leave me naked So naked as the day I was born And make sure all my troubles are gone II Take them all off, all off! The clothes of labelling The clothes of gender Take off the clothes of need And help me feed III I say […]
I see you I feel you needing the shine now I have to tell you how I, abject horrors, did bow in my quest to be here after hurting and bruising pulling on the ropes of hard work Ā II I have to tell you how hunger Ā dragged me through shameful mud as […]
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PALPABLE (HAIKU)
Shadows of troubles Approach in lovable sun Of complacency II Unsuspecting souls Have lifted shoulders in pride While future falls loom Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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HONOURING YOU
The foot mat of the heavens Shows its grandness The capable hands of the earth Shows Godās magnificence āAhunuwo abobirimā This is your exaltation āTonsuo bā awiaā I do thee worship Ā II Like the cock and its dawn praise I do your great name in gratification raise You are the greatest thought One without […]
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VULNERABLE
I took you in reluctantly, one who has been wounded by a storm, fears little winds II Now you are this star’s heart, When huge trees fall, Their sounds travel far, so I am shivering III Anxious for good and bad, I am like a swan and porcupine Ready to love and or fight IV […]
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ONIONATINGS (TWISTED CHAINED HAIKU)
Hug layered onions Hold fumes of tear gas, waiting For knives of awe hurts II They are on their marks Gunning for eyes which lead knives To their quiet temples III Onions with cool souls In detecting the rots, stay Knowing no betrayals IV Who calls them mean things? In fighting fair, weapons are Allowed […]
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BOYS USE FLOWERS, MEN USE DEEDS
You can trace the fantasy And see the needing ecstasy On faces with many dreamy fake fallacies True, because boys use flowers Men use deedsĀ II They will come like militants Bow like slaves Raise their flowers And beg like prayerfuls Yes, boys use flowers And men use deeds III They have pipe mouths Which […]
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I KNOW A SNAKE WITH ONE EYE (ADULT POETRY)
I know a snake with one eye Which has some milk And bless and curse Instead of biting to poison It snakes straight Crooked and tears Opening its victims in screams so weird II I know a snake with just an eye An eye which sometimes serves as mouth It opens and closes when it […]
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AS WE PART
At the dawn of our goodbye The sky weeps Tears whose ingredients are Pain Loss Loneliness Uncertainty Failure And fear But these tears fall to toughen The grounds of our hearts II Unfairness has a head none wants to see Tribal voices stopping in one’s track Their enemy before the notice Of his footprints Is […]
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BRAINS WITH EAGLE WINGS
I wish I can be an arrow Which could pierce without sorrow And enter into brain marrows Of those who cause humans sorrows But I am like all They fall and I fall They call and I call They stall and I stall Shadows of shadows of shadows! And the shadows are painful arrows! II […]
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WHEN LIES PIERCE
Shaking in heart roastings Thoughts of hurts in boastings Boastings carved on historic trees Trees sending the writings like spears into hearts Ā Hearts which gave it them lives Now suffer by the sharpness of their tips Ah! When lies pierce! II When lies pierce They pierce fierce Sending trust into horrid hearse III It is […]
When hearts meet fears and flee And groans turn to songs as dirges Where brides must sing of joy – When indigo streaks our faces – *** When stolen voices become Serial callers with borrowed Phrases, Where old plasters cover the wounds Where real heroes fall Then new martyrs rise to build Our […]
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CHICKS FOLLOW HENS?
