There is a reason Muscles grow on breakable voices There is a reason Chests flatten in hardened choices There is a reason Chins are visited by weeds Which can scare or be trimed to call for care Onyankopon Tweadeampong is never a slack His creations never lack tact II How else would there be hunters […]
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GOD THINKS US GOLD DIGGERS
Fickle are hearts that need With no desire to feed Fickle are wayward deeds With no forming change seeds If humans see through acts And like judges, conclude diggers and real Who are you to deceive God? II Most prayers are like one way streets Ones asking vehicles ply Never a chance of showing hearts […]
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GHANAIAN DELICACIES
My tongue is pampered Like a mushroom on an anthill Crowned by the fertile farms of mother nature Ghana, my motherland! II So much do they give Plants and trees Leaves and all Yam boils to accommodate many My favourite; “potogum hwiegum” Led by the great garden eggs With koobi as angels at post Add […]
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THE LOVE THEY SPEAK OF
I need, need and need The love they speak of I want to be a cassava And meet a plaintain, yam or cocoyam And together be pounded In the mortars of life by its pestles And blend in the perfect fufu II I need, need and need I need the friction of missing Photographic memories […]
There are men And there are Men But there are also MEN MEN are the real juices in all fruits Men are the “mmotromodwos” That state abhored by even the heavenly father While men are the tins of milk without content Drop them from the mountain top And see how they will battle the stones […]
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TOO SPECIAL TO RUN
There On the threshold of my fate Lie the perfect gait Calculated steps Fitted shoes And keys to answers to puzzles tricky And ready to block in lock I know And rush not For I am too special to run II None knew Agya Ananse In its fragile and slimy state Could be the star […]
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TAUNT LOVING THE DEAD
Black and red Mate to date for the fate of the late Like soldier ants in warrior parade Faces varied in smiles, frowns and indifference For the fallen whose journey goes beyond eyes’ foresight II Songs with “we have a living God” lyricals Taunt the fallen with many misconceptions ‘We live like dead swervers Because […]
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PIGS WILL BE PIGS
Once a pig was born in a sea Making fishes bring it up to fish be When the pig was grown and wise It broke chains to be on land II All the dirt was its to take All the gutters was its to shake All the dumpsters were his pool so cool That its […]
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WHY I READ
Walking through this book of life Which flips and turns in love and strife How can I the best’s wife be If I read not of kings doting on skirts of their shes? II In the read Hides machetes which tears ignorance in shreds Kwaku Ananse’s morals Which walked the spoken of the sages of […]
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CANE OF GOD
Quack quack quack The voices of ducky deceits sing Like a choir in symphony In temples haunted by God Monies from impoverished pockets Cry for their owners From bellies to clothes To shoes to watches To cars to perfumes On parodies of preachers II Ghosts of stomachs haunt houses of worship Pernury taunts clever minds […]
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I PRAY FOR YOU
It is a machine We, rolling to end up drawn Like lotter numbers As seen and unseen souls jubilate But a win today Expires tomorrow A loss today Heals tomorrow II There is nothing too awful Some live like vultures Not that they crave not for belonging-beds But misfortunes have housed them into vultures Always […]
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PRIESTS OF THE gODS
Dancing in possessionisms ‘Akom’ climbs the seat of Christiandom Veiled by the all Powerful Holy Bible Hiding the powders and poduas And straw skirts In suits, and clothes sewn by modernity What is the name of potent but failed gods hiding in alien myths? II When did Atwea house abosom kokroko To get legs to […]
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TAKE ME TO GOLD COAST
Take me back Back to gold coast Where salt and mirror Beat the price of gold II Take me back Back to Gold Coast Where naivity was bliss And minds suckled from the breast of nature As none cared about the peak of stature III Take me back Back to Gold Coast Where snow so […]
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CONJUGAL CALLINGS (Adult Poetry)
It is a weird night A weird night where hens Open their traps of bliss In contrast to the merry go rounds And dizzy spells penaltying for the goals II It is a weird night Even femme frogs block the commercial street Hoping to pay off buyers After giving off their best goods for free […]
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INDUCED HELL
Skies of the throne of Freejustice Rain to ruins Like ships draining their seas while at sea At high fees The waves that keep them afloat Are divided into three II The blind waves Which push like donkeys even in drought The on-fence waves Which would give their lives Than lift fingers to right any […]
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GOD ON BOARD
I know God is on board the human ship On this wobbly twerking worldly sea He is the air that blows so fair He is the water which quenches all thirsts He is the myth that saves data of our minds He is the breath that engines our moves The question Why He hides in […]
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STILL THE LAND STANDS
If the winds destroy the umbrella And the elephant finishes all the grassy trees And the cock pecks all the worms and crumbs And the eagle eats the cock Do remember Still the naked land stands II The naked land will stand Disgraced Like a queen caught by prostitution law Of an unforgiving god As […]
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IF GOATS WERE ELEPHANTS
The creator wove his world Like Kwaku Ananse weaves his web Carefully Giving unto each gifts to fend I can’t fathom the choas in chimes If goats were elephants Can you? II From the hair of the sky To the toes of the earth Everything in and without Would shiver and hover At the visit […]
