Do we need ancestral heads to understand The lyrics in this patriotic song of ours? “Yɛn ara asaase ni ɛyɛ abuↄ dendene ma yɛn Mogya na nananom hwiee gu nya de too hↄ ma yɛn Aduru me ne wo nso so Sɛ yɛbɛ yɛ bi atua so“ If blood, precious, were poured to attain this […]
Ah urban! What have you done? Now many people own cars And everybody needs a car See how pregnant the roads are See how tired the traffic lights look Cars rebel and cast choked spell As legs cramp up under small seats We are now like clipped birds Flying on kites A deflated tyre and […]
If protection needs a prayer Then prayer I call If entrusting metals Godship prominence Need a chanting to God Then I chant for God Hold me tight Take me safely Grant me grace To get to the other side Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When you buy a cub Be sure to know It has no trait Of a lion II When you hoard some eggs Be sure to know It houses no python With thought thorns III Pained is he who homes A thing which turns To hunt himself So just monitor Before you turn litter Amoafowaa Sefa […]
Get going Getty Goose Go get gizzards to grill Get a great gait Grease your gabbles Gallivanting for gain? Even galloping gets galumphingly gruelling So get going Getting and giving Or get grilled Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
In this era When there is a war of gender Which seeks for us to surrender Who are those calling for cheap smiles to be rendered To climb societal ladders? II Who is acting like a chameleon? Changing spots in gender reflections And using ambitious temples as cheap brothels For gains? This is insane! […]
Weak? No! Never! Flowers from Ghana are never weak And I’ll tell you why II Long ago, while warriors were killed And the king was caught And what bravers there were hid, Yaa Asantewaa stood tall And she was a flower from Ghana III Even those who raised their hands And flagged gender opposites as […]
When all do talk About complexions And call mine dirty And call mine animalish, *** When all do talk Like holes without breaks About my status And call me low And call me un-classy, *** When all do talk Like fowls sensing danger And call me a taboo And call me cursed; *** I look […]
Your arms; my bed Where I yearn to be fed And considers my sacred shed Is where I need to be led II Your eyes; my mirrors Where there are antidotes to my horrors And I consider my sacred corridors Are what I yearn to lock my doors III Your bosom My flowering pillow blossom […]
How Hardi heard The silvers bark And peeped to see The walking scents Booting the silvers here and there, Beats me, beats me II Neighbouring niceties nestling Walking in heels And rudely entering When foods at home go on strike Beats me, beats me III Booting barrels bare Hitting heads of metals Making scenes and […]
Love For love I looked above And suffered in love Even needles were like mattresses Except the piercings never ceased tears Emotional burdens were like exciting mountain climbing Slapping/hitting were thought as exaggerated pains unbothering Hyperactively, pretending to massage loving, love opened its eyes And spat into my face, wrecking my neck, suffocatingly brutalising Amoafowaa […]
If Kwaku Ananse’s fate Of always stirring hate Incurred many baits How many would’ve had that death date Or ended on his webby plate? II Feel the hate Wait and deflate The stone-like gate Of blocked freedom in loving fate Do this or dear mate, do mate The hatred until the hurts turn and hammer […]
Laughter Stealing, sharing, chopping Stinking Frights, fights, flights Catching Blaming, catching, crying Politicking Praying, playing, freeing Like a tale All those bails God does see It will never go without a punishing fee So flee and defend the caught Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Fly far Forgetting follies Fly forever Forfeiting feigns Fly fiercely Forsaking fakers Fly, flee Framing fouls Freaking fixers Frying fits Fixing feebles Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Standing erect In a personality which deflects Akwasi Tentene With a language “menpene” Poses and rages In a brain all Akosua Kumas deem unsage II He doesn’t know What causes the blow But when Akwasi rises, He knows no no Oh sickness is foul Oh difference is pain Oh perfection is vain Oh Akwasi Tentene, […]
Kwasi is a name of peace, Winning and grace, A day of rest So I knock my wonder In gratitude of a Kwasi-blessing Good deeds have no mouths Yes, but many alien mouths Announce at no cost, their works Not new, but good clichés work best – No fears in saying A […]
Stones crack Metals melt The land can open But eventually closes Asaase Yaa is to be revered II I am stone I am metal What does it matter? When we all have mouths Hidden in Asaase Yaa, always ready to eat us all? Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When rats Feel threatened They think of all tricks But changing their scents “Akura Woyo w’adi atwi” II When threatened dogs Bark loudest They fail to think That sounds attract “Agya nsem atukwan” III When cats See, blink and quieten They fail to think That fire can flood “Agya! Yani atan” IV A finger of […]
