Rains are blessings Rains can be curses Fire is a servant Fire can be a murderer Food is what we are Food can steal our treasured lives I am a near nirvana Flawed, heavily flawed In unmanageable hands I am like the fire which kills the cold But my buttons must not be pushed Lest […]
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AN EXCERPT FROM PARENTINOLOGY
“Kwaku Ananse wove a nest Which caught him in his naughty quest” The Ghanaian parenting sages Go with many of these adages “And the princess met the prince Became queen and king, gave birth to a prince” The European parenting sages Tell the little agers in their thoughtful sages Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
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LEAD THE WAY
I stand on a little mountain Surrounded by so many huge mountains Some with openings showing many a beautiful fountain I tried but lost the countings All shout to be looked and booked I sit, stand, try running But realise I am rooted Until I choose, my running is no running Imagine all […]
Associators are interested in the past Money makers are interested in the future So I used to look back; Back to a place I could not hold And into the future; Looking into what I could never see And ended up in the same place, Juggling between two poses Past and future As time placed […]
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A TRAVELLING TRAVELLER
I’ve come from far Far, far from alien lands I swam from the ocean of life Onto a hardened ground Sans clothes, sans pride Tears being my only escape I slept, then sat, then stood Then walked, then took to my heels And I’m still running From a toddler, I jumped into childhood Then […]
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A COMIC SERIOUS GAME
I stand and watch As the show goes on Beautiful drums drum. When the drums drum themselves, The dancers sit. When they stop drumming, The dancers dance their hearts out. The audience are appalled The dancers are seething with anger at the audiences’ ingratitude No one seems to know what is going on I see […]
Someday, I’ll walk my life away I’ll be seized from seeing day Somehow, I’ll shed this skin and bow I can no longer chew my favourite cow And These bones, these knuckles These stones will come off This water These nails This blood will dry off Some day It will all make way So why […]
Technology has come to stay. Each day, there is a new invention, discovery, and history being made. Technology helps us, no doubt, but we agree it is one aspect of life which must be blamed for backstabbing and the ever increasing scamming. Now families live in houses but their mouths have turned into their mobile […]
When I sniff and sniff I think I stink and stink When I blink and blink I think I’m blind an blind When I listen and listen I think I’m deaf and deaf When I walk and walk I think I’m a crippled cripple When I touch my hair I feel I’m bald and bald […]
Running after her Never catching up In this unpredictable odyssey When I got closer Her smile stayed same But she wilted as I bloomed Smiling sweat, which now fades, sat on my skin Like the sun at its peak Tired sweat cried on her skin Like the rain whipped by storms She […]
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TSANWENWENWENWENWENWENWEE
Fumes from rickety cars Debris of scraps scattered Stains of diesel paints the ground An unbearable noise from a motor on the right An unbearable noise from cars in front, back and left While the stench from the public toilet nearby Sells nasty archaic foods in the air Diesel stained finger nails feel the heat […]
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MAKE NO MISTAKE, NONE CARES
Polished legs thread from far To the cenotaph of the martyr Outside this cenotaph is an expensive son et lumiѐre Some ears are cocked in pretence When they obviously take strolls In the opposite direction! He gave his life on a strange land But who cares? Male minds respond to the calls of the brazen […]
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KIDDY STUNTS
Your physique has made you rabid Your growth in anger rapid Many have put on you a bid That you’ll soon grow stupid. Why this sudden morbid Fascination of the sordid? Sit back, let them judge from what you did Instead of doing what will make you a kid Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
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STATIC
Coffins vary The feet stay the same; Six. Riches are shown The body stays the same; Lifeless. People cry The soul stays the same; Gone. This thing, that thing, All will end at the same; Dust. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
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UNSYMPATHETIC TIME
Tick, tock Tick, tock Time travels like a programmed machine Whose only command is to go forward It does not look side ways, Does not look backward, Does not wait for even a second on anyone, We go at its pace. Time feels no sympathy, Hears no pleas, Cares not a hoot about bribery We […]
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THE SAFE SHELL
My mother was left in a tiny web In an occupied shell Its corner had no space for two So as I came she had to go That is how I was left in a little corner of an empty shell There were no lessons on talking, No lessons on singing, No lessons on […]
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I WISH, I WISH, I WISH, I WISH
I wish I could stand on the stairs of the future And stare down at my cloned self in nature To see if there is any doom or happiness awaiting I wish I could be an acolyte of the goddess of love In a far off land of forever happy ever after To see […]
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THE HEAD BATTLING THE HEART
In my head I live knowing not what tomorrow brings In my head I see a picture of a tattered me side by side ‘granders’ In my head Hurting words dance “kpalongo, agbaza” and “adowa” In my head Nothing I aim for will be achieved In my head I am a […]
