After being wooed She soon swooned Opening up for a palpable wound Then her raised eyes lowered Her pride got showered And washed into the mud The hidden flower in the bud That all sought Appeared briefly to greet her lord Taking a toll she could not afford All against her own accord Until her […]
I am a daughter carved half from prized stone Onto the crowned seat of Kwahu-Abetifi And carved partly from silver Akyem Brenase blood being my donor My first elder sister is married to a Wassanian The second an Ashanti My son has an Ewe blood My second younger brother Loving a Ga My God mother […]
A smiling sword mostly Holds bitter bitterness Which develops sharp edges in the dark To take hearts from its enclavic back Hearts which warms up to them II Match eyes with mouths Ears with hands Shadows with backturns Scribbling and dribbling not neighbours The mind lives on the storey building The legs being its palanquin […]
Death is like a school The many that pass through Are like the many admitted The students complain Like dried leaves under feet Yet take it all The punishments and sleepless nights Sitting for examinations Passing or failing to fall Leaving a replaceable space The only killer of death known now Is birth If birth […]
When the heart chooses Foul air turns life saving Harsh words burn like acid in pleasing works Only for a second And calms like balm for its initial sores II When the heart chooses Crowns are eye made On bald and crooked heads Making ugly relative As monkeys turn angels with fine light And beautiful […]
Legs of iron Walk through this hell Into the snow Beneath which lie The thieves who stole our innocence Revived and lured out our dead-in-buried-slavery Like zoo guards do fierce lions II I will wish to light them a fire Which will burn into desire And will blast into their attires And turn hellish fires […]
When the gates of my eyes Failed the bait of darkness And stood ajar Like a third leg mad man in attentive glory I knew the legs of the night Would go at a snail’s pace Tik…tok….tik…..tok II The balls which needed to be hidden The bigger colours which needed to rest The lens which […]
How now wows calls for vows How now bows calls for yaws Clean like a nightingale But live like a vulture Work like a bull Live like worm Sit like a gluttonous pest Live like a king Knowing big seats Makes you all defeat Cruelty laughs at piety Lies threaten candidness The world tears up […]
Tell me Tell me what is in your heart I have no eye with laser readings And I am no eagle in high flight To see your all from the top II Tell me Tell me what is in your heart I have no smell with inferences Not like a trained dog on problemed field […]
My mother’s mother’s mothers Were like dogs Trained to serve even on stepped nerves Tamed to submit even when pain emit Taught to shadow Even in the brightest light Ordained to please no matter their horrid tease What can I do to their souls appease? II Like dogs Some got good owners And lived well […]
Flaws Crawl like cowardly spiders In hidden tears Shielded by pride II It flows to the brim And cause all that is dim Making tongues sour like the tree of nim And like an old sim Feeding all new phones to have vims Defying all that is proper and prim III Knowledge is power So […]
Asamando adwen kesefo Monsore!! Monsore!!! The world drifts from the main Into a fake Mains are free to live To rot Into death While their abstracts stay intact Clumsily trying to work for them But what can work without a soul? II Put on your ear aid Rest your buttom on a comfortable seat And […]
When my heaven in daylight turns to hell Calling to keep a countenance none can tell I always yearn to recoil into my shell Like a tortoise in danger smell II Oh how I wish there was a bell To help me skip any problem cell So none can say “she fell” And carry me […]
What do you see? Birds in flight with different wings? Different sizes of animals On all fours living as they please? Those struggling on twos And those sailing with wings? Rivers screaming for seas? Clouds clutching on skies? Airs roaming Invisibly aimlessly Touching with no fingerprints? Look Look hard Tell what you see Think the […]
Where were you? When cold threw shivers And tears on my fragile body And boxed me like Azumah in his boxing fury? II Where were you? When scarce waters Were woken from deep pots And made to flow into gutters Like unneeded waters from a washed colander? III Where were you? When the gates of […]
Bad morning greets in hollowed caves Thinking aloud its knighty saves Fantasizing itself as Biblical Daves But none seems to work as none helps paves II It is the lack of saviours That calls for its misbehaviors If the bad is released And its curses seize Whatever wrong it writes Will erase itself Tearing through […]
Lord I need For you to breed My inner seed In your kind deed II I need to feed So I try to weed And try to heed But I flaw my creed III Free my mind Free my soul Free my body To sour like your dove When I fall in the mud I […]
