If huge bodies are the only known for powers Great minds would never spend hundreds of years Looking for ways to battle tiny mosquitoes There is power Power in every living thing II If hard bodies are known for strength Huge trees would never show rope marks On their hard like frames There is strength […]
Rolling stones remain seen No matter the farthings of age Like stones, souls which roll Shed traces of life’s painful whips I know legs which take no strides shrink But those which do Make their reigning eyes proud And their beating hearts grateful in fulfillment Throwing stones for wakefulness sake Has no barriers As even […]
What is and what is not Are hidden in the cover of darkness A heart covereth well in determination for pride Some thoughts have no stairways for none So I stand blocked Looking into eyes with no known gates II His mouth does talk Into my bothered ears His voice so high Like a fearful […]
The owl claims it fears death So shuns daylight But shouts so loud in darkness Forgetting hunters are not deaf And also roam at night II The bat says it fears brutal death And hates ending up as a delicacy for the Kwahus But hangs on its legs On trees that even some children can […]
I have been deceived Deceived like an idiot thinking seas give fins To determined humans who use them as route But I should have known That although swans may give ambitions to fishes No fish must make the mistake of wanting to fly and swim like swans Lest dissapointments hit them like bullets from a […]
The world is a church A church which has welcomed all From the petty thief To the grand liar From the hungry pauper To the ambitious climber From the true worshippers To the hypocrites If the church is shaking silly And its winds are turning murderous Let’s empty our stomachs and kneel  As we pray […]
There really is a twitch To this notion of a witch There is a reason witch rhymes with rich When hardwork flies in hands Of those we deem less in capabilities We develop lenses to magnify their flaws Making goodness turn evil My oh my! There is a reason witch rhymes with rich So calm […]
I think I know there is a God But why do I mostly feel His rod? Does He not know it makes me bored To all his lack of helping hoard? How can He whip our linking chord And give me pain I can’t afford? When He really knows I have no sword And all […]
In this lonely cloth Are the fingers of cold The channels of heat of when I will be sold By the price tag society has placed On my determined mind II In this cloth Are thoughts playing pi lo loo Only without the happy giggles Shrivelling the grounds of peace III In this cloth Are […]
The ant that thinks to bomb its kind Forgets there exist danger which needs battalions What is the cause of murdering minds? What is the payment: Of sending souls Into the dark Of crocheting minds to think so dark Of mirroring deaths without a mark Of rearing dogs to hunt same dogs? Sad sad sad […]
You turned into the swaying shrubs Which stood at the mercy of the mastery air And waved so wild like a crying child At the debris of my speeding vehicular air II Sad they have no mouth as you To convey a message involving us two To clap in happiness or shout a boo At […]
My ears woke before my eyes In a night whose journey was neither here nor there Hoping to hear songs of beautiful-voiced birds Who sang to souls for eyes to search for their star selves Instead, they heard weak chirping complains Of a handfuls of pest-like sort of birds Accompanied by a feeble taunt Of […]
Suns have been pimped by light In courts of riches no matter how high Once upon a time Suns were the only eye leaders The only dry heaters And the only tools of light wherever So they were named after gods II None wanted to see suns frown “Of what use are frowning suns?” They […]
There is a weak voice Coming out of your lungs without choice Squeaking overwhelmingly like a mouse Which has found itself in a mad house But your love for me is highly aroused II. Your eyes tell it all Your pains through your fall Your confusions through my call Bottling in transparency, making you dull […]
I have a dream A dream to erase labelling With a thought eraser A dream to render all colourless With a fairy love charm for all colours I have a dream II I have a dream A dream to mash all weapons, Like colour inks, into words Words for discourse in misunderstandings To spare the […]
As the wise Asante studied The creative spider at work for shelter And wove the beautiful kente Which has become the Asantes pride I will study the rainbows of heaven And carve the most beautiful colours Study the brightest of suns And tap its light Study the most innocent of darkness And create for you […]
Once upon the time There were no claws to lazy rhyme All heeded the call of work in their prime And corruption gained nothing, not even a dime But now even steering banku has become a crime As dead foods do the fresh ones mime II Once upon a time Cotton flew and danced with […]
