I have known rivers that have run out Their sleeping places weeping on blame of thirst But you in your small spots On varied chests, feed the world From vacant suckers to the teeth full II Not only do you subdue man Into knowing his forever child-like nature You give women the pride of shape […]
In your scented garden You left many flowers Maybe for your precious lavenders Maybe to heal foul scents Maybe to sooth the thirst of precious birds in their prime Maybe to multiply and beautify the land But the harvesters of scents have been harvesting the nectar Before they blossom to bless the temples of noses […]
What does it mean to be my friend? Is it the whispering rumouring Like naughty airs being tossed by blocking walls? Or the sharing of secrets Which are kept in our brainy books of memories? Or even the taste of our handkerchiefs At the sips of our overflowing eyes In the heat of sadness? What […]
This class mask Is it not a daunting task? This heat of a task Does it have a dawn and a dusk? Even chameleons tire of stealing reflections So why model your deflections? II I see a whore in clothes of virgins An unscrupulous you modelling pious clothes Why is a pedophile rocking a priestly […]
The beginning of bad thoughts Marked the end of harmless nakedness That I know II The beginning of birth Birthed the beginning of death That too I know III The beginning of want Dug the endlessness of need Well, took a while to harvest that on the tree of thought IV Greed is sometimes a […]
When rivers stood in their dreams They forgot of days they acted as streams And tasted filth, felt the sharp teeth of stones And travelled miles in the lone They, now in pride, bloat As they on top of seas float Blocking streams and rivers Who in need of strength shiver in quivers Forgetting tsunamis […]
Improper waist beads Shouting in least bumping Your thread tears in fears of tear Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © September 12, 2017
We are like trees Problems are like our earth Each can’t be If the earth refuses entry Roots are like our will Meandering through sand Around rocks On worms and running rats Hunting water and food II We know God is at post His all seeing eyes watching his little garden Knowing the roots making […]
I know not much I am no Methuselah as such But I do know whatever war touches Does with chaos marches II Like monsters of the night, hurtful words hold no soothing balm In their flight to the land of any mind Like terrorists on their site, bullets have no hearts, hands or eyes To […]
There are many roots beneath a single tree Yet it needs many others to break winds There are many brooms running and breaking free But their strength in numbers, all fear rescinds II Sometimes, even fecal worms, do space need Sometimes, even water, do drops be But a sea stands more chance of waving at […]
Me I no know wetin man go give me Wey I go be like im sick chick moder Going to scatter to bring him choo to fill im bɛllɛ When im hands dey lie in perfecsion If I no heaa anyting for elder person im mouth koraa Ino be hand dey go, hand dey cum […]
It is like the best servant of mankind It is like the humble air holding our precious lives It is like the great explorer and traveler When it is given its due II Time has travelled to a place Where many things imprison this saving servant To think river channels lie in even mobile beings […]
There is an irony in sight Where vision is concerned That part where the blind looks forward to tomorrow Despite all the sorrow That part of the mind which no one borrows No matter how shallow Is the lid of hope So why will I mope? II Even snakes, dwelling on their venom Instill fear […]
Alien things are swallowing ours Their gluttony making them relegate their teeth to the background As their tongues fold to push Through the mortar of their mouths Everything with an African tag II Civilization first removed our eyeballs And replaced them with artificial ones Making seers the abominations they abhorred Banishing themselves through shrines they […]
I do not know Who carved the show I do not know Who gave that blow That a girl was an animal Not a tigress nor a lioness Not an elephant nor an eagle Not a dove nor of love But a sheep which needed its herdsman Or a hen needed to hatch or be […]
I know many of us are everything but perfect Sometimes assuming positions of trouble prefects But life’s ink Has risen for all who sink And it makes me think II I see all live in gardens of flowers Bathed in many praising showers But like dead wood in a king’s court They feel not So […]
The mind is a scary part A part which houses and nurses all it is given Be it in light of good Or in doom of bad No ripe orange on a flat ground Falls far from its tree And a rotten palm nut amidst the many Carves vampire teeth on the others Even after […]
