If I step on your tail Don’t ask for a bail Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks II If you’ve swift tick tocks At least pause for a talk You’re so under lock And cares not for a weak flock Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks III So tick, talk Block […]
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KENTE SENE BENTE
Don’t you bother telling me much I know in times past I was nothing as such Eight to eleven is a huge gap I think I need to give you and I a tap I’m no longer in amoasene You’re no longer in bente Like the spider inspired kente We have all covered our asene […]
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CONSCIENTA
Here I am Not a sham Quit the ram I mean you harm II Here I stand Like God’s hand Calling a band On your dry land III Don’t you wait Catch your bait Know your fate This is your date IV I’m conscience Calling your nonsense To whip you to sense To give you […]
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LIKE AN AFRICAN?
An eating habit Freeing the soul and taste bud In tongue-land like eagle wings Could do all good Any day the sun shines, dims, blurs or goes to sleep II I don’t live like a grasshopper! My tongue might run like an alien But the same tongue runs smoother like the native I am Who […]
Hear me blacks in arks Change the colour of your star So we can go far II You know black for death You use red for hot danger These we have, what now? III We are on travel And our star dims like black coal No wonder we stand IV We stand with no walks […]
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LONGINGS
If all I long Could fit into a song I would compose that song And cut my tongue II Because I’ll be among Those who’ll sound the gong Of bare hearted forever song And nothing could be wrong III All will sing my song Both old and young And I’ll stand emotionally strong […]
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TRAPPED IN SOUL (TANKA)
He was clawed to flaw Canined to chain and insane Knew not his right path Going was trouble, standing, Great pain and hunger, back? Not! II Like man, like a beast Like a feet without a land seat Like heart dead in life He walked two paces and turned Walked back two paces and turned […]
The road prostitutes Letting all vehicles through Why doesn’t she have a voice? Poor roads, Even in rain, you accommodate all In heat, you are accommodative of all No rest for you? Like a helpless beauty, you lie As your beautiful flower is being flawed By layers and layers of ungrateful tires The washing bays […]
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AS WE SET OFF (HAIKU)
Invincible ears All listening and sieving Please don’t sieve this one II In this hot season We need an intervention One worth mentioning by mouths III He should empty eyes Ones filled with hot problemed rains Knees are bended now IV All hungry stomachs Working hard must be appeased So minds would be pleased V […]
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LIKE A TINGALINGALING (ADULT POETRY)
Swing and sing As your bells in me ring Like a thumb on a noisy string I want my sound to resonate In all the realms of harmony Like a humming bird In a safety shed So let your bells in me ring Like a thumb on a noisy string Shaking me like a tingalingaling […]
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OUT OF CONTROL
I hold my soul Like the caught mole Because I’m out of control What do you expect? A beautiful flower wilting? Seeing new give bud pangs! Hearing of other colours Fill this weak bud with regrets I stand like half shadow And half flower A leg on land A leg in the soil Controversial feelings […]
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UNTIL YOUR RETURN
Caged by the dark, Four concrete corners An obedient slate roofing And married to my thoughts Also saddened by boredom, She appeared and lifted what I feared II She decreed! That, none can make me drown But me That, I need to make use of my legs To feel That, life really has no tight […]
Here swoons the moon And there goes the frowning sun On hurtful pontoon II When moon times out, it frowns and tears for sun to come Normal these sad hurts III When the moon crosses Sun in its time, dead witchcraft Wakes to stir trouble IV Fallibility Is all, discipline; its call That margin, so […]
The year holds for me no wishes But I certainly do You must hear my wishes Young heart seedlings must have their freedom To shoot without famishing II Let all papers of authority Know their places in this arena And with all live with conformity By signing a bond III All hearts yearning to be […]
It shot very far I realized it was a star I guess I went far II Peacock in a bar How can these feathers go far To show without mar? III So I threw it far Watched it brighten like a star When it reached that far IV Oh my good good star! Can I […]
Who is there? Oh all are here! I see the things Which Christmas brings But my pocket cries out And my mouth does pout II Who sees it? Oh all feels it Many are those Who’ll think of overdose To end the shame And get a loose name III Who is happy? Oh the sit-and-eats […]
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MISGIVINGS
Round the bend of deceit Is a block of defeat Housed by a huge heartache Caging a humble and weeping trust II Round the bend of betrayal Stands the chaotic vengeance Holding a spear of bad thoughts Housing many ill-wills III Round the bend of regret Hides the mighty remorse Which awaits admission To get […]
In this deep hot night All thoughts don’t go right For no light shone bright In my dream so I woke with a fright II I saw shadows in high height Threatening to fly like a kite And scaring me with all their might So I screamed at the sight III It could be the […]
Soft flowers are lined From the doorway to the bed Bowing to the new Madam of the temporary Bed who looks like an angel II She blushes in white; White as pure as snow for all To know that she is The luck filled being in motion She is filled with emotions III She smiles […]
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TO MY FEMININE SIDE
To have me in your ride Touch my feminine side I’ve rules you must abide Our oneness needs no divide II To have me by your side Let smoothness glide Have no scary skeletons to hide Our prideful parts must not collide III To have me by your side Tone down when you chide Slow […]
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TALKERS AND WALKERS
Shoes have mouths Selection can prevent doubts One in hiding needs no talker One in limelight needs the talker One in chasing needs the quiet Brains can give grains In famine Watch And Learn Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I I live to sin A not so proud of trademark As much as possible, please prompt me Lightning my path for me to clearly see II There are the needs And there are the wants Please help my needs And be graceful with my wants III There are the lovers There are the loathers […]
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CHARMING YOU TO SLEEP
A shining light beckons Go, go, go Step into its realm And dream It is not sleep that beckons It is your angel Calling in the sweetest voice With the best of intentions Intentions of protection Sleep and let thoughts weep For the angels rise in defence They fan and dote on you So there […]
