There is a Pan African anger Which has created many an avenger So much they want a changer With one body, they work like a fate arranger They curse the foreign endanger And say their faith is our freedom exchanger And our old gods imprisoned for their baby in the manger Who is a complete […]
I have never seen a being Walking proudly on a head Well, not physically And I pray I get no eyes to see the spirits In their special motions II Never have I seen fish nets Arresting little fishes As huge ones slip through Like huge clothes being skilfully discarded … Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
When right frights take flight Bright heights fly like kites Great mights see nights and know plights As their unrights fly in sight seeking to be upright Causing stomachs some tights Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Picture credit: Google images)
Lying cool under the shaded sky Like the almost dead who knows no pain It gives no clue as to what is new Until the sky sends its tears by Not only are her eyes detected Her hands and legs kick As their complaints are heard from far Oh what can happens When tranquil waters […]
Eno Adwoa-Okua Please cross the ancestral line And put your sleepy buttocks On my shocked seat And listen I am so interested in what you will have to say to this one II An Adam claims I am his Eve Says something about dancing in front of the naked skies Drinking the virgin dew of […]
When harmattan strikes Most trees are barbered As seas stand still As though their god’s national anthem Is playing through a Sharia law-microphone with hidden cameras II When harmattan strikes Ovaries of trees are cleared for fertility As their foetuses battle For the waters of life In order to live their seasons Caring not about […]
She was beautiful at birth Plumpy to perfection With promissory juice And was as fresh as the morning dew Then it caught its owner’s eye He searched frantically for its DNA Which required he peeled her So he peeled And peeled And peeled And peeled Until it reached the bottom of its lifespan There was […]
God Please don’t be bored This chest does many questions hoard It is just time they show on your board II What do you prefer? Hymns like tall airs forcing deep roots to tap And heads of tall grasses to sway? IIb Or praise songs monster-gangster-like With clap like Satanic palms Slapping the cheeks of […]
Tables and couple chairs Host couples behaving like fake old clothes posing as new II Other couples truly bask in the shores of love Knowing not the sharks and snakes awaiting in the deep waters Waiting to give them a chase III Faces of the young feeding fat on pockets of orangutans Hide under gargantuan […]
Love is the string Stuck is the ring Patience is the king And listening is the ding Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding II Anger makes a fling Partners make a sling Trust is the wing And helps for love to sing Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding III Ding dong ding dong […]
They arrived made like electric Their touches proved to be eccentric But scored him a hat trick In a game whose thread I held to trick Flowers and words II Like unseen snakes They evaporated in my pores Like powerful rakes They gathered love to be stored Like powerful waves they whispered Sending shivers with […]
We were content With Santo and the Mfantsi vocals In hilarious moral satires on screens They weren’t coloured Neither were they classy But they gave us “us” at our horribles and bests Until Acapulco Bay sailed in Sweeping almost all off our feet As carefully chosen faces displayed the fantasies of all Most ladies conceived […]
We can never know The pure prayers of whimpering crickets No matter the force behind their voices II Like paintings with no colorful inks We can never know The real colours of clothes Worn by our forefathers As they stood to pose for the cameras Only glad to leave their images, no matter how bleak, […]
We are like different trees On this planet earth Each family like a tree with one stem With same but dynamic branches Which have different same but different sized leaves Leaves which house and protect same but different fruits Fruits with same but different seeds Seeds with different destinies Some given chances to relive Others […]
In the whims of the torturous wind Was I, a little leaf Onto the doors of your masters You looked and found a stem And got a flower pot For this random leaf Watering after getting the permission of your masters As I grew, you were there like ghost Unseen but always a feeling to […]
The airs of the piper Have no authority They flow at the command of the tune payer Giving power when power is needed Giving sadness when requested Going at the pace of dancing feet Who show their gladness by moving I know all that But the piper can turn tune payer After working like a […]
