Young inks bleed All digging to plant seeds Seeds for a great tree Which will shelter their future II Some will dig shallow holes Because like the parable of the farmer Weeds grow with plants So winds or birds will destroy some plants III Those prepared like Job in the Bible Will dig and grow […]
There was a war That seemed to loom I waited and sought your face You said nothing and took your pace But I knew I didn’t need to lift a finger Because you would decide And yes, you deliver II I love the fact That you are my God and father I love the […]
Birds fetch water, Lift their mouths to show their maker, Before the water descends the ladder of their throats That is gratefulness Be like birds for each breath Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When the fool Who is a tool Loses her cool The wise turns bull II When the stool Which is so cool Loses its strength Sitters know their length III Life of hardships Open wide eyes on the ship Even light whips Show in years without skip Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When all gains wane And all sanes stale The world writes right Deeds and live frights That’s why I entreat  CHORUS Paints horrors With beams of smiles Scatter hatred With words so mild Give good hugs To last for life Greatness needs no fingers of gold All needs is a heart of gold  […]
The presence of breeze is announced by close leaves on a giant tree II Their strength of closeness tell others the presence of intruders and praise those who bless III What rings a bell on a bald tree? Nothing! So like many siblings of leaves on a great tree, let’s entertain one another Until horror […]
Even when clouds do sky shroud, Caging the sun and its rays Sun misses no little hole To announce its presence Even a trickle must never be frickled Life sits not but moves II Bickering thoughts freckle Or clash in insanity Rejecting the protection of parts Living in the middle of the whole Leaving opposite […]
We are in a cue We will dock when we’re due There is nothing like immortal few And there’s no one to really sue Let the natural tongue speak of life’s curfew CHORUS “Mere bi bÉ›ba Nↄti bÉ›kↄ nↄte mu Ama nↄte abobↄ nompe mu  ɛse bÉ›guan atua agyaboↄ Na nↄte akyire nhwi deduam Onua […]
Who wants to be a snail? Who wants to be a tortoise? The former and latter are one In two things Both have God built houses Both are slow The former is easily broken The latter built in unbrokeness The creator is not unfair He gives you pace And leaves you fragile He slows your […]
Nae! Thoughts that taunt Hurts that haunt Beasts that burst Are like wild lions let lose To feed on happy beings II Nae! I am an eye Many eyes see me as the sky But my sky seems so wry Clouds and sun seem to be in a tie III Nae! If leaves fight to […]
Fingerings Fingerings of sheds by words Fingerings like knives in bread II Fingerings Oh you fingers of hurts Take off your shoes and rest, you’ve won III No need to pursue and finger the slapped Fingerings Fingerings so murderous Fingerings always figuring Queens and kings Sit on stools instead of running I kneel subdued […]
The calabash is empty Its waters vanished Making its chambers dry II The calabash is thirsty So thirsty it is crying Crying for waters which initially burdened III The calabash is hungry Hungry in bottom But the winds are having fun in blowing IV The calabash is dancing Eyes see it dancing But it sees […]
On that faithful day when the cold and unpardonable hands of death snatched you away from the surface of the earth. The day I knew my world had come to an end because a great being had been lost. I couldn’t bear the mockery from my enemies. My spirit was like a sunken bed. Every […]
Candid Candy curbs and corrects Caring, cleaning, cozying to contest Like a combatant cruising in quest Candy came from charity’s crest  II Candy is a caring goddess un-bored Giving and hoarding good to be stored Candy blows storms poo poo poo Lord Until freeze-ice is thoroughly thawed  III When Candy lies in the […]
I smell the spices on my body I see darkness all around I see myself in an enclosed place That I cant turn my body here and there. I see myself in front of two transparent doors And all I can see is Joy from one door And wailings from the other My child, Come […]
Bean in a pod Use no swords upon liberation Rebel against no pod They camp you for no suppression Whether rain or shine They clothe you to safety II Until you soften in heat You won’t uncover this moral But try in thinking There’s no turning back in heat Unless of course, you are lucky […]
