It is that time That time that monkeys can turn fairies Aided by the sharp hands of knives Body masons mix their mortars Cutting parts of those built by God And transferring it in pasting, onto other parts Sometimes injecting bodies like corpses Hoping to build mounds around areas apt for dancing Draining parts to […]
When Time’s legs were short And most technological gadgets were in the scrotums of male minds Except for a little cold to fear Occasional clouds were pampered to fall II As legs melted And hearts, like the softest of tuo zaafi yearned As holier hearts melted like shea butter in plea Clouds yielded And visited […]
Maybe you were too forward in your approaches Maybe you were born with ideas too “future-ristic” Maybe you were too over zealous in your quest for the best Maybe you hoped for far too much But your works remain a legacy II You were rains on the raging fires of colonialism You were a power […]
It’s all coming back Raining like stones being intentionally thrown From the heavens by our maker When he burned my arms As those in green passed Those in brown relaxed And those in white hid II His tears caught no attention His hurts struck no sympathy chord but mine My tears flowed like fountains Going […]
When the cage of colonialism caught Africa And the whips of inferiorism caught black minds Some wrestled with their fists Others bickered like rivals of foolishness Some hid like lions with their tails in between their legs Oh some worshipped hoping to break free You stood like mountains with minds they sold And developed muscles […]
When the winds of evil blow at night And snakes of deception throw them light As thunders of death hide in death’s flight Like kola nut pickers with great great might Protect us, and make living our right II When the devil turn crocodile and needs to pick Fowls in the night and make humans’ […]
Like glass houses Which encourages stone throwers They ask young flowers To use their nectar To attract insects Who have dedicated trees They feed and rest Forgetting they have pests who hawk When they are busy advising Calling on flowers to share their nectar If all fem heads could think alike Shunning all taken And […]
Ugly shadows cast On the fairest of angel Deceiving watchers prayful As he trains beautiful beings To swerve them  like idiots II Cool winds blow over To the praying mantis’ Who look out for hot Fanning their eyes to sleep well Using their curses for them III Brightened shadows show Attracted worshippers kneel Loving the […]
The smiling sun can dry And it can also heat to harm II Angry rains can grow some plants And it can destroy many and drown beings III None can live without air But its seniors destroy and kill many living IV Even the moon does lead in darkness But serves as eyes for murderers […]
 Like snow tainted with mud She sits in indulgence Allowing religion to cuff her like a soldier gone bad Letting society push her into second place As her conscience whips With canes of guilt Time has licked some of her wounds So in denial, she accepts Thinking her cool self will calm her opponent But […]
Nothing can hide Our joy in ride Oh nothing can hide Our smiles so wide Not even clothes Can aid our foes Let us dance naked Dance to the sweet melodies of fireflies let us dance naked With our photographers as the moon and stars Even mosquitoes will only add To our melodies in harmony […]
Like an ‘akuaba’ feeling static in beauty Hoping from stage to stage feeling supreme Testing all the best there is in skin creme She used her nectar to taunt and haunt Now Rakia sits in thoughts when ageing scent becomes palpable She now sees what she was Plantain which greened and is now riping Ringing […]
Her face is pale Her breast has turned stale No great air for her weak children to inhale All her knights have decided not to bail Her strong children, like brainless goats, fail As all her fishes are turned into “koobi and momoni” Cooked and fried, others will eat, love, breathe and exhale II A […]
Their eyes can’t see Without developing legs To rush to their tongues To make so much noise To open the gates of their mouths To bless or curse other ears Munafiki, shame on you! II Like drums destroyed News trickle through their ears And flow loudest through their mouths Like they hoard megaphones in their […]
Like fishes choked by water Like birds choked by air Like trees choked by the earth Noses choke by air of life How noses fight air Thinking to win, beats imagination Who fights the earth on which he stands? No matter how carnivorous earth seems Who can fight and live on it? We are cows […]
Many sit with their news on their laps Some sit with their youngsters by their sides Like a human with cow horns All eyes turn to me and mine As he jumps like an antelope Neighs like a horse Shakes like a buffalo And runs like a Bolt on weeds I am the only being […]
He sows spirits into body clothes And leaves the seams bare Every step undo a thread Until the bodies’ clothes fall As the spirits develop wings And fly in myth To the unknown Of course a huge bump scatters all threads And so does huge cuts and hits As other factors melt or burn the […]
