Hounding heart Pounding pass Calling cruelty Healing heart A pea in a time pot II Sailing saints Beaming beasts Daring demons Fighting fair A pea in a time pot III Giving gains Jailing jests Loving lanes Mending most A pea in a time pot IV A pea in a time pot A burn in the […]
Dreams are the fastest runners Runners without souls Runners not like Ussain Bolt Runners with wings unseen II Dreams are taunting bothers Bothers who demand hard work Bothers who mess with minds Bothers like psychotic creators III If you dream And you scream Thinking the dream Will walk to your head’s screen Then you are […]
In this rounded ball Is a caging wall But in this rounded wall Are arms which call Arms which call in solidarity Arms which call for rest Arms which call for helping Arms which call to nest Arms which call like the Creator’s Arms which call for peace Let ears be peaceful To heed to […]
Another strong promising leaf Plucked by ignorance Plucked like a weakling Plucked without warning Sending shivers to fetch tears II Another strong promising tree Cut down by many on tall fence Cut down by watchers and head shakers Cut down by greedy animals Leaving in its place nothing but agony III When will closed mouths […]
Books Powerful, attentive Teaching, intriguing, learning Travel, mystical, ignorance, cheats Enlightening, engaging, characterising Bliss, foolish Studies Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Today is World Book Day, please take a book and embark on that travel.)
I took you in reluctantly, one who has been wounded by a storm, fears little winds II Now you are this star’s heart, When huge trees fall, Their sounds travel far, so I am shivering III Anxious for good and bad, I am like a swan and porcupine Ready to love and or fight IV […]
Hug layered onions Hold fumes of tear gas, waiting For knives of awe hurts II They are on their marks Gunning for eyes which lead knives To their quiet temples III Onions with cool souls In detecting the rots, stay Knowing no betrayals IV Who calls them mean things? In fighting fair, weapons are Allowed […]
You can trace the fantasy And see the needing ecstasy On faces with many dreamy fake fallacies True, because boys use flowers Men use deeds II They will come like militants Bow like slaves Raise their flowers And beg like prayerfuls Yes, boys use flowers And men use deeds III They have pipe mouths Which […]
“Story of my life I have a wife Who hates the word ‘strife’ And cancut inspiration with a word knife II Story of my life I have a husband without a life All he does is whine Thinking everything must be divine III Story of my life  ‘Work as life is striving for better’ Is […]
Earth Pregnant, kind Polluting, fazing, caring Harmed, used, hurdled, captured Freeing, hurting, spoiling Abused, wronged World Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015 (Today is World Earth Day, please take a moment to think of something you can do to better the earth)
When I lie in quietude With emotions in multitude Bubbling like potent soap bubbling I think of you II When your thoughts flow into mine Like smooth river flowing into a great sea The merging is surreal It harmonises and smoothens all rough edges III My veins are just empty holes You are like the […]
Love Touchy, beautiful Electrifying, hugging, companying Hope, security, fear, loss Hurting, crying, hating Wrong, cruel Breakup Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Prideful layers stand Shaking their heads And feeding fat on Ruka Yaro feed Knowing they’ll live to see old age If some terror sicknesses do not meander Into their domain So they feed like kwa kwa, kwa kwa kwa kwa II Broilers are in their own world Knowing they are feeding for the next occasion […]
When the toughest nut breaks The weak ones brake Fearing its very breaking ground Making sure all dear ones are found II When the eagle flies in fears Chickens noisily flee in tears Fearing to look up Thinking not to shut up III When the dog backs The cat thinks the dog lacks And internally […]
Chief rhyme with thief How the former gets kowtowed Like a god with goodies for the submissive And the latter risks harsh death Like rival goats which are destructive Beats me, beats me  II Bow rhymes with bow How one serves as a weapon To take lives and used for hunt And the other […]
Even when clouds do sky shroud, Caging the sun and its rays Sun misses no little hole To announce its presence Even a trickle must never be frickled Life sits not but moves II Bickering thoughts freckle Or clash in insanity Rejecting the protection of parts Living in the middle of the whole Leaving opposite […]
I am a queen A queen deserving a king A king with a capable armour An armour whose sight Will give horrors frights II I am a queen A queen deserving a statesman Not a coward Nor a sniffer I am a queen Deserving the deserved One who is a warrior king And will give […]
