There is smoke from our mukaase’s mukyiaPaapa sits in front of our mud house receiving nkyiaKwaku runs after the naughty abrekyieAs Ewuraa follows him with her eyes with its you’re-child-like anikyieKwabena dreams of becoming a Katakyie…so he tries to mirror Paapa even as the rest of the kids play antowankyire IIMaame is cooking in a […]
There are people who have high walls around themWith tight securityNeeding to check every detail…before opening themselves upBut end up allowing only the worst of beings…to enter into their territoriesShutting their best bets outI wonder why!I wonder why! IIThere are some people who live like monstersAlways roaring and gnashing their teethTo scar or emit hatredBut […]
Roles are the clothes of emotional definitionThrough the institution of attitudinal administrationWhen faults pile onto judgmental conversationsHatred breeds through hurts and jealous constipations IIMany affiliations might pull for considerationFamily, friends, fosters in additionAll with strings of interesting conditionsAdding ding dongs to destroy your concentration IIIEyes blink not through the commotionSome sit still like stones waiting […]
There are days rays die before their birthsThere are days suns fall before their deathsThere are days clouds form to block a shineThere are days thunders rage in a horrid whineWhen those days dawnKnow our hardwork can push for brightness to be born IISo let no failing rains drain our spiritsLet the tests of time […]
On this scary fieldWith no answering buildWith hands, no arms in wieldAnd bodies, no immortal shieldI know we will all, to your trap, yieldBut set a fairness to your guild IIYou’re hunting the awesomeAnd gunning beauties and the handsomeYou’re leaving many as lonesomeAnd branding many hearts loathsomeYou’re posing as fearsomeAs your deeds set marks so […]
Obio Akweley sat and clappedAs Nortey worked and trapped…her rivalShe then chanted “Discipline in revival!” IIObio Akweley did the Kpanlogo danceWhen Nortey got the chance…to try Obioma for her fraudSaying all fraudsters would be caught and tried for their fraud IIIObio Akweley laughed and puffed…choked, and with powder, bathedBecause Atta Ayi was caught…in a nepot’s […]
Preparations power people to pass their peaks…parking problems posing as pests and pricksPushing them to pinnacles of positions Providing proofs that pros are pilots of planning IISo sit and serve…to see and showSort and swerve…to start your successSources share some stories…sipped through sufferings and shocks…and needed to shoot selves…through swallowing seas…to avoid sinkingSo sit and […]
Water can be in cahoots with stones to woundIt can hold hands with the sun to boilIt can connive with the winds to killIt can hide sharp things in the dark to murder And can hide in mud to suffocateIn all of this…it holds the power to life So is a humanA human can use […]
The emotions between you and IMake me better than who I amIt is your love that makes it soPushing me up and digging me in…to the happiness which glitters in the sky of loveAnd shines on this heart which bears with…the magnetic contagion that is youAmoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © May 30, 2021
SometimesI need you to love me like your bitchPush me hard into your ditch…to feel the stench of your pleasure IISometimesI need you to bite me hard like a snitchTo force my body to a stitch…to feel the rest of leisure IIISometimesI need you to love me gently like an eggAnd pamper me to sleep […]
Call me a crazy bitch and hungryAt least you know better than to mess with that fem doggie when it is hungryImagine presenting yourself as an anger bait…in its dangerous fateOboy, you know your death will not be palatable IICall me a crazy bitch and lonelyAt least you know lonely bitches hunt their wildest gamesAnd […]
Judge me oh Junior JesusesFor God did give His glory to your gutsAnd added my will to your court! Judge me oh Just Judases!For the creator did carve my come for your dollyhoodAnd soiled my soul for your sureness! Judge me o Joint JerusalemsFor you have the power to fall JerichoAnd have the power to […]
If my successes are my bricksMy failures are the mortar which licks…those bricks to tick my tallSo are yours IIIf my shine is my buildMy doom is the very field…on which the shield of my build standsSo are yours IIIIf my laughter makes meMy sadness surely is the saucepan that houses the me…boiling me fine […]
