The mango tree Lived so free In the middle of the forest Many animals rested in her bosom Many others lay in her hair Wild ones made swings to play on her It bore it all Hoping many would protect her in time It ovulated, mated, and produced her young They were many but she […]
Feelings run with talking shoes Tainting my veins in all hues Month after month, paying no dues Popping and yelling with no cues Like I never ever loved II Their aphrodisiac is cold, Run amok without being told Their running strides so damn bold They have such bad taunting hold Like I never ever loved […]
Dawns Push dark Shedding tears Still unknown it Ends Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
If all beds have mouths They would tell tales of their loads And tell where it hurts II If all beds have eyes They would tell tales never heard In dark’s dark bosom III Yes, many break down Retorting without answers I tears never seen IV Yes, many are blind Blinded by the odd punches […]
An audience so full Enough to break many bulls Offering to be tools Trying to feign all the cools On the veranda they pull II As the breathless leaves Their loyalties go with it Fitting perfectly Into its six feet with ease What are left behinds to do? III A peak at a sound Show […]
In your eyes I see a parade of lies Organising a coup of ties With an aim of many cries Oh fie! II On your face I see your greed’s pace I know the soil in your vase You definately have no case So prepare for a chase III By your gestures Spellings are bold […]
Brightening moving days Moving with weak tortured legs Smile, frown, cry like moody men II Wearied of short life They work praying extension But tortoise and snails still rule III They push their own selves Glee and sadness in opposite Directions, life is like that Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015Â
When you throw a ball On any floor It bounces It bounces II When you pick it up and throw again It bounces here It bounces there Bouncing and bouncing and bouncing III We are like balls Of grumpy life So prepare to bounce When a throw calls for it Free your mind to bounce […]
Eyes of you great walls Borrow mouth and talk to me What do you witness II I know I’ve been halfed By the carnivorous teeth Which no eye peruse III Why then does my bed Cry about another’s weight When the part lies blank IV Dear eyes of my walls Please help me know who […]
Who sends pots to the stream of strength only to come back with a basket drenched in hot tears? *** Who tells the tale of pot turning to basket for who to get its joke in dire thirst? Who? *** We need it, water to drink, not hot tears So where is the pot? Broken […]
Who knows where the heart Of ever hungry earth is? Who can follow his Pulse and take us to his breath? Who can? Who can? Who can? Who? II Who knows where the heads Of the glutton earth relax? Who can follow his Chewings and lead us to those Mouths? Who can? Who can? Who […]
Earth closes its mouth When lions ‘void porcupines Need I mention more? II Long, long, long ago, When lion was known as the king He took liberties III When his game finished He decided porcupine Is fit to replace IV He meant to hit it Only for thousands of pins To stand in shooting V […]
I saw a fine knicker on the market Made to buy but my money didn’t add up I looked up and saw my friend Eyeing the knicker so we bought to share To wear in turns Few first days were great Making it look like fate Until the fateful day we all wanted to wear […]
Pranks played on death dens Break bins and stir shocks Tipping tides and war waves In a cluster of fume and doom You call I stall You call I get the ball You call She gets the doll These plays are fun plays Not the crucifier of live charcoal In some phantom rain
CHORUS It was like a fairy spell Captured by a sounding bell Arrested to a loving cell Where I yearned to forever dwell 1 Who created this shell Turning into hell When little heat yell? I swear I hear the bell Which sounded like a spell And made my heart swell For all to see […]
She yearned for a dimple Ended with a naughty pimple I wish she had kept it simple When she saw There was war She wanted more I always yearn for serenity Which can keep me from adversity No need to cry for complexity And so I live right No one can give me a fright […]
When forest captives cry, who hears? There was a tree in the forest which was tied By an old scary rope which was backed by sky A terrible anger Seeped through it It called for freedom But was not heard Its stem was big Its leaves, enough It shook in littles And shook in raging […]