We were when they were; Our velvety black skinned ancestors Think of how nature bathed us In wisdom In laughter In wealth Wealth so left to sit in protection Think of our great dances As we dined with lions And played with tigers If only our fingers can meet each other’s As we take our positive […]
He whom summer burns Seeks shelters under rivers When winter’s sun calls for setting II He whom winter “pneu-moans” Stooges under the skirt of summer Crying fie on winter as he gathers dry woods III None needs light to see flames When darkness sits on its sky throne “akyekyede akyi” fears no cane But “akyekyede” […]
I know a snake with one eye Which has some milk And bless and curse Instead of biting to poison It snakes straight Crooked and tears Opening its victims in screams so weird II I know a snake with just an eye An eye which sometimes serves as mouth It opens and closes when it […]
Thoughts soo advanced Have descended the stairs of the earth Hands so talented lay still Refusing to move, even when danger announces its coming Theodosia Oko! II She married the colours Red, gold, green with a black star Mating the gold And gave perfect meanings As to why it must flag the Ghana land But […]
At the dawn of our goodbye The sky weeps Tears whose ingredients are Pain Loss Loneliness Uncertainty Failure And fear But these tears fall to toughen The grounds of our hearts II Unfairness has a head none wants to see Tribal voices stopping in one’s track Their enemy before the notice Of his footprints Is […]
I wish I can be an arrow Which could pierce without sorrow And enter into brain marrows Of those who cause humans sorrows But I am like all They fall and I fall They call and I call They stall and I stall Shadows of shadows of shadows! And the shadows are painful arrows! II […]
God, I call I, Your creation, Planted on black sands, call I thought loamy grows best But apparently, I thought wrong II We shine in light, Oh what beauty! Why then do mine portray their minds Like their bodies of doom Only, the minds shine not but destroy, maim! Kill! III God, I call And […]
I wish my fingers were a huge cloth Then I could cloth this shame of Africaness So heads can walk on shoulders As the filth stays in II We are now zombies Loving our horrid features On screens of walls Of those we worshipped But we cry foul Citing their brutalities and their monkey tags […]
It is a natural No, supernatural You in my fantasies Like a good movie on television I, a hopeless watcher Enjoy your sight and might Enhancing your good With my magnifying glass Dazing and erasing insignificant flaws You are a tree Whose roots reside on the fertile ground of my heart You are the only […]
At this point, I am a nagging thought head Jealous at your lollipops Though they are licked never to surface II At this point, I am like an unrecognised rival Jealous at your tight shirts Though they wear off and are discarded III At this juncture, I am like a love struck puppy Jealous at […]
His exhaust’s noise “tutututututututu” Can be heard like that of a blasted car Akwasi is a bloated cow When slumber touches him With its unconscious stick II Her adjust is like a free air traveller It screams “ta ta ta ta poo pooo” When slumber touches Afia With its dream stick III The little one […]
Shivers in rivers which quiver Chanting in rants which amount Bouncing in announcing which pounce Twinning alikoto, dancing of Akoto, The sun sits on the golden stool II Tongues of longs so strong Walking in talks which stalk Thinking of things which blink Perfuming prekese Flying paper kites The sun sits on the golden stool […]
Ignoramuses have no armours Paramount is their thoughtly deceits Amounting to their failure and disappointments Like a miser who thinks God needs money Like a stranger who thinks different countries are heavens Like a snail who thinks itself a tortoise Ignoramuses are dead sticks waiting for fire In ashes, their brains act in duress As […]
All are mad From all corners Real or fake Intermittently, we are crazy Causing havoc and chaos All over our continent II Sea of sacredness Over the crust of the continent Under the guise of a great man tsunamis After he turns his back to rest Housed under the guise of death III And you […]
Your thoughts are my reflective mirrors My reflective mirrors which take me back Back to the dilemic paths of errors Paths of errors and correct themselves automatically Making me pious II Your thoughts are my spears Spears of healings and tamings All you need is speak And they take me to that hurt dilemic path […]
Waists with wastes Waists so waste Waists with no brains Wait! II If you know You’re spewing waste There’s no need To spew the wastes Let alone give life to the wastes And turn around to give them pain III It’s your gain If it’s waste It should be your pain; The pain of your […]
To whom is measured, A leisure brings the pressure, Is who is treasured II To whom is tossed, A boss can’t be bossed, Is he who bosses III To whom is given, An angel who knows not, Is he who lives to touch IV Incandescent incantation Reticent emotivation Criss-cross Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
