As cages of ages in the past which now turn to imprison minds Become old for a sold Future children are being killed in present wombs Through manipulation of present minds To keep our knees on the piercing gravels of the ground To maintain the posture of our heads So we look down with our […]
Hearts now jump from chests into hands At the mention of byes Luggage shivering at commuting thoughts On bloodthirsty baits Lying straight or curved Clearly smooth or rough Bearing tombs or pools With gluttonous teeth in wait Crying for attention and getting none II How many more ghosts do we need as barriers At every […]
Ladyboy Are you not under the umbrella of pressure Having to hide your he in clothes of a she? II Ladyboy Do you not feel the pain of your cracking ego When you lie beneath for a pounding Hounding your rear hole? III Ladyboy Even with lubrications Your rear might have altercations with pain Oh […]
This is the state of fate Where every second hang foot-wears and paths For naked and blind feet to step into Knowing nothing that awaits Not thorns nor sticks Nails nor smooth roads Trees nor shrubs Rains or sunshine II This is the state of fate Where every day holds spectacles for unsuspecting eyes Who […]
Only a devil will push his tail in a nation Forcefully Only a pig breaks into a temple to leave prints of dirt Happily Only a coward chases to have what is not theirs Possessively Sit, take out your consciences Polish, clean out the monstrousness And put them back If you can’t, just cut that […]
There is a cave deep down this mountain of chaos Sewn with stones at its entrance by the thread of greed In there are tears of the broken In there are the songs of those dumb by fear Therein lie the youth of troubled children Oh in there lives the hope of the poor Their […]
This space This space beyond fear This space drained of tears This space with no claws of penury This space where different colours of freedom pimp my ride This space opened to curiosity of carelessness This space where arms of start-overs stretch This space debtors slip off to their far falls to a never rising […]
Not every bee around honey is its producer Some look to steal, acting among Not every raised hand is for praise Some are up to act as trap cues I can see the mischievous fans Hiding murderous intentions in fanning While parcelling love with smiling Oh you fake fans! You can try all you can […]
Winds of confusion snake through unseen corners of minds Throwing dust on enthusiasm in the darkness of loving eyes Breaking dignities and will to live All the while working from within to without like a bomb in a living being Without showing signs on bodies So let’s beware II Look beyond smiles And listen through […]
Aminata thought and thought Is she to give her youth to this brown leaf Ready to fall off the tree of life And watch her green Musa in another’s arms? The thought brought shivers down her spine But which weapon of a mouth does she have To stand on the battlefield of parental war To […]
We are here A stop from the suppression there Like the lost freshly liberated We are here Knowing not what is fair Like a set of fowls in hungry-hawk-city II We are here A hop from the crying square Like bloodied and maimed warriors We are here Still fumbling and walking bare Like toddlers III […]
Mark it You, you and you Who have used my most precious thing As tool to shoot my pride Your hands will clap at the rebellion of your heart Soon, very soon When the world asks that you stand To give me a heroine’s welcome II Mark it You, you and you Whose teeth jubilate […]
On this beautiful day, I come like a knightess, to defray your pickle Oh be in the mood for a tickle For there will be a suckle That will call for an enchanting wriggle Summoning many an amazing giggle So let afrukuto, all-fall-down, azuikoto, som-ma-me-nyÉ” with patrikotum mingle And shame days that documented you a […]
Expectations hide in this day When hearts hide wishes dreamt about in telepathic conversations Maybe Valentine needed bars on his emotions And not his person II There are those who wear beautiful handcuffs applauded By society as crowns Hiding fountains of tears caused by deceptions unmentionable They may be paraded but with their hearts silently […]
Give me a stone and I will see the glaring message “Heart of mine, trip all you can, I will be here to catch your falls” Give me ordinary sand and I will smile at the sweetness of thought That says “Even if we turn dust, this heart will you belong” Even the stinking end […]
There is nothing wrong with a break After a tsunamic life shake After all, it takes time for scared fishes to travel through rivers Back to their sea after explosive shivers So you in the mirror, take time to cool off II Eyes close take time to open After a whirlwind As its dust takes […]
Heads buy thoughts from many sources As to how it is beneath, ha! Untrusting, fearing, praying Souls shiver in spirits which scare bodies But we know the trip is imperative No matter our standing II I know death is an animal unseen That whose teeth tire not in chewing That whose hunt never fails That […]