The sinking sun rays The sad melodies of nightingales Wake owls with crowns of dreams Waking bats with thoughts of mischief II The dark will bark And mark my lack The yearns will bite And take my light Fears will guard And brand me bad As the night climbs mountains To get me through dawn […]
Why did we not get rods? Why did we not get skies? Why did we not get water To easily slip and hide in the land? II Why did we not get moons? Why did we not get stars? Why did we not get airs To escape when enemies chase? III You gave us lands […]
We have crossed Crossed the rubicon And can never get a head To dream of change Change which can alter positively II We have, like gluttons, dined Dined with the undinables Food whose stench can never be removed Let alone hidden from its seekers Who have the light to chase We who have no light […]
I don’t want to be a land I want to be a tree No matter how deeply rooted I will stand firm With branch-like hands Waving my leaf- like fingers None will step on me into mud None will dig into me None will wash away my skin None can blast my stone like bones […]
As to how it got quenched I cannot tell Except that like a vulcano Overtaken by a rebellious tsunami I woke up bruised At the shores of love When I had barely paddled to the count of ten On its sea II Wet grounds Wet woods All dry matches watch Marking abominable my territory Taking […]
Verily verily, I say unto you All that is bitter Great and disappointing In this wide world Never fails in blame of All little holes down women’s south II Vying to soar like eagles Altering fates to appear like perfect frames Giving out like Father Christmas on a big win Initiating rights to act like […]
Love made her his dog When he was himself a frog Tied to a log So her running turned into a jog Her big frame Insulting her state Like a queen with her crown With a fool tag like a clown Teeth showcase themselves in her honour For the fun of it When it is […]
What is the difference between much and none? In the much How is the rush? In the none How is the crash? II Many are the laughters of the much Like sugar and ants Many are the odours of the none Like a dead being rotting in leaves III Eyes in goggles of deceit Break […]
Just a glance At an entrance And it fell into a trance Never asking for a chance To get enchanted Are you a dog on climbing duty? II Agya Waadwo! So I met a goat on heat It failed to bleat And chased on three feet Hoping to me cheat Me, that bloody future meat!!! […]
In every soul Is a bowl of role Which needs to be filled Like a chimney needing coal Once sluggishness poles Hits abound And just like hairs in the way Combs uproot or slash Leaving them dead within No matter how long They, among the living live A thorough combing is all it takes To […]
There is a God There is a God who started it all Created all the chords And made the call For harmony For a wheel Which births to shed II There is a God The one who saw all firsts Every shoot has a root Every root has a seed or stem Which births it […]
The womb of the earth Births them all Flowers Trees Crops Weeds Herbs II Why would one womb Birth them all with such variations and roles? Do flowers love being flowers? Trees being trees? Crops being crops? Weeds being weeds? Herbs being herbs? III Flowers complain of being used Their beauty for pleasure Their nectar […]
Mouths of trees Are their roots They roam in the earth And search to feed To keep the standing bodies Fresh and strong But no eye does see Their tiresome toil Unless erosion washes Hands dig Then their dirty selves are seen Their elimination is the upper fall And death to all Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Tough in resolve Skin that radiates life Muscles that call for glory of birth Born protectors Strength fit for trained kings II Men of black soil They never coil And if they boil They really toil For they know the soil III From Ghana To Nigeria The Gambias To Kenya Any blackness with muscles Is […]
Who needs not the tenderings When sickness enters doors of strength Like an unwanted visitor? What about uncertainties spitting on emotions And messing with minds? II Who needs not the magic touch When accidents hit bodies Like thorned cane which is blood famished And skin-craved? III A good nurse Is a good cash In the […]
Hope not for stillness There will come a time When tables will have more attention than you They will be moved Made to carry Turned to rest While the earth keeps still With you in its belly II Hope not for stillness As your ears hear the cocks crow Hear the sounds of happy birds […]
These crazy thoughts travelled And have come on extensive visits In pencilled heels Walking on the noisy tiles of my mind What will I lack? If I heap these suckers Into tiny holders like an attractive stall And cut low these clothes To show this flat flowery haired stomach Making saliva scarce in the mouths […]