As you crow One calling, others responding Know hearts are different And there exist the unfortunate As the fortunate bounces around II There are fears like a little soft cotton wool Lying gently without your air like crows Now you blow and they wake Rudely whisked to the unknown Stirring pots of bravery like “banku […]
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is for the thorn nest That turned midwife to my royal thoughts II Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is for the many broken and weak birds I came to find And those who came to meet my caring gaze III Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggg This is for the tiresome years I built a safe nest Which tore under our […]
I see lines Lines parrallel Lines horizontal Lines creating shed-like boxes To hold other characters like mothers hold their babies Few arcs bend like willing prostitutes As other strikes act like working spears Crossing to mate like goats in the midst of their young What about the little strikes hiding like babies on the backs […]
Walking into the secrecy of minds Locked deep in wishdom I met yearnings of many kinds Hidden deep in needdom With huge parcels in binds Hoping for God’s grantdom As shy nails shout of their fears for giving ways II Minds who need partners occasionally sit and stare keenly Into the eyes of preachers Shouting […]
Oh if I had wings of an eagle I would fly like the king of the sky Loving all to submission Protecting the weak Pecking the proud Honouring the swift And feasting on the notorious II Oh if I had wings of the dove I would rid the sky from demons and ills And order […]
Like a sheep grazing a green field Like a lion fishing through much antelope meat Like hawks in the midst of wingless fowls Like a saint sitting on thoughts of God Minds wish for slates of perfect abundance With no thoughts of who gets hurts From grass to fowls All know feelings of pain Who […]
As to why the hen Acts not like the eagle In feeding its young I have not the faintest idea II Could it be that Eagles are too strong so take on the search? If so, then how come hens hatch more? Isn’t hatching difficult? But even I must admit the strength of eagles’ wings […]
When I wore spectacles of innocence And wore the clothes of fancy daydreams When I walked the grounds seeking swift knights And had the smile of complete trust When I walked in authority Thinking dreams could be commanded When I had the shape of a perfect heart And had a mind untainted by bitter experiences […]
Whispers of passions Like voices of seductive airs Roam the streets charming II With gifts and curses Snaking like brown snakes in brown leaves Confusing their caught III Electrifying Are kisses known to be greetings Minds lose their thought zones IV Whether gifts of breath Or future centre shame Most actions, though lame, can’t be […]
Shadows Why do you show your true height When darkness falls And faint light glows like a candle in the wind? II Shadows Do you have a fear For the high priest called sun? So much To measure up in height when he sits on his throne? III Shadows Appearing left, right, back and front […]
(As part of the World AIDS Day, I present to this piece) Pure pleasure puns perfect pains Strange silliness, like several served syringes With holes unsealed, Drain blood of importance The calabash keeps, That’s what is so attractive about it So spillage can be pardoned But smart hands that value their liquid Seek sky protection […]
When I ‘broke my hand’ And sought a band Nana and Maame met in a band To sing tribal tunes II They started by singing of Ewes And how they are named after an animal And raised their vocals like daunting pianists To sing tales of the wickedness of the animal tribe Their love for […]
I will need what needs to be needed Not what should be wanted I will love what needs to be loved Not what should be liked Needing a want Is killing a need Loving a like Is like killing a love Even in breathers Needing one who should be wanted Is like selling your soul […]
There are many animals In this jungle called life And their minds are like varied poles Each and its facial path Whereas dogs think humans God Cocks worship dawn in all earnest As horses carry humans as their masters Goats see no reason to respect their killers But are not as hostile as lions The […]
No matter its dancing Many birds keep prancing Most insects keep hovering Their facial thoughts expressing II No matter its worth All they seek is the nectar No matter its colour None cares to look, or see or know III Breaking its gate and getting the nectar Destroying its leaves and getting the factor Reaching […]
Stored So bored Many hoard Oh Most High God! Life must fun accord Like dust, blend with sand Mouths can no laughter afford Hearts await hideous painful blasts Setting ears, like guards, on watchful gates Please delete danger, make the baits playful Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Images from Google pics)
Please don’t cast me In your burdened script For you are like Shakespeare Whose pen hoards many a tragedy II I don’t want to be in your cast Please don’t make me The bat knows its ugliness So operates only at night Minds keeping videos of my sorrowful stardom Is what I hate most in […]