Will the poor be saved? No! No! No! And No! They will never be saved No matter their struggles Most will fall at the hands of poverty Because they are businesses Businesses of some unscrupulous dudes Who profit at their sufferings And revel in their misery The dirtier the better The more pathetic, the richer […]
Crashers of nuts Who crash not their seeds Water pourers Who break not the pots Hear this sound From a clever mind If you crash the nuts Do crash their seeds If you pour the water Do crash the pots Leaving these tells of tales Of your dumbness of dumbness If you can’t crash their […]
Laughter as infectious as ebola, must stand and be made to rule our poor land today Because teeth of decay plague the mouth of the earth sending loud painful sounds all over the land Laughter which stands supreme and can bring tongue, teeth and […]
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ACROSTIC LIFTER
Your success cries from afar Over the mountain of despair Under the lid of the heat Win over thoughts of giving up Ill thoughts of ending it all Leaning whispering audibly to your ears Let it know you hear the cries Getting to you from […]
(Today is a day set aside to educate people on the need to treat mental patients with love and care, so I understand, this is my bit of contribution.) Electrical circuits touch in rooms Electrifying in high pain Until pain gives way to thoughts unburdened In […]
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GOD’S CHOICE
God can’t afford your hatred sword So he let’s you on your own accord To choose and ask when you see He’s lord For his opinion and to invite Him on board God can’t afford your hatred sword So he leaves you free to not […]
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DETERMINATION’S CREST
One He braves Through the pain Like a soldier And marches rightly Armoured with hope in life And determination’s sword Two He walks Gallantly Through his captives Throwing this aside Throwing fierce ones beneath And succeeded in breaking chains Three The breeze So very nice […]
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LITTER IS BITTER
Litter is bitter When it catches You in a sitter Litter is bitter When food turns bile In the fitter Litter is bitter You sitter Don’t litter A bag here Rubbish there A can here Some leaves here Then we turn litter Which […]
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CUPID’S CONCEIT
Saints of the bed, ye saints ahead Promise eternity of voices heard But anger stands tall as trust falls As lover’s sweet blindfold disaster calls Like Goliath being killed by David Shame drapes faces of supporters avid Cupid sits in worldly horrid With clasped […]
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SHORE’S SOLIDARITY
Seas sell shores, Shores with sores Sauntering seas Sell static shores Stops by sides, seeping, Struggling with steeps Silly shores lie still In solemn solidarity As seas sing in satisfaction Sell me out And I’m sold I’m no shore I see you’re no sea […]
Thoughts of pepper Thoughts of salt Thoughts of sugar Thoughts of onions Thoughts of oil To bring them together Singular thoughts gives not all Thoughts of rivers Thoughts of land Thoughts of fishes Who live and follow Thoughts of trees Thoughts of stones […]
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YOU STONY MOUNTAIN!
Stony, stony, stony mountain No water, no food, no assuring fountain Heart on fire No heart’s desire I’ve lost my bid on the painful counting Stony, stony, stony mountain Fearfully, heartlessly and horribly daunting All you’ve made me is a crier As the sun do me frier And some hungry lions keep on haunting […]
Faithfulness! A word as beautiful As a flower With many opened Holes of deceit in deed Love! A word sought From mouths of worthy beings But heavily utilised By pain, mockery and hatred Trust! A word which lights The face and tingles the heart Only to be a pawn In the hands of […]
You push men into the limelight And serve as mouths of a future bright But men are men and claim are men When they become fertile money hatching hen’ Poor heads which hurt to push Sorry for being forced into the bush After you make comfortable roosters Of hen boosters I know it is a […]
From the soothing balm of shea To the ginger, pepper suppository Through to hunger which was queer And quenched with thick breakfast of ‘coco’ With plenty sunshine, my happiness was sealed By the creator I, like an angel, knew no colour I knew no difference I knew humans, black, white, yellow and whatever And […]
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SOLDIERING CROSS
On a happy sea tour Our love blossomed to the core All sores aimed to heal But the sea goddesses hated for it to be real We sailed without mails We shared in all the sails We loved, and held I forgot, the soldiering limpy loss I held Until your unfortunate slip Reminded […]
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THOUGHTLESS
Streams sleep sad Skies sit straight Lands lie loathing Our unthoughtful usage Trees’ talks tell Birds’ boos bell Air actually angers At our insensitivities We destroy Without thoughts, Kill Without planting, We pollute And laugh Thinking We’re superior To them “Beware!” They say Their renewed anger May turn to collapse mankind. Amoafowaa […]
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THE DAY SMILES
The day’s smile, is his light No matter the winds, The day smiles No matter the storm, The day smiles No matter how long the clouds thread, The day smiles No matter the amount of tears he weeps, The day smiles No matter the deadly nature of the fumes he inhales, The day smiles Let […]
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LIGHT MY LIGHT
We cannot be the sun and moon Whose shuttles orbit hundreds of miles To keep their distances and painfully swoon Light repels light no matter their differences But this light wants to merge in a cocoon With the light that is tearing its eyes For its weak rays need yours to happily swoon And sack […]
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AREA ASANKA
Hehehehe, one plus one is one But what is this I hear? That Paa Ekow wants a nice earthenware To be his one and only bowl. Not a bad idea, after all, a man must have a bowl But, what is this I’m hearing? That he wants a last-hand bowl? This bowl I know, is […]
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CUPID, LET’S HAVE THE TALK
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, […]
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THE ANGELIC LONER
She tends to a farm,
A farm benevolent like heaven,
Which kills all hunger but hers
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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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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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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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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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