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INSAMADEOLOGY
Over pampered knowledge Is now climbing the staircase of madness When it reaches its peak Many movements will germinate Like strong weeds Which fear no cutlasses, hoes Let alone mowers II If fingers break through Eyes of the expired They are sure to call a battle for their eyes On the grounds of hallucinations Where […]
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THAT FIRST TIMER
Koo Kum anticipated and anticipated Like a villager promised a city tour His crown being his foolish grin When he thought of his awesome spin On top of the heavenly angel Whose beauty had consumed All her gargantuan flaws In his eyes II Mere fantasies made him drool His perfect words Manly looks Controlling initiation […]
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CEASE FIRE
Fire for fire Hired by sires Like rains univited Kills desires II Every mouth with a sound like a linguist Yearns to be heard Every head with a mind like a king Yearns to be studied Every heart like a die hard fun supports its products A look down on one Pumps out disaster From […]
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IN THE BOTTLE
Kwabena Amoafo lives in a bottle A bottle too small even for his hand A bottle whose scent throws more punches To noses than the best boxers alive But like a diminished grasshopper He lives in what he blinds Putting pressure on his people II What at all is in the bottle That has the […]
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OUT OF CONTROL
Pleasure rains are falling Funny how many drains Need to reign Red stockings Beautiful and wicked heels With a shameless mask On a cute angelic face Hairs stand guard I am out of control II Out of control The chariots are heavily decorated Flowers with pouty mouths Daring to be plucked Hearts on fire Calling […]
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THAT UNREACHABLE FRUIT
I saw a juicy fruit On a very huge tree One said to have fruitful seeds Making “kwaa-brefre” stand at ease II Its smell, so potent Its colour so attractive A youthful and ripe look I stretch but can’t fetch Its tree holds it so high Why? III Thorns are hired to it protect Leaves […]
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PAINFUL DECEPTION (Twisted Haiku)
A fish with parched throat Afloat the vast ocean waves Gets no mercy cries From a flying bird right up Drought in flood is deceptive II A bird in flying Can never show breathlessness Let alone be saved By a sheep walking the land Can minds be blamed for thinking? III A sheep in sweating […]
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BEERS AND CHEERS
Flapping wings In anger slings Break down Even in centre town Let’s forget it all With beers and cheers II The naughty spider Hides as a hurtful rider Must we chase and chase and chase? Let’s forget it all With beers and cheers III Dogs fancy their backing Licking their lovings Scaring their foes Let’s […]
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BREAKABLES
We See To be II We Tea To plea III We Fee To flee IV Me Thee Are fleas V Stings on strings Ringed on strings Breakable things Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 6th August, 2016
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BLAME GAMES
When the shores of sleep Wash dreamed souls Into immobile bodies At the first crow of the king of cocks Let not the waves of stench Give away the carcasses Slaughtered by fantasy horses Who fled and led their opponents To their chambers To take what souls they deemed needed II When tears from priced […]
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GYANTRASTITUTION
All in slumber By the crow of cocks Wake and line by your street Especially those with itchy ears Busy mouths And gossip eyes Abena Gyantra I will be seen passing II After working my pants into tatters Messing my hair into dreads And working my waist into a cripple That should add to your […]
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A FRUIT IN HIS FRUIT SALAD
His ladle is busy Stirring them together Seeking harmony where hardness reigns Don’t they hurt? His arms? II I am a watermelon I see some mango And oh! There is an orange And ah there lies some banana All shedding their juices Hoping for a common ground Look at how that apple struggles to blend […]
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PIECING PEACE
Heed peace’s call And stand tall Or fall Look what just fell in your court The option ball So don’t be dull Gather all In the thinking hall And strengthen peace’s wall II From the days the cock crowed On the Ghana throne To these times of the umbrella We have kept it strong No […]
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TONGUE
Tongue When you taste the sweet Savour the taste And dance to its beat Like a queen who has conquered in war II Tongue When you taste the sweet With bitter pinches Hold your reins Like a great warrior at war And follow the trot-rhythms Of your cherished horse III Tongue When you taste the […]
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WOES OF A WRITER
What is good about me? I am a pen Who shines bright in sadness Selling my pain As traders sell their goods With and without shame II What is so good about me? I am a pen envied in happiness Selling success as the sky gives rain Standing far and untouchable Receiving bullets of curses […]
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I STAND ALONE
I am a fruitful tree In my season I fruit in magnanimity Knowing no difference Between beaks, hands and rot I feed them all II But years have painfully schooled Codifying I have been clearly fooled Even by those I thought I’ve cooled As my fruitful season has hosts Hosts greater than any audience From […]
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SINGLETONS
Listen Listen like the blind left behind For hidden in the caves of soft sounds Which creep in the midst of chaos Is the way to decay And the way to today Hearing none Calls for monsters in human butchery So listen! II Look Look hard For in the midst of the sea Lies drinks […]
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WHAT IS YOUR FORMULA?