Don’t you know me? Pluck the sun to see my face I am your future Waiting patiently for your present as it comes through your past II Don’t you know me? Buy a moon to look very well I am your final back Which would be seen by all No matter the faces you may […]
(In honour of our fallen Tiger Eye journalist Ahmed) You there wake the one napping there Let him wake the one snoring there So we can stand here and wailingly shout Don’t ask what about Haven’t you heard about the loss of a touch in this muddy sea we live? We are shouting to the […]
You’ve been ate a lion’s eating Your pot licked clean like an asanka of a famished seer Even the veins in your womb have been drained of blood Which shares your hope to other parts of your emaciated body Why won’t every child come sensely vacant? II You’ve been ate a lion’s eating No wonder […]
There is a laughter building up in the grounds of my stomach Laughter which needs thousand voices of lionesses To bring its intensity to ears Whose mouths are shamelessly asking Asking for a family building when they know I just arrived from a war after losing a castle A castle which was bombed after a […]
I am a witch! Yes, a witch! That witch who flies on the broom of hard work Through canoes of the night Paddling with rumours of the bored On rivers of the covetous Hoping to reach the sea of success Without your sweats of bother So hide not in calling II I am a witch! […]
There has been a huge rain of evidence Spelling FACT in bold Of the rot that pilolo as myth in this nation What does it take to buy the land? Stamps of high stools bought by currencies without solid roots! Pictures of first personalities whose camera is set By fundings whose stem dazzle to blind […]
I have been following your mythical silhouette to find its owner Living like a leaf carried by air in the sky of uncertainty Anger mixes frustration and disdain As something seems like anything All in the can of nothing But then again Nothing is the mother of all things Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, […]
We have crossed the seas of wonderment To the shores of no surprises Overlooking waves of bizarre shocks whose lost electricity Have turned bubbles, foaming tongues of the ever licking waters, flirting with sands And succeeding only to open and close onlooking mouths Without waking any sound from their belly beds II This is an […]
There are many noisy drums humming definitions of women Abena Amoafowaa Jemremedua My ears have turned bigger than that of the biggest elephant Hugging the ground in listening As oceans of chaotic banter battle winds of infuriated ears. Some define a woman as a bottomless hole meant as a collection bowl by Odomankomah Nana Nyame […]
We have crossed a bridge of a year onto another Another which needs no bags loaded with problems Dragged into its realm Another whose slate can accommodate no old news Let alone entertain old sentimental views Shed it, we’re birthing ourselves anew II Our past can only be the fertilizer of our present The more […]
I am shedding my clothes of sadness Here I am Standing stark naked Awaiting your layers of seconds to fix scars of yesteryears Your minutes to fix heartbreaks of your predecessors Your hours to act as underwears of success Your days to fix all premature greys Your months to put on me clothes of dignity […]
The Eve was a scarecrow of leaves Pushing hurtful carols through monstrous throats of uncertainties Blood on white background, garnishing taunting bodies Whose teeth in laughter are marks of cannibalism Battling hurts on unfair stages Oh Tearstained Holy Night! A birth garnished by sadness! Foods of fear sit on plates of impending years Burning wines […]
When life’s fog, blocks future light And a hopeless log, locks all might Special days become accursed II Celebratory mourning Confusing laughter Hurtful toasting I’m here, rubbish being thrown Into a heap of a year by a cruel dying other What is there to see? II Surely, white dresses repel this heart wearing black Oh […]
People write stories They write stories in my story They write stories in your stories They give pages in their stories to your stories So we each have stories upon stories within our stories And we have stories in stories of others stories An interconnectivity of stories II We own the ink to any story […]
There are so many meanings hidden Hidden in songs ridden Ridden on vocal cords from the bottom of burning intestines Intestines locked away by flesh of stomachs II Rising like sunrise and stabling like burns A heart fluttered to die and resurrected to live like a ghost Scar of pain gathering guts to form sounds […]
From the suited to the naked Stools to foot mats From the loving to the hurting The active to the sluggish No mouth can sit idly for days Without showing the absence of your handiwork Why? Because if we are vehicles You’re our oil If we are skies You’re our silver linens If we are […]
