Afia Brago says men are like pigs…touch them once and you see the rigsThey will steal your soul…and turn you into an empty bowlThey will drain your peace…and send your happiness to tormenting beesAfia says a man connection will swallow you wholeBut she lives with a manShe forgot the “some” in her banSo is Akua […]
In these timesYou’ve been the river…and I, the blessed plantWe’ve proclaimed our can…been each other’s fan…had our courageous runAnd have completed the first lapYou’re a blessing 26 gifted to cancel my can’t We’ve had funBe it Bush Canteen fufu or tuo zaafiWe’ve had our backsAs helping hands and happy carersWe’ve been for each other…fresh air, […]
It is not everyday that big trees fall…heeding to the giant not-coming-back callKilling hope and needs of living things depending on themGhana has lost such a gem! It is not easy for Asanteman to go so quietThat even tears fall from the skyMany will so neglect their diet…in a begrudging hurtful byeYour roots which fed […]
There are many white sturgeons dented in plagiarized mudBut are not considered badAnd are still in rivers with their schools…not being considered fools But a skirt tetra who dared to join the streamAnd had sprinkles of muddy creamAnd dared to join their schoolMust be made a tool to call his species many a foolFor it […]
A RED PILL man is a walking red flagHe is like an insensible soldier holding a war flag…with no real love badgeHis motive is to dominate and not to motivate His thoughts are to conquer your surrender His attitude is like a sword to your self love annihilateHis love language is to butcher your smiles […]
We areWe are naughts in daydreams of future someonesWe areWe are naughts but lies desperately wrapped in tearable truthsWe areWe are naughts but cowards putting up brave fronts …in shivering unsuresWe areWe are terrified skeletons…hiding in dark cupboards …hoping none finds the keys to openTo open us up to eyes whose other parts hide…hide in […]
I’m livingGoing places, leaving many tracesCaring not about frowning faces Scandals?I wear them like sandalsFor I am refinedI am definedI am crudeI could eludeI am ghetto I could go GrottoI am shameless I could be harmless I am a headI could be a tailThis me is successI could be a fail So sail on this […]
As akɔnɔ-bɔne rears its head…asking to be fedAnd this big bed brags side coldness…in a tormenting sadnessI feel like plucking a commander on a power tree…to whip him for my emotional fee IIWhy? I sigh!I too need securityAnd I have one with a surety So why hold him with impunityOn a night when this weather […]
PROF. SACKEY“Ignashoeees! Is Ignashoes here? Hello, are you there???? He’s gone. You think you can earn an Mphil sitting behind a computer?Cecilia, Carlos…”These have turned into bells ringing in my earsAs your demise fan my tearsFor I thought you were larger than life Untouchable, unbeatable, through all life’s strifeThis ladder to the immortal unknown …always […]
Whatever man entangles with force Will go through countless chaos and pause A reflection on the entangled …will cause a detangle Which will work temperaments from many an angle Relationships will be hammered, peaceful words mangledEventually, understanding will be strangledCutting sides holding the whole together Forcing the ties asunderThis is the state of usTo the […]
Sɛ ɛrehuro yi na ɛwɔ sɛ yɛnoa nokwareSɛ ɛrehuro yi na yɛ hia nokware ntutuoAto y’anibere nso nokware adani apopobibireA etumi patri ne somafoɔ ma no yira ne kahyireHwiee nokware to gu ma suban bɔne kɔso ara epia nsuyire Nsuo yɛ yɛn akoaNso ebetumi adane yɛn wuraNsuo som yɛnEbetumi nso akumkum yɛnYɛ nom nsuo, nso […]
There is a reason heart is in teacherCheer is in teacherReach is in teacherChat is in teacherHear is in teacherCare is in teacher There is also a reason why tea is in teacherEat is in teacherAche is in teacherCheat is in teacherAnd art is in teacher The art of care after being reachedThe art to […]