From all corners Strong arms throw problems Like they are in some form of javelin match Into the dumpster that I am Expecting me to wash them clean And return their dirts in gold forms Funny, how they bury my dreams In the trashes of their problems So much so, hands of God fail to […]
Cocks have combs Lions have manes Beings have beards Most have marks seen But all have marks unseen And almost all need their “weak” counterparts In order to save themselves from extinction But their strength breeds cruelty In the pots they need to eat None must be silly enough To bite the hands that do […]
Kwaku Amponsem is mad He is mad of a tag He claims makes him feel like a rag And so calls the taggers bad And is threatening to open an evidence bag In hopes of getting a tagger to gag And make a scape goat to honour his dad The tag? That he carries a […]
Oh eyes with laser twinkles Mouths with flapping tongues Ears ready to hear the sounds Of my heart’s eruptions I have one question Have you ever loved? II Have you ever loved? So hard like the balls of a mating bull? So wild like hell fire’s senior in a rage? Wider than the ends of […]
Good soil can grow the weakest seeds Amidst the threats of fearsome winds, Angry rains, Scorching suns, And cruel pests II Good seeds can be killed by bad soil Despite the help of the bounteous air, Gentle rains, Reasonable suns, And thoughtful pests III Farmers have influence but Can use all tricks in agricultural bibles […]
I see through the forest of no tree What I am and have always been An eagle born to fowls Fowls as cunning as Kwaku Ananse So have tied my legs with thick ropes of problems Causing… Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Many cry of ingratitude Many fight against some attitude Many push in fortitude Almost all forget That even corn on the cob Are never on a level The pest corns are prized The stronger either bowing to bowel spewings Or helping fire to stand An all fair world, I know, will be a tree of […]
Many are breath holders Many, like any, are death scared Whereas fowls clap for themselves In foot’s flights And birds prostitute on normal trees in average flights Eagles battle the skies for space Knowing their strength need fierceness of bravery In order to show Breath holders like vultures cheat the dead Cowardly are their generations […]
(I need to go away for a few weeks. Will hopefully come early next month. My body just needs some rest. Thanks to all followers of amoafowaa.com. Keep following, keep reading, blessings.) Deep within each pod of a heart Are fires and ice Are hopes and dreams Are fantasies and hallucinations Are love and hatred […]
I met Odikro in a storm Couldn’t really make out his form He kindly led me to my dorm After our bodies somehow thundered in our clingy uniforms II He took my number and always did call And rushed to catch my every fall But I did see Odikro’s racing heart ball And felt my […]
Imagine Nicki Minaj’s face Which goes at Beyonce’ pace In a skin like Yvonne Okoro’s in sun With a height like Naomi Campbell’s in chase Which goes with Joselyn Dumas’ shape With a head like Michelle Obama in mode attentive Which goes with Adwoa Sarfoa’s mind With a Nadia Buari like smile And eyes like […]
Whine as I shine Dine as I work in line The great palm tree That knows not its importance Dies with whipping clothed broom Which yearn to sweep the earth’s dirt Or help farmers carry things No matter its ungracious ending That same tree is bitten by palm worms Which yearn to live to be […]
Naked tortoise sat and watched As its shell-loss-pain hijacked his happiness And kidnapped all his will to live So Kwaku Ananse took his sad cue And looked for ways to own what tortoise wanted gone II Ananse wove a dubious plan Like skilled Bonwire fingers weaving kente And draped it on tortoise’s body Whose spirit […]
Mud, although unrespected Begets lotus which fragrances the world I call out to you I call out like a saving bell To you whose face is in the mud As your back is made the footmat of supposed worthy legs Rise, and know mud is the clot which begets beautiful pots Take my lead and […]
If legs had eyes Coupled with mouths With internal brains On their stem structure like heads They won’t act kings Always being carried There are many a places They would have boycotted And many a thorns Would have tongues Which would have never tasted their skins Oh many aches Out of long strides Would have […]
Jumpy fruits Juicy fruits Shapeful fruits Twin fruits All made by our awesome God II Fairly warm Although they have no known fires So firm Although they are mostly forced into things Like huge balls of fufu squeezed into small earthenwares III I’ve seen the ones who murder crosses I have seen the ones like […]
