Fears run rampantDown the streetsWhen words are lost andSolace springs from thin air,Molecular mornings igniteDivisions uniting the sky,Conjoining the lost,Churning distant souls refinedInto something quite like you and I II Something can be nothing Walking through thin air without a face Taunting with blurred thoughts without a trace Molecular afternoons ignite Threatening to spark […]
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Goats Change right Like smart stoats Acting stubborn Tasting like heaven From all angry runnings To all the naughty chewings Their sins are forgottten when their Scents hit noses and their taste hit tongues Just as human corpses lose sins to death Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Brooms wearing one belt Sweep the good, bad, ugly, dust And do grow short together Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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SEA OF ALIENHOOD
I was there And struggled to be here I am here And struggling to be back there The nauseous smell of the cold Makes me wish for the smiles of the sun The sorry faces of race Makes me wish for my root race I am here; My dream come true My mind is there; […]
Veins hold each other Tight, opening their arms to Let blood flow for good II To make a being work Veins forget their differences And tirelessly work III A single break down And all demonstrate for a Hurried attention IV A block at a point All stop, a rising notice To save their own piece […]
Soft flowers are lined From the doorway to the bed Bowing to the new Madam of the temporary Bed who looks like an angel II She blushes in white; White as pure as snow for all To know that she is The luck filled being in motion She is filled with emotions III She smiles […]
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A CRITIC’S FLAW (HAIKU)
A feeling like hope Sits in the midst of chaos Oh pessimism! II A feeling like love Sits in the midst of hatred Oh ye blind hurt men! III A feeling like wins Sit in the midst of grave loss Oh ye doomed thinkers! IV Hear the sad critic Use the word ‘like’ in her […]
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CRICKETS IN DARKNESS (SEDOKA)
Crickets cry so loud In the cover of darkness Knowing their sizes give shade II Which busy bee would Want to go for the dark hunt? You win dear cricket in dark Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
When moon sits in state Stars gather to see him shine Praying to be him In nights unborn to lead the Shine in lighting the dark earth II When moon sits in state All stars shine in their own fate Their yearnings shirked to The background for light to rule Brewing their oneness III What […]
Madiba made us See signs of peace walking on Strong legs in Africa II An ex-convict who Made his good heart a public Display to shine a healthy ray to break ills III Who thinks of the good Coming from a stinking cell? One would say revenge but his legacy is worthy to sell IV […]
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BROKEN PRIDE (LUSTING HAIKU)
Stretchings stretch satins Seeing soft sweet symphonies Sacrosanctly slide II Even emperors stand Ear-bashings without bating An eye in public III Lust leads litany Listening to lewd lessons In untold labour IV Reason! You Rabbi Reason! Fake romance repines The ranter with time V Read through the patterns Satins are replaceable Pride when broken sucks […]
Daylight enhances The bee’s nuances An innocent flower Smiles like a tower Thinking it has power Buzzing in attractiveness It hovers until the flower gets powerless It then perches, sits, gets comfy and sucks Thanking God for its lucks The nectar weeps Hating where its soul seeps Until its shouts diminish Into the bees beaky […]
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LOVE CAPTURES AND DESTROYS
The stingy man opened up The nagging woman shut up What is up? They saw it riding in hooded chariot Speeding in beauty Capturing with need And taking all the pride there was Those who hated to lie Wore clothes of mud Those who hated to sit Sat on needles of hurt Those who hated […]
In her eyes Love with him flies His every whim is her desire And she does all his needs require Even when her body bleeds II In my eyes Hurt with his motive flies Cheating being his only desire And is bound to all his desires acquire And laughs as she bleeds III She is […]
Let’s chew fashion And get full in its elation Who cares about stinky farms? Who wants to be at the end of its harms? Slugging? We must keep sleeping Prouding? Then let’s dance famished If clothes and prestige cannot feed And none wants to touch or be touched By leaves, Then I’m sorry for me […]
Christmas is palpable Intents are horrible Many will use no Bible They are waiting to kiss Under a mistletoe for bliss And will take no one’s diss II Gone are the days When many stood at bays To think of a blessed baby in tangled hays Now there is the sexy dancing Now there is […]
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BOARDERS
Sounds differ Scars differ Sanes differ Shivers differ Even the world’s wakefulness differ II What is this? I’m asleep He is awake It’s 7:00am here It is 2:am there The world is baffled at its own trait III But time travels same Retaining its discipline Of not looking back nor slowing down No matter its […]
Fireflies, save your glow You capture my eyes in order to glow Now the moon serenades the sky Sending sweet light to you and I II Where is your mouth to brag? Where are your wings to nag? Look up to the sky And hear darkness cry III Lovers of secrecy cry foul Seeing as […]