1.AS the rains punishAnd many things and lives perishAs several losses and things we cherishSpeed in floods to cause us anguishLet’s remind ourselves of the rubbishThat we dispose of in drainsAnd know this is one of its ‘gains’ 2.Let’s think of the water ways we won with deadly grudges…and punches…and lashes…and crashesAnd built on them […]
I lost a neighbor I didn’t love as myselfNot for not trying, but for the protection of my very selfMy neighbor was as prickly as the skin of a porcupineAnd gave abusive threats that sent shivers down my spineHe stole my wires and logsAnd threatened my sister with haunting flogs Even when I went out […]
A poor leader somebody cries at a little heatShe finds accountability a defeatAnd frowns like kakayi without win meatWhenever responsibility calls for her seatAll she knows is mouths drumming praises for her dancing feet 2.That poor leader somebody stands for none Knows no oneProtects no one And does nothing she can 3.She will talk noneFor […]
Once upon a timeUnfairness with a republic did rhymeBlack coloured people were considered donkeysAs pink coloured people held their whips…hitting and calling them monkeysWhile making them work on everything including building chips They tampered with many brown mindsAnd reduced them to brainless findsUntil one brown mind broke through the windy tortureAnd got for them a […]
1a.Who says the meaning of poems must hide…in layers and layers of confusionsSearched for with vague illusions Hurt brains in mock contusions…in order to understand? 1b.Who says a poetic theme must live far in meaning For thinkers to travel far in fetchingForcing minds to work hard in stretching…in order to understand? 1c.Know that universal poems […]
Nsuyire yɛ kɔkɔbɔƐsan nso yɛ awudibɔNsuyire te sɛ abufuw nkitiwa …bebree a ahyia ɛreyɛ nnyɛdoa Wo ne me nneyɛɛ…ɛna abɔ mu ɛrekɔ yɛn ɔsɛyɛɛ Enti kaeKae sɛ nnwura kora basabasa Gɔta mu bɔɔlahyɛ basabasa Nsuwansuwa mu adansie basabasaNyinaa ka bɔ mu …na esi nsuyire Enti nya nyansaNa bɔ mɔdene fa wo nsa yɛ adwumaTi wo […]
You were like fresh rainCatching dust into a worldly drainYou were like a pretty flower…hidden beneath a dirty showerYou were like fresh air…that many share without a careNow you’re you in an abstractForcing many tongues into many a talking contract IIYou…needed the praises from those you touchedYou…needed the love from those you matchedYou…wanted to see […]
I got a peek of you in Tamale, at Alex’sYou stood for all the good yesesYour brightness, decorum and patience…shone through your nurturingI saw the love in my brother’s eyesAnd knew you were a sister-mother like me Whatever wind blew your soul uphill…to your makerWe challenge it notThrough this painYour family reminisce the gain…which made […]
A bright star has fallenIt did not have a sudden fallIt was shot and torn to its coreIt got visibly so soreBut none, for him, tried a rescue Many long hands did see it struggling in the skyNo finger tried to touched itNone saw it fitUntil he hid behind a cloudEven then, others could have […]
The terror that did them drainThe horror that caused their strainThe stupor that made them insanePossessed and gave them not even a grain of brain Now Nightfall in Soweto has its daylightWhere every neighbouring Black is in frightJust a meeting causes a beatingMaking every day a dreaded diseaseFor who knows who would be deseased? There […]
Life is like unknown spaces poorly sewn…with many happenings so duly blownI cry you in whose presence I’ve grownAnd all the very yous my grown has known For you would be my stories’ tellDo a good and I’ll write your tellSpin a bad and I’ll write your yellBe the worse and I’ll be your sellBe […]
