I always aimed to be a potted flower I envied their supplies From waters carried by muscles To the manure bought to feed Talk less of their pampering of shades and aids And their protection and attention II They were like the dream Which emptied me from their cans of dark bliss Onto scolding thorns […]
If I build a house I won’t house a mouse Mice which crawl in clothes of darkness To eat my rice Rolling my dice And putting my eyes in a quandary of lies Are nothing nice II Roasting on ghost nets After walking on the finest clouds Being toasted on fear fires Like a lost […]
Seeds begot plants Through rot Every ray of sunshine, Every drop of rain, And every bit of air Hold hands to torture for growth The blessed farmer sure must be grateful And considerate II A harvest comes with its history As humans do their shadows Every step praises the ground Remembers crippling moments Feels flashes […]
A step forward Ten steps lost What time has been slow to wash Now sit in filth Filth worse than it had seen Being fanned by flies Oh knives of division cuts through humanity And like a melting cake It gives way to wailing wishes Guarded by suppressing bombs II Tales are told upon tales […]
We have crossed the river The river which made us shiver Keeping us on safe ground All around II We have bossed We have bossed the bosses who consciences checked Regarding none that crossed Now chaos, like clouds, wreck into worst wreckedness III Cockroaches now fly in daylight like birds Flies now rule like eagles […]
As many, their cutlasses wield Like monsters on a game field Please Lord, don’t let my spirit yield Be my capable shield II I know I am not fast My legs, in run, will not in this race last Not with enemy soldiers at vantage points on a land so vast Help me see this […]
Mouths of challenges smile mischievously Even when their hurricanes dance With beasts of chaos Brother of mine Walk through its fires And be its king II Words which walk through the taunting mouths if troubles Can scatter brains as the mad scatters in insanity Brave hearts allow the noise Knowing blessed breezes are on the […]
There are many dialects tongues drive In this realm called earth Their beauty; to lie on their own fields Being dribbled like a ball with Abedi on a smooth park Time is confusing tongues Mixing strange ones with the authentic Soiling what once was pure and untainted “Mere di Sandwich” You will hear the Fanti […]
I have a heart Whose magnetic eyes see it all From the sighs to wishes from afar Right up to fantasies I can never fulfill But I stay rooted Because of love II I have a mind which murders all And bisect to disect every detail From my traditional thoughts To my bold stance And […]
Closed eyes see best But suffer mistrust and fear Closed eyes feel best But no matter its painful tear It matters not to the open rest II The elders say Children can climb the tallest trees And will never be able to see the needed Wrinkled old men sit behind closed doors With closed eyes […]
There are rots Cradling our cots Killing our lot Having us bought II There are filth Even in quilts Causing us to wilt Amidst all spilt III What dies today? Breaths are taken The world is shaken Most are awake And can change bake But what dies from our rots? What dies from our filth? […]
It is funny Very funny how fishes muddy Toy with Waste The water in which they live II They create their storms And shake their grounds They reject the right rains And dig for tsunamis They heat their waters But stay therein Is there a thought to point that out? III Oh big fishes! Digging […]
I was born with nothing No fangs No claws To talk of clothes and rings and slings to cling Look at me now Looking at these crossroads II I was born like mixed flour So light Does the sun boil me like heat Which fans the buttocks of pots As air stirs my content to […]
Dawn is clearing the path of the new sun After filling the hole of the old Its tears are of hope and despair Could the new be a replica of the old? II The old sun died with time The earth pulling on it the cover of darkness Pushing it to set prematurely Aided by […]
For all that is fair All that we share All that life makes us bear I hope for you strength to dare Even when storms of life glare Hoping for you speed of the hare To go through and success pair This New Year and beyond Happy New Year to all followers of amoafowaa.com. Thank […]
I cry for you You whose time was set before birth Shaped by fixed days Rounded by a set of months II As your seconds tick into your minutes I know your heart sinks As you fall into the arms of history But do take these These flawed claws Which have arrested our fingernails And […]
They imagine Christmas in snow When our feet greet the dust of harmattan As morning cold bites into skin II They imagine a pot-bellied-red-apparelled-man-myth With goodies for children In this drop of cold and heat Blackmailing children into submission for a short while Preparing them for rebellion after years of disappointments III They imagine a […]