Children Like clear waters They love from pure great hearts And give surrealistic gold vibes Angels Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I am here watching you standing so near with your beating heart racing and reaching far chasing and hitting hard at dead rock for its symbolism and leaving me stranded as I watch knowing not when rain will fall on this mud *** As much as it hurts, pins, cuts and might kill as much […]
A mumble in the jungle Is no fumble to be humble It is a trap of a triangle To cage you in a crucible No need to yourself entangle By a mumble in the jungle Shhh, there are many empty crucibles With ears on the ground for a mumble So yes, mumbles feed the crucibles […]
With threads of money Snaking and tying minds Who is free on this life tree?  II Even breath is painful Getting eateries are awful What about wearings? Stressful  III Eyes don’t make it easier Seeing is loving, loving is wanting Unnecessary wantings become craving needs  IV What about belonging? Even those with […]
Grandma said she regrets When she saw many reading she frets And asked me to learn to read So my voice can be heard and my mind freed II I read about unfamiliar cultures Which were acting like vultures Zooming in on our almost lifeless cultures And feared the thoughts of pecks of the vultures […]
Through God’s spectacle There is no human receptacle He needs no oracle To tell Him what happens in His tabernacle He gave us combined chronicle To work with but we are comical Doing opposites and needing a miracle Humans are like pigs and it’s terrible Look, we know our state is curable All we need […]
Once upon a time, God was with us He pampered and caressed Until humans became one They joined the sinly train And got a disappointing pestle They pounded God with hatred They pounded Him with stealing They put Him in the mortar of sin And pounded him like crazy Until He made the sky He […]
A cabin boy Was made a cabin toy When his mistress saw him coy And thought he had a thieving ploy II She swore she’d him destroy And will huge soldiers readily employ And make his pain and tears her joy If his muteness did she annoy III He weakly echoed “Oh pretty mistress! I’m […]
There was a kind hearted man Who had a very rugged can And used the burrowed name of Dan To have many an aimless fan II He used a perfect pun When he wanted to show he can And bragged “my can does show I can Because my can still lives like a can” III […]
Pensive plans pets pious people Pushing poor powers to prey in their pates Pissing pride to puff and play A pent up pecker picks in power play II Pure persons pave power paths And pray to pistol preys at play Pouring petrification in pensive plans To pacify pains and pin position of pacemaker III Puffy […]
Night’s towel drips of tears Her laughter has suddenly turned to fears Her moon left without a trace So she uses darkness to cover her face Her stomach churns As her heart yearns Her breathes fight To see daylight But her legs are rooted In darkness until sun comes and have her booted And leaves […]
Blames replace flames Flames which passions claimed Claimed in order to tame Tamed to quench and resurrect flames I blame mouths! Imagine the ride from lips to tongues And from tongues to longs So strong it digs deep down Until a farm or empty holes are created II For every sweet start Mouths star in […]
Flippy fiends not friends Faking fine in my fresh frame Fiercely fuming in furnace flight Fighting fire to flake their flames II Petty pets of pressing pains Passing pines in pissing piles Poor pulses pouting in people Present your papers in pens for peace III Do you deal with death? Drown death dens in dawns […]
If I step on your tail Don’t ask for a bail Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks II If you’ve swift tick tocks At least pause for a talk You’re so under lock And cares not for a weak flock Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks III So tick, talk Block […]
Don’t you bother telling me much I know in times past I was nothing as such Eight to eleven is a huge gap I think I need to give you and I a tap I’m no longer in amoasene You’re no longer in bente Like the spider inspired kente We have all covered our asene […]
Tamale harmattan is whipping my pulse Mmm aaah what is the cause? II It scratches my nostrils and cracks my lips Mmm aaah what is the cause? III It unevenly paints my skin and hardens my hair Mmm aah what is the cause? IV Could it be mucus or phlegms it needs? Mmm aaah what […]
“Sheeiiiii! Papa is gone? Agyeiiiii! I have none left! Wuoeiiiii! I’ve got to go with him” Legs go further from the unknown traveller II “Sheeiiiii! Who will feed me, agyeiiiii! My dark has fallen, wuoeiiiii! There’ll be none to bail me out of my debts” Looks into faces to find a replacement III Eiiiiii! Even […]
