Kwaku gave Ama a stone A white nice stone as a gift of love She kept the stone like a saint And worshipped its very grounds II It so happened that a flood came by Stared at the stone and Ama’s family And swept all of them into the belly of death Ama searched and […]
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BOOKS AND COVERS
He had a huge title on his book But hid words associated not in the same book Many read the title in jealousy Knowing not it stood not For what lies therein Until Abugri had the urge to open and read Whereas the title was as dark as ebony The words hidden were as red […]
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GOD, MY FATHER
There was a war That seemed to loom I waited and sought your face You said nothing and took your pace But I knew I didn’t need to lift a finger Because you would decide And yes, you deliver II I love the fact That you are my God and father I love the […]
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JEHOVAH IS MY WITNESS (CRAZY STANZAS)
Jehovah is my witness He is my witness That I do carry the right messages But many want none of it None, none at all II He is my witness; Jehovah I went to Papa Ofosu’s house Immediately he saw me, He rushed into his neigbour’s bathroom like a lost cat And asked him […]
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SPIRITUAL FIRE
A man stood at the podium Calling himself “the fire man” Shouting blessings Shouting cursings Until the trial moment came II A child of eight, run to the temple Panting in a frenzy Shouting in fear Of the unimaginable So the audience asked “What at all is it?” III Like a Satanic messenger He unfolded […]
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DREAM-LAND (DIAMANTE)
Dreams Reality, myth Sleeping, revealing, unrevealing Wishes, fears, fantasies, confusion Hailing, hurting, controlling Happiness, sadness Impression Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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SKY AND CONCEPTION
The sky must be female Goes through all cycles It can pick a thunder seed And let the world hear of its delivery II It can get pregnant With clouds, the sky, And make sure the earth is soaked like a cotton cloth Sometimes hoarding triplets by adding thunder and lightning III It picks seed […]
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RIDE THE DONKEY
Ride in stride The donkey beneath Ride in stride Thinking not of a drop in trot Whip and equip Its ego to grow Like a giant hiding a killer punch It will hide its ears and throw you down You’ll be grateful if you end up down town With broken bones and aches holding a […]
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GOD IS MY COACH
I know you are a good enemy football player But trust me, your most skilful dribbling, Make them more than C. Ronaldo’s, Will be my healthy trainings Your trials at long shots Will always go to the corner Or like an overfed eagle’s shot, You will send them flying in the heavenly air Your headings […]
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MET YOU LONG BEFORE NOW
What if I told you I met you even before Your head thought of a loving union? II You were like an angel High up in the sky Looking down at me As I looked up adorably III You had many around And were confused for a moment But a second look at me And […]
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LIKE BIRDS
Birds fetch water, Lift their mouths to show their maker, Before the water descends the ladder of their throats That is gratefulness Be like birds for each breath Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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PENKYE OTU’S FLAWS
Could you be just name and fame? Could your spirit be all fake and lame? Why will you and your sons Replace your taste form slaves to leopards? Did you not know what leopards were Did you not know leopards never give their paws freely? Or did you plan a huge royal massacre? Were the […]
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I NEED
I need I need I need me a one With no hawk’s eye for talent II I need I need I need me that one Who will look into my soul III I need I need I need me a one Who can erase all my sadness IV I need I need I need to […]
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TAGOAT THINGS
In Tamale, They cry like humans Never leaving traces Of they being ons all fours II Their children can imitate babies With their shrills which give chills Leaving no trace That they are on all fours III The Billies have their bass Croaking like a high commander on heat No traces at all That they […]
Going in grand style? Smiling to make me wild? Please be patient And listen to what you’ll be missing II If you are my sky You successor will be my heaven Yes, my everlasting heaven Making him your boss Can you carry that cross? III If I give you pleasure I would certainly take him […]
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LOVE BLINDS?