When you buy a cub Be sure to know It has no trait Of a lion II When you hoard some eggs Be sure to know It houses no python With thought thorns III Pained is he who homes A thing which turns To hunt himself So just monitor Before you turn litter Amoafowaa Sefa […]
When accommodatings get fed-up, They shut the gates of their house And cause a tsunamic slap On the whining displayer forever II When a pond gets flooded By a sea, it gives way When its hands are full Even metals melt when they receive Too much lovemaking from fire Think, sit and ponder Or face […]
As we stand in our fallibility Like soldiers with brave masks showing our durability We’re like maize plants Moving like hungry ants When the winds place their calls To have our falls II As we claim authenticities As lesser lives cry on our artificialities Like victims whose lives were taken Before their happiness was awaken […]
Like brooms, we must live In a belt of peace which sings, Calling hope for all II Like flowing rivers We must all join a good sea To protect fishlings III Like the wide bright sky We must make room for sun, rains Thunders and still smile IV Like the friendly moon We must be […]
Twins Born wins Twins oh twins! Conceived to pair From the bed in womb To the parting to the tomb They are competitors and team Jealousy stays and sleeps in their midst They need discipline and love to conquer Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Inspired by a […]
Tingly tickles tell trophies, Trials tails tops and turns Try twinkling like a twinkling star Or trip in trails while training But trophies laughed and told tt That they are the top many must reach While tt is the fuel which drives seekers to them What I learnt from the discourse? Everything has its grand, […]
Fans and heaters Fire and ice Cold marries shivers Heat drains sweat II Suns and rains Brightness and drinks Bright leads all Drinks satisfy thirst III Again suns and rains Dust and flood Dust gives cold Flood kills in cold Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
See Hear Feel The cries Of the needy From infants To death trackers All the days of your life Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
There is a place where I belong It seems I’ve always there belonged Even while I’m resting under this earthly tree Its eastern corridors reek freedom song Freedom from self, the lyrics of the song From the stitched, to the fried heart From the sick, to heads needed to be heard From the thorned, to […]
Tied to trouble’s tantrums, Today, I turn to You totally Turn around and talk to the times Like the omnipotent that You really are To calm the tantrum of troubles II Here, herald the realms Hear my heart’s heaviness Heal my heat and replace with happiness Helping my  hand always To cease all hurts III […]
Without teeth Without nails Without stomachs for hunger and greed Without tools With no need for protection That is the heaven I crave Like serenity in name Let it be a heaven with no need A heaven with no gender A heaven with no discrimination And like a good choir Let us sing in unison […]
When the cameraman dies Many accuse the camera of lies As his image is searched But none can be fetched He got lost behind the scenes While he was busy fetching other scenes Never did he think to be needed in a frame Until his soul answered the call Causing chaos in the hall And […]
“He said what he said Because of what I said I said what I said Because of what he said We said what we said Because of what we both said” So what was it that was said That drove what we said? Most of the time, what was said Like gas, evaporates before a […]
Here I am Sand close to the sea Always wet like a condemned prisoner Even when the weather is warm As other sands turn dust Dancing in the corridors of the breezes, I stay where I am Bounded by seawater I know I’ll eventually be washed ashore And get lost in the same sea of […]
Deep within hearts Are yearnings never to be satisfied Many dramas never to be acted Hurts turned shame never to be seen Tears buried under pride never to be dug Words hidden in fear balloon never to burst And so the story is never complete As seated deep our these hidden In a safe like […]
When turtles swim into the shore Hoping to see the ones before Little do they know what waits in store If only they knew seas have no law II When baby eagles wait in bore Hoping to be the flyers at the fore Showing mothers they can take the tour Little do they know about […]
Maker of guava Who is a lover And ever ready to deliver Please deliver And stop my quiver It makes me shiver In my liver Make me a diva In life’s river And I’ll be a giver And I’ll never Let you my lover End like a fowl in a silver Just let many say […]