Birds know they own their nests And love the inn eventhough they know the existence of hunters Bats love their standing trees in the midsts of tree cutters Worms mate the earth in style Even in places pickaxes dig Why won’t our elders say None uses his left hand to point at his father’s house? […]
This chest feels so stuffy Threatening tears which would drown these eyes puffy Giving an uncomfortable holiday to the mind Making this bed frown at the night load Which fails to heed to the call of mobility II Cloud of our end looms As a frightening beginning, in fast speed, zooms Whips of pain of […]
I know the throat can nag And force a king to lie on a rag When its demands for water through its pipe is not met II I know the stomach can thunder When its bond with food is put asunder Giving in to any bet III I know eyes close not When their vessels […]
The sky has many eyes Because of its strength Its face is like a park without an owner But it still remains firm II There are passing clouds Which never succeed in wiping its beautiful blue There are heated suns Which never get to melt its clarity There are the moons backed by stars Which […]
None chastises those who time has dealt a blow As that like dead roots, will be low None blames the Frankenstein monster For attacking its master For that, like a pie in dust, will be disaster Oh deviants of the norm! As the slave of “knowledge prostitution” I say “due” II When the world was […]
A new whirlwind blows And its dust shows Not a soul knows That it is a blessed wrap housing many foes But I see its claws through its wings II It is like the god of love’s enemy Unleashing on its host its fiery army Sucking fun from blood to blood dealing Making robotics the […]
Some say I am a flower A flower with mining nectar A flower which tower When the sun sits on its shining stool And wilts when the sun sets Hey! I am what I say I am! II Some say I am many in one Hair like an oasis which holds current’s pores Eyes like […]
We are what we need to be When needs to be, be We are who we need to see When needs to see, see We are our lions and lionesses Hunting this jungle in shadows definitive of us We are soldier ants Making our own frames walking anthills Creating holes which send invitations To passers […]
Your sword was glowing pink And you loved to slash with powerful ink I was your link To the seas of your power’s brink Oh Yohanne! Why did your boat so sink? II I used to, like an uncorrupted child, think That you were the perfect drink In that many an ambitious waters of zinc […]
Screaming pores are appalled By the disco light-like mounds Which tickle in pinch mode Dancing to the whispers of air See the feet of seduction touch the skin of need The sky, today, is not fair II Peacocks hide themselves in their wings Shedding fowl tears of yearning Afraid to be caught by nightingales Eagles […]
Hidden love Planted in a fertile heart Bomb soon to detonate Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia ©July 24, 2017
Many voices Roar in this fiery sea Voices of rivers Whose feet have tasted different sands Voices of rains Whose bodies have tasted higher heavens Bodies of fluids Whose noses have smelt rotten foods Vomited by covered human gutters Bodies of sweats Which have explored varied pores Each lamenting like lost pilgrims In the end […]
Daring leaves Fingering passing clothes Pluck curse on invitational plate Amoafowaa Sega Cecilia (c) July 23, 2017
Let the ancestors listen! Listen from their working places Let them listen! Listen in their working gears Is this the vision for which they drained their precious body rivers? Is this the picture they offered their bodies To the human abattoirs like cheap goods for? Is it? Is it! II Ants are now known as […]
A dove has been bathed into a vulture A sheep transformed into a goat A wall gecko now lives like a cobra Which waters clean the clean into dirt? II A lion is now a cat A tiger living as the dog of a crab That eagle is now a “borla” bird Which airs travel […]
When love’s whirlwind sweeps It moves fearlessly like a monster looking for keeps Pressing hearts into one until it, one sound, beeps II When love’s whirlwind arrests Every sour taste blends into milk like a newborns’ from breasts Making unfathomable ills honoured crests III When love’s whirlwind stamps Its desired sounds beat no ear-blasting amp’s […]
There is a reason hands hung Legs stand Eyes see Ears hear And mouths talk But in my home Mouths walk in talk And swing in fling Closing ears like clashing bombs Forcing eyes to shut in disgust II Little things turn typhoons Then tsunamis Covering bigger fishes to sail beneath national seas As small […]