A story told millions of zillions of times An occasion whose infectious smile Blesses the lips of all celebrants One baby cried for the jubilations of the heavens And the knowing on earth years and years back Still, Herod hated his herald of high hierarchy in heaven Hunting him in his zone II A celebration […]
There are walls around a nation A nation fought for with priceless blood A nation whose beauty, like mud fish in muddy water, Hides in walls too high in ugliness Walls of corruption Walls of deception Walls of greed Walls of power-drunkenness Walls of ridiculous stunts Walls of begging Walls of tribalism Walls of labeling […]
Like water They seep through rocks of hearts Engraving themselves as reference sources Marking themselves beside their makers II Words… So powerful that elders analogise Their retraction to spittle thrown into gutters Which have seen no cleaning for decades Branding royals servants of poor tongues Pushing crowns from heads cemented by fate III Words… Ordinary […]
When Christ was born Riches were myrrh, incense and gold Kings and farmers owned them most Poverty was hunger With no discrimination for food Times have traveled Elevating riches to much of infinity Upgrading poverty to little from none Let the scribes note II When Christ was born None sought gifts but him Fists owned […]
We remember the claws of yesterday After feeling the smooching of palms today A new dawn easily sheds its night And falls into nothingness If it records no history And acts like a boring copycat Yes, believe it or not History has teeth which bite through memories II Whichever crown graces your head On the […]
Dem say sukuu be all Woman no be kitchen maid Woman be queen wey need worship I see say I be stupid for dis world II I get respect I cook for my big man to chop He no tink say I go poison am Im dey trust im life for my hands If dat […]
There is a farm hidden in me Although sunlight feels not its land And air pumps through thin tubes As rain never get to muddy its ground It is fertile enough to grow II Bless my land with a perfect seed Help it blend in rot to live Help it grow as seed to show […]
Dawn is opening morning’s doors Freeing beings like birds to fly Look keenly and see the lie As some with feathers tower above legs II Birds are known to fly to seek Food they peck with oh their beaks Crippling birds do seem so weak With their dangers so in chase But what of the blind […]
After angst and jubilation have gone to roost In an opposing clash which selections boost What is there but a sea with no boat Calling all eyes; with hurt and gloat To look past emotions and rise to a challenge II All in laughter show their teeth All in outcries show their teeth What is the […]
Heads vary in many competitive phases But are same in unknown endings Like fire, their hearts heat to shrink Like ice, their heads freeze to explode Little noise makes them jump Ah! Obi ne stomach! Wim wim wim! II Who will climb the golden stool? Who will fall at the feet of defeat? Who will […]
Who but the ink Bleeds to cleanse? Who but the pencil fearlessly scribbles to right? Who but the pen honours the befitting? Writecrism What feat have you achieved? II Fie on all inks Who write to praise the unright Fie on all pencils who lick boots like stooges Fie on all pens who worship societal […]
Words are on the field of deliberations From high heads dripping with opinions from perspectives dynamic The question which is like the ball on the field? Was Castro a dictator? II Castro was a dictator! Obama is a hypocrite! Trump is the ish when it comes to the bible’s wish Trump is truthful His eyes […]
I wish, I wish, I wish! I wish I had a day To travel to the mind of man I would want to explore all his caves To know the wires that touch To electrocute some senses Into forming actions gargantuans To horrify my sisters and I II I’d first love to be a tourist […]
I am a product of a nation Which was stung by the bee of slavery That I am But that is centuries ago I was never a slave I acknowledge the pains of my caught brothers and sisters of my ancestors That should not drag me Into caves of self sympathy Wallowing in the dirt […]
I pour this libation From my free but poor calabash Which knows hunger as a happy sport And not an opposing wrestler To let dreams fall into sleep of all To see fierce and hunting war In chase of ones whose preferences Became their bait of horrid fate II I pour this libation from my […]
When the sound of the trumpet Is rejected in echo Like a ball thrown to a wall And it finds not the hole and the mouth Which gave it life for the errand It falls into vanishment Like little dust in overflowing gutters Let ears hear the sound of tolerance II When the cock sings […]
I have a voice But no matter the loudness of the noise I vote Ghana! II I have a choice But no matter the decision I will rejoice And vote Ghana! III Never will my blood boil To break the pot That hosts my waters of life I vote I vote Ghana IV Never will […]