I hope On the dilemmic three pathway I hope Feeling the pangs and the goosebumps I hope To walk with legs of victory II I pray With limbs of tiredness I pray Even as time smiles in its race I pray To get strong wings like eagles III Hold me As I hold the sails […]
When love turned and walked My way, cupid was hesitant Because he knew I was usurping II Knowing love was the boss Never to be challenged, he let it be Mourning my future heart demise III Then love possessed got dispossesed And saw clearly the meatful part he had crashed, Felt sorry but his bus […]
He may have my picture on his phone Thinking I’m the bone of his bone He may feel the chaos of the lone But gently hides it from his tone II He may have me as song in his head Knowing work always feed instead He may have felt his pulse, his organs race led […]
Quintessential queens’ quill Quarantines qualms And quieten quaffers quagmired II A quaint quintessential queen Makes unqualifiers quake Even the qualified is thrown into a quandary III Quintessential queens get queasy When quarrels’ quest quenches questions They quickly quell as though they have quiff IV Quintessential queens Quick and quirk Even quotes in the Quaran Can’t […]
I “There are some crying crabs Inside my blood and they’re bubbling Especially because I see him II There are some goose Being chased by cold Inside my head Especially when I spot him III What is this passion That is out of fashion And trying my attraction Forcing it to action? IV Oh […]
I don’t want to climb I wanted to be lifted So get the okro and banku And drop the yam and others II When there’s a lift Why would I climb? Exercise of jaws? Please save my energy III Let the okro lift And lips open for a lift Get me the lifter I need […]
Happily married trees Pavements lying in obedience Lawns so flirty A peace so surreal Like Mrs. Ohui Allotey II With her words Walking in sneakers And her brains working like angels Nothing beats a Mrs. Ohui Allotey presence III She took us and brought us To an embracing peace so beautiful Softly singing her old […]
When bodily food Is sacrificed for mouth food As cleanliness Is sacrificed for prayers That is when lovers of the religious Get the reward of the godly II “No I don’t want this, She is not churchy She is too flashy She aint a lady I aint no folly” III I’ll say again, when bodily […]
Mama said she had no eyes She had no eyes so her mama was stolen Her two eyes were not enough So an invisible hole stole her mama whole II Mama told me she had no power No power to get to the whole Because the hole would have swallowed her whole As it owned […]
We live, Through the snaking smiling gutter maimings To the sitting smokes which puff to mate into killing II We live Through the dotty salaries To the gargantuan prices on needed edibles III We live, Even though we are being ruled By a rich dead goat who fears no knife IV We live, Even though […]
When I Saw your handsome frame; Like a modern Japanese building, I knew you’d become my muse II When I, Heard that beautiful deep flow From the sea of your throat, I knew you’d become my muse III When I, Finally climbed your beautiful mountain, Oh the tiredness and the pleasure! I knew you’d become […]
If night walls could talk They will tell tales of crawling snakes And opened mouth holes II If night walls could talk, They would properly describe the insects Of the night and the real scarers III If night walls could talk Children will not be allowed to walk The streets alone, even in daylight IV […]
“Hu me abɛ” And let its scent have running legs “Hu me abɛ” And dress it with crawling crabs Let the salmons shine in their numbers “Hu me abɛ” If prekɛsɛ walks through with its scented self It will leave it as sweet as an angelic perfume “Hu me abɛ, ma ɛman nbↄn mu” And […]
Ghana glammed gifted grandly On inception like a princess from a rich kingdom Until her marriage to usurpers Who started with her adornments And left her in short skirts II After the usurpers divorce She married herself Only to realise that she feasted on herself And now she has near bones III What causes this? […]
When witnesses fail to talk Righteous men are eaten by the hands of the rope Yet some call themselves witnesses And witness when eyes need to close Akosua is a tier She ties herself by the Witness she has become Becoming bounded and hounded by celebrations Like a monkey whose tail is knotted on a […]
THE TENANT It is not a small box Which can fit into my pocket I would have gotten a chain To chain it to my pocket To stop all the drama Of landlord landladyships Houses! Look at this horrible house Does it merit my troubles? LANDLORD Horrible house? Then leave it for me! Look at […]