Once a vibrant bird fell Its pain and sadness was like hell Its chirps could pierce a tortoise’s shell But none threw even a healing gel II Its broken wings begun to swell And watching birds begun to sell Its sad state was the definite sell As many mimicked its sad sad yell III Rumours […]
Do not grovel even in a hovel For each of our remains will taste the dig of a shovel Idolize your mirror reflections Even when you face constant rejections For you are a soul in a body And a spirit not at all shoddy You are like a myth in passing But a warrior on […]
I thought only noses of the earth Drugged deep by rats and mice Caused hunters to rear smoke To sneeze out deli-meats Little did I know some heads are rat holes Hoarding abominants So owners light their mouths To sneeze their fall II How heads have turned “muchia” To cook brains into highness Bleach mouths […]
Our elders ask Only one saw so who is the witness? I am a victim of circumstance One caught like an innocent antelope In an unknown hunter’s trap One set in a cage meant for an unknown One substituted by chance with a lucky being Protected well by a worldly antagonist whose apparel fits me […]
The clock of change ticks Transforming in shockaholics Yet many feed after thorny pricks In places whose geography elude mapachronics Living healthily by the green waters of kontomire As others blinkardly gobble dead fishes in oily rivers II Gone are the days when elderly buttocks Filled seats before their young Gone are the days when […]
If you marry me You will be my sea And I your fish Preparing for you many a sumptuous dish Giving life to many of your wishes II If you marry me Your happiness, my wish will be I will be your warmth in the cold And your cooler in heat’s fold Blanketing you from […]
(In celebration and reflection on my birthday) As my years travel the world Questions act like soldier ants Who have chanced upon a loot In a land of famine II The biggest captain being achievements Co-captained by failures All curious as to the shrouded steps left To the hungry hole of endings III The frightful […]
Those days When light only came from the sun rays As fruits fed from their ripe stations Have no living nations II Those days When charms and pushing gays With domestic care so rare Were all a woman needed to be fair Have gone under As today, more need surrender III Eve was a blessing […]
Happy Father’s Day to all fathers. Enjoy this piece: Whoever said chicks follow hens Wash your faces with treated water And watch It is that day That day when some cocks act hens As some hens model in cockdom This world! II It is this day This day when the pains of motherhood Root firmly […]
When salt sellers hear of rain On open market days They flip and trip and slip to pray But a farmer waiting to farm gives praises to his maker II We are in a world where same buildings welcome infant cries And send off living souls A reflection of virtues and vices Staring eachother in […]
I am a student A student is I Who dresses like a brushed kangaroo With eyes of a determined eagle And the spirit of a meek sheep Hoping to be strong in mind like a blessed ant To grow in wisdom as giraffes grow in neck II I am a student A student is I […]
When songs of nightingales Hit blocked drums of infatuated cocks They cry loss but look hardest Cursing the hearing maker II When the ‘borla’ bird Dreams of cuddling a peacock It shivers at peck-like-axing One that can give away its intestines In a split second III Every struggling soul Like a beheaded fowl Kicks and […]
When sadness sits like a chief Brewing the pungent and ugly grief Siding with all words but brief Stealing a heart like a shameless thief Why do you say fate’s ladle is deep? II When this chick chirps as a bird And its mother finds it absurd As its rival families root for it as […]
We are farmers Farming our kind Tilling our lands to plant Selecting best and compatible seeds for plantation And when the earth houses the seeds We water, provide sunshine and air II We may give too much water When the young shoots emerge We may give too much sun We may even provide winds instead […]
Women The glorious beings of this worldly den The best hearts likened to hens The most gifted of all of life’s pens II Women are the flowers so bright They blossom for all but their thorns do fight Against pests in hurried flight Great agents who fear no problem of height III Women are wondrous […]
I am a citizen A citizen paid by citizens I am like a chicken Fed grains to reproduce grains I am a hunter and the game My effort contributing to my gain So why should I rest in labour? Will a sheep pray for the blindness of its shepherd? II I am a citizen A […]
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