His road seem short But his legs tell tales of tiredness His unkempt hair Ruling and hiding his handsomeness Forcing his eyes to wear a mask of the mocked This tongue had to beckon After a great mind made him up Plantain chips in a huge bowl is his burden Day and night A burden […]
The bird whose nest Nestle in the palm of the mountainous tree Was forced to look down to painfully see How heartbreaking weak little birds lived After having such a one II And after her tears turned to determination She flew in hovering like a protective mother hen Surveying, praying, hoping for a good thought […]
After setting for so long The sun’s head is casting its shadows Showing its grand arrival Hoping hope sits in hearts for anticipation Instead of towel throwing II After setting for so long Its coming is palpable But its heat drains sweat needed for hydration The sun is a king wicked in absence Gracious in […]
Teachers bright, playful teaching, grooming, loving affable, honourable, difficult, scrutiny blessing, counselling, impacting win, lose tutors Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Sometimes your veil is too thick Too thick to brand eyes impotent in sighting Oh love! II Sometimes your faith is too fierce Too fierce to think it can conquer all bad Oh love! III Sometimes your voice is like an angry thunder Too loud that ears behave like cut nails Useless and careless! Oh […]
What do you do? When mouths quiver After eyes and minds inform them of your presence II How do you live? When you fall into the perfect line of societal uglyhood Do you get scared When you see frightened eyes And find your image in the mirrors if their eyes? III Do you own a […]
Like a chick without mother hen Struggling to peck at anything I came accross that cool one A god uncle like gold One who took me in And cared at any of our time crossings Never minding what I needed Never caring how embarrasing getting that for me could be Never caring what tongues could […]
An eye flash And I feel like part a star, part trash Eyes are harsh Those who are in a rush And those ready to bash Those needing to stash And those showing their cash Ah! There are those who got missing in a flash My mind gives me a lash Chai! particular hands show […]
God is not a 419 Nigerian To cook sand into singletons And send to eyes of the helpless To plant and bear tear fruits So as to steal a thing of a pained blind II He who plants tears Havests tears even without eyelids or cheeks Even repentance is like a heated rod In a […]
When seas beget shells Some sands’ fear of capturing Flies care abroad Sands’ prayers call for legs To bury their threat Forgetting they will be the coffins Balls on walls deflect Minds mostly forget Sad Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Chorus Teaching Is enlightening Is Loving Is cariiiiiiiiiiing It is giving for giving In liviiiiiiing It is life in entirety  I I know God is a teacher He is a teacher who produces great teachers Great teachers to let his world be explored and known So all those who step into his shoes Are […]
People pray like pawns Preying on paupers like pests Picking peppers and pocketing peace Pieces like prints put in pairs Show swines sweeping their slimes on saints Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015Â
When ashes travel down south And charcoals get missing All we can hear are stored words of the mouth As breaths go missing Like grasses stepped on by elephants Time steps on us with its weight And we fade like fake paints On the wall of the earth Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia
Life is like a string rope And we are like a group of masked ant circus On its slim grounds No matter how many hands hold When the dew-drop of death selects The hold becomes meaningless As it cages in a lone space II Tears are no life revivers in the fallen Hurts are no […]
Here and now Cut the throat of all ailing And let’s see to their deaths And take off all their feathers Cut them into pieces And throw them to the dogs After burning all that was taken So as to ensure we never see their pestering selves In the future meant for us II Here […]
He who knows the story Knows how to celebrate for his glory Once, a prophet Ibrahim Was ordered by Allah To sacrifice his son Who was known as Ismaeel For He; Allah’s pleasure Ismaeel was Prophet Ibrahim’s treasure Whom none could measure But he heeded the call of Allah And Allah too ended his trials […]
A Bet Created in a cave unknown to sun Dances and hops like an antelope Expecting to find its God Fearing not its God’s heartbreaks Gathering speed while being chased Hurdling its moulders Inviting panic in their home direction Just in time it finds the sun Kola nut’s royalty prevents it not from browning teeth […]
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