(Refrain) When death conquers death He would finally get to ask His slippery mortal enemy And he would be up to the task (I) He would probably first ask What he did so wrong to its claws That its guards kept watching him From birth till he tasted those claws (Refrain) II It was first […]
The heart of bulls rule through life Are you a known bull? Your heart is …? Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia
Once I visited my lonely farm Stood and watched animals do all harm I made to arrest with a few good charm Up, right, left they swarm II I stood there feeling completely lost I looked above to access the cost And saw a bird with a thought so lost Perching on a tree as […]
No flowers, Grandma says she received a whistle Then roasted cocoyams And huge smiles Which forced the eyes of her heart To meet her beloved’s II No clubs, They met under the huge ‘odum’ tree, When the sky shone Its face brightened by the hands of cleaning lime, And danced to the throaty sounds he […]
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 […]
Scents of ‘momoni’ Repellent of noses but Delicacy of tongues After going through heat II Faeces of the grass-cuter Disgusting at a sight Pleasant smell to the nose When on the raging fire And a delicacy on tongues After their fire refinements III I guess humans can be droppings Rejected at a glance And accepted […]
On this vast stormy sea Under the fuming stormy breeze With only a paddle and an arm Who can close the mouth of this angry tide? Since there’s nowhere to hide I’m asking you, sea, to give me a ride A ride to nothingdom Protecting me from Fishmutindom For I don’t need to land in […]
I was there And struggled to be here I am here And struggling to be back there The nauseous smell of the cold Makes me wish for the smiles of the sun The sorry faces of race Makes me wish for my root race I am here; My dream come true My mind is there; […]
When moon sits in state Stars gather to see him shine Praying to be him In nights unborn to lead the Shine in lighting the dark earth II When moon sits in state All stars shine in their own fate Their yearnings shirked to The background for light to rule Brewing their oneness III What […]
Daylight enhances The bee’s nuances An innocent flower Smiles like a tower Thinking it has power Buzzing in attractiveness It hovers until the flower gets powerless It then perches, sits, gets comfy and sucks Thanking God for its lucks The nectar weeps Hating where its soul seeps Until its shouts diminish Into the bees beaky […]
We are here In this hot sea together Why should one cry the loudest? Water, please stop screaming Pepper, garden eggs, onions Tomatoes, are lost in your world Only their colour seves a reminder through you So why must you make the loudest noise? We are all unfortunate beings Who among us was able to […]
A day in a life Many are alive II A day in a life Pain is rife III A day in a life Who carries whose strife? IV A day in a life Same time, same place Different thoughts travel through Same and different minds V A day in a life Satisfaction, cheating, hurts Greed, […]
For those with cover cloth of darkness Which hides many of your scary weakness Darkness enclothen Weaknesses unfolden I know you feel embolden’ II Sophisticated sweet sweats May cause you to dance to your own beats No matter your many a soothing day After scaring many to decay Know one night might turn to day […]
Besties with their bugbears Boiling moments with their blessings Even baobabs shake their little hairs with thin air I won’t fall strong, no matter the hurdle I’ll be strong It is a world where we’re all saints with sins None gives birth, to a complete being as Satan True love is within, who can mess […]
Anger lies within Everything God’s breath is in It can be the sun It can also be the rain And can also be the wind II Who stands this fury? The fury of the sun burns That of the rain floods And the fury of wind kills To think they pleasure in calm III All […]
Try not the porcupine Fins are for fishes Try not the porcupine It lives on land Try not the porcupine It comes from many Try not the porcupine None can beat its kingdom in determination Try not the porcupine It has automatic body swords Try not the porcupine Poisoned needles can’t compare For it has […]
I’s without eyes Heads which never heads Nose which never knows Birds without beds Legs which beg Sheds without shirts Mouths which can’t build mounds Armpits without pits  Thighs beneath the highs Fingers without figures Toes in the lows Mics built in stomachs Buttocks without tick tocks Everything has a semblance With no semblance Once […]