Beauty lives in eyes which stand Never in closed eyes Amedzofe is a beautiful lady Her curves show supreme As her hairs are woven In beautifully strong trees Sweeping the very grounds she walks A snake must be feared but can be beautiful Snake of a road lies in her bosom As stones arrange in […]
Dazed by the loudness Loudness like the deafening rain Current songs battle the old Black girls with fake blushing cheeks And short shorts show As boys to men show dressed in mosquito nets Drinks abound From “apio” to energizer Chewers of mouths parade Dancers with no moves parade Humans like ants follow One after one […]
Tears flood Flood hearts of earth sustainers Making their breathing herculian As most men hide behind the curtains of feminism Shedding clothes of responsibility Any cry for help And the curtains’ waves slap With hot irons of “women can do better” Feminine mouths in confidence Are dubbed chants of witchcraft Like a war of ego […]
Eyes wake facial beings Ears look, stand and gape Mouth opens slightly, smiles and renders tongue naked Cheeks roll in fists Nose just smells the happiness As stars bath naked In the fenceless sky II Which soap sparkles so? As to light and show On kings in a fenceless sky? Could it be some sparkling […]
I stand a sinner Chasing thoughts making me thinner Racing heart causing me breakage As unknown tomorrows sing me songs II I don’t know I don’t know if the heads white leaves Will showcase me tomorrow Still two handed instead of three III I don’t know I don’t know if this mud’s wrinkles Will showcase […]
When plants are in complexion green Their colour does make them mean And like peacocks, their feathered leaves Raise their shoulders to taunt Shaping their strong spines to flaunt Making brownly-attacked sicklers peeve As they cry at the haunt II They buly the air And dance with winds Daring Tsunamis to come like angry waves […]
Sun, you have a day And your day wears the most pious clothes In the whole wide world II Sun, your clothes are sinless And they sparkle like you As they turn most sinners Into hypocritical hollies III Sun, may I ask a thing? You sure aren’t without sin Are you? Because you shine And […]
You were to me the golden goose That laid my golden happiness And made sure I sparkled, even in heat But one knows not what awaits If the hands are freed to search No matter how precious something is, Once left to go It dissipates into nothing So I set you to sail From the […]
Like a gentle flower, He made his way through my highway In speed Crying for the usual jubilation So small, raising questions of his being And he made all happy Never knew he was to face hurdles gargantuan In his easily countable stay Boxing sicknesses Wrestling illnesses Damaging unwelness And the flower churned He so […]
Some men are like cockerels They praise “Your beauty! Kokrokoo kooo” Loving the rays which help them shine But always work for their stomachs only Still wanting coolers to burn their heats When their fires spark II Some men are like parrots Chirping in gossiping Living with no shame Kissing and telling and hurting and […]
I’d like to see God as a playful father One who loves for me to do my desire And warns when He sees that there is fire If I hear not, burns bring Him running II I’d like to see God as that loving father Who knows my faults and my strong hold And knows […]
Stitching skins Fixing bones Like one with God’s hands She lives like sickness’ feared zone None dares to look for any ills In her body territory But sicknesses know the saying A cat is best suited For the safekeeping of meat So what she healed Crawled like dying snakes Into her being and gained strength […]
When I told God I was emotionally broke He let me your view poke I told the Almighty He was on ‘coke’ Because I looked at the gentle you And so no equation to work us two Then I thought of Satan’s hound And thought he had me bound So I sought a rhyme I […]
They sit like wrinkled elders Staring into their coffins Mouths whose hands steer shout “Sagnerigu! Dungu! Kpalsi!” II A look at their bodies And hearts feel their failing heartbeats Bodies need to beware Lest their bones cut for revenge For their peeled skins On their tired chairs Show their shy nakedness But backs care not […]
Drums, engines Receptive, rebellious, forceful, first Loving, hating, regretting Beats, hurts, remorse, sad Quitting, apologising, retaining Freedom, bitterness Human Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Thoughts of childhood swim in limited freedom Thinking money, food love give happiness in this lifedom As time flirts with growth And conceives maturity through experiences We get to know There is no freedom in breath II Plants dance with the air But most breathers live on their deaths Trees bear weight Their skins pealed […]
We were like flowing rivers Free Worshipping through nature Matters of guns, bombs and brutal killings were rare Until our arms embraced Our minds did lace Our traditions turned mud And washed ashore Alien worshippings II Did we not know That their teeth will one day seek blood? Did we not know That their thoughts […]