“Aaaah! I say he has changed And will always remain so” The elders say Only the child sees the eyes of the crab As a stick, Look at Selina now She too told me She was the wind of change in his life When his pleasures waned She said she was blinded By Cupid’s thick […]
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“TEHORROR”
It’s sad, those pushed to school Are mostly those who learn to fool Eventually acting as many a stool And being used as many a tool II It’s sad, those who has heads Make the many beds For those who know no sheds To hurt the gentle with many reds III It’s a horror Which […]
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FAREWELL; MR. ZANDO
I remember that day When my seed took ill In the waist of night Left with no mobility, You woke and became my weakened legs And saw me to the healing centre I had no eyes, but I really saw II I remember when Korle-bu called And I was left at the cross-road of need […]
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LIKE A KING
Walk like a king No matter what annoying bells ring Because you are the sky Which a great moon yearns to embrace II Walk like a god No matter who gets bored For you are that spirit That a great priestess worships III Smiles must make your miles All suns must create you tiles All […]
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I WAIT
Pants of can’ts Excuses in rants Even firewood crave fire Wanting to lead in light Wanting to be a star bright Although being in ashes is no delight But you, like a firefly, tease with your faint glow Saying this and saying that On a day when emotions weep For a play in your tower […]
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FILTHIES KNOW THEIR PILLS
Throwers of filth In the belly of drains Builders of mansions On the breathes of rains Oh rears whose chamber pots are mouths of seas Fie! Fie! Fie! You live lives of lies When your index fingers find others as offenders Of drowning and ills You need to know your pills II Carers of mandates […]
Me, I can’t share my man o I am no hypocrite so I won’t lie I met a terror called jealousy When I saw a taken-cuddling meant for me I never knew its claws really lived deep down my guts When it decided to show It was like a lioness tearing my soul There I […]
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DAWNS AND LAWNS
Dawn can’t begrudge the cock’s crow It is its companion It is its friend It maybe its enemy But it makes it a star As some wake to see it At the sound of a cock’s crow II Lawn cannot begrudge dawn It owes it part of its colour Like the bed of a princess […]
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TRAIN OR BURN
Twisted tattered tingly things Taunt in towering tormenting tests Tempers tower in trending taps A tactful treasure is needed to turn II Turn or burn Taint or train Tag or tailor It takes a treasure to be traced in tests Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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HIGHER
Mouths in shouts Releasing arrow words in sharps Aiming at my being Know that I am as swift as an eagle And armoured like God’s soldier So I keep going higher II Tongues like serpents Hissing my biography Wanting a slaughter Of my name and fame to have me tamed Don’t bother My name is […]
Choices are like riddles of God He sprinkles them and allows minds to discern Yesterdays beget todays Todays are mothers of tomorrows And todays are us Kwaku Ananse’s naughty decisions in Ghanaian folktales Earned his generations “the cunning tags” There is no one God for every being If we are all God’s children Then wisdom, […]
I don’t know what to do I am like a nail With a magnetic force Which uses all its strength to repel magnets But I am now locked in a greater force II I don’t know what to do He is everything I dislike: Location, God-channels And all But I feel trapped Like a mouse […]
A weird thing, in Accra, sat Sputtering and mumbling “tar” Until it said it was called day II Day which was new But had many problems dew The first after a terror flood III It is going to be used It won’t get the privilege Of seeing the lazy in action IV It would die […]
Emotions dance in veins of the holies And I am a holy The weather’s fan is fanning vain whims And I have a vain whim The sky’s complexion is dark and light And I am the sky At this point, fans are suicide Air conditioners, murder The air is rudely entering pores without knocking And […]
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DRESSED
Oh He dressed sky beings with glow So they will be visible to eyes so low He dressed the man with strength So they could guard protection’s length He dressed the woman with beauty So she could charm in surety He even knows the shy sky Would need privacy for her nudity So dresses her […]
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WATER AND FIRE (FOR THE BURNT AND DROWNED)
Roastings and drownings Fire and water Ghana has seen another May nine But tear gas folds its arms in innocence Nature meets artificial Fire holds the hands of water And harvest lives in horrible hunts Leaving us awed II We are crying Because fear stands holding his whip We are mourning our future selves […]
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HIS COOL SELF (KOLA NUT)
Kola-nut lasts longer Oh! In the mouth of those who value it Learn, that the elders did form a quote right And I value my Kola-Nut II Not that it is too sweet Or that it is too sour Tasting idsdetermination of pushings to greater heights III Kisses for a brother On his […]
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A MESS IN A DRESS
