Here I am A hair on this blessed earth With weak roots Being played by winds like a piece of kite in the sky And watched by eyes as to how far I can go II Here I am In a fearful storm Blinded by the dust of pain Shamed by the clouds of need […]
I came to you straight from life’s hellish oven With a soul brutalised and so very grief shaken I came to you like a tired lamb With my neck in offering On feet so rebellious because of needs and pain’s whips You held me, soothed me, and magically mended my callouses Like a gentle ice […]
If passion’s flicker did take liquor And whispered these many trials That hang on every life’s tree To flower into fruition To be plucked or pecked, fall or rot Only to reach a cut, break or an uproot Many swim fighters might have failed in competition Intentionally II Yet a real excitement Like curiosity, hanging […]
Flow with the snow and alienate your rain Giggle in shivers of winter and act coy with thy harmattan Mate summer and pretend its sun is all you’ve seen You melaninos pretending to be dark albinos In strange strange spheres II You are they who hold erasers of the past Cleaning footsteps as they go […]
This morning tastes sour Making the sun frown at its bitter luck In throats are melodies which water sores of heartbreaks A blooming voice has muted Pressed by deaths wicked fingers How I wish death’s father lived in the physical For her soul to date in his hate II The sensuous figure that worked so […]
A flower of smiles In a hand so warm A massaging sun waving from miles In a sky of no harm Greets your morning from the land of my mind II The land of my mind In which I farm happiness in weeds of strife Throwing stumps and thorns into dungeons of past’s behind Carving […]
I can see a time standing far up on a future top With a sea-like feet sweeping this shop Acting like a white elephant cop Watching as beings intensely flop And animals, their tamed rights hop II There, I saw a wolf publicly loving a being All fangs and claws in daylight are seen All […]
​ A knot needs fingers to be Just as groups need a head for sanity As the earth looks upon the sky And the sky cries and shines upon the earth in fertility So must the relations between a leader and the led The leader built by positive sides of great animals II A leader […]
Baby mine Do not, for the attention of these storms pay a dime Life in suns and rains rhyme So let’s let these storms, their time chime You beautiful sun of mine II You were picked from the world of passion With wishes of building for you a happy nation Breaking backs to give you […]
I see the hollow hole At all sides How even this air turned mole And the earth dug all my sides Makes me feel like one who stole From Satan’s slides II The mouth of defeat sings piercingly Being cheered on by the drums of fear The laughter of failure resonates across the dept of […]
​ Sitting in the past with the wrinkled As my time’s stars stood in the greenest twinkle I heard of eyes, potent in closure Even in most secluded holes Seeing hectic moles who fates stole In the near tomorrow The near tomorrow which garnishes my feet today Yet I laughed like a wise soul hearing […]
At this crossroads Where good leads to bad And bad leads to good Stands the whip of fear At all ends II At this crossroads Righteousness begets pain While cruelty begets peace Yet conscience acts judge With a gavel of suffering III The lioness in me battles the sheep I am The tears in me […]
I saw your birth And I feel your dying heartbeat You are a babe who came with the birth of many ambitions And like all babies, you had your needy conditions II The footsteps of time has seen many changes From many ranges Plucking down hopes like ripe oranges And hanging hopes like fake bells […]
When the crowers of today turn peckers at dawn Feasting on feeds of hens and chicks While time walks without turning back Their future in saucepans of history will be painful As the only spices on their bodies would be pepper of frustration Ginger of hurts Salt of under development Tears of penury And cubes […]
Eno Bowaa, Akusua Duku, Ama Afarewaa eeei! Kofi Amoabeng, Opare Kusi, Agya Obuo eeei! When the sun travels east in settlement each day My thanksgiving becomes as tall as fading shadows For your smiling teeth which held daggers in the dark And worked on a battle with my back II Is it fair? Is it […]
​ Many a steps are forced by need Many a man’s need suffereth from greed One’s seen need is another’s goldmine I am that hen Looking for the feet of the mythical hawk Stepping on the wellbeing of my chick II All many eyes see Is the flower with different colours Standing tall in the […]
The fallen is like an egg You kick with an intent of destruction Variety in lacking, is perfection of His creation So let your feet be kind II Consider the legless and help the hopping Consider the struggling and help the ill Consider the suffering and bless the helpless Please let your feet be kind […]
None knows how seeds form None knows how they’ll turn up Only Onyankopong Otwereduampong knows So let your tongue be with no meanness Let your eyes marry your mind in learning That disability is a different form of ability II Every womb loves its proceeds None is special than the other It transcends boundaries Class […]
