Sometimes a teller’s tale touches on tricky tempters…meant to thrust into taunting triumph with self pointersBy snapping pictures of obscure anglesTo make themselves look like angelsPushing truths beneath piles of liesTo solicit sympathetic cries IISometimes a teller’s tale tackles a truceTo tick adjudicators off to abuse…the other by omitting important points to confuseMaking all, peaceful […]
Oh secret meshesLiving in at the dark side of knowing…digging painful trenches…and garnering a followingThrowing norms asunder by hitting good in clashesKilling hope of growth and bombing up sinceringKnow thy deeds pile on earth like an overloaded tipper truck…set to somersault in an unsaving mark II.For teeth can eat not its fingers…while stomach thunders for […]
We love believable lies…compared to unbelievable truthsSo we live in the lies and kill our truthsWhile praying through false channels…for positive resultsWhat is the formula for this crude mathematical hope? IINo one lies happily in lies…and expect to be comfortable in the grave of truthBodies and minds get comfy…with what they’re fed as time adjusts […]
Facts .as… .act. .act. .as.. Facts II You can enhance your personality …with lies Lighting loving on your acts Plastering perfection with manipulation To let birds of gullibility sing …your appellations All these in timed dark Ib Enchantment ..chant…. ….ant…. ….an….. ….an….. ….ant…… ..chant…. Enchantment III When the real sun lights And the real day […]
Akilakpa never regarded his Ghana …while he lived in its womb He dreamt of a land with a forever mild air conditioning …where sweat is nil For he had heard the grass is green in Ghana But in that land …the land ranges from greener to greenest II He couldn’t wait to shed his Ghanaian […]
Her lies walked on two legs …and were hit by another lie on a bicycle Then yours, on a motorbike, cleared the lie on the bicycle And thereafter, his lie, riding a plush car …hit and put yours in a vegetative state Be happy knowing someone’s lie in a plane …crashed and killed his lie […]
Sometimes truth lies in deep forests of lies …calling great hunters …for their find Praying voices of lions of deception …scare not rightful hands …in their fetch II Sometimes truth hovers …around lies like a bothersome fly …wishing to be seen or heard …but mostly drown in power frowns As raindrops drown in rivers III […]
He wanted his rod …in her pod …thrusting in “Oh my Gods” And couldn’t, so got bored …and bitterness stored …to be dished out when he could afford II The perfect time came When he saw her hassled …by the bow legged man He watched as she struggled like a fowl …almost caught as the […]
A lie is “ei go and die!” on ordinary tongues But turns a pie on extraordinary tongues Boos, jeers and anger for the former Laughs, claps and cheers for the latter Smell it, the stinking rot in polished seats! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © September 9, 2018
Ah! Ordinary fly I am too plain for you to strain So you sigh And look at me with disdain You love the lie And all those who like paintings live in colour Thinking not of any disorder II Chase the “real” butterflies Know their nectar taste and oh! Pray not for rain Fall for […]
I laugh like I cry I cry like I laugh Whoever saw a lion hiding behind a rat For protection from what it fears? Show me that being, And I will take bullets meant for the skies II I dance like I wail I wail like I dance Whoever saw an elephant begging an ant […]
 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 […]
Light is poison To the eyes of an owl Its fear of light is like Human’s fear of darkness II You light your path in the dark Knowing not you’re woe to an owl And its generation And you attribute your snooping to its help? III Flat lies are too shameful When they walk in […]
I “Cars are nothing Money is nothing Living is nothing Let love flow” Braggarts bragging below beings’ bend II “I’ll give you stars Do you want the moon? Maybe you need the sun I could charm darkness for you” Braggarts bragging below beings’ bend III Braggarts are brats Who live in fake dreams They love […]
I If the songs you sing And the bells you ring And your back’s wings Are true, there’ll be no tears II If the promises are real And you work with zeal And your intents never kill There’ll be no tears III If your body’s posture Go flawlessly with your breath And your eyes Tell […]
I A lie needs a lie To help it go by Clean that hot lie And help it die down II A lie needs many lies To make it smile as it flies Uproot its deep roots To save it the many hoots III A lie ignites with lies To ruin many skies Quench the […]
When the clouds are mating The winds throw dust into the eyes of interested parties Then even highly inquisitive eyes will shut Until each body in the mating posture cools Minds are so wonderful, That though they know something sinister is ongoing, They bury them deep and live in the day Moving on with new […]
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