Maame told me not to wriggle Because it will make many eyes do the tickle But a step from leg come with a wriggle And I saw no eyes do the tickle So I wriggled my wriggle On my many leggy workings II I met Apia on the way to farm One Monday and I […]
When the sky Goes to war The earth goes awry And becomes the poor II When the sky Dances in colour The world does fly In its moody colour III When the sky Like the elephant thumps The world does cry Feeling the pain of the thumps IV Let the world think Of these simple […]
If all beds have mouths They would tell tales of their loads And tell where it hurts II If all beds have eyes They would tell tales never heard In dark’s dark bosom III Yes, many break down Retorting without answers I tears never seen IV Yes, many are blind Blinded by the odd punches […]
Brightening moving days Moving with weak tortured legs Smile, frown, cry like moody men II Wearied of short life They work praying extension But tortoise and snails still rule III They push their own selves Glee and sadness in opposite Directions, life is like that Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015Â
Pranks played on death dens Break bins and stir shocks Tipping tides and war waves In a cluster of fume and doom You call I stall You call I get the ball You call She gets the doll These plays are fun plays Not the crucifier of live charcoal In some phantom rain
She yearned for a dimple Ended with a naughty pimple I wish she had kept it simple When she saw There was war She wanted more I always yearn for serenity Which can keep me from adversity No need to cry for complexity And so I live right No one can give me a fright […]
When forest captives cry, who hears? There was a tree in the forest which was tied By an old scary rope which was backed by sky A terrible anger Seeped through it It called for freedom But was not heard Its stem was big Its leaves, enough It shook in littles And shook in raging […]
A mumble in the jungle Is no fumble to be humble It is a trap of a triangle To cage you in a crucible No need to yourself entangle By a mumble in the jungle Shhh, there are many empty crucibles With ears on the ground for a mumble So yes, mumbles feed the crucibles […]
There was a kind hearted man Who had a very rugged can And used the burrowed name of Dan To have many an aimless fan II He used a perfect pun When he wanted to show he can And bragged “my can does show I can Because my can still lives like a can” III […]
Bakers! When your hands do the mixing And your heat cry for toasting Do you get the body building To feed them your soul’s shillings? No! II Carpenters! When you kill those trees And you pay no fees And you peel their skins And maim their bodies Do you serve as the nail for the […]
Rains run rivers’ rims Letting lives live like landlords Showering so still On okays, opens up on Worldly wars which it wins wild II Honeyed huts has hurts When their wills and windows’ weave Cannot contain or cover Then there is that tale of terror Taunting timers to tamper III Roses have regrets Their thorns […]
Blames replace flames Flames which passions claimed Claimed in order to tame Tamed to quench and resurrect flames I blame mouths! Imagine the ride from lips to tongues And from tongues to longs So strong it digs deep down Until a farm or empty holes are created II For every sweet start Mouths star in […]
All strong green flowers Basking in your rain showers Now, you’re strong towers  II When time’s rain showers You’ll be drenched like all dead fires Ashes; your empires  III Kiss the rains, workers Feel the mud, all paint workers For all beauty suffers  IV Time’s teeth; destroyers Time’s gain is life controllers […]
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 […]
What God Can afford  Is all in one accord II What makes God bored Is all of the sin on attitudinal board III What the most High God concurs Is hearts working in one accord IV So shake it Break it Work it And fit it This life Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Yearn and sit On carved horse’s seat And the “n” would flee And show you “year” And the “y” would flee And be replace by “t” For the lonely “r” to call an “s” They will then travel to your eye’s land Pinch and fall like angry rains As they take you back to be […]
Cooking pots Please stop the rots When you are on fire As you get hotter Your steam must attract through smell And your pot must be hot to scare You need not break down Sending ladles down town To get many hands to carry you down Pots, it is normal to be hot For the […]
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