Boy is twisted Ruins his upper Uncaged but demented Chess of a mess stripped into a dress Ending fatherhood borrowing an old womb II Jesus must be in distress Eating His disgust by looking unto His father Never hoping to use His cane Never wishing to have grown his mother Emancipation damaged him Really, […]
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WE ARE TWISTED (CRAZY STANZAS)
We are like varied but same flowers Pretty in different shapes, colours and sizes We are like flowing rivers Bubbly and dense but burning by rocks beneath We are like opposing reflections Speaking in weird deflections Making dumb demi gods weak While stabbing ourselves with our double edged daggers Yes, we are that twisted II […]
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NANA AWERE DAMOAH
Like an angel He brightened my world Getting to thoughts of paranoia Where hoarders are concerned I saw not how But he did his magic Brought on his therapy And an uptight me Began to open up I thought it was magic But it was inspiration Sharpening braveness Making me an achiever Slowly, I found […]
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IMPRISONED (ADULT POETRY)
When I spotted him It was like magic His light travelled to wake dead feelings Buried under the earth of my skin He was the electricity And I the wires II So I found myself asking “Is he too taken?” If he is, then I committed adultery Adultery of thoughts Because he looked […]
I challenged a student who just completed high school to write a poem on faith. I am actually surprised she did this in a matter of 30 minutes: Many find it difficult holding on to me I am defined as the substance of things hoped for The evidence of things not seen I am […]
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DEEP AND SHORT
Pop the hop Crop the top Sing with wings A pin and a spin Are like triumphs with time
REFRAIN: Sɛ ↄman yi bɛyɛ yie a Na efiri me ne wo Sɛ ↄman yi bɛyɛ yie a Na efiri yɛn ara Na efiri yɛn ara Firi agyanom ne nnanom akuafo, akruufoↄ kosi aman mpanyinfoↄ so Na efiri yɛn ara Na efiri yɛn ara Ei! akwadwofo ei, annuanomu mmratofoↄ ne ɛmfamehofoↄ Na efiri yɛn […]
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RULERS
The cocks have the docks For they hold the waking locks So “kwa kwa kwa kwa” those mocks May end in needing knocks II They have the stocks They’ve the keys to the flocks So elephants’ strength is ad infinitum But common sense makes them kings III So follow the kwa kwa kwa And soar […]
“I love you, I can’t live without you, You are so beautiful! Hey no one compares to you I will die for you I am so into you Hush and feel my heart beat for you” These are old rags Buried by some ancestors Who died thousands of years ago A real lover is one […]
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FIX THE NEEDS OF A LADY
Fix the needs Fix the needs of a lady Wrangling of nothings Glitters and twitches are naught Just fix them Fix them needs of the lady II Who are you impressing? The world with jealous eyes? Or the flashes which attract the jealousy of the sun? Fix them needs Just fix them needs of the lady […]
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BRUISED AND CRUSHED
Mama you should have magically told Of the possibility that love could have me sold You are the one who carried my mould Are you satisfied that I am broken into many a fold? II Papa, you should really have magically warned That love stands a better chance of having me harmed You […]
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LIKE AN EAGLE
Be strong like Mount Afadjato Or fall like the Twin Towers Be swift like a tsunami Or be trapped like oxygen For maiming and trashing II Swimming in breath Is brimming in wealth So be the eagle And fly as such Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
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CARESSING YOU (ADULT POETRY)
The sound of an L The circle in an O The tingly tips of a V I write in your heart climbing the ladder of an E II Open your thoughts And let your eyes, be independent And sit behind as I write my words on them like a slate. *** Tongues will […]
“Holiness! Unto the Lord” What is that man doing on my porch? After his gossipy wife Acted like a goat in sheep skin Does he still have a face To show up on my porch and pace? II “Holiness! Unto the Lord” Oh! I am glad Sister Akos tripped at the podium What kind of […]
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BREEZES (DIAMANTE)
Breezes Cool, flirty Swaying, seeping, feeling Great, temper, strong, helper Breathing, hugging, growing Beautiful, birther Winds Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Walking through the doomy path Of jumping in my final bed I stumbled on a being so dirty Resting on earth in clothes of naught II Funny how I saw the face of God And felt what He really has in store No words did come from the mouth so sore But his posture did […]
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IN THE WOMB OF THE TOMB
Wise? Nice Price of dice Once, twice, thrice No six? Then lies We cast as many as we should Winning few and always losing more But once, twice, thrice the dice We jump like mice Being chased by cats Until we enter the zone of eternal dark In the womb of the tomb Amoafowaa Sefa […]
Croak, croak croak!!! Instead of cocks crowing, Frogs’ croaking have become the wake call The breezes act with decorum Blowing north, south, east to the west It’s as though they’ve been schooled Schooled for evenness II This day, Beautiful birds glow On centre stages of muscular and firm trees “Pi, pi, pi ri pi Kwi […]
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