There are times when we refuse…to drain our toxics into a refuseThere are times when our content…do not make us contentThere are times when we can’t bank…our hope on our bankThere are times, when our soles…taking us places, house not our soulsThose times pierce their bows…in our shameful bows IIThere are times when our mate…don’t […]
The legs…which carry your body,The thighs…which support the legs,The waist…which balances the body,The spine…which holds the body,The stomach…which fuels the body,The genitals…which sanitize the body,Ribs and back…which wall the bodyThe chest…which houses the engine of the body – the heart,The hands…which swing and run errands for the body,The neck…which holds the head,The head…which houses eyes, […]
In the winds of sorrowIt seems there’s no tomorrowIn the rain of despairIt seems there’s no repairAmidst the storms of lossBitterness or self pity acts bossBut clouds which refuse to rain…faze IIIn the hollow of sorrowOur thoughts, by worry, are borrowedThrough deserts of sadnessMany a pain gain a harnessAmidst the discomfort of dejectionAll help seems […]
(Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers! Sending love and cheers for all that you are.) You can say mothers are like seasThey are combinations of many emotions…flowing through so many heartsAnd act roads to ferry many to safetyEven when one drowns in the love of a motherThey’re revived as great versions of themselvesSo you can […]
Some years pastA man who thought himself heaven was reduced to dustAfter traveling to a world with no gender rolesAnd acted like the king of all pleasure holes IIShirazu was appalled when he saw his fellow man cookFor a mere woman to eatSo he shouted his disgust, flung his bookGave the man a seatAnd went […]
If you don’t feed meYou can at least let me be meMy sex bowl should not be your tongue twisterAnd my empty womb should not make you turn into a tricksterSelling convincing words to lazeaboutsTo glove them with hatred to hold me in ridiculous bouts IIIf you don’t feed meAt least you need to let […]
There is love which is hatredAnd hatred which is loveThere is kindness which is crueltyAnd cruelty which is kindnessThere is strength which is weaknessAnd weakness which is strengthThere is happiness which is sadnessAnd sadness which is happiness There is care which is wickedness And wickedness which is careThere is hardwork which is sluggishnessAnd sluggishness which […]
Abura ntaawaMframa asaawaNsuo nsaasaawaAyirÉ›m kawa! IbWhen fresh water lilies open their buds…to taste sky watersAnd running winds stand on their pates to pray their fateAs black clouds hug the chest of the skyEyes of dust wail…praying to keep their existenceBut alas! What must come always comes IIWhen angry tides roll on a powerless seaAnd mate […]
I’ll seduce your successAnd produce my excessI’ll confuse your accessAnd reduce your recessIf you make me the headlines of your life’s news III’ll cripple your dreamsAnd fipple your screamsI’ll stipple your creamsAnd ripple your teamsIf you make me the headlines of your life’s news IIII’ll crumble your laughsAnd rumble your gaffesI’ll tumble your staffAnd bumble […]
Love is your playful smilesAnd your adorable bombsLove is me on your backAnd you on the runLove is you on your backAnd me on a rideLove is a cross bath…with exploratory gamesLove is your alerts in my drynessAnd your ever ready earsLove is your security detailAnd your bubbly chuckleLove is making me your wallet’s caretakerWhen […]
There was once a gloatWho was nearly found afloatAnd got saved by a gracious boatOnly to grow fit to turn into a goatWho wore only furs in ingratitude coatsAnd added horribly insulting quotesTo the she who only on him do her dotes IIHe knew not the eyes watching…were with the hearts he’d need in helpingShould […]
Great things, like all things, do pause for blendsI wish this truth is not part of factual trendsBecause I hope this weekend never touched its point in endsAnd the bond which honked in bends…of love and lust and the almighty happiness which fended…for hearts, play, laughter and knowing selves which in line agended Faced many […]
