Finger in hair Tears the pack and releases a decade air Fingers on shoulder Touches every pore and becomes a beautiful moulder A mouth on a mouth Resuscitates olden breath which is aiming for death’s south Imagine what a touch could patch In taking me back in time Make me a toddler tonight With every […]
The picture you paint Forces me to mentally repaint I deem it quaint But it makes me enjoy the scenery you paint And thank my stars for having you and I acquaint I have no complaint There’s no way my name by you will have a bad taint I can never faint Neither must I […]
I am at a yellow position Watching your quick reds And your greens As they switch in fast paces against me Giving my thoughts no rest And my heart no peace I have been at this position Waiting for you to come to a decision And help me be at ease My chest cannot […]
We cannot be the sun and moon Whose shuttles orbit hundreds of miles To keep their distances and painfully swoon Light repels light no matter their differences But this light wants to merge in a cocoon With the light that is tearing its eyes For its weak rays need yours to happily swoon And sack […]
It started like the whirlwind Shifted from darkness by an unknown steam This barrel wept seas of tears And complained of being taken away by the wind Now I cannot imagine your broad beam As you looked into my steps in a few years There were heavy barrels which capsized in the beam […]
Why does it change? I smiled knowing the preposterousness Of the raining promises The smiles from the heart Lighting the eyes The heat from our bodies like mild fire from the Fireplace in the cold being enough To protect us from the cold The cold sweat breaking on a cold day, […]
Like a cat, Chase this mouse into no corner I can give you this fact It flutters now and has your name on a banner. That it has its thoughts, Its mood swings, and decisions Are also facts So put me in no spot What is today may change tomorrow Make me no […]
We sat in the hall of cupid Did things people call stupid We sailed on the wings of gods at sea And did many things see And you say you are leaving? We sat on the chariots of flowery words And made friends out of singing birds We held hands and trekked lands We […]
They give Than receive Every time Their touches Are heavenly Always Their eyes Are honest Any time Their smiles Pure blessings Thankfully These angels Innocent babies Blessings Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
At your thought Words disappeared I did them sought But none appeared At your touch I lose sight You don’t do much But my veins fight At your voice I stand erect Can’t say a choice And not a defect These feelings, This thought, These thrillings has me caught. Amoafowaa Sefa […]
Nausea, Cramps, Tempers, Tears, Frustration, Hunger, Medications, Immobility, She loved through all Even through the fall Tears For your sicknesses, Insomnia, For your well-being, Struggles For your feeding, Kneeling For your faults, More tears For your weaknesses That intense love Was in only one Of all humans, only one Your success, shouldn’t erase […]
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 song I’ve long’ So strong To sing So calm That balm In my palm With wings Ease songs Non-tease songs Peace songs Let’s sing To ring Dong ding For kings To love. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Contemplated, Thinking you would be doggy Hoping to skip the hole of agony You told of pain excruciating When you reached that hole of agony You don’t regret it, you said Crossing the hole was bitter But made your bones better Then I felt totally subdued But I am relaxed Your morning songs of […]
Incandescent lights, A kingly table, Shiny glasses, Singing flowers, Honorary chairs, Are but handicrafts That money manipulates You’re a wordster, So am I. Let’s paint our mood And with our minds as wings Fly into it. Let’s lay our beds With beautiful words. Let write our songs With permanent pens on stones. Let’s make […]
I am completely besotted All but you hear my endearments. Apart from breathing, my heart to you is allotted But when I see you all I remember are word fragments All pretty flowers are in full bloom All sway in songs of calls Aiming to own my dream groom I hope to conquer […]
What do we want? What are we doing? Why are we aiding time When we need our souls to race time? It is vanity upon vanity Crying in seclusion Shattering our own hearts Into million pieces Under the teary eyes of dumb ceilings, It is vanity upon vanity Quickly putting together our hearts […]
She was a good carrier And a pain reliever She is a pure lover And a life keeper She is a tower And can be a flogger She is way stronger And makes her opinion clearer She is my bearer And my corrector She is my pain sufferer My mother. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
Your oration of war abeyance Reduces no annoyance I won’t be used as your lance To ride pretty horses as you dance To the tune of their rhythm while keeping your balance There’s been the wasted chance That makes me look askance At your words whose flaws are enhance’ Nothing will suffice, publishing banns […]
It was a rainy day When you said your nay To our hearts’ yay The storms destroyed my chest engine With every step you took making me lean And branding me a melancholia Darkness shielded me from jubilating eyes The moon became my friend and foe The glowing greens my confidants Amoafowaa Sefa […]
When the trees in love sway, The dogs in love lay, The horses cheer in a sleigh, And the chickens with their chicks stray, You are all that fills me and so I pray That I’ll meet your stay. When you made me choose between you, the station The children or the nation A […]
“Lord kill my enemies” They forget they’re also children of God “Lord open success doors” Sometimes they do forget it goes hand in hand with hard work “Lord close every eye to my folly” They forget “a man reaps what he sows” “Lord why me?” Who should it be if it shouldn’t […]
I am covered by the clothes of darkness Covered as I sit in utter madness Eyes see but ears hear more So my voice runs to the fore These clothes cover my weakness This weakness of grave meekness Which makes me a word whore Although I have never read law Perhaps light would […]
If you play the low, I’ll leave, you know Stop it, no do it I’m feeling the heat under the beat Stop it, no do it I’ve lost control and I’m going slow Stop it, no do it Where will it end if I don’t pretend Stop it, no do it […]
