I saw the blinding light Which shielded the dark I saw not the hidden fight Which was on its mark Until the light retired to sleep And the dark did the fight keep Hoping to victory reap II So I fought without a weapon Knowing the light took away my eyes And if I, my […]
A doll Its god A love No knowledge A break A hurt A fix Its fitness All secrets No memory to store You are the odd lines I am the even lines My God Your doll; me Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
Mid day consumes morning Knowing not evening awaits As evening consumes mid-day Always trying to blend with night Even night forgets there is dawn Which clears the path for the morning Cruel morning which carries mid-day’s bitterness Consumes dawn into its tears A chase and a chase A swallow and a swallow Even shadows lengthen […]
Night I loathe your footmat And fear your realm I dread your unconsciousness And pray away your time As I walk like a robot back and forth my dreams, The one your brother formed at his prime, His visions are like hell His thoughts; the heat that the Bible speaks of Where and how you […]
Hide and seek Is what they play The sun and moon seem very meek With a hide each slay With appearance they speak, freak, leak and peek Every second is their stirring day II We trust and curse as we seek They jump and hide as they play Hide and seek We dock, we clay […]
This place of yearning Owns a churning As rain seeps through the pores of the earth And the earth cries in cracks for the thirst of it So does the yearning begs attention II Withering prime! Anxious crime! The bells loudly chime! Deeds deal not with dimes! Hold me in your arms Those strong arms […]
As time travels to my older soul I feel, in my mind’s palms, the hot coal Dreams are like lighted coals In an airy oven Situated in lairs of lion-like vixens Lairs whose entrance is made of the soils of thorns II Legs have to pierce in tears Eyes need to see their own blood […]
At the mercy of the sentient being Whose breath was like mono gas With an elephantine emotion Which jumped like a servant at his command I croaked like a choked frog In his hidden gutters Gutters which obeyed their master In soundproofing, aiding and abetting the crime of pain II Daylight now flood the candle […]
Tears Falls Bruises Strength Weakness Frailty Like weak plants We are tested Some uprooted The un-needed weeded The favoured pampered Until we grow Shed our fruits into barrenness And are cut down to be replaced By needed planta or seeds Such is we who think in foreverness Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
It has appeared Whether loved or feared Whether hooted or cheered Until the curtain of darkness appear None can actually clear II It will choose its mood Whether bad or good Whether confusing or understood Whether there is famine or food Whether estated or hooded Whether hanging or rooted III You can choose to remember […]
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 […]
When a lioness puffs loudly in chase Its game triumph For they know Their fleeing tactics drain their murderers So even when caught They face death with a smile II When the goat bleats loudly in running All know there is danger That is, if nanny is not in sight Chances are, its deeds do […]
When mama arrested me She did not say why All she did was form And force me to conform With each spit I thought she cleaned With every mood swing I thought she cleared With every heartbeat, I felt some love No rules for living Resided in the jail, Jail of urine You should have […]
We met as a set Fitting halves that chanced to jet Fluttering hearts that attracted many a bet And in between, no room to let Bad winds and whispers did feel their fret Which they threw like a ball freed fresh from the net Sad that I am now his flibbertigibbet II If anyone had given […]
Cocks always smell something foul In the cloth of a hen When success crowns her head As she sits in their midst And their combs feel numb at the ego hit II Loudly crowing cocks then turn At the slightest chance Using their wings to sweep the ground Beckoning her to turn her back To […]
For all that I am lent For all the time I have spent To stand or bend I have learnt Because this world is nothing but a rent With my cents come my dent I am sent And will leave this tent And after I turn, none will know where I went So now I […]
I met a hen Who asked God when He will drag hawk to the den Of a famished lion And I went like huh? II I also met a cock Who hated occasional clock And asked God when He will extinct all men And I went like huh? III I met a sheep Who needed […]
Time rolls days like mat Days roll months like light blankets Months roll years like beds Years kneed decades like real dough Squeezing ghosts from beings Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
Some see the little peacock With flowery feathers of different shades Artfully opened like a colourful fan Showing hens that they are merely plain II Some see the plain comedian Immature and never serious Living large like one immuned to problems Hopping like a little bird with a golden crown III Some see a burdened […]
Hide in the dark and strike to mark Cajole, I am your ultimate fool Show the world the donkey you’ve tamed Ride me like wheels on a comfy stool II Wear me no shoes in the harmattan Give me your best whips to cut in stripes Let the blood ooze to solidify After all, none […]
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
As I sat in the dark corner I saw a rat jump past in fright Then a cat chased like a hunter Its paws fat like a curved sword I saw a bat sitting like a judge When its mat of leaves did little shake It flew like a tat cotton in strong wind Chased […]
Fallen in the desert of the unknown Aided by water And the daily murder of plants and animals I look up and I see the skies; House of clouds, sun, moon and stars I look down and I see me and my likes And all that we are harmful to Then I seek your face […]
A good love is like the sun and moon A part sleeps when a part is at post They appear even if they vanish for a while Always smiling A good lover hunts for happiness For the one who holds the time of his heart And will gladly lay down his life with a smile […]
As many try to get emancipated From problems which have roots so constipated Many are those whose problems are cemented And only need bulldozers to break them together Them; problems and beings II As students fear breathing questions With their countless Roman numerals So are many breathers living with problems With countless Roman numerals Numerals […]