Wells are dug from up the pregnant earth Until gravels are thrown out Then frogs flee to croak Whiskers of rats hide to rise In corners marked with axe Strength of muscles show In layered rocks Forcing broadness for better views The beauty of its sweats, colourful Digging continues Until waters fill sacks of life […]
Who sees now? The needs unsatisfied The yearnings unqualified The places I’m stupified Who sees now? Who sees now? II Let the world turn And take me to a higher realm Where a little brightness lurks The hidden families will surface The unseen demands will roar The naked love will kneel Stooges of needs will […]
Listen! Sweet scented gums of today Your parceling is cool Your taste is sweet Beware of teeth of grinders II When they get you They will strap you naked Prepare their tongues In their horrid holes And put you in between their monstrous teeth III They will chew and chew Chew and chew Like grinding […]
If the sky had no earth It wouldn’t need the sun to shine Nor the moon to brighten Nor darkness to necessitate invention of light Mamas!!! You are the earth Which take what the sky gives And work to make them worthy For recycling To keep creation going II Like swans you love to shine […]
Oh what feathers on that meat What beak it rocks What comb it flags What legs it models Whatever lies beneath those feathers Are like future chewables Calling hidden saliva To assemble on tongue grounds Its foundation structures like unbreakables Waiting to be subdued by teeth grinders Whatever occasion will call for this Will be […]
She will let it slide And nurse her pride For she has nothing to hide You took her on a backstabbing ride Calling her your bride Thinking you will gain her breath guide And she will never know you lied And be the chick at the side You, whose belly holds all sea tides As […]
I need you to know The difference between a doll And a living being An eagle and an alligator A picture and the painter And the earth and its holder A rich dude can’t compete with a ‘preman ni’ You stand in dresses I wear them You zombie your walk I rock it You fake […]
When flowers bloom Many groom to be grooms Working their magics To get their nectars II Only few seriously need And dedicate themselves to a flower Hoping to water into fruition Hoping their fruits ripe to feed For their seedlings to continue its cycle III Many hover to steal With no water to nurse for […]
When you see guinea fowls whispering Hiding the pitchy voices they use in irritation Know they are cooking an abominable meal Using the absence of an unsuspecting As their ingredients To throw at them indirectly Through the most cruel of ways After all animals in the kingdom Have tasted its bitterness II When you see […]
That I am a feminist Does not make me a porcupine Shooting at anyone or anything When I feel threatened Afterall cuddling moves the heart to work In satisfaction and hope II That I am a feminist Makes me no violent hen Pecking and chasing Just because I can The fact that I am treated […]
Like fowls we roost Hoping to get hold of our breaths To hold the reins of life The Mythical Being as our watch How we wander In light death In worlds known only as dreams How we hail Fight Kill And live In still bodies Clap for creation That I have another pass Is the […]
Come Let hands touch hands If sparks flow Let them worry about their lightening As we enjoy their shine Dancing to the whispers of the air Exploring the contours of our bodies in our minds Fishing for golden information From the seas of our eyes II Come I’ve made a pact with the sky Who […]
Whoever best fits the crown of hypocrisy Must best answer in awareness And not in disgust And end this difficult conundrum Our mouths scream hatred Hatred for even those who are trying To remedy the ills of their ancestors While bitterness sits in our hearts Like complacent royals II We cry ‘we aren’t like them’ […]
Sneaking to take Forcing to break Risking the stakes Is nothing for boasting A break of sweats With no soul’s hurt Movements of hands Meant to honestly feed Panting of breath Chasing care Are like blessings from above No work is blow down Honesty is all it takes To pass the candidacy of May 1 […]
There are times machetes come to slay On screens of our mind’s play Reminding me that I am just clay A fallible thing who must always clear the day Yet look like the sun which is gay While cutting my living hay And fearing being in enemies’ slay II Who are my enemies? Are they […]
A step And another to rep A clap And a thigh to slap A shake It doesn’t matter how fake Drive the dance Ignore tongues of the dunce And give happiness a chance II So step to rep Clap to slap Shake to take And jumpily jump To give the heart some flutters Amoafowaa Sefa […]
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