There is a thing to love as your beliefSelecting one to love in reliefNot a one to fan your chiefWith a mind you wish to thief How could you a mind in your aweIn a body your core finds chore Preach to me a thing as your lawWhich places pans, laddles as my moreAnd still […]
Emotional vultures are feasting on my timeDevotional cultures are beasting me in slimeDivisional structures are beating me in rhymeIt’s an occasion testing my prime IISo I pleadFeed me with your resilient seedBead me with your precious creedLord lead me like your following deedAcross this time on this slimeTo stop fatigue from my sumptuous feedAmoafowaa Sefa […]
A million tears can’t bring you back Real regrets, can’t turn back time Worries and wailing can’t change your fateFor you’re now the caught of the death hawk I knew you from the tears of Nana Dansoa NuamahSeeing that happy girl so broken…broke my heart into piecesBut at the same time, it spoke volumes…of how […]
I sit here, like a tiny dirt…being refined by youIf you were breathable, I couldn’t even touch your shirt…let alone youBut you stand at one placePregnant with knowledge anyone can embrace You give to millions in years uncountableBut none is to you accountableMany of your tiny dirtsHave gone on to become people with untouchable shirtsYet […]
Abofoɔ-abɔfoɔ de nkokɔhwideɛ ahayɔ ako guAma nkokohwideɛ a wɔn ntakra mu yɛ den…adane fie nkokɔ wɔ amafoforo afie afie mu Afei abofoɔ yi mpɛ nkokɔhwideɛ-Nkokɔ yi wɔ wɔn afie afie mu Nso nkokɔhwideɛ-nkokɔ yi werɛ afiri sɛnea wɔn tu Ama wɔn ntakra adane papa a erehuhu wɔn wuranom ho Nanso wɔn ebuomu ɛrehyehye Ɛwie a […]
I want to be lovedI want to be lovedBut you’re the walking red flagWearing different shades of selectivity IIYou live in a world of fantasyLooking for a real person to give you ecstasy Height is your bannerOn complexion, you always hammerWealth is your loud speakerClass is what’s on your radar IIII want to be lovedI […]
Here, Gaza sleeps and snores in peaceThere, Gaza has no eyesHe is a shred of dirty clothes torn to piecesMany are asking the whys IIIt’s amazing how peace stems from eachBut one’s chaos can cost OTHERS their peace There, in Gaza, drums of blood flood floors of each houseMillions of unlived lives and unsaid vows…lay […]
5.Oh AbibaLeaving your young man for BabaI wish you could be money soberSo you’ll see burdens on your future shoulderAs the poor fourth trophy of Baba 4.Dear AbibaPlease tell me, how old is Baba?Who has seen your beautiful flowerAnd has used his many one dollar…to so on you towerDo you know burdens on your future […]
Dear Thandiwe,It is with love that these fingers…have found words on this ringerYour beautiful head with your beautiful perspectivesFooled me to think so high of your nativesBut misunderstandings need clarityJust as quick judging reeks ignorance IIA sage once told meYou look to see…when your mind sees the strangeYou don’t talk in a see…when your mind […]
We’re like trees…and their leavesWe are beautiful until we’re notWhen the yellowish tinge gets our slotWe look at the swaying vibrancy of the youngThe respectable names hit us like beautiful insults“Auntie, Madam, MaUncle, Mister, Pa” The respectful manners fall on us like lovely assaultsBeing offered seats when busses are fullBeing offered help when your muscles […]
Dr. Issaka is a struggling birdShe is like a beautiful bird caged in academic metalsShe flies from the bar of teachingTo the bar of supervisionThen she is blown to the bar of examinationLocking her emotions with a key of frustration IISee her lovely self shockedAbout Amoafowaa’s unspecial topicsAlebia’s fine but no essence topicBrempong’s shockingly disappointing […]
Love is not noisyIt is like fresh waters flowing from uphill into an oceanSo calmSo coolSo refreshingSo excitingIt is amazing how I had to travel here…to find itAmoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © January 26, 2026.
