She sits sadly in sorrowful sympathiesDrowned in the chaos of make-believe empathiesWatching actors wear shoes of charactersTo play with her emotions IISurrounded by tissuesShe pouts her lips to share in their kissesAnd shakes with tears to cry their separationWhile concealing her loneliness beneath the reason of her tearsAnd she makes it an evening ritual IIIAkua […]
They met daily on Facebook And shared jokes via Twitter They saw each other on Instagram And chatted seriously via email While walls were their only distance A walking sadness on unfortunate path II And so the child grew by the teachings of the net And fell into its reckless bet with life His fingers […]
So I craved a properly shaved Well chiselled face To be in my face and check my pace His fine red lips in loving sips His hairful hair In a fine trimmed dare I thought I had seen the perfect one Until he got under one bright lit sun Oh where is the half of […]
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 […]
Another day pulls down its curtains Sending ghosts of nature To shepherd in flocks of day Into terrains public and private As a private candidate Eyes see the bed which cries out for you The bed which complains Of the wasted space many are dying for The bed whose eyes have lost Visions of two […]
When winds run errands of whispers To pores of unattached Hairs bare their fangs Like dogs in attacking mode But goosebumps give their protected out Cold wins in its test of need How sad II Cold has released its lions and lionesses To pounce on needs in this upper zone And ravage unowned lands Hunting […]
I am a fruitful tree In my season I fruit in magnanimity Knowing no difference Between beaks, hands and rot I feed them all II But years have painfully schooled Codifying I have been clearly fooled Even by those I thought I’ve cooled As my fruitful season has hosts Hosts greater than any audience From […]
The sinking sun rays The sad melodies of nightingales Wake owls with crowns of dreams Waking bats with thoughts of mischief II The dark will bark And mark my lack The yearns will bite And take my light Fears will guard And brand me bad As the night climbs mountains To get me through dawn […]
When night’s shadows beckon Loneliness holds a wire whip With an inward magical scar power To keep the mind company II Moon’s light turn taunt television To show the beautiful moments of others’ passions Shelving the worst dirts of coupling Making ease turn tears III Stars’ twinkles show the fantastic flutters The heart misses The […]
Sounds of love blur ears of singleness Which seek its arrest by hatred While secretly hoping for its miracle But love is for those with traits of the sheep Traits of the dove Traits of swans Traits of the sun Traits of the moon And traits of cool breezes Not those consumed with the fierceness […]
I stand a sinner Chasing thoughts making me thinner Racing heart causing me breakage As unknown tomorrows sing me songs II I don’t know I don’t know if the heads white leaves Will showcase me tomorrow Still two handed instead of three III I don’t know I don’t know if this mud’s wrinkles Will showcase […]
Poor kitten with no hands to build Scared little thing in the winds Hungry little thing facing the storms What will you do if it rains? II The trees are protecting birds The caves are protecting lions Holes are protecting rats and snakes Oh, anthills protect even ants and others Where do you belong poor […]
The night is tickling With ringing passions Passions soaring on eagle wings And having flings with loneliness II Sky looks high at the sighs Breezes whisper in gossips Waiting anxiously for the complete lonely season As I lose all my reasons III As the stars pray And the moon displays all shameful longings, Fireflies pull […]
Verily, verily, I say unto you Accepting one’s self in a Life of love amidst the dances of love Encompasses discipline and pain of Never ending ‘what ifs’ Turn around or close your eyes Invite your ex or sit and cry No, too hard, will you kill yourself? Empire of fire for the life of […]
Eyes of you great walls Borrow mouth and talk to me What do you witness II I know I’ve been halfed By the carnivorous teeth Which no eye peruse III Why then does my bed Cry about another’s weight When the part lies blank IV Dear eyes of my walls Please help me know who […]
Am me But need your Care, love and strength. Days keep unwrapping Evenings and nights thronging Failures of not belonging, Given my shine, I weep Hugging myself for Intense comfort Just open up Keep it real Lean into Me and Nail me On you Purely Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
When the weather gets cold Lonely bubbles get bold And show on skins Like standing fins On fishes II Then they call on past thoughts Thoughts the body bought With time and buried And needs ferried By regret III Like waves, tears fight back Goosebumps get stacked I need an antidote I get on a […]
The huge tree cries It cries for its loneliness It sees it all House them all. When the moon lights its eyes And darkness whistles, They come in pairs. Many swing Many dance Many kiss many lie Many sit Just making each other reflective mirrors The hurtful of all Is when many fight Go, come […]
I Swans separating soo soon One on a continent of fire One on a continent of snow With minds merging together And standing at their root border II Bodies lie on separate lands Worrying sick about their wandering minds Each asking where his and her mind has gone Because their bodies have been left like […]