She saw him In the light of innocence And loved him For she housed him nine moon travels But time showed his flaws Earth conquered his will And society came to see “Ei! What is this? It could be an ancestral curse! It could be the result of her prostitution! It could be the curse […]
Here I am Not a sham Quit the ram I mean you harm II Here I stand Like God’s hand Calling a band On your dry land III Don’t you wait Catch your bait Know your fate This is your date IV I’m conscience Calling your nonsense To whip you to sense To give you […]
Sleep like a sleepy sleeky bear Sent to see but has no cares Stop sure stuffs of selling sicks Of rough wrong bites of day’s teeth II Sleep like a sleepy nice kitten In a bed with huge hugging hems Heating in cold and healing in heat A yawn is bliss deserving a kiss III […]
Between mortars and pestles Which cause the loudest whistles? One will say both But I will say the pestles II Pestles work the hardest Hitting from the farthest They also spoil the fastest As mortars face more pestles III You can pound Yes, just try to hound Yes, just do your best To get your […]
An eating habit Freeing the soul and taste bud In tongue-land like eagle wings Could do all good Any day the sun shines, dims, blurs or goes to sleep II I don’t live like a grasshopper! My tongue might run like an alien But the same tongue runs smoother like the native I am Who […]
In mayonta The strong winds will calm And the heated sun will calm As the rains seize Only to drizzle at dawn The tsunamis will turn good breezes To embrace and caress me In mayonta II In mayonta I will stand like the moon I am In the dark followed by the stars above And […]
I have thoughts to say; Lion as chief of the forest Concatenates to Loss of smaller animals In the forest of Hanah II I’ve more thoughts to say; Leopards and hyenas know it But are afraid to Stir the nest of fearful bees Others think their stomachs precious III I still have more thoughts Coterminously, […]
Hear me blacks in arks Change the colour of your star So we can go far II You know black for death You use red for hot danger These we have, what now? III We are on travel And our star dims like black coal No wonder we stand IV We stand with no walks […]
If all I long Could fit into a song I would compose that song And cut my tongue  II Because I’ll be among Those who’ll sound the gong Of bare hearted forever song And nothing could be wrong  III All will sing my song Both old and young And I’ll stand emotionally strong […]
All strong green flowers Basking in your rain showers Now, you’re strong towers  II When time’s rain showers You’ll be drenched like all dead fires Ashes; your empires  III Kiss the rains, workers Feel the mud, all paint workers For all beauty suffers  IV Time’s teeth; destroyers Time’s gain is life controllers […]
I marvel at the way Taunters justify and say ‘tis a tradition and needs no reaction Sad! With today’s intellect and technology A pox on all those thoughts! Veins are connected A running blood goes through it Gayly working with other organs In feelings of ecstasy and Never wanting […]
He was clawed to flaw Canined to chain and insane Knew not his right path Going was trouble, standing, Great pain and hunger, back? Not! II Like man, like a beast Like a feet without a land seat Like heart dead in life He walked two paces and turned Walked back two paces and turned […]
Winds! Connive with earth To overturn existence Making the sky threadable And the earth the heavens  II Winds! It would be good For the earth to house all sky beings For the sky to house all earth beings For a change  III Winds! Please imagine Travelling in the sky-like fog Without dust finding […]
What God Can afford  Is all in one accord II What makes God bored Is all of the sin on attitudinal board III What the most High God concurs Is hearts working in one accord IV So shake it Break it Work it And fit it This life Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
The road prostitutes Letting all vehicles through Why doesn’t she have a voice? Poor roads, Even in rain, you accommodate all In heat, you are accommodative of all No rest for you? Like a helpless beauty, you lie As your beautiful flower is being flawed By layers and layers of ungrateful tires The washing bays […]
I live in a skirt A skirt zipped tightly to seal To seal as a present for the deserved I’m not renting out Definitely no to-lets II I know in rat holes Many moles can be placed To trap the hole lords But this zipped hole is not a rat hole Serving as a play […]
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