I hear your silent sighsAnd see your yearning eyesWhen lovers showcase themselves on media streetsAnd I know you want to dance to those beatsBut know, I’m a priestess who shows no love possession in publicBecause I owe only my muses and heart many a rhetoric IbHave you thought of your unbeatable handsomenessAnd your near perfect […]
She says in sorrowful sounds“I wish I had no earsTo hear him utter those fears…which shook my grounds and rained my tears…in torrential gears” III helplessly hold her haunted body…and listen as she shakenly says“Or maybe I shouldn’t have had eyesThen I wouldn’t have been attracted to his liesAnd wouldn’t have rained that much criesAs […]
Watching and learningAre the old age teachers of natureLearning and doingAre the old age workers of learnersA continuation unendingA growing cycle never to be broken IISo take these words as a tokenAnd heal these traces of fueling ambitions and many a brokenIf hearts, to evil cries awakenMinds must work to vanquish the evil…to cease its […]
ChildDon’t go rushing to Love TownBecause its slippery slopes can throw you downWithout acting mild IIChildDon’t go fighting to see Love’s Almighty CupidAs that is all shades of stupidTrust me, after Love’s whips, much sorrow will be piled IIIChildDon’t go stepping on wise headsThrowing tantrums to be allowed on pleasure bedsThinking you’re wild IVFor there […]
Sorrows serenade to slay serenitySinging songs of strikes and surrenderSoaking sins in strong spiritsStripping souls of sight and selves IISo I share this self sitting on your shelfKnowing I’m naught but a small shellSlipping through slopes of a Shredded shroudSinking through sharks in their summer storesHoping to find a shine in a shrineLeft years with […]
A bird which loves the sound of its beak…on a stumpWill always complain when fate changes its stump into a live tree IISo don’t go asking happenings of day…from the owlDon’t go asking the state of roots…from mushroomsDon’t go asking how to keep hair…from a vulturePlease don’t go asking air…why cotton blows far off its […]
Once upon a timeA farmer saw two trees entangled in an air fightHe tried to separate them but ended up with bruisesThen he went to call other farmers to come help separate the fightAs boughs were snapping and hitting innocent animalsAnd many humans were hiding in their corners…for fear of being caught in betweenThe many […]
When music forgets its bedding is poetryAnd clay pots forget they come from the earthWhen wool forgets it comes from treesAnd houses forget they stand on earthWhen characters forget they come from a scriptAnd clouds forget they hang in the airThe sky, the earth, books, trees and scripts…will still be what they’reLadders without which flaunters…could […]
Akua Birago cries for all the monies she has lostShe now sees all little things coming with a costShe feels so lost IbKwame Atoapoma thinks loudly about his failed relationshipHe thought he had a great friendship…with her but ended up dumped over small swerved unplanned skinshipHe feels like a lost ship IcYaa Buruwaa says she […]
You can cull love from a common hateWith a bond which will look like fateBut when a twist calls for a changeThat so called love will turn so strange IIBecause the common factor breaks to begin an anarchyWhere friction shocks, breaking all empathySo where hate baited a common enemyWill start making friendship a standing frenemy […]
In this twirling realm called lifeWhich darkens and marks and is full of strifeOrder for me watchful eyesTo sweep to a burn all vile lies IIIn the midst of thoughts threatening a strikeOrder for me a mouthing bikeTo push my thoughts to ready earsWho can listen to thaw all my daunting fears IIIWhen my body’s […]
Once upon a timeStems of mushrooms were accused of many a crimeThat they are the cause of their own downfallBecause they worked not hard enough in their sunny callTheir umbrellaring covers taunted them with their protectionAlways saying they needed to be grateful for their attentionMeanwhile they sucked the sun and gave the stems littleThey absorbed […]
There is a death in deathWhich births dread and sheds hopeOf a revival, maybe as a punishment…for swerving survivalI dread your deathsAs I pray, touching on all cultural send offs…in my mind for all yous…sharing a big tombWhen the wombs which birthed your existence…knew not each other III smell your hurts in your stench…your pain […]