Marry a man Marry a man and not a boy Marry a man as fair as the sun in judgement A man who looks at you like a myth, a beautiful myth Which is like wealth he can never lose Marry a man who feels no pangs of failure in your successes And has no […]
You think and see how strange it is It is no mirror It is no body It is just a cast of you mostly longer than your form, sometimes sizeable, other times shorter Sad they can’t be touched Horrible they can’t be hugged Annoying they flee your advances to mould Yet they are your shadows […]
I need a very tall ladder To climb into minds holding the reigns of our national horses I need a very good lift To the core wiring of these great minds sift! II Which fishes, drink the waters of their own sea Sell them for cheap to greedy drought Kill the clouds of their sky […]
In every bird in flight Is a fear of fall The mark of the unknown Dents histories of the flown It could be a stone from a catapult A hit from a stick Bullet from a gun Lightening from the sky Or even a scare from a thunder Need I mention a sudden breakage of […]
There is a reason those shoulders were built broad There is a reason those chests are made flat There is a reason strength flows freely in those veins There is a reason many lives live in the balls of your guns Men! Bosoms where many a love begins II No matter how imperative the fetching […]
I fit into stars I fit into moons I fit into suns oh high and low I fit into waters I fit into fires I fit into earthquakes oh mild or deadly I am the she that I am II I can Transform from an ant into a lioness Metamorphose from a nodding lizard into […]
Under the same sun Beliefs vary in many a man Whereas some in nature shun Others build myths like webs in the sky Where none tries to look as it’s so high There are those ghosts caged without a bye Bruskotoed on oh day and night! Still there are some believing all a fight A […]
Nyane, nyane Takyi And pluck him from the dreams of illusions Which has painted a heavenly innocence For his troubled reality II Nyane, wake Takyi The mythical evidence that muatia in Ghana did bless actually worked out there In metamorphosis into disgrace Sad it still had a metal hand for slapping III Nyane o, wake […]
Maturity is like an imperative armour That everyone, for it, must clamour In all gutsy candour Dirty linens can drown the best skins And burn integrity of its kins Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 30, 2018
We Don’t need to fight In broad day and night About who fits the spotlight Of the human might 1b We Don’t need to kill In a battle of wits and will To bring living to a standstill Just so a faction can after chill 1c We Are on this common ground So why do […]
Clouds of wishes mostly fall from the sky of dreams Funny how they mostly land in far seas Sending echoes of their ovations and screams Breaking hearts of wannabes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 27, 2018
Once there was a lion Who chanced upon cats in their Zion It saw the fear his picture booked And thought if it could scarily be looked Then surely forever it would reign So its roaring, was day and night’s rain As day walked into a frightening week The cats shivered but noted its weak […]
Happiness is always an art Using the senses to break hurdicular fences Happiness is always within Waking smiles even in painful miles II Happiness is seeing the beauty through the filth Hearing the rhythms through the chaos Feeling the air through the hurricanes Loving you in surrounding hate Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 22, 2018
Maybe my engine of worship needs oiling Maybe I have, like Satan, been alienated By blasphemous thoughts which have walked miles from my past Throwing the bitter dust of yesteryears into my spectacled eyes Maybe I am a stranger in a manger of convincing But why me? The smiling sky with fair air Is not […]
Clouds are clearing in this dark I can see the hazy moon flanked by its numerous stars Light rays, with their toes, make visible many a mark But breakages have arrested almost all bars Shaking in collapsing Freeing hope of its masking II I can see in drying, tears of dawn I can see in […]
On this day I severe the placenta of care With the scissors of nonsensical ties Brought forth by atrocious idiocy Nevertheless, you are my baby in my heart II On this day I make you a trap A trap made for heads drunk with bitterness Living in a forest of no- sense Should they step […]
Creativity just walked under the shed of AUCC Re-echoing its bosshood in thought Embracing bosoms ready to blossom Announcing its determination to surpass the fertility its umbrella gives Time’s tongue is yearning to tell tales of Inventions, wordy and active! Visitations thrilling and impacting! Innovations interesting and glorifiable! Trains of goodness hide in steps of […]
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