This is me So let it be I do not have those long legs That will call for the begs I don’t have the heavy chest Which many will seek their rest I don’t have the perfect look Which will cause many to have me book This is me, Short me, Short legged me, Ugly […]
The tailor sows And the wearer refuses to see his nudity The writer writes And the reader refuses to read The seller sells And the buyer refuses to buy The doctor learns to heal And the patient decides to die The lawyer extends his hands The culprit chooses natural fate […]
It has no sympathy It would have waited a while For you to taste the soup you brewed with love before having you for supper There is also the gods’ apathy Contributing to your being taken Before your soup was done Half done, I cried tears of blood, seeing as other cooks tended […]
I need no promises of gifts When I have double a hand I need the hands who’ll work with me To gain what will forever bind I need no bed of roses Whose thorns will pierce my youthful pride I need many straws, you and I will weave To keep our mending knowledge […]
Let’s dance under the moon light Where no one will put up a fight The moon will gladly give us light So our toes will be in plain sight Let’s admire our pretty natural selves With the fireflies who’ll watch themselves Me with my braided foamy hair You with your beautiful intense stare […]
Unequal toe nails complete the feet So some go on the clouds On the backs of their partners Who act as paraglides to prove themselves? And some receive the gifts of stars On the handless bodies of their lovers Who exchange their hands to prove their worth? Oh! Some watch with tears […]
I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Its teeth chewing deep into the bones of my heart, Its claws digging deep into my knee bones Rendering me immobile I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Like a fool, I saw only its beautiful roses Like a fool,I decided to decorate […]
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 […]
It is the way he looks, Must be the way he walks, It is the way he sings, Must be the way he talks On as second thought, it is everything. The sparkles in the eyes of his sweat, The bright calling in his glowing eyes, The assurance of security in the words of his […]
Now you have to listen! Tools, poison can harm and kill But cruel words supersede them As they act as painful anesthesia Numbing the body, daring death To attack in any form At that point, death fights a lost cause It can borrow the face of fire, Can borrow the face of drowning, Can […]
Unequal fingers Makes the hand Unequal stars Help bright the sky Unequal boundaries Make round world Unequal humans Makes the world So love the children With their needs and dreams. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
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.
Hold me close in your house of thought Bless my ears with its juicy lot Quench my yearn so I could no one sought Then wads of notes could never me bought I couldn’t your love in a million quantify A word from you could my veins electrify To light positive rays and lonesome […]
Too beautiful to behold This hairful chest Its beauty like lightening in a cloudless sky Outshine all his human surrounding My eyes feast against my head’s warning My mouth opens like happy thirsty leaves in the virgin rain His eyes sparkle and speak in volumes As his hand, like the hand […]
If I had more lives in time I could you chase in all my prime Wasting hearts on all thy lovey crimes With trippings in all your hurty slimes I could shed a river full of tears And sit on all the hurts and fear As your words hold knives and in me tear […]
I had a brain without watchful eyes I had a heart without an expressive mouth I had a head filled with meat and coloured water You came Gave eyes to my brains, A good mouth to my heart And filled my head with thoughts Who would’ve ever known That your about-turn Could turn your […]
One drop can be no mighty ocean It needs a welcoming hollow land, Which will accommodate her in his bosom It needs another’s hand It needs watery leggy droppings It needs others’ drops It needs the bubbly water stars Which annoyingly parade their beauty Before joining his growing kingdom Above all, it needs the most […]
Breathe in the flesh suffering, no attention A breathless being ready to join the earth, full attention It’s time somebody thinks If this selflessness in making skulls money sinks Is enough to quench our thirst by serving as storer of drinks. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
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 […]
Languishing in thoughts Of failures of satisfying ardent passions under a moonless sky, Ama Okom sits under the talking tree of doubts and anger Little did Kwaku Aponkye know of the words Boiling in her crying bosom He stirred her doubt and suffered the burns Of her hot carefully boiled and arranged words He thinks […]
Red petals Yellow petals One needs no metal Just these will be instrumental Smooth words Beautiful words Those are no puzzled surds Just pour these into ears and bodies will satisfy heads The fist may break The land may shake But words spoken can have no brakes Hence no control once it from […]
I met my first love at the age of eighteen She was as fresh as a blooming flower She exuded the scent of womanhood And her charm, like a magnetic wave, threw me close But she had few words for me “I don’t roll with babies, begone!” I cried and cried Time cleansed this […]
Close trees cross paths Lovingly, Harshly, Both needs make love. Close trees share a space In little, In abundance, Both needs make love. Close trees share a risk Lightly, And in severity, Both needs make love. So in the worst whirlwind Hold my hand In the craziest storm Hug me tight […]
The scent of lust The acrid scent of backbiting The bad odour of hatred The awful scent of theft The foul scent of murder I want to be the lotus flower to disinfect it all The atrocious scent of ethnicity The pungent scent of oppression of women The unpleasant scent of racism The poor […]
Hit the atumpan Hit the agyegyewa Hit the apentenmma Hit the dawuro Hit the nnawuto Hit the dondo, let the bells and rattles sing As we dance adowa. We will dance and give thanks to Otweadeampong Nyankopong Then move on to speak in languages only a royal like you will understand Both hands of mine […]
How much time do we have? At which age do we part? Could be years, could be a year, Could be days, could be a day, What ever the problem, let it go with the wind. A life so sweet A breeze so beautifully felt A face like yours, must be looked and be […]
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