There is a cloud forming on clouds The sky of red, gold, black star and green Has arms wide opened to mean It can take all the dance on court floor, even the mean And awaits personalities who will fall into shrouds II Amidu holds the reins And just got Woyome as the horse Hoping to […]
In Ghana, the sun always sets Now elephants, coconut trees The cockerel, the sun All battle to topple the umbrella II Some call it the leaking umbrella Which has been bribed by nature’s delicacies To cancel its safety obligation Some call it the weak emblem Blown in shame by winds of corruption Some call it […]
When the gods speak into mouthpieces Let the people get their earpieces If the street listens to beats Legs get massaged by the rhythms Who are legs to complain? II Generations die for generations to live A kiss in the dark in some archaic moments Sex on the street in contemporary times Leafs of innocence fall […]
On this ground of uncertainty Look my way Hold my hand like a crawling toddler Heal my feet And hold me up II I am but soul on clay I am nought but your weave I am nought but your grateful robot Help me step to you III Where the world flaws Give me holding […]
When you feel him drifting Heart races in sad palpitations Fears roll in high doses Pain slices deep in soul But what is a woman to do When his heart drifts? II Pain is the reluctance to chat Harm is the secret of neglect Murder is the hidden other Hiding, and cheating Tactfully dismissing Skillfully […]
How did this happen? A bull dog winning a battle with a lioness? How did this happen? Trash beats motherly breasts to become a tap of filth? Who will filter this? A demon has penetrated through the gates of peace Will the peace cease? II A massacre of thoughts Marrying chaos like disaster Emphasising pain […]
Serious basket sent to the stream of ambitions To fetch heads which sync with hands In hardwork to weave the nation Suddenly developed comedic holes Posing pictures of ridicule In a nation whose teeth can’t afford a smile Talk less of laughter II Fishes flawed and thrown out Have majestically managed to catwalk Into the […]
It is only in the house of politics We find blinding smoke without fire Its finances, like confusing qualitative thesis, lacks mathematics Its words flying with no hands to tame to collate II Tongues of tongues are begged in hire Hands with corrupt cash magnets Get to be called sires Brains with guttered tricks Get […]
We are our illnesses We, golden children Conceived painfully and graciously By Asaase Yaa, the goddess of nature How can we heal? II Our legs flirt with fine dust of deceit Enthroning it to build mansions In our priced noses Distributing coughs of fear Digging pain of panic Blinding us and Developing weaknesses which deepen […]
Sigh The infra dig man-cue For flowers of honour Is not part of the deities I worship II Sigh Bombastic preachers Robed in cover of their leeched skin Can’t make me sleep No matter the soothing of their evoking lullabies III Sigh Mouths which work in the dark And mute in light Can never move a […]
Pushed by loving winds from my home tree Onto dead leaves I have smelt much unpleasantness Tasted rot Been blown here and there A pawn of the air II I have searched deserts And felt the pelts of sand Barely made it out with visible holes all over A poor little leaf like me I […]
Fluffy bubbles are at play Tickling hormones with apt display So if you wish to stay Our creator will melt our clay Into a being in two II It is a brand new day No matter what time of day And the smile of the sky spells hearts of gay For even snakes which hide […]
 Many have thoughts of society Making fem effete Tonight, I will defray your machismo And lock your manpower In my power packed handcuffs In preparation of doing you II I need no hands on you I need no legs on you Touches of electrification To numb all, will wake my thunders to work Tonight […]
This heart Wears a hat Dodging difficulties In mythical thinking II This head Has an umbrella Covered in blessed rains But seeing its fall III These legs Want to be in congregation Why then do they Feel no move IV I feel you are there But eyes have no proof The proof of mind Cancels […]
 If my voice strokes your choice And my moving cells you ensorcell Come Come get me II If my yoke in another makes you broke And my charm causes you sweet harm Come Come get me III If I am the witch who burns your bitch And the flower which scents your shower Come […]
 There are mosquitoes singing tunes many abhor In rooms detested There are bed bugs battling bodies For blood on beds many hate There are many fighting animals like people with consciences Just for rivers and foods and places and growth Through it all We sleep soundly II Sons and daughters of the earth beg […]
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