Time! Travel backwards To the day of creation And take me there II Time! Make me no alien In that crucial moment Please help me blend III Time! I need to see Like a child watching TV With my eyes the order of creation IV Time! I need to fathom How initialists lived Without religion […]
If life goes for eggs And blessing goes for fowls And trouble goes for hawks And earth go for death, I would voice my peace Egg throughout Boiling to be a fowl Without encountering many hawks Fly when need be Being careful not to fall For the earth’s mouth never closes And its stomach never […]
In this driver’s seat, I see the forward and lose The backward, sadly. II If only eyes see Far to the end, I’d feel free But no, they do not III Who made this lone path? Who made this wild mystic path? They say God, fact-less IV I see the wild thorns Feel the taunting […]
Tears Of the sky Can be blessings For the earth when it’s dry II Tears Of the sky Can be a curse For the earth when it’s wet III Know There’s change in all So plot but don’t plot to fall Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
If ears hear And eyes see Mouth will surely be tempted To speak Imagine a world without these No sins, I suppose They enhance To exaggerate, And infuriate into action Like the chicken from bile They attract To show the good Then put smiles and hope On faces We can’t live with We can’t live […]
He Smiled bright Sending flights Of blood To crush Within II He Called me From angles And I rushed Thinking not To his feet III He Used me As his rag And threw me out Only to pick me up After I was washed clean IV Now I have seen With my own eyes The […]
I give you my own flesh They do take it quickly But still they think need They go for His bones He gets so broken And broken Broken Blood flows From Him Into Their Flaming hot cups Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
This uncanny saucepan Lies on its back To trace its chickens Harbour no thoughts of trickery For it folds when your fruition ends So peck like chickens Don’t use your beaks like lions If you harm earth foods Before their fruition This uncanny saucepan Will help you eat And […]
Even stones are blasted By the creation of mind’s art Man, who art thou To put out light In another’s candle? II In a journey Which all are meat For the insatiable earth And hungry scavengers, Who is who To squash the flower Of another which yearns like yours? III We’re in this race We […]
If a thief Steals from a thief And the owner sits in their midst Looking for his ware There’ll be no accusation Let alone counter accusations Even a thief has conscience Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Travellers merged To produce this house And when they parted They left her unprotected. II Though unoccupied, God brought forth strong trees To be her guards And gave them more leaves To break all winds III Why won’t this house jubilate? There can be an earthquake Time may blow it down But in this living […]
I Something shady, I see the many Feeling like vultures Living on structures Flying distances to eat Foods none will boot with feet II Something shady I see the many Hovering here Hovering there Needing nickles To buy sandwiches with pickles III Something shady I see a lady Mingling Swinging Showing more I guess she […]
I Free flowing urine In storing tanks of seen beings Really give pleasure It’s little drops of urine Which burn and cause eyes to tear II One would think they are Insignificant, but no They are those who cause burning Sensations, they do. Burning sensations known for Its inter-external tears (This poem talks about the […]
I Natural alarms are blowing Kokrokookoooooooooooo II They’re blowing in waking Kokrokookoooooooooooo III Who but God has set it? Kokrokookooooooooo IV Please wake up and heed it Kokrokookoooooooooooo V It’s yet another time for lessons Kokrokookoooooooooooooooo VI You know we’re like boarder students Kokrokookoooooooooooooooooooo VII A falling here, A rising here Then we come back […]
I Pure pipers pipe like pros Pouring parts to prompting plans Piecing parts to pack peace Preparing parts for painted pants II When the prompting parts pour Piping pipes become too poor And the prompters become a bore III When the peace part pours Piping pipes become too poor And peaceful peace become a bore […]
We are leaves Because I know the world is a gigantic tree No wonder it is free To live for long Watching as leaves come and go Without raising a hand to catch any’s fall And if any of us  fall on its branch, It does nothing to seize rotting. To think we beautify it […]