Man Man who was made naked And grew to know leaves could hide And proceeded to pursue trees to be softer In order to hide more and more of himself And now thinks leaving some parts bare is a sin Man! Oh man! II Man Man who initially fed on fruits And was afraid of […]
The same water Which quenches the flames Of the body Comes out like humans from different temples of women And change their names from water To sweat Water to urine Water to tears Water to saliva Let’s spare ourselves of its thick transformations Bottom line is We came like water into throats As to where […]
I am cooking wishes Whose dishes Need to clear hisses And shut disses Growing horses to give me kisses And correct my misses II I want to be like a bright and lucky sun One whose clouds clear at dawn To give way to its brightness To bless its times Burn its sluggish subjects And […]
Lying like a soft egg left to cool The airs mould for stamina and or tombila Sitting with curtains of innocence Blinding hurdles, cuddles, muddles, struggles Like a light tent pregnant with a child But seeking war with wild winds Few more breaths held legs and hands And injected them with the strength of mobility […]
The compass Did come to pass Amidst the chaos of sinful bass And the hellwind of confused gas Which nature has come to has II Now there is a peace storm A non-conforming form Sublime chaos Surrealistic realism Bad-good consciences Archiac modernity And like a mystic order An earthly sun Drawing in sky dust III […]
As days walk into months And months walk into years Hands of growth lengthen Into beauty and ugliness Deeds are born As others die no matter their impacts Dreams are birthed into mystic boxes And hang like dew Which needs to be conjured on a mountain top After climbing steps of hardwork Every step of […]
We on your highest port Do your mighty pardon seek We, like mere goods to board Pray you strengthen our bones so weak II We, who are your fingers’ mould Seek your mighty hand to hold We, so lost, like some foolish sheep Do call on your merciful powerful guide III We hide When we […]
I believe in doubt No matter how much disadvantages shout I love to the taunts of bouts flout No matter how long prides pout Because no matter how stout Fear stands, I know I will rout Like a responsible traditionalist, I fail to flout Even if horrors turn my gout Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Youngsters are dreaming of Santa Their block of heavenly gifts in counter Elders are thinking of barter As delicious animals think of how discriminatory Jesus’ birth is So pray in chants For the slaughter of all machetes Just as saucepans pray For all fires to taste their heats So their bruised minds will quench themselves […]
In this very wake Some elephants are uprooting grass Like angry farmers battling weeds Under their precious crops The only difference Is they don’t turn back To gather, eat or mulch All they desire is to pass and kill with no apologies II In this very wake Some antelopes feel their boneless grinds In the […]
Lying cool under the shaded sky Like the almost dead who knows no pain It gives no clue as to what is new Until the sky sends its tears by Not only are her eyes detected Her hands and legs kick As their complaints are heard from far Oh what can happens When tranquil waters […]
Oh if I had wings of an eagle I would fly like the king of the sky Loving all to submission Protecting the weak Pecking the proud Honouring the swift And feasting on the notorious II Oh if I had wings of the dove I would rid the sky from demons and ills And order […]
Like a sheep grazing a green field Like a lion fishing through much antelope meat Like hawks in the midst of wingless fowls Like a saint sitting on thoughts of God Minds wish for slates of perfect abundance With no thoughts of who gets hurts From grass to fowls All know feelings of pain Who […]
When poor brick layers Lay their bricks Many turn spitters Many; urinators Extremists turn breakers Only determined layers Those who foresee their buildings finish Work on through the hurdles Ignoring the shouting metaphors Like unfeeling bulldozers Discerning minds get the puzzle Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When I wore spectacles of innocence And wore the clothes of fancy daydreams When I walked the grounds seeking swift knights And had the smile of complete trust When I walked in authority Thinking dreams could be commanded When I had the shape of a perfect heart And had a mind untainted by bitter experiences […]
Stored So bored Many hoard Oh Most High God! Life must fun accord Like dust, blend with sand Mouths can no laughter afford Hearts await hideous painful blasts Setting ears, like guards, on watchful gates Please delete danger, make the baits playful Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Images from Google pics)
No matter the weakness of a graceful flower It receives the blows of rain As it does sun which makes it visible To its audience It even embraces the winds No matter how strong Knowing it will be stronger if it succeeds And if it is lucky distribute its seeds to some fertile land Being […]
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 […]
Life is like a string rope And we are like a group of masked ant circus On its slim grounds No matter how many hands hold When the dew-drop of death selects The hold becomes meaningless As it cages in a lone space II Tears are no life revivers in the fallen Hurts are no […]
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 […]
When I said I loved I was like a caught bird Under heated water in the saucepan of society Being cooked for being alone Now that I see a hole in the pan I see my true heart and I am sorry II When I said I loved I was like a lone soul Deserted […]
They say once one is down A fall is nothing to fear But here, lying flat on my back I feel my pulse racing like a tsunami Who knew falling from the pain tree Breaks no bone But beats your bests And blasts your breast? Interesting, that is where the heart hides II I am […]
Ancient of days pass Like a fast rolling football Caring not about Anything blocking its way Battling with force to bursting Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I am hoarding a lioness In the cave of my heart Yet smiling like the sun Deceiving the depressed As if I am cool II It can be raining cats and dogs in blood Flooding the cave and killing its space But even in the darkest of times The moon appears on my face […]
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