You have cut the ribbon of shyness From our very eyes All contours leading to remorse Have been made comfortable From the slippery slope it was Why? Because sins grow into norms with time And you are the programmer of the dramatic brain Which engines us II I wonder if you peep through the anus […]
When daylight sleeps Prepare your foot to heed to the call of my beads For surely You must dance in my wet ground Whose rains began at the first tear of dawn II Mow your lawn And clean your gun Load it to perfection There sure must be a fat game of pleasure At the […]
Many a pain holds no stamp on bodies Many a pain stems from sight and hearing Many a pain give no pleasure gain So place no insensitivity on this anger This anger you feel towards you II Every pain in your being plants my insanity Every stain on your life My very frustration Watching death […]
Whispers of the air Majestic walks of the sun A sign of life’s ticket Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 17th Nov. 2017
Videos keep playing Where you shyly, with roses In sweat, called Holy Moses In proposing II How a perfect vehicle Zoomed into a thorny bush And saw itself in an empty desert Has opened my sky of tears III The video of you playing horse In the shore of peace Me, playing sheep In the […]
Since age knocked its understanding tag In my infantile brain I was given a telescope Whose only visions were of the past A telescope which killed the zeal of laughter Planting in its stead a vile rage for revenge Watered by society’s hails at my target And its many chains of laws for my kind […]
Let mouths allow eyes to roll Instead of calling sounds in heels To defile lung’s peaceful siesta What is “ayoo” today Might have been “bue!” yesterday But will be “ahaaa!” tomorrow Harvesting ovations on all stages II New things raise brows Coming with scares which snake into veins like poison But when they simmer Minds […]
Present winds cuddling sands Current stars in time’s vehicle Into past destinations Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © November 9, 2017
We Carry burdens like abused porters Forgetting the immobile end Which for few moments trends Only to turn garnish on memories of the past II We Cloud our emotions to rain our eyes to drain Forgetting life’s refrain is transiency Gathering rubbish which may outlast our taunting gibberish III We Sit with thoughts that over […]
The gate of another day opens With varied happenings written in the future slate of fate Like a marathon, we run with enthusiasm Hoping our baton would reach our target But if we hurt ourselves Or have our breaths arrested by tiredness You who writes it all Change the script to fit our emotions! II […]
I bless that day When a whirlwind swept me from serenity into doom Only to be rescued by your light Like a Samaritan Knight from hell’s pot II I bless the day When words meekly walked with shaking legs Out from the private street of your tongue To plead for a table in my heart’s […]
In the heart of truth lies an ocean of despair Flanked by trees of fear For the rejection of abnormal normalcy In a sea of friendship II In the heart of truth stands a tent of loneliness Where each greedy finger points like a gun With intentions that can form spiritual bullets To kill the […]
Legs take crowns to ordered places To taste the grounds of its worship Hearts engine dreams To feel the pulse of success in the end Tongues channel foods to intestines To sip a taste from every bite All the above with pinches of truth Our elders did us in with some wise sayings You lick […]
I am from a land whose hair is gold Chin is salt Stomach is petroleum And feet are rocks I am from the heart of the strong II I am from a land boxed by colonialism But with a strength which broke free And stands in the wrestling ring with corruption A country whose women […]
Worship is in a sea of destruction Being torn apart by most of their sailors’ deceptions Shot by sins which once sat In front of their potent rifles Their congregants scattering For fear of lions of confusions And bugs of distrust II It seems those days are cutting their rope ties From the chariot of […]
(This poem was written in memory of all those who have lost their lives due to defilement, all those who are battling complications, battling stigmatization, battling injustices due to defilement, and rape. You have done nothing wrong, you are just unfortunate souls caught in the traps of the wicked. The wicked who one way or […]
As I wait patiently for you Counting the marks on this pleasureless ceiling While lonely canes whip in these dark nights Anytime sleep goes on its rebellious demonstrations Are you thinking of me? II As I walk these days Carrying thoughts of you in dilemmahood As to your existence or nonexistence Chased by flies of […]
​There are flies born on a sugar plantation And like blessed tongues live entirely on the sweet There are eagles born to hens And like accursed birds, live taking instructions from their meals Luck is the stamp of fate II When the wind blows rain water into the sea It does it good Can same […]
Weeds in prized plants Mouths of hoes and cutlasses Hunger for your weeded selves Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 25, 2017.