There are many who have pushed me hereHere, where grace seems nearBut I still stand on fear IbThere are many who have helped me to hereHere, where looking down is scaryAnd I can only on this ladder carry IcSo I thank youFor holding my handAnd helping me standSo I thank youFor leading with hopeAnd helping […]
Once upon a timeThere was a Kwaku Ananse…who lived in AdanseHe was agile, calm and had a great familySo he rose to be part of the elites in his nationHe was loved at firstHe was revered at firstHe was praised at firstUntil it startedHe started eating into antsThen went into fliesThen he went into even […]
Today, I was called a bush womanBecause my eyebrows are not drawn like a caricature and paintedMy nails are not fixed long like talons and paintedMy lips are not coloured like a blood soaked suckerMy cheeks are not red like a scared White personMy buttocks are not loose and dancing kpanlogoMy breasts are not peeking […]
ThenIt started like an unfairnessAnd graduated to discipline-shamingIt did reach a point of divisive awarenessAnd rose to naming and shaming NowYoung seeds act as fruits in bloomingSkipping steps in growth to life’s horrid distress They are brazenly leaving their trees and fallingRotting either close to their mother tree or far far in their rollingAmoafowaa Sefa […]
Listen, those days are goneYes, goneThe days when wives were stamped “good materials”built to bend,to break,to weather every storm you called tradition… are gone Now they rise…equal imperials,Leveling the pig-like habitsyou passed down like heirlooms of ignoranceThose days?Over! So stitch yourself a new mind like a tailor with skillSail yourself a new course like a […]
I heard him saySay he was jealousJealous of the eagleEagle flying freely in the skyAnd I frozeThinking he is overlooking something Something so deadly IIThe sky, to me, is the most dangerous placeWhere weathers are unfriendlyExperiments are dangerousIt leaves you naked to the eyes of manyMany with cruel intentionsYou’ll know not where will come a […]
Majeed Ali called me “Mr. Mum Cee” todayThat was the first thing he had to say…to me early hours of todayAnd I am still processing itThat stubborn Dagomba boy in the position of manFelt I was too strong to be called a womanCome to think of itIsn’t he too boyish to be called a man? […]
You don’t disturb a tree of bees…and complain of stings from angry beesYou don’t annoy me like a fly disturbing my nap timeAnd give me guidelines as to how to react IbDish and be quiet on that unknown slimeAnd let the served choose how to react IIIt is only an inhuman who can drive a […]
I am the polished version you hoped forTried to account forBut failed to even make sense ofI was like that maths test you always failedYou see me newAnd wished you saw some of these traits, even fewBut time did take its time to work on meThat’s the luck of the one you see with meSo […]
This is a lesson learnedTo not be eager to help one so in needFor those are people who have earned…many mouths acting far helpers of your dying feed IIThis is a great lesson learnedThat you’ll become the broken beadEven if your back burned…to be the soil for a needy’s needed seed IIIBecause minds choose to […]
I did tell youYour weight was like a coupWhich would wait for no time to oust youFrom your throne like a foolWho antagonizes his servants…and loses their trust in an internal rebellion…which he will see not until his ending But you told me you’re big bonedAnd your strength was carved and droned…by a hand which […]
You have lived and livedThrough the fires…the storms, the fair weathers…and the aftermathsSo we mourn in gratitude IIFrom shadowing one of the progressive politicians…like an eagleTo acting like a national prayer warriorRight to wanting a political seatThrough to your defeatAll in a body so beautiful…that it looked forever youthfulWe saw a woman whose needs and […]
There are friends like relativesWho can do it all including changing the narrative…of shame to gloryThis is the image Dr. Gbormittah carries He won’t stand to see any of his own shamedHe won’t stand to see any of his own defamedHe won’t stand while others are apatheticBecause he loathes ends which are patheticThat is Dr. […]
This sadnessThis sadness of seeing a different you…smeared and draped in gold…down to leanHas drained some life out of me This sadnessThis sadness of seeing you aloneOn your last bedAs a show for all who wish toWhile adowa dancers and drummers display Has left a gap deep down in my soul For you were and […]
I have many flowery words I can use…to confuse and abuseI have a bubbly personality which I can use…for many to me choose to lay a cruiseI have a head which can trick…for hearts to on me stick without a flickBut I chose to teach…and became one who looks like I poverty-preach IIIs that not […]
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