Shea buttered melanic bodies display Scantily clad at the junction of stickdom Some faces needfully smileless Other faces hopefully smileful Some waists twirling Some hard buttocks twerking As I sing II I ring the ding to dong like a gong I am the tongue to bless with a song I need your wriggle to shed […]
She built an iron fence with jealousy In her loving fallacy She grew her beast with ecstacy To chase all potential rivals Her fearsomeness always trended to scare Filling the barrel of her husband’s hatred Even so, that horse was only driven to tame in days’ faces His pleasure whip got satisfied …every other night […]
Sɛ yɛ ka sɛ obi aben a Obimanso no …atitiriw fo hwehwɛ no …sua firi ne hɔ Nanso ɛha yi Amanfo hyɛ ɔtan wɔ aniberɛ kukuo mu …de si ahoɔyaw gya so …de homhom fi dane papa …bɔ mu sɛɛ huu huu huuu De gu abenfo ho fi II Enti yɛ bɛ yɛ dɛn aduru […]
Some shave …and their skins behave Some shave …and their skins rave …bumps …sores …scars Know your skin …the razor to use …and the hair to shed to curb rebellion …after its dump Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © September 10, 2019
The elders did say Those who host our hands in their mouths Need no hit on their pates In fact, I posit that Care routes must be taken To even tickle as a giggle can mean a bite It is a mess that dresses in a curse even for the blessed II To hit a […]
If you lose sleep to keep a hope …of my swinging slope …from deviancy to your earth God cope Then you need a potent dope If not, you’ll forever mope Because I will forever be a deviant II Show me the cross And I’ll turn boss to use it as seat For many to carry […]
I. Respect 2. Kindness 3. Progress 4. Love II A. Care B. Tenderness C. Trust D. Consideration E. Love III You give me 1 and I’ll give you 2 We can both work 3 to get to 4 That is my 1, 2, 3, 4 of fairness IV You give me A in a 1 […]
Men are made great when their …Upclimb shines bright under …Grave circumstances …Affecting the unfortunate positively, after …Beating tragedy …Emancipating all from a fall Ib You, like the promised, fell into this bracket You were like great eyes sent to a Samaria …to sanitize into sainthood But you turned water …which stayed in one pot […]
The fingers traveling through the Korley Gonno of the nose The hand weeding through the hidden land of the waist The finger sweeping out debris of the eyes Those hands blocking guttered whirlwind of sneezes from the nose and mouth Those same hands scooping sweats in rains to a skin dryness Ah the hands getting […]
With every tick of the clock The approach of your birthday Dawns and overshadows me Like a cloud taking over a warm sun Your deep dimpled smiles and giggles Acting background song Tickling my sadness Wetting my pillow II You wanted me to be a me Who smiles to let you see From a distant […]
I have been on for so long …ki ki kikim …gi di gigim My oil has run out due to friction My strength has zapped due to exhaustion With critics piling their meanings …on my doings I am back at zero in productivity So help shut me down …like a computer …only for a moment […]
You came in like a weevil Wheeling my emotions in a swivel Hiding your claws of a devil Only to cage me in your evil II Now you, to my pain, dance As eyes record me a dunce When all I did was take a chance …based on your deceptive elegance III You’re like the […]
I traveled to a tomorrow I wish for us One far from our back-walking yesterday Misconstrued as today And I see the over-worked heart of my nation Palpitating in prolonged perspiration of the prognosis of corruption Sadness, raining on my prayers II I wish I could make patriotism into a pill And force all to […]
Days when fear marched many – …like cattle …into the fences of many Yahwehs …are over II Days when hell’s description …forced hearts into cuffs of religion …just as innocent people are forcefully imprisoned …are so so over III So tell me about hell And I will show you a shell of thick skin Which […]
Little bird …you’re no duck …you’re no eagle You’re a nameless little bird …blessed with wings So fly easy …fly slowly …fly rightly So you don’t get swallowed by the sky Your swiftness in flying high …might cover your steps …making none see you …making many forget you …in your high loss Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
We have the stories Which can cure the sorries And grow our glories But we still live in ruin II As we live in the fence of religion Which prevents us from seeing the beauty of hardwork …outside The castles whose stories can rustle hearts And build our economy to a golden height Are fenced […]
I had heard of the Sakura Flowers Trumpeting technology And greatly maintained culture Before many miles in the sky brought me to your very grounds Just an Appealingly Precious and Amazing New experience! II Many fine hearts wrapped in shy clothes! Many indigenous tongues …hidden in traditional languages! Many disciplined bodies …spiced by courteous moves! […]