My breaths are best in your flow My heartbeats are best in your machinations My steps are best in your architecture My will is best in your seal Oh Odomankomah! My redeemer! II You are the river of blood in my veins You are the air of life in my daily keep You are my […]
Stories in high heels Walking on tiled consciences A loud night club in serenes Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©October 19, 2017
There are many with flies from the past Singing in their ears In a chorus of success Blocking out lyrics of routes Driving off trains of talents If only they can find smoke to ward off their flies II There are many being chased by bees of the past Stinging dry their peace of mind […]
On this dining table Sits gluttonous greed Whose hunger, all the food, in quench, unable Connivance knows but stooges for crumbs Forgetting the coming with roaring bellies Whose eyes may never see the feast Forgetting the frail Whose bodies can go nowhere near the monstrous Greed Forgetting the children whose growth Depend on the nutrients […]
Sitting on the chair-like forget-me-not You promised to keep our love hot To the hearing of the inquisitive air And all nature that is fair I remember the clouds turn up In their darkest colour And sent their rains to record the promise Many months saw not the veil of a year But here I […]
​The stance of an eye And its distance Determines the visions thereof Like plants in the different pores of the earth We stand in view of a portion So how can our mouths be in judgement seats Audienced by other eyes and ears In marking right from wrong? II God may appear in different beings […]
How do I find my way? In this jungle of life Where fangs chase on this careless mother earth As claws chase in the indifferent sky? II How do I find my way? When hurtful thorns are ever ready to butcher my skin And have them on their necks as conquerors? Hisses with poisonous spittle […]
​The butterfly which sits on the tip of an uneatable leaf In hope of a wind taking it to the flower with a nectar cup Without lifting its healthy wings in direction Is bound to blame its God For the sluggish crime of itself II The mosquito which sits on a pore for long, Like […]
If historic eyes had seen this future Where a kitten mounts a lion’s seat They sure would have cemented their feet And stopped the clock Before seeing their shadows fall II How can a kitten paw fit into a lion’s? How can a kitten rule over fierce tigers? Golden fishes? Huge elephants? Fearsome crocodiles? Mischievous […]
Our breaths have been marked Marked for the roars of freshness And the silence thereafter like that of toothless dogs II Our sad songs continue on world stages But why do sympathies sit uninterested Sipping their “serves you right” wines Even as our hurtful passions sync with their instruments? III Could it be the need […]
The dark is a cool place to hide But a cruel place to be Every leg can boot, step on her Every spittle can fall on, bathe her Every phlegm can plaster, plaster her Every urine can shower, shower her Every fecal matter can smear, smear her like disgusting pomade And no sweat can be […]
Once Kwaku Ananse met a Baboon One who was fetching water with a basket from a river At the feet of a mountain Into a drum at the pate of the mountain Out of pity for an artificial brain tiring a living body He stopped to help He called on the Baboon to use his […]
Every teacher is a potter One who digs the clay of the mind And gives it moisture Amidst pounding and kneading To get the right texture Setting it on the wheel in direction To mould the right item through heat in finality II Every teacher is a farmer One, who prepares the land of all […]
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