A dove with love Fears nothing from above This dove is like the banished Living love famished Flying alone sends chills through the bones Something nature condones When the air whispers The trees in pleasure stroke their whiskers And the dove feels worse Where is its half? Could this be a curse? Hope of a […]
I Make me a letter I wish to be a letter Posted just to you II Make me that letter In this time of angry cold To get right to you III When I’m enveloped I will quietly lie in wait Of your warm embrace IV I might travel land Or might travel sea or […]
The day felt cold My pride felt old My eyes and mind run wild My emotions run wild The beehive was stirred by a stick I took the wheels without eyes Rejecting all the worried eyes, Met the sun, Which asked why I run I looked but saw not and trashed the sun […]
Wherever you walk Connect with me Wherever you are Please make me see The dreams of you Sometimes feels like flu It goes and comes Or like the chameleon blends with its host Straining eyes to see this sight Is making these old eyes weak It may not win its fight If it […]
You were my friend I never disrespected you Your instructions I carried Your worries I quenched I thought you saying goodbye in your sleep Meant your instructions have ended So why are you stuck in my head Criticising everything I do With a whip of conscience? Please show your face And stop haunting A whipping […]
I wake to a void An emptiness and an ache I am like the calabash without content, The river without water, The house without a tenant, The president without citizens, The bulb without light, The beautiful valley without lilies To what end can a smile travel to my face? If only donkeys knew the […]
In this crazy multitude I aim to lend this story I’m living some verisimilitude ‘Life is how you make it’ is a now a boring platitude In the noise, I cringe at the seeming solitude Sometimes, I sit in gratitude Even though like the blind tomorrow’s happenings I know not in exactitude My heart breeds […]
Seclusion in abundance An unhappy witch’s handicraft, perhaps Collusion of voices of annoyance Amidst vocals painting great ambience Still secluded, a bad spirit’s doing perhaps. Blow me cold, blow me hot Blow me right, blow me left, perhaps A good embrace awaits somewhere Somewhere these eyes see not To pull me to safety with a […]
I am tired of living with Jack Frost Who blows, taunts, jabbers and queerly sings Even when goosebumps in surrender raise their wings He laughs and gains more strength to frost Honey, come and let’s sack Jack Frost I’m tired of being his puppet even during springs He puffs and hardens and makes me […]
She tends to a farm,
A farm benevolent like heaven,
Which kills all hunger but hers
I hid it all from many eyes
Though many noses sniffed
And gave it a chase,
I waited patiently for the chosen
Nana, It’s one of those days A day the sun shines But not in my world The storm rages on my head The rain slaps in offence Without any wrong on my part Nana, All the shelters have developed legs And left me Voices in my head spell doom They threaten to stage a […]
Darkness’ step approaches Noise of loneliness coaches The stars open their eyes They scan my soul through my eyes The moon drags her queenly feet The worry of cold takes a seat Hey! You in my dreams Please hold my hands, Step out, take this cream And stop this soul’s screams […]
A leg in the cold, A leg in the warm, My arms battle to fold. I hear threats of harm As I plod on a strange land. My head is under the money charm Rendering my heart sold I yearn for a familiar arm To ease this cold But feelings of homely needs do my […]
When darkness folds its arms around the earth And many living things rest fearing no death Goosebumps from beneath this skin cry Wishing you are nigh When the owls take charge And the bats seek charge These eyes which must close tight Wander and know that your presence will do right So which […]
I live here in lonely wants Going only in troubled fronts All the hollow ears open At every steppy country All the many hands open At every steppy country But I want only those ears of yours And only those hands you wore I want it all to come from the grave To listen and […]
When the moon dances in the flirting sky With the stars giggling and cheering their mother on And the wind making love with the leaves In the clear view of all shapes of eyes without a care And the fireflies light in love and happiness I shrink into a little ball, hiding in the dark […]
I’m looking at you Looking at me I’m not sure I like what I see But then again, I’m not sure you like what you see either Many may say I’m you And you are a reflection of me But wrong, I can never be you You can never be me You’re just a picture […]
In these four corners I surreptitiously crawl Shutting mute entries with a threatening brawl While the banners of thoughts are rooted in my head’s corners In this dark self-confine I ruminate, no, I contemplate On whether to zap out this life and put it on a plate For those with stochastic opinions that will […]
It is that time again, that time of old When teeth are being whipped to move because of cold It is that time of storms, lightening, winds and cloudy darkness with promises of doom that cannot be told When this strong heart fails to be bold. It is that time of old, When pride, for […]
I hurt I hurt thinking about haven made you my boss I hurt knowing I fought a lost cause I hurt knowing I am at a loss I hurt so much so that my heart sometimes switches to self -pause I hurt knowing all we had have been eaten by the time-moss I hurt knowing […]
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