Let’s get this dance And shame the dunce Who wants a chance To our pain enhance Oh dear sweet romance Let’s take that stance And so advance Like the god of elegance It is a good ambience One that anger must not trespass and given chance To over-reaction enhance Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Woe Onto Men       Engaged in    Naught Like seeds forming trees before fruits Which then give back seeds, nothing comes easy Like leaves swaying their heads, not all is breezy Sponge needs to work with soap and water In order to be freed from the thick claws of […]
When two hearts do make sounds They know they have truly found And their blend will truly hound Those who seek for them crude mounds II When two hearts make the beat There is nothing like defeat On wheel of love, each has a seat As sparkles form when their efforts meet III When two […]
No matter the weakness of a graceful flower It receives the blows of rain As it does sun which makes it visible To its audience It even embraces the winds No matter how strong Knowing it will be stronger if it succeeds And if it is lucky distribute its seeds to some fertile land Being […]
The grey hairs of the earth Must be as white as snow Not a moment passes without an action on its head In its belly And possibly beneath its feet Living things run shifts to act like they own earth Who also behaves like a dog serving its masters Only to break bones like a […]
Brute brows bow Before bitterness Bursting for businesses bestowed By babel of baboons Burning like bacchanalian bacons Breaking backgrounds of backlit blessings Becoming blowers of backlash bubbles Backwardness backstage become baseless Based on banality of bitterness Butterflies become beasts Beauties burn Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Some on the grounds of my mountain See me as the volcanoe none must dare to be near While others see me as the lucky soul In the spotlight of the magnanimous sun Those on other parts of my mountain top See me as a soul free and wild While those with eyes of hawks […]
Pain Insane, weary Feeling, worrying, fighting Hate, prayers, thoughts, dreams Uplifting, preparing, confusing Blue, pink Hurts Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Mighty and great art thou who thought Of the many hurdles beings will battle in lot And caused the sky to close its eyes To massage out some heat and ease the sighs II Now I take off my worry robe On this small bed in your creative globe Hoping to shed anticipation And wake […]
As the skies close their eyes to de-stress Squeeze out, like water in a cloth, the stress Making sure nothing poses a threat, not even a dress Just as sun mates the moon to beget stars, Â do me bless If only the seas had mouths, they would confess How the waves thrust and press With […]
Who did wean Me from the nipples of innocence? That being is mean For ripping my happy confidence Those days when sand was rice And mud was banku Those days when dust was rain And even urine was water so pure Those days when rainbow was the keeper of all that were golden And thunders […]
You seem like my negative When I am draped in postive And you are like my positive When I am immersed in negation What is this force pulling us like strings on puppets? What at all is this electrification so magnified? At this rate, none dares to touch Who will dare? Breathes are too potent […]
I know mouths of my land are like machine guns Digging bullets of the past Putting them in golden throat guns Soiling voices meant for firing monsters And firing through Gunning for hardworkers And yelling into international microphones Their unfortunate past Seeking sucking sympathies While real works stare our faces Like infants needing their parents’ […]
There are new shoots begging to see the world Airs are ringing bells For leaves to leave their creators And follow the air to the land of their birth Or other lands for fertility Like all, the earth partners great trees Shedding breaths long overdue To make way for the new So creation is like […]
On the head of the land I dwell Knowing its stomach is my resting place But the appealing skies Beckon for me to have a taste Before I sink into the mouth of the earth And taste its teeth and be moulded into its belly thing But the flies I see on this ground Are […]
In You I have a shelter A shelter for my woes When all those spears do filter Filter from my foes You have the skin to counter To counter and heal my lows In the army of disaster Disaster with many bows You melt for me all arrows Which like planes in air do row […]
Maame Yaa! Wake up please Maame Yaa ei!!! Wake up Wake o! Wake and look at the professors of supposed servings Look at them seeking to butcher themselves Just because they, like servants, want to make the poor royals Just open an eye And look at how humans are madr goats ob paper Substituting heads […]
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