I always aimed to be a potted flower I envied their supplies From waters carried by muscles To the manure bought to feed Talk less of their pampering of shades and aids And their protection and attention II They were like the dream Which emptied me from their cans of dark bliss Onto scolding thorns […]
If I build a house I won’t house a mouse Mice which crawl in clothes of darkness To eat my rice Rolling my dice And putting my eyes in a quandary of lies Are nothing nice II Roasting on ghost nets After walking on the finest clouds Being toasted on fear fires Like a lost […]
The sky sees many monarchs Those whose sadness floods the earth Giving life to most and taking some Those whose happiness burns the earth Warming most, drying fractions and killing some Those whose air barber trees Burning weeds And aiding and abetting fires The sky really sees many monarchs II Amazing how all weathers have […]
I was born with nothing No fangs No claws To talk of clothes and rings and slings to cling Look at me now Looking at these crossroads II I was born like mixed flour So light Does the sun boil me like heat Which fans the buttocks of pots As air stirs my content to […]
We remember the claws of yesterday After feeling the smooching of palms today A new dawn easily sheds its night And falls into nothingness If it records no history And acts like a boring copycat Yes, believe it or not History has teeth which bite through memories II Whichever crown graces your head On the […]
I sit in comfort on my bed With head carrying fires of hell What could I possibly be to you? A fling in a sling on a swing? II I think with my heart Which beats like bass in a loose speaker I hurt like a bird with broken wings I can fly to no […]
Travelling air Uncaring stare Pinches for feeling is all the care Not fair but what is fair When noses murder without prompts Only to be buried in plants? Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
I have felt the sting of mosquitoes Felt the bites of ants Felt the bites of snakes Felt the claws of eagles And stand with huge unseen scars II I have felt the slaps of crows Pecks of wood peckers Hooting of owls Reminding crows of taunting cocks About the speed of time And still […]
A decade ago I was a decade less from three My leaves as fresh as the morning dew My stem as strong as the odum tree My roots as firm as the nim tree But here I wilt Into the dungeons of death II My voice was as sharp as the sharpest sword Cutting down […]
He who threads on the insurer’s path Sees the ghosts of profits In the clutch of misfortunes And wears a protection charm Always praying or exorcicing II He who threads on the path of danger Plays with anger Making happiness a stranger One to be toyed and slaughtered Even under the umbrella of blessings III […]
Dawn is a path finder Of what days, in cloth hide While many losers fear to morning face Accomplished men can’t wait to greet its palms Still, the vigilant cock crows Kokrokoooo To alert them all II There are cases and there are cases Humans who walk on toes And those who walk on foes […]
There are those who fear beings In colours different than theirs As mice fear cats There are those who fear corpses Knowing it is a state unskippable As what the air receives without balance falls But there are those who bath corpses Thinking them mud II There are those who fear ghosts As rats fear […]
Life is no race So go at your own pace What do you chase What you in time face All you have to embrace Is with none laced So move by grace At your own pace Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
May I ask which cage keeps you? I know the earth is a cage And opens only when death enters its need coins But which internal cage keeps you? II Some are caged by selfishness With metal bars of needing all When they can barely carry few Like ants carrying huge leaves Forgetting their tiny […]
Clouds form to give life to rain Rivers flow to give strength to seas Plants grow to feed, heal or kill But beings grow into the earth We know not the colour of ghosts Like meteorologists and their audience Some predict Some believe Some sit on fences to just watch We, these sad girls Amoafowaa […]
Some are born kings with wings Like mushrooms growing on anthills They get to battle trees in height Their only prayer Not to be grazed down Ambition, not a usable tool Maintenance, a need II Some are born free to spree Like left kites in right sights Flying high with the right air Shaking their […]
A smiling sword mostly Holds bitter bitterness Which develops sharp edges in the dark To take hearts from its enclavic back Hearts which warms up to them II Match eyes with mouths Ears with hands Shadows with backturns Scribbling and dribbling not neighbours The mind lives on the storey building The legs being its palanquin […]
When my heaven in daylight turns to hell Calling to keep a countenance none can tell I always yearn to recoil into my shell Like a tortoise in danger smell II Oh how I wish there was a bell To help me skip any problem cell So none can say “she fell” And carry me […]
What do you see? Birds in flight with different wings? Different sizes of animals On all fours living as they please? Those struggling on twos And those sailing with wings? Rivers screaming for seas? Clouds clutching on skies? Airs roaming Invisibly aimlessly Touching with no fingerprints? Look Look hard Tell what you see Think the […]
What is the difference between much and none? In the much How is the rush? In the none How is the crash? II Many are the laughters of the much Like sugar and ants Many are the odours of the none Like a dead being rotting in leaves III Eyes in goggles of deceit Break […]
The womb of the earth Births them all Flowers Trees Crops Weeds Herbs II Why would one womb Birth them all with such variations and roles? Do flowers love being flowers? Trees being trees? Crops being crops? Weeds being weeds? Herbs being herbs? III Flowers complain of being used Their beauty for pleasure Their nectar […]
Who sees now? The needs unsatisfied The yearnings unqualified The places I’m stupified Who sees now? Who sees now? II Let the world turn And take me to a higher realm Where a little brightness lurks The hidden families will surface The unseen demands will roar The naked love will kneel Stooges of needs will […]
Like fowls we roost Hoping to get hold of our breaths To hold the reins of life The Mythical Being as our watch How we wander In light death In worlds known only as dreams How we hail Fight Kill And live In still bodies Clap for creation That I have another pass Is the […]
When dawn speaks The world halts in a heartbeat As its gentle cries act like a soothing balm Pre-smearing for any harm Its clearing clouds; like a needed path Shabily made to lead my cutlass Its breezes speak in alien but massaging language Calling for calm preparations To face the world II Brave fears Gentle […]
Oh stone angel! Born in the palm of heaven With coolness and serenity As servants and companions Beautiful abodes As her eyes’ bonafied properties Healthy trees dancing on mountain tops Her protectors and breath givers Like a free bird She was born to fly in dancing Watching the rivers snake happily down her feet As […]
When furious winds wake Some trees are uprooted Others break in two Others break into several pieces Others lose their branches Others lose their fruits Others lose their leaves But the toughest ones are unaffected And all affected have faith of resurrection When blessed rains visit Their only prayers; not to be visited by fire […]
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 […]
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