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BEAUTY PREGNANT WITH PAIN
TTH To think time never stops! II TTH A peaceful house harbouring suffering! III TTH Comings are not goings, the unknown taunts! IV TTH Accompaniers wait quietly and anxiously! V TTH Why does your lights shine so deceivingly bright in the night? VI TTH A habitat of beauty housing abhorables! VII TTH Show a little […]
We are here In this hot sea together Why should one cry the loudest? Water, please stop screaming Pepper, garden eggs, onions Tomatoes, are lost in your world Only their colour seves a reminder through you So why must you make the loudest noise? We are all unfortunate beings Who among us was able to […]
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THROUGH THE TEST
Tear through taunting tests Turning trembling to tantalising Like a tactician T’ai-chi terrors trouble Tame taunters by tearing tambourines Telling tales of your tactility Tamper with risk Tear through Its tantrums; Tersely With Tact And Tower Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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A DAY IN A LIFE
A day in a life Many are alive II A day in a life Pain is rife III A day in a life Who carries whose strife? IV A day in a life Same time, same place Different thoughts travel through Same and different minds V A day in a life Satisfaction, cheating, hurts Greed, […]
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SLEEPING WHISTLES
When the night bang bangs And sleep whistles; whee whee whee, sleep awhile I’ll say: Saintly saints send sleeping satins Sprinkled with scents of sweetened dreams Soaked with comfort of stressless strands Singing silly soothing sounds So sleep to the keep of beauty And keep your flawless spirit All happenings are gone with time New […]
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CLOTHES OF DARKNESS
For those with cover cloth of darkness Which hides many of your scary weakness Darkness enclothen Weaknesses unfolden I know you feel embolden’ II Sophisticated sweet sweats May cause you to dance to your own beats No matter your many a soothing day After scaring many to decay Know one night might turn to day […]
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THE STINKING PUB
So I went to a haughty club I saw a begging stinking pub Kneeling, weeping and blocking smoke From mouths of many a stinking broke II “Save me you fresh clean broke Don’t smoke me, you can get stroke Help me breathe air and not smoke I’m dying of the many travelling smoke” III I […]
What if I say humans are fishes? We are fishes with air as our water Swimmingly walking with our hands as fins Would you all say I’ve lost my brain buttons? II What if I say humans are leaves and fruits? We are leaves and fruits according to our deeds So the leaves produce nothing […]
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Learning Love
Loosening leaps Learning lust Listening leasts Leaning labour Lengthy labyrinth Laconic limps Laird lessons Labouring labia Lambent lightening Living lively Leading ladder Leave the la-di-das Learn to be the linchpin Leave the lost Live in love Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Scars Remind Their bearers And taunt givers As to revenge’s time A touch, remembrance, pain But that pain can be turned gain If forgiveness smooths the bearers Not a leg walks, all strong-willed legs walk So stepping on toes in secluded space Is a giving as all reach for goals and fall down Scars given […]
Obvious waves Travelling from far caves You give chills which lift no finger to save II Visions of your opened mouth Visions of your furious face Thoughts of your final blows Shake my body into jerks III So sail slow, oh vicious waves! Smile small, oh angry waves Seal your mouth, oh taunting waves And […]
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DAZZLING BLAZZERS
Stars have their brightness No matter their territories They would learn to shine They won’t look at the others And won’t try being a challenge II Sky is huge and broad It has its home and abroad It makes its beings free To roam giving their own best War is unnecessary III Blend is necessary […]
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A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER
I need a December to remember In another December as a happy member I need no pretending December Which will smile and my life endanger I will my life surrender If December opens its safe chamber I need no chamber which’ll make me an offender So December shed your temper And be a December to […]
Anger lies within Everything God’s breath is in It can be the sun It can also be the rain And can also be the wind II Who stands this fury? The fury of the sun burns That of the rain floods And the fury of wind kills To think they pleasure in calm III All […]
Magintine in lovertine Blessinpull in maheartine Feelingtine is overtine Lonetine calls frustratine Make it mablessintine I know this may sound like fake language, and it is. This is the pure version: Magic in love Pull blessings to my heart My feelings are overdue Loneliness calls for frustration Make this my blessing time Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
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PAINFUL VISIONS