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DIGGING OUR TRENCHES
We are digging our trenches We are unconsciously digging our trenches With every breathe even if we sit on benches We are digging our own trenches Even as we see a beautiful bird on a great tree perching We are digging our trenches No matter our badness No matter our goodness We are digging our […]
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SUPERHUMAN
I have seen it all Going through life in tattered undies Being kissed and smooched in pure rain As I smiled to its touches Tickling trunks of air blowing As I closed my eyes to its whistles And I still remained strong and smiled Because I am a superwoman I have lived through it […]
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SHIELDED AND SHIVERING
Like a snail, I hide in this shell Like a tortoise, I do in this hard shell dwell Hoping it would at least shield me from many storms Which have the intention to destroy So I take my home along, wherever I go But I still dock when there seems to be some movement I […]
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THE TRAVELLER
Travelling left Travelling right Travelling front Travelling and travelling, Hoping to move to places, See places, Love places, Leaving marks of greatness At every junction Until the sun sets on an old shadow And this vehicle blends with the earth. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
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THE HEATING SAUCEPAN
We are all cooking in this saucepan This saucepan which is in the hands of the unquenchable fire Our own saliva boiling us from within Yet you turn to ask me for cover What am I to do? What could I possibly offer? Do I look like a super human? Do I look like […]
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SOCIETAL CODIFICATIONS
“No way sideways No way forward Certainly can’t go backwards I must hang in the sky To be visible to the world” That has become the only codification for shining “No smooth way to hang in the sky No smooth way to stand in the sunlight that throws rays of satisfaction No smooth way […]
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WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?
I am restless And breathless What will you have me do? What can I say to stay there just for a minute? Will I convince you if I sing in an unheard tongue? What if I write in a writeless alphabet? What if I prepare a preparedless meal? What if I walk on my hands […]
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TAUNTING STROLL
I take my first step to wherever And the ugly song that sings itself in my mind echoes “ἐba yi hena ba ni? Agya Kodwo ba ni Wↄnfa no nkↄ abἐ ase Abἐ ase wↄ nsↄisↄi Wↄnfa no nkↄto onyina ase Onyina bἐbu abↄ me ba Abↄ me bayi Abↄ me bayi Onyina bἐbu […]
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MAJESTIC SKY
We work under the moody Sky Running when we have to Lifting with strength conjured, baggages of pain, Hatred, Dissapointments, And need, But she never gets satisfied. She lashes out her anger by bellowing her flames to burn high We the slaves She frowns with her scary clouds to blind We the slaves She […]
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WHO ARE WE KIDDING?
It is when death knocked That I saw that life has not me forked Crying for an end, I reckoned was just lip service If not, I would have entered that bottled and have it cocked But no, I RUN With legs and strength I knew not existed in my bones Who is kidding who? […]
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CLOUDY SKY
Clouds of failure have formed on my sky Dooming my day Making me hide as I lie That my examiner told me a nay And great strides passed me by Is an arrow that pierces my soul a hundred times. Thoughts of failure consumes me That I, with all grandness faced rejection makes me […]
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NOSTALGIA; AN EXCERPT
As I write my life away Writing others and mine along Who will write me in my decay After my ink is through?… Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©2014.
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CRY ME A RIVER
Cry me a river. Cry me a river in a shiver For I have paid treachery dues Refusing to yield to subtle cries from those who cared And living like the world was a fancy club Worshipping alcohol and weed While reveling in touches of unknown hands Fearing nothing, hearing no reason and seeing no […]
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IF ONLY
If only I could fly I would go high, high, high And never come nigh This world of agony. I sigh, Trying so hard to make my heart mine But my control seems not to be fine. If only I could fly There are many things I will not buy. I will smile at […]
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IN THE SCARY JUNGLE
Tired limbs As life’s mountains climb Roaring voices Penetrating through the dark hollows of the brains with diverse choices How does one choose the right And make life bright? And why does faith sits in the unseen hole Shivering not to be whole For my touch when need be? Is faith a she or a […]
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GIVE ME EVERYTHING
I want everything Everything that can mean everything Everything that is something Everything that can make me forget every sadness I need an eternal table An eternal table that holds a veritable cornucopia of every meal An eternal table where hunger fears to step foot An eternal table that feeds the open stomachs […]
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Shed The Worry
If you woke up today thinking “what a mess my life is in” please take a deep breath and relax. At least you are alive, you can read this, you can understand. I tell you that there are many people who can’t read this and will give anything to be in your shoes today, even […]