Problems, like raw yams, Itch tongues Urging them to roll Like red carpets Aiming for knights to come through Shut the mouth tight And lock it in For ears abound Hovering to make fun forever With you on your painful problem stage II Problems like chopping onions Sting the eyes Forcing them to cry in […]
As goats’ fur hide their sweat And hens’ droppings Hide their urine Fishes’ tears drown in rivers and seas Swimming is attractive But permanent livers live suffocated As none sees their distress None feels their fears As they drown in their loving waters Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I whine and whine In lines and out-lines Shouting burning brimes Shouting bitter limes Shouting no time Shouting no dime As though You are in crime But You weave my success quietly like You in mime II I am not perfect Tiredness and fear soil chances of me being perfect But You show me respect […]
Minds sleeping Waste of lives Arms folded Bothers to chest or laps or hips Legs static Waste in mobility Rolling stones gather moss But their hardwork help them to clean Sayings is salt Too much of it Makes edibles not tastable So I rest thinking you sage Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
A branch falls from the sky And hearts rush into the mouth Rats roam for food And hearts rush onto fear horses And gallop like hell gates call for entry Songs of nightingales have turned aborminants For they are deemed allies Of faceless hands Who hurt and seize Or murder to own Even shadows of […]
A folded wonder In a living wonder Like a beautiful seed In a beautiful flower Breathes and coils Kicks and stretches Bloating up to help touch down II It is a wonder With many future wonders Blocking or fulfilling dreams with its dreams Causing a discomfort, generating anxiety Creating anticipation A space for a new […]
Stores of feeds Destroyer of seeds Sweats of beads Gluttonic deeds Like a pregnant fish out on the lands II Bloating of tummy They tell of signs of riches. Pain of an army! Oh! What? Blimey! Sure looks so ‘harmy’ Like a pregnant whale out on the lands III A beer  washing fufu and potatoes […]
Alaha lives like a bush cowboy But dopes a suit like a banker “boi” To go after one who can employ All because he needs a sweetened girl, “boi” But that is so coy He knows no taste of a milk called soy All he needs is a good cow’s milk “boi” II Alaha says […]
Efo says smart women are like hells Because most sound like bomby shells So he flees from their learned mouths Seeking informal smartness Who will worship with wisdom Here and there is poison I dare dare say What he knows not is his role As the caretaker of electrical gadgets As the one who oversees […]
Mama Africa’s curves for her beautiful carvings  Is also part of her starvings I can’t believe the multitudes Of capable minds, which have been smoked like fishes Slapped like idiots Raped like animals and Burnt like firewoods in hot kitchens II  Minds which could have stopped her looting Minds which could have clothed her nakedness […]
Take the breaths of toil Please take the breaths of dead toil You can give it a hot boil  To stop it from decomposition, Fertilisation and growing to cause commotion II Ama Akyaa’s dead grandmother’s hatred For Akosua Doku’s dead grandfather Has no reason to live to this moment Causing pain, havoc and fear And […]
I am awed at the fraud Which sings tunes of stardom On the world front making us odd Like beings whose brains are pounded and eaten in a kingdom Seeking hidden masters for their golden throne All the beauties hidden within, imprisoned by strong deceitful stones II In what is hidden lies hospitality Smiling like […]
A kingdom with many a generations, A kingdom sitting on too much wealth, A kingdom worth adoration, Is crumbling due to ill health And its doctors keep poison-injecting It’s now time to act REFRAIN I spit on ignorance Enlightenment! I need assurance I pee on greed Justice, gun down and let us be freed I […]
Boring lecture drags Like a pained hungry cripple Singing lullabies For eyes weary and so wild Using snores as instruments II Industrious students Work in listening pretence Careful in quietude Ignoramuses text, play Some necks risking breakages III Why boring beings teach Beats my imagination Trashes learning zeal. Blankets of gagging, come here! Gag this […]
Spicy nice gossips Simmering from biased mouths Serving on radios II Many smacking tongues Wash with chewing sticks and wait To take hot huge bites III At a taste, they show Ignorance, wits, freedom of Expression defy IV Like taste of pepper It starts strong and wanes with time Buried in clichĂ©s Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Trippings are signs Of test of strength Of test of determination Of test of endurance Of test of need So like the eagle with broken wings Know that walking and flying low with fowls Is not supposed to be permanent When they lie in roosting Go to the mountain top and practice Defy the odds […]
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