The huge tree cries It cries for its loneliness It sees it all House them all. When the moon lights its eyes And darkness whistles, They come in pairs. Many swing Many dance Many kiss many lie Many sit Just making each other reflective mirrors The hurtful of all Is when many fight Go, come […]
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TO MY FEMININE SIDE
To have me in your ride Touch my feminine side I’ve rules you must abide Our oneness needs no divide II To have me by your side Let smoothness glide Have no scary skeletons to hide Our prideful parts must not collide III To have me by your side Tone down when you chide Slow […]
Sourcer’s sources Serve our forces Cut our loses And change our bosses II Wanderer’s wonder make pain surrender Cut hurt intruder And put war asunder III This is a prayer We don’t have a lawyer We loathe every destroyer So be our lawyer IV Cravings Yearnings Needings Fears Satisfy them; our massive pleadings Amoafowaa Sefa […]
I’s without eyes Heads which never heads Nose which never knows Birds without beds Legs which beg Sheds without shirts Mouths which can’t build mounds Armpits without pits Thighs beneath the highs Fingers without figures Toes in the lows Mics built in stomachs Buttocks without tick tocks Everything has a semblance With no semblance Once […]
In the drizzling rain I feel the sizzling bane Of the fizzling cane II Chaos sit at the counter Bragging to sanity counter And shun peace’s encounter III Vultures perch on broken twigs Smelling blood mixed with long wigs Looking through for the fleshy bigs IV Vampires join the nasty orgy Assured by their psychology […]
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TRAVELLING FEELINGS
Sweet At my feet He offers a seat II Sweet At the beat He offers a dance III Sweet As it heats He switches on his cool IV Sweet He makes all neat When dirt sweeps across V Sour By the lengthening hour All the sweet turn to sour So sad. Thoughts then tend to […]
Time! Travel backwards To the day of creation And take me there II Time! Make me no alien In that crucial moment Please help me blend III Time! I need to see Like a child watching TV With my eyes the order of creation IV Time! I need to fathom How initialists lived Without religion […]
If life goes for eggs And blessing goes for fowls And trouble goes for hawks And earth go for death, I would voice my peace Egg throughout Boiling to be a fowl Without encountering many hawks Fly when need be Being careful not to fall For the earth’s mouth never closes And its stomach never […]
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SENDING LOVE
Sizzling songs psyche us up Serving our souls serenity Surrender to its surreality To send sparks to your motivation II Pain pecks as poor pests Pinning pins in pensive parts Prove to pain your power By pecking pain for awesome gain III In insecurity Immerse your soul in happy ink Irk low confidence into […]
Teeth in the curtain Are not hiding, that’s their home Mouth is their master II Mouth is a servant Listening to the mind and eyes To carefully work III I pray to just see What will make my teeth shine bright And be no monsters IV So for you I hope Let pain flee from […]
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WITHIN AND WITHOUT
Standing on the mountain I feel my perfect shape a fountain I try to many things a counting But the many creatures keep shouting Please, make me a free fountain So I can snake through all and know their nurturing So I can feel the fire, stones and land thumping So I can feel the […]
Had a duet with the sensational Lisa Ojanpera on theme Racism. This is a white and black blend, please enjoy and let the white and black clouds merge. The sky is fuming madly Hating our living badly She neglects wind’s many pleas And thunders us on our knees Black clouds force to take full charge […]
Tears Of the sky Can be blessings For the earth when it’s dry II Tears Of the sky Can be a curse For the earth when it’s wet III Know There’s change in all So plot but don’t plot to fall Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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LOVE LIKE A BEE? (QUATRAIN)
Love must be a butterfly Flying here and sucking there Deceiving beings by being sly Because its angels are rare II Love must be a bed with bugs Pinching beings when sleep is sweet Denying addicts its hugs And pushing beings to their feet III Love must be bee with honey Combing around to make […]
Wow! How did God allow this? Many bottles he made Like the ingenious crafter In his branding thoughts Now it turns into a huge show a show of beauty A show of durability A show of class A show of geography A show of war Not what He bargained for I know Lost! We seem […]
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PREACHER AND TEACHER
So the preacher preached On the pious pulpit Looking on head tops Charging by every “amen” Like a goat, he was sent in By a wife he thought was ignorant And listened as he spoke He held his pen and jotter Turned when there was laughter After sermons he looked down Only to find marked […]
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IF I WERE A CHRISTIAN
Just as Christ came Easing His way through hearts Summoning hurdles to lie Unleashing anger on sins, I would Summon my conscience to light II If I were a Christian, Saving me and all would be a priority III Tearing beings Hesitating in helping Ecstatically jubilating than saving, will be nil IV Soaring on righteousness […]
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