I have jumped through the windows of my heart After its doors were shut by pain …and the keys thrown into the sea of disappointment II I have maneuvered through the ceiling of my mind After its doors and windows …were nailed unopenable …by hounds of hurts III I have shed the skin of my […]
Since I started withdrawing the me …in our we …I see the sea of tears …whose sharks of fears …stalked my growth II Since I started withdrawing the me …from our we The crocodile of nervousness …which threatened my sleep …has left me free IIb The crabs of hurts …which migrated into my intestines …magically […]
I want to be your chauffeur today I will drive you to the site of your flutters …to dig out your shocking mutters I will drive you to the island of your passions …to gift you memorable reactions I will drive you to the shores of your screams …to fish out the wows in your […]
See the wealthy …oblivious of their wealth Wearing skins of poverty …and acting poor Dumbs beg crumbs to gift their thumbs …ignoring the harms II Oh guinea fowls acting domestic chickens …left roaming during the day …and caged at night Forget not dark holds many an ink …to plan your harm Stop being dumbs begging […]
Do you make up …to shake up A city But end up …a scare who flares human flight? Then check it II It could be that you’re a lesser anteater Whose body needs ash and lime …to squash a stash of nose blows So like an elephant …be self aware …and work to clear your […]
Feed the cattle back their milk Give the dogs back their barks Hand the silkworms back their silk Give the trees back their barks Put the carnassials back in the mouths of the pride of lions Leave the blind to search their own Zions That’s what’s fair! II Turn time into a truck And drive […]
You there – …looking so darkingly fair Can’t you see my interest …caught in the rays of your awesome shine? II You there – …making me fidget like a bad queer …looking like a treasure in a dream land Can’t you see me searching your eyes …amidst the many star bugged ones looking? How are […]
Sparrows wearing arrows …scenting sorrows …heading hollow zones Force to be no clones II If the metamorphosis of snow …into water Is forcing possibility of a fish …birthing a bird …on a rope of deceptive analogy Then wash your minds with spring water III Just as cats won’t develop wings to fly …pigs won’t turn […]
Grow gutsies gunning gains …in glad games of great gold …to get the gifts of goddesses pairing gods …and not goddesses pairing gross II Wing winners without wanes of wins …without weapons to wrench wings off wins …with no wickedness working a wreck For wills work well with we III Bought brutality breeds bad bosses […]
Begin …emancipating …gross …gainers …at …roadsides …suffering II The dressing of the nation …determines its addressing in other nations So seeing buttocks turned legs …as burdened hands beg by roadsides, Seeing rotten eyes …turning in eyelids …as hoarse voices sing sad sad tunes …like Job at do or die jobs Being given notes that read […]
We are where we are Because long ago, guardian spirits went to visit the Gods …on our behalf …and came back to a locked door …with alien chants at their hunt Ib Fearing demons had besieged their people …they called on the Gods to save the people …but the people called the Gods Satan …and […]
Ia Like staircases …they carry hearts with minds …to the rooms of self realization: Lecturers Poor staircases make climbers dizzy …and pose the danger of caving in …killing the climbed …bruising their grounds Ib Lecturers are neither gods nor lions …who order and bellow Feeling like the only keys to bright Zions Any – …swimming […]
4 Claps rap to trap warm wraps …for your presence …a celebration for your living …at your every appearance Many going miles to grow suns …on your face Your mood being the hood …of all seeing your good Slaps checking out craps walking …in maps of your enemies Yes, you’re the sun at its peak […]
It looks surreal The bright colours …of the flowers …and beautiful butterflies …are oh so real From afar …planting jealousies …until eyes travel close II There are visible spiders …hitherto unseen Waiting to hunt the dancing butterflies …which also busily steal …the priced nectar of the flowers Alien birds hide within …pecking on the flowers […]
Bags are packed …with clothes of patience …undies of curiosity …shoes of excitement …armour of compromise Waiting for your cue …to board the vehicle leading …to the airport …for the begining of our journey to your heart II I am ready to embark …even if a dog with rabies searches through a scare bark I […]
Our yearning calls for explorations pelagic As fear hangs surrealism on a wagic …stick while we hope for magic …fearing we’ll turn tragic So we pray for magic to fix the tragic and dispose of the wagic When the inevitable swoops like a hawk Always asking why we can’t freeze …the now into a static […]
Check the neck you peck to wreck …with your beaky specks …you sheck looking like a steck …needing a wash in a beck II Throw the stone …if the mistake bone …is not a clone …inherited by every gene …from the first homo sapien III Abuse the accused with the excuse of fallible confusion But […]