I Under the hold of loneliness Thoughts confess As time stops or moves backwards II Under the hold of bad health Pain in severity profess As time stops or moves backwards III Under the the warm hold of fulfilment Happiness profess As time moves quickly forward IV In truth, Time is fair It moves at […]
I Beautiful feathers Dazzling the world in beauty Die like the uglies II They can fly like planes Dive in the sky like fishes: Still die like uglies II They can bless the sky With melodies so soothing: They die like uglies III The order won’t change They will die like the uglies No matter […]
The dust from the feet of the sun Has hardly settled in the sky of man Yet cricket voices are loud like newly borns Sounding and sounding like loud horns II Fireflies are showing their hidden lights Once again showing shrubs, they can shine so bright Owls and bats rejoice and sing songs of joy […]
I Sighs Side Is sin’s head II Tear’s Side Is revenges’s heart III Hate’s Side Is murder’s sword Shinning to be taken Pledging to submit And hiding its abandonment to eyes IV Care’s Use Works magic I’ve been there Trust that care works magic with hate Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I At present Life is the present And not sustenance II At present, money in the pocket Is like a plug in a socket But even without light, humans lived III We smell our desire’ And have not what they require To help us acquire IV But still, life is a present Because we’re able […]
No matter the anger Of the waves It goes not beyond its surroundings Without a push from the winds So the winds must have a say In its calm So listen to the voice of reason Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Life! Life! Life! What pride could you boast of If you were a woman? How many men would you have dated? Would you have cared about something called virginity? Would you have prided In bathing with tears of men? Would you have claimed the highest beauty? I guess you could Why won’t you? All eyes […]
I Crawling for walking Walking for jumping Jumping for walking Walking for crawling II Undecipherable sounds for words Loud words for whispers Whispers for silence III Beauty for rots Strength for weakness Life Is Repetitive souls in different bodies Circulating in and out Of the earth and beings respectively In a globe that spins Amoafowaa […]
I Thunders crying loud Lightening so bright, brief and proud Give some thoughts to cloud II Cloud is the river Taking the journey down earth You stay there always III It is not easy Migrating difficulties No wonder they cry IV Going to settle As tears is no easy feat So go easy on cloud […]
Sweet maize Never seize to amaze It feeds all In different forms Do you want it cooked, Roasted, Grounded Or raw? Maybe you want it solid Liquid or paste like? Maize can cut it all But it has its dark side Its fermentation can cause drunkenness Drunkenness which can breed trouble Yes, perfection is a […]
I Sky! Sky! Sky oh sky! Why are you up so so high? When land is so hard And you gently look so soft? May I ask for a smooth change? II When we trip and fall The hard stern land break our backs Without sympathy. On our backs, we do see you Regretting you […]
Beauty Is like flowers They are pretty in prime They must take good pictures to last So they can look keenly and smile when old When they do sit in arms folding They live in sole regret So do some good For you Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I Know this, in times past Kwaku Ananse, Ghana Taught children the right II His taunts, jeers, cunning Mostly nearly made him a Frankenstein Monster III Yet he lived on in Fresh new episodes brewing Trickeries and mischiefs IV Children loved him? Yes. Children loathed and feared his taunts Yet waited for more V Yes, […]
You have time to eat You have time to drink You have time for friends But no time for the one who hurts for you Please listen! Only goats have time for all things But those who care about them Only goats go places No matter how much they’ll hurt there Only goats love mating […]
I We seek to laugh We laugh to cry II We yearn to love We love to hate III We eat to grow We grow to die IV Why must we then try? A puzzle within a puzzle Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Dream And in that dream Transform into a bird From the safety of your bed Stretch your wings And fly free having flings With the breeze which lives so high In the serene sky See it all Feel it all And if you happen to fall Heed the call of determination And rise through the […]
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