Standards have become hard to maintainAs many tongues their thoughtful stances fail to their discipline containMaking order sick in its bed of regulationsCausing laws to go mad due to their many allegations Why? IISome sour trees can produce sweet fruitsThis is part of the many truths…parading untapped on mind streetsWhy can’t we grow our sourness […]
Drums, like many other instruments, are interesting thingsWhich require an action to produce its singalingalingsActions should be just like that, a call and act missionSo why is Zaara still in a harrased prisonAfter she shed her body selling season? IIKwaku Manu uses her buttocks as drums…playing at will whenever he meets herKojo Adzidzonu uses her […]
What becomes of the hardworkingAs big fishes sail through traps of justiceAnd small ones chew the little of the strugglingIn baits thrown by stinking wealth meant to entice? IIEven if some of these small fishes are caughtThere still remains a lotEven if some of these small fishes are killedThere still remain the bigger ones who […]
Words from the aged are gold nuggets…which turn platinum with every tick of the clockThey are like bridges which save …when heeded to in timeThey are like ladders which help with easy climbs …when used in timeThey are like armour…perfectly protective, if won on some battlefields in lifeI see that now…now that I walk on […]
Some moons reach their setting…before their replacing suns riseSome moons travel halfway…and have their replacing suns rise…branding useless their lightLanding their might into frightI hope all great moons set…before their succeeding suns rise IIThe sun might overpower moonsBut clouds can gobble them up in their primeBlocking their shine and causing a darkI hope you live […]
Birth = CreationWoman = God IbI always wonder what happens to the Santrofie birdWhich the hunter can’t kill nor leaveDoes it build for it a shedOr light a fire beneath it to deceive?Or perhaps he holds it firmAs free edible game pass to shake their termWhat really happens to the hunter and its Santrofie bird? […]
To love a manWho Obviously sees you as a punching bagAlways using Xylophonic tunes to serenade your sensesWhile boxing you Inhumanely like a beast out of its fencesIs naught but a Chronic disease IIRealize that the situationWill Eventually shred your dignityMaking you LateFor even strong Animals eventually fallHelpless and helpless like TreesIf they keep taking […]
Once upon a timeA worm tried to battle a cobraOn a desertThe cobra looked its way onceAnd turned to go about its business…like alwaysPaying no heed to its anticsSoonThe air lifted sands and put heels on their restful feetIt was then that the shoes of sands…swallowed the worm IIIt did shout loudBut its voice wore […]
Once upon a timeFowls, hawks, and eagles lived in a world specially made for themBut lived in their own spacesIn that world also was vultureFowls lived on the groundHawks lived on lower treesEagles lived on higher treesHawks, besides the high sky, could go anywhere …without as much as a glance from these three IIIn that […]
Sometimes,Little fires sparkLooking on us to feed themWith their bait to burn our enemiesBut a wise head knows better than to take that bait IIBecause with their growth comes their appetiteWith their appetite comes your huntWith your hunt comes your burnWith your burn comes your ruin IIISo quench out fires even in enemy quartersFor you […]
When Corona tiptoed into the human fraternityAnd stopped touch in many a hugging communityMany spoke of end timesMany spoke of dwindling dimesMany spoke of no affectionAs many died from the horrid infectionPrayers and medicine dined on different tablesThe latter winning according to many cablesAll wanted stability in their stables IIThen Corona transformed from a blister […]
There’ll come a timeWhen the peach tree will lose their nectarines As raccoons, squirrels and rats which connive with far skies…to pelt ruins on their roots starveWhen that day comesLet no bee dying on hunger look for blame pointsThey should look for clearer watersBe there anyTo point at the images they see IIThere’ll come a […]
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