Being busted buying best is best than busted being bought, a brain of a she-being can beat buyers and break bouncing bounds II Determination determines dreams, doing dreams without, is daydreams which will deal dangerous dates, dance to the rhythm of “done” III I and eye are “I’s” But one stands and the other sees […]
Before we meet I must sweep the room of my heart II Before we meet, I must dust and arrange this room of my heart III Before we meet, I must weed the compound of my thoughts IV Before we meet, I must remove the fear cobwebs on my building V Before we meet, I […]
A good gift is what we strive to keep A good gift is what costs us sleepless nights A good gift is what helps us take a grand leap A good gift is what makes us shine so bright I suffer to keep What others sleep to keep I suffer to nurse What others lie […]
Carnivorous ants act like fleas Wherever there are sweets Each wanting a bite Each growing greed Let the scent of sweets reek arrest, all will vanish, hide, look and laugh their victories. Will there ever be a liker of victory and defeat? Fleas singing praises like fake possessed Christians Please do sympathise in defeat And […]
African tales have tails of morals refrains of chorals and sometimes show hearts of abhorals II African tales hold wise mails, show hurting fails, clarify heavenly bails III African tales can cause wails, narrate heroic hails and their wounding nails IV African tales are now like its porridges; dilutings severe, erasing its sweetners making its […]
Fiery fire! Fall on fake farms who feast and feed forests fantasies which fume fecal forces II Fiery fire fall fast! For fermentations feel fabulous as fabrications shed clothes of facade and few faultless feel fear III Fiery fire flip fences! Fan the few and fall the fakes, fire facelift facetiousnesses as you flame all fake […]
It’s the brink of a hot hot night My eyes still burn in cold delight Wanting sleep and needing good work On a floor mattress with duress Only comfort; fan which caress I know many mouths do not see Will grant interviews without fee And try to my hard work now, shirk Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Eyes in windows of the world’s shadow See all; the call, fall and the talls Like omnipotent gods in fathers Good thoughts close mouths in the shadow II When dawn’s rain fall like a sharp arrow And supposed suns make all cloud calls Good eyes cry like angry pained mothers Chaosers step with happy toe III […]
When accommodatings get fed-up, They shut the gates of their house And cause a tsunamic slap On the whining displayer forever II When a pond gets flooded By a sea, it gives way When its hands are full Even metals melt when they receive Too much lovemaking from fire Think, sit and ponder Or face […]
After “I do” Pleasures turn responsibilities Love becomes a lazy worker And reality shows its full self II After “I do” Carelessness sits like a new born child Magic of dazzles wanes As metaphorically blinded eyes are made clearer III After “I do” Laughables become irritants As temper holds spears In feminine and masculine oppositions […]
Men They are poles Poles with six and a half holes; Two in mid face Two; the windows of the head One close to the chinny end One on the rear And a little queer one with urea and bullets II Men Hoarding magnets on their eyes They see and their eyes call for touch […]
When fate goes to sleep Fear wakes and tends to seep Showing his muscles And giving all hassles Then failure gets dazzled II When fear walks on eye And will acts too shy Uselessness takes a grand seat As ambition falls at his feet Giving mouths words of a defeat III Dress fear in hope […]
Tiredness, massage yourself And let sleep take its place II Tiredness, get some fuel And let rest have some kebab III You know you hit hard Holding joints and piercing skins IV You know you hit hard Holding the brains and squeezing pates V You know you hit hard Kicking the back in sharp seconds […]
When I think of churches, I think of their riches and all their ungodly breaches. Why do riches make some men of God “sɛbi” bitches? II They must cherish all paupers But they live for only the “shadders” “Witchising” all poor mothers Whipping under all weathers How money develops wings To fly nicodemously into secret […]
(Aubreysarch challenged me to write a ten line poem about love. Here it is) A thing so abstract Holds many keys to happiness A thing so surreal Its loss makes all fall into bitterness A thing so beautiful Holds the swords of the hate oracle A thing so powerful Its healing is always a miracle […]
We are fire And your desire You make us tire Pushing us into situations dire Yet we are still the fire Which goodness require A few pushed may desire To burn some blues But we’re still the fire Which breeds warmth in this empire II Know we are the world Know, we build the world […]
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