We are in a cue We will dock when we’re due There is nothing like immortal few And there’s no one to really sue Let the natural tongue speak of life’s curfew CHORUS “Mere bi bÉ›ba Nↄti bÉ›kↄ nↄte mu Ama nↄte abobↄ nompe mu  ɛse bÉ›guan atua agyaboↄ Na nↄte akyire nhwi deduam Onua […]
Shaking in heart roastings Thoughts of hurts in boastings Boastings carved on historic trees Trees sending the writings like spears into hearts  Hearts which gave it them lives Now suffer by the sharpness of their tips Ah! When lies pierce! II When lies pierce They pierce fierce Sending trust into horrid hearse III It is […]
When hearts meet fears and flee And groans turn to songs as dirges Where brides must sing of joy – When indigo streaks our faces – *** When stolen voices become Serial callers with borrowed Phrases, Where old plasters cover the wounds Where real heroes fall Then new martyrs rise to build Our […]
A name from the stone quarry To boards of elites A name from the gutters To mouths of the refined A name stepped on Into the heads of learners Lord of Host Knows the forces Which drive hearts of forcers I am like a humbled soul Before you who bore all the aggression Amoafowaa Sefa […]
When mouths talk for minds Many are things which go wrong But ignorance is considered human On a land which needs change II Oh! A land so blessed Harbouring many so cursed Without reasoning Killing instead of researching Neglecting instead of paying attention Saying nonsensicals instead of listening And I ask why? III This black […]
Ha ha, hehehehe, hmmm “Akosua is a ‘kosua’ A ‘kosua’ which needs a holder A holder with veins feared by the earth But she fears palms” *** Really? *** Oh elders like shelvers! Elders with clippers! Elders with machete tongues! ‘Odomankoma Ahunu Abobirim’ is a generous God So generous as to make Akosua legs, hands, […]
What is this tingling sensation? What is this happy feeling? What is this dreaming on clouds I am definitely on the cloud of twelve II What is this feeling dipped in smiles? What? Am I in a huge loving ocean? What is this feeling of being captured? Being captured by a rich sweet magician? I […]
My blood boils like water on fire! Who steals from a sacred temple That once gave him sleeping space? Must be an it! II Who acts evil Grazing holes that hid him from his enemies When they chased his formation? It must be an it III Who embarrasses a goddess Whose tears turn into rains […]
Scars of slavery Scars of rebellion Scars of half freedom Scars of neo colonialism Scars of coups Scars of internal wars Have now given birth to Scars of terrorism Scars of brutality With these many scars How can we still not feel the experience? How can we not pull the clothes of togetherness on our […]
Gone are the days When Ghanaian children feared ‘kakai’ Now only villagers, coastal children and children with naturalistic parents get to bath in natural waters What was a swimming pool then? An anachronistic thought II Now, ‘mpotompoto’ and ‘coco’ Are for the villagers and children with grand mothers Ei! With the lac lac lac in […]
When the hands of night embrace As sounds tell of mosquito hunts And beds cry for their weight And rains fall on benevolent roofs Loneliness sit close to this bedside Marking time in loud tickings II Then thoughts become restless Walking on the mind of this old maid Whose society deem useless because it has […]
Nae! Thoughts that taunt Hurts that haunt Beasts that burst Are like wild lions let lose To feed on happy beings II Nae! I am an eye Many eyes see me as the sky But my sky seems so wry Clouds and sun seem to be in a tie III Nae! If leaves fight to […]
“Chicks follow hens” he says So nothing will cost him in pays The “neck-bottle” is willing That’s why it has rope tied to its neck Pull, while you have it, pull When the two balls Were begging to swerve blue balls As vein-mouths opened crying burning passions You forgot of the chicks being transferred into […]
Under umbrellaic underlings Wonders of winning winces Spell satanic sellables In infinite impropriety II How hurt heavens Watch what works Baffles better beings. No nudity nurturings III Emancipation era Speaks not of serpentious sicklings Giving guts to gullibles To turn into torturers IV Lies of eyes which dies Sighs of byes in highs Strange serenades […]
In all that is fair No vein in male brain is fair II In all that is fair Quick wakes at sight always need a share III In all that is fair Their great thoughts can never temptations bare IV In all that is fair They are wires connected by desires so rare V In […]
Pregnant gutters Labour in downpours Caging and taking lives In barbarism And the living cries foul? II Who makes sweet love By pushing bottles, polythenes and tins Into its wombs? They too have ends III Wait! What’s with the buildings Usurping water heads By the aid of hands so feeble and at risk? Humans are […]
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