Sounds sent to my ears …tell tales of towers trailing my tail …and riches reaching my wretch Funny …how hearts heed to hovering whispers …and plant need seeds begging for my watering Ah! … Wo ti puu puu a …wɔ bi di wai …ebia na ɛyɛ obi koobi ase aprapra! II There are suns which […]
I am stuck in this place Where thoughts upon thoughts race I am stuck between a lone journey and a choice Each having its distinct voice II Where is the roaring readiness? Where is the hopeful happiness? Where is the fine fitting? Why is societal sentimentalism The only whipping whip? III Is it wenching wickedness […]
There is nothing wrong with a break After a tsunamic life shake After all, it takes time for scared fishes to travel through rivers Back to their sea after explosive shivers So you in the mirror, take time to cool off II Eyes close take time to open After a whirlwind As its dust takes […]
Educate your root to groom its tree For the tree will in turn groom its flowers And the flowers will bloom fruits in the grooming II A strong foundation is the trusted seat Of a good building So dig well with best pickaxes Clear well with best shovels Mix well the foundational mortar A good […]
I am a witch! Yes, a witch! That witch who flies on the broom of hard work Through canoes of the night Paddling with rumours of the bored On rivers of the covetous Hoping to reach the sea of success Without your sweats of bother So hide not in calling II I am a witch! […]
You love my life But hate my strife You abhor my stain Yet love my rain You loathe my strain Why love my gain? In every chicken resides a bile Definitely, the sun comes with its light and heat Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, 2019
We have crossed the seas of wonderment To the shores of no surprises Overlooking waves of bizarre shocks whose lost electricity Have turned bubbles, foaming tongues of the ever licking waters, flirting with sands And succeeding only to open and close onlooking mouths Without waking any sound from their belly beds II This is an […]
The fingers of days have connived with that of months Joined in by hours and minutes, seconds and nano-seconds Crowned by years to selectively Choose the best part of this heart To dig foundations of pain Building storeys of unforgettable loss through grave deprivation But I tell you today You will search from my hair […]
Gates of life are on shes Fact! Hammers for carving those gates are on hes Another fact! But birth births death And hides in sicknesses Accidents Suicides Cruelty Old age Always conniving with time To blow forgetfulness On its mischievous handiwork How cunning! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Dec. 26, 2018
An angered in a fear A hurt in a tear A love in a shyness Hatred in loving All throwing tantrums bodies can’t bear to show So model what suits We are many in one Acting ourselves within Chasing models without II If our feelings will show Like movies through our countenance It will be […]
In this nest called earth Minds differ in colour of thinking As others sit to pray, plan and stand to tan Under the tough skies of hard work Some weave their traps like spiders To get hold of some hunting flies Others look for pliers to take out the knots on others barrows Okukuseku! Nnipa […]
In this myth we live No matter who conceived All that we believe Is the magic of breath II It lights the eyes So let them look It opens the ears So let them listen It opens your mouth So let it say All that it needs to say III It powers the heart So […]
Now the day is awake The sky is serving light All that hands will take Will base on a heart so bright II I hope that for life’s sake We work with all our might Like bread in an oven bake Our ends will shine so bright III We have to burdens shake And face […]
If passion’s flicker did take liquor And whispered these many trials That hang on every life’s tree To flower into fruition To be plucked or pecked, fall or rot Only to reach a cut, break or an uproot Many swim fighters might have failed in competition Intentionally II Yet a real excitement Like curiosity, hanging […]
A flower of smiles In a hand so warm A massaging sun waving from miles In a sky of no harm Greets your morning from the land of my mind II The land of my mind In which I farm happiness in weeds of strife Throwing stumps and thorns into dungeons of past’s behind Carving […]
On this dead branch Carried by water, I thread Each step, a shocking surprise Interlaced with fear But like a blessed cat with nine lives The soul carries this body in moving on II My only cocoon is you This poem, where my bed of peace is laid My only home is you This poem, […]
A skeletal build
With veins of neglect
Blood of stress and thirst
Meat of hate and pure hunger
Skin of punches of cold in a harmattan visit
And bowl of heat in sunny days
Nails which have tasted the hammer of many quarries
Eyes which have joined the run against death
Legs which have collapsed and been whipped by need to a wake
Why do I see them so well?
Furs in sweat Fishes in tears Heavenly misconceptions In watchful eyes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, 2018
There is an insect town On this beautiful living lawn But all passersby see Is the beautiful grass and its fee Yet night planes their insecti-flight And day takes them from sight It is like sweat in a fluffy wool Or vampire ants in a crown stool II What is seen may not be Once […]
Many a steps are forced by need Many a man’s need suffereth from greed One’s seen need is another’s goldmine I am that hen Looking for the feet of the mythical hawk Stepping on the wellbeing of my chick II All many eyes see Is the flower with different colours Standing tall in the […]
Bouncing conflicts Dancing frustrations Fishnets of successes and failures Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Nov. 24, 2017
There are many roots beneath a single tree Yet it needs many others to break winds There are many brooms running and breaking free But their strength in numbers, all fear rescinds II Sometimes, even fecal worms, do space need Sometimes, even water, do drops be But a sea stands more chance of waving at […]
Many voices Roar in this fiery sea Voices of rivers Whose feet have tasted different sands Voices of rains Whose bodies have tasted higher heavens Bodies of fluids Whose noses have smelt rotten foods Vomited by covered human gutters Bodies of sweats Which have explored varied pores Each lamenting like lost pilgrims In the end […]
When songs of nightingales Hit blocked drums of infatuated cocks They cry loss but look hardest Cursing the hearing maker II When the ‘borla’ bird Dreams of cuddling a peacock It shivers at peck-like-axing One that can give away its intestines In a split second III Every struggling soul Like a beheaded fowl Kicks and […]
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 […]
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