“Chicks follow hens” he says So nothing will cost him in pays The “neck-bottle” is willing That’s why it has rope tied to its neck Pull, while you have it, pull When the two balls Were begging to swerve blue balls As vein-mouths opened crying burning passions You forgot of the chicks being transferred into […]
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PREGNANT GUTTERS
Pregnant gutters Labour in downpours Caging and taking lives In barbarism And the living cries foul? II Who makes sweet love By pushing bottles, polythenes and tins Into its wombs? They too have ends III Wait! What’s with the buildings Usurping water heads By the aid of hands so feeble and at risk? Humans are […]
I shiver And I don’t know why I who battled dark quarries And emerged bathed with light II I shiver And I don’t know why I who battled with poverty And won with no debt mark II I tremble And I don’t know why I who was forced into the anus of the great sick […]
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THE SUN’S LESSON
Once, There was a sun Whose light went off Any time he saw its moon II Like all females The moon complained And threatened looking for another sun Whose sun could melt her light in glowing togetherness III Still, the sun’s light went off It knew not its problem But knew he could shine One […]
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SONG OF THE KOKROBITE SEA
I’ve seen those with fees Wanting to dance naked in my sees But end up peeing in me And what of the many babies who think me a womb? II I’ve seen human rear-holes Of mafia Gas trumpeting in tows Fearing no eyes, putting eyesores in my mouth Slapping me with angry tissues III I […]
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INVINCITAS
Invincible invincible hands of these takers Taking what they don’t own Or do they own? Do we owe? We may owe Like a magical thief Death takes and shatters hearts! Like a carnivorous borla beach With machete teeth It swallows and break bones If only there can be an all seeing eye What wouldn’t I […]
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MISSING THE POINT
God of creation For brainās procreation I sit at this station And watch your dear nation Missing what will bring them ovation Ā II They are like fufu eaters Hating the basic fufu heaters They are like death fearers Wanting the touches of Godās carers They are like birds Hating tree beds They are like […]
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SHATTERED FRUITS OF KENYATTA
Stare! Is this fair? Splattered young fruits At that square? II Stare! Don’t you care? Many capable future leads weeded Can you bear? III Stare! Dare to stare! They just wanted to fit in But a blasting this glare? IV Stare! Whoever did dare Would you ever trade places? All you who dared? V Stare! […]
Thinking Thinking of someone Someone with a strong bull’s horns and eyes in care One who has the sharpest sword among all knights Thinking Thinking of someone II Thinking Thinking of someone Thinking of someone with a peacock’s self confidence One who has a lion’s strength for protection And an elephant’s weight in trust Thinking […]
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HEED THE CALL
What are fires without heat? Light without shine? Drums without beats? Houses with no gates? II What are voices without sounds? Cars without mobility? Eagles without wings? Rains with no water? III I believe proceeds are the all Without them, then we fall So when the occasion does call We must be prepared to give […]
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WHY I WRITE
As the sky lies vast And watches sky beings display On its ground like a field All it can do to be sane Is to create an outlet That’s why I write II As the land takes and gives And mouths curse and bless While others defecate and spit All into its mouth All it […]
Many will be stranded Being left empty handed After enjoying the fat Lamb killing And being shamed with a resurrection II Many will sell their talkers After being drained by suckers Many will pawn their shoes Just to get a place on a troski III Many will turn to beggars After being the money taggers […]
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YOU, ONLY YOU
You are my model And the face on my magazine cover You are my light In the darkest on nights You are my warm bed And my storm shed Who but the creator pierced us together? You are an interesting needle So I’m in your hole Let’s just keep threading Until we sew a full […]
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THE ELEPHANT AND THE MONKEY
An elephant gave It gave so much money So much money to buy monkey’s loyalty Spider looked on and laughed II The elephant did things And monkey kept watch Kept watch on trees close As lion lost so much on its farm III Lion offered a reward A reward for the one who unveiled its […]
Call and forget the distance When your earthly vehicleĀ Feels the waistly demonstration of wanting-lifers II Call and forget the distance You are a lion and I’m a lioness We’re all in passion so fearless III Call and forget the distance When the moon acts like an enlightened tent As the stars stand like disco […]
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WHEN THE FROG NAUSEATES (TANKA)
Folks climb tall mountains With their voices as day wakes Pledging commitments? Funny flaws’ flaked forces fan Into action when day smiles II What are we on then? Noise pollution with no track? Time’s irritation We may hear the earth shout “bue!” Like ones whose ears itch and hurt III In wake of that time […]
Marry my mind Please marry the thoughts of my mind Before you think of the pleasures of this bottle That done, even a hush, dash, or flush Can cause a blush I am the golden fish upstream Hiding from the rest of my being So marry my mind Be like the mathematician Get the formula […]
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