Society makes beautiful what it needsAnd surely makes it what it feeds…to the massesWho feed fat on it into classesWhich transports deviants with its strength into abominable bussesThat’s not to say society serves no goodIt sure is central to our growth’s food…and sets the generational moodBut leaves a lot yet to be understood III thought […]
It takes a motherTo walk through fire and furtherTo blessTo caressTo dressEven through a massive mess IIIt takes a motherTo look, Be caught like a fish on hook And book happiness even through a non-breather IIIIt takes a motherTo laugh through a botherCry through an eye and be watchful and protective through the other IVIt […]
Where do sweet souls thread to be fed to death in their young?Which lyrics do songsters string in their sheds to build sorrowful songs?What mood is this which hangs a poet in numbness for this long?Why do some builders taste not the shade of their hardwork?Who chaperones the vehicle of death?I need to knowI so […]
(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 […]
You can’t call your mother a gutterThat should cause the gods to give you a slaughter Because she traveled through nine months of tortureAnd suffered a most excruciating rupture…of one of her most prized body parts…to have youSo you can’t call your mother a gutter IIYou can’t call your mother a witchIf you live and […]
She is walking in the rainAnd thinking herself basking in warm sunShe is floating on the happiness of pressureTrying her best to write her testsShe is thinking of building a mansion for her mamaOnce she makes it through her hard workBut fate has uprooted that dreamAnd family have blocked her knowing IIAn accident cost her […]
Mothers are moving miracles mirroring men to be …the sea which never dries Ib Mothers are the trees which shower life fruits Replanting generations and sustaining earth So help me sound their goodness with your flutes To show the gratefulness of your solo birth II Our bloom with doom in their body rooms Their love […]
Mothering monsters must make merry mournful …in memory II Mothering monsters might mock most …who moved mountains to make money …to mum those many moments III How does it feel To watch as the world Brands your beloved as unfeeling steel Armed with justifiable evidence? IV How does it feel To watch the world Rightfully […]
Mothers – …ministerial makers …nature’s natural nurturers …open-armed oracles …psyched psychologists plannedly prepared …quintessential queens …rough risks remediers …serene sirens Honourables of hearts! II Mothers – …trouble truncators …umpires of under-weathers …vines of victory …wondrous wayfarers …xylophonic-voices with xray-eyes Temples! III Mothers – …bridging bars- …of livers and leavers Caring castles – …daring daffodils …exciting […]
A mother is someone who can never be forgotten in life. She is the first point of contact, one who agrees to make her body a home for the vulnerable to grow through nausea, fever, weakness and all the pain associated with pregnancy. She is prepared to go through the most painful ordeal to see […]
When mama arrested me She did not say why All she did was form And force me to conform With each spit I thought she cleaned With every mood swing I thought she cleared With every heartbeat, I felt some love No rules for living Resided in the jail, Jail of urine You should have […]
When mama acts mad My mates make fun of me Asking why my mama is mad II When mama acts mad She kisses me in school And ruffles my hair III When mama acts mad She speaks in no language “dibadibamy babybobobo” And shakes her head From side to side IV When mama acts mad […]
I When a pot breaks The earth shakes Because its water pours And takes many “I’m not coming back” tours Into forever loss II The earth takes The pot which breaks The pot with arms for some lonely being The pot with a heart which must protect some hurtful being And its water which pours […]
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 […]
I am a lonely chicken Looking for my hen Left alone with this cock I’ll die of a spin I’m a lonely chicken Missing the hunting of my hen I’ve searched for hours, seen others being fed And can’t find a thing Many crow that she flew away Others chirp she’s caught and […]
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
I love him, I love her, I love these, I love those, I love them all who have stayed in the inner me The ugliness of a little monkey In alien eyes Is the beauty its mother sees. Bad traits changeth no motherly love Those moons of nine, Those sicknesses of the fullness of the […]
My mama is an angel My mama is an angel There can’t be any other angel In this lifey hurdle Cos she loves, loves and loves me Out of her busy schedule To set me free She’ll sit on a huge needle When I cry she cuddles She understands when I mumble In […]
In my dream I call an angel In my scream I need an angel I need my cream I call an angel I’m going to the stream I still need that angel My mother! When I’m sick I need an angel I need to eat I call an angel I need to dress I […]
They will get all the attention They will definitely get all the attention Why? Because they have inbuilt houses Which all beings are housed before entering earthly houses Sharing their blood And even their good flood For a good nine moons Without separate legs to bolt in the doom Making them swoon Even in pain […]
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