A twisted tale stales history Fuelling the dreadful victory …of a storyless country II A passionate need for relevance …fruits no reverence …even eloquence can smoothen not that arrogance III For hard earned glories …bubble into no sorries …no matter the lorries …of lies driven on the stories IV In competitions …the first is named […]
We have been on this battlefield …for too long Enduring torture through fears …and hurts and pain …tasting shameful bites of sand Today let’s turn savages II Stone down your doubts …as David stoned down Goliath …and walk into the gate of confidence …for a fresh bath of your spirit …and a fill of can-do […]
They move They move like automatic scanners …to register the front …and especially the back No matter the hard hitting bricks …that prick their dicks …to prompt a trick They can’t help it Such is their wiring II Let the goddess of beauty be in arms …a demonic spirit …dressed in dying plantain leaves …in […]
I Am Erica Snow blissed but cold hissed …divided into different earth in the nick of an unpick II I Am Erica Wearing fate of hate …in an own turning alien bait After greedy passersby …uprooted other rooted …into savage replants …knowing not I am compatible …with their fertility Time is belling the shift of […]
Trauma is like stroke It strikes at once …but heals …if it will …like a star famished conceited bride walking down the aisle Hanging breaths with the rope of anxiety II A brush of hardwork A clash of fear A rush of impatience A flush of hope A gush of anticipation A hush of pessimism […]
Sometimes truth lies in deep forests of lies …calling great hunters …for their find Praying voices of lions of deception …scare not rightful hands …in their fetch II Sometimes truth hovers …around lies like a bothersome fly …wishing to be seen or heard …but mostly drown in power frowns As raindrops drown in rivers III […]
When a big tree with strong branches …and healthy leaves …falls The earth shakes in fear and sadness …not because of the weight and bruise But in mourning for the many beaks …the many mouths …the many buttocks Who have been stripped off their benefactor …with all her healing touches The more we wail …the […]
There are many shiny glasses …showing me in cool classes Acting editors of my reality Ably aided by clothes of my smiles But be not fooled II I am a garden …a garden with varying tenders …who left dents …which their followers rent to further dent …and soon register their can’ts …leaving close watchers with […]
Immaturity is poison …to reason Inexperience is an axe …which cuts the tree called Relax …forcing a fretting failing tax So greens must grow their buds into queens …to up their knowledge genes …in order to clear their eyes to see …differences between noble frees …and unworthy fleas …in the garden of choice After training […]
There was a lamp …which was made to stamp …the moral directions of man It worked well under a ban II This lamp gained roots …after tasting negative boots And upgraded into electricity …seeking to brighten many a city …but now sells them pity …through flawed supremacentric equity III It drains, from heads, waters of […]
Sometimes there are many winds …that pluck all our leaves of confidence …break the branches of our support …and leave us empty of pride At the centre stage of the sun II Sometimes …things that hit us …can take the sound …out of the throat of a singer …and drain all words …out of the […]
For those who raise their rods …as Moses did …to part the red sea on their best halves …and just walk through …caring not about the delicate grounds …they stump on …going forth and back …until they shed their semenic enemies …caring not about the beautiful rains never unshed You’re horrible hate harvesters …in your […]
There is a rainbow of cheer In every noble thought There is a golden line so rare In every impactful lot So work your vision Through a thorough mission With noble precision For greed will lead to unfavorable collision Through to shameful derision Never before envisioned II If you take out the comfort you perceive […]
It starts in the enclosed space of a mouth …like stolen food munched by a skilled thief Then it passes through the meandering contours of the oesophagus …where ready way side ears wait with their ready mouths …and ready plates calling for a selling pan They follow in quadrupling folds …by the time it reaches […]
It must not happen again: The barbaric facts …of humans turning monsters …to treat other humans like animals …for their selfish mortal desires II It must not happen again …the trapping and hunting The catching the whipping The painful transplanting and torturing …overworking and murdering It must NOT It must NEVER happen again III It […]
Friction fires fights among friends …and fuels feuds Fickle fronts fume feeble fits Freeze friction Free feelings …in friendly favours For forces that function …feel fevers of fiery-clashes II Defrost fury …in a delightful hurry Ditching sorry …in dining worry Drawing dears into darling dwellings For loving swellings III Feed no fridge your feelings …to […]
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