Each being is a problem A problem with a formula A formula which stands as key To unlock at appropriate times For all to see So I am studying hard II Like maths There are those like simple sets Those like easy fractions Those like intriguing surds Those like scary simultaneous equations And those like […]
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MOCK SMOCKS
He who threads on the insurer’s path Sees the ghosts of profits In the clutch of misfortunes And wears a protection charm Always praying or exorcicing II He who threads on the path of danger Plays with anger Making happiness a stranger One to be toyed and slaughtered Even under the umbrella of blessings III […]
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WHIPPED TO SENSES
I was the happy mat Glad to be stepped on Honoured to be lied on And like the lifeless Where legs kicked Was my happy home II Even when my seams strapped I waited to be stepped on Refusing to rise Acknowledging no horror eyes That mirrored my plight And pleading mouths Who sang my […]
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THIS BUILDING OF LOVE
Dig the foundation Like a mason with the strength of a bull Let me shovel Like the strong apprentice Loving her vocation Hoping rains of the future aid To mix our cement of need With our sand of laughter To solidify our foundation of love Smile, no matter how tough Even ants build huge anthills […]
Lock it Even if it takes chains of thorny discipline Lock it Even if it needs nails of suppression Lock it As king Agorkoli locked his subjects Supervising mostly to strengthen its walls Lock it And tie the red host of trouble For left ajar Trouble plays its romance Like magnets do pins Lame litters […]
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A BLACK JESUS
I need a Jesus black as coal One who protects our seas And grows its trees Paying land fees for fertility II I need a Jesus who lived through a black maiden Probably from Krobo One who had not gone through dipo rites And was not struck down by Nzuleizu gods Or an Akan who […]
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HUNTING DOG
Hunting dog in the wild Never think you are human child When the hunt clears And its game fulls Bones will be your portion II If the hunting zeros And games turn tables You will be the first to fall As your master flees Forgetting you were a part of the whole III If the […]
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THE VIGILANT COCK CROWS
Dawn is a path finder Of what days, in cloth hide While many losers fear to morning face Accomplished men can’t wait to greet its palms Still, the vigilant cock crows Kokrokoooo To alert them all II There are cases and there are cases Humans who walk on toes And those who walk on foes […]
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IF I EVER TRULY LOVE
If I ever truly love I will love many in one And the one in many II If I ever truly love I will love a lion in frame and half heart With eagle feathers With the prowess of cat in cuddling One who has some bit of dog’s servitude Mixed with some pride of […]
Jacob joined Jack Jamming joys in Jack Frost Jackals joked of jackpots Jackets of jackasses just by Jack Robinson Joined the jungle Jamming the jaunt Jehovah’s jet rejected the jigs Leaving the jitneys to journey On their joy rides Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
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FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
Odomankoma the wise Craftily hid it in all things That we may look Look and think Think and link Link and create And so it is That man created pipe The source of his urine as inspiration Well, so I think II Odomankoma the all knowing Did wisdom in all hid Thus herbalists looked Studied […]
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WHEN AKOSUA-KUMA CALLS
Even the most disciplined of famished cats Cannot be a meat security Neither can a hungry toothless dog Resist the temptation of licking a fresh bone Like cats, men sit in conundrum When “Akosua-kuma” calls II Let lions roar Signalling their return Into dens they occupy Minds intoxicated by “Akosua-kuma” Will hear them as bells […]
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WHEN A QUEEN FLEES
When a queen flees It is not for lack of wealth Her stool might be a hell of fire Though it digs jealousies in damsels Her crown might have pinning pins or thorning thorns Although it hunts greed in ladies Her robes might house termites Or soul’s small poxes, Even though it looks devine in […]
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THIS BRIDGE
There are those who fear beings In colours different than theirs As mice fear cats There are those who fear corpses Knowing it is a state unskippable As what the air receives without balance falls But there are those who bath corpses Thinking them mud II There are those who fear ghosts As rats fear […]
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THOUGHTFULLY STRANGE
If I were a Fulani begger With no future to chase With no desire to change I would take my womb To the tomb Never letting it taste any seed Let alone bear fruit II Why will I another create When the tree of begging lies in me? It takes shame to be lame It […]
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