I As fowls search for corn, Hawks search for chicks Eagles search for fowls Some snakes search for eggs Forgetting others’ search for snakes II As plants draw water, air and sunlight Sheep and goats search for plants Cows search for plants Even dogs search for some plants Forgetting others search for dogs III As […]
Tag: POETRY.
Categories
COCONUT; A HEALING ME
I Caring is me Overprotecting, yes, sometimes Classy, I am Old and golden, yes, that’s me Not even my peelings are trash Under no circumstance do I fail to deliver Terrifying thirst hates my sight II I can breastfeed Produce oil, Work on hair like magic […]
Categories
WEAR AND TEAR
If the world was so fair Then all will not care About everyone being fair How can the world be fair? When we step on the earth And hate its forever living dust? How can the world be fair When we are moulded dust And hate the source of our lives? How can the world […]
“Kokrokooooooo Ade akye oooo” The static bell of the cock in wake I ask: Are motherless children happy? Did they sleep well? Have they no fears? Fears of impending danger, Hunger, Thirst, Loneliness, Ridicule Forced labour? Are there many thinking of them? Are there many wanting to wipe their fears? Are there many to give […]
I The cricket sings In the arms of darkness The same darkness Which makes beings sleep II The bat sees clear In the time of darkness The same darkness Which blinds beings III Might be good for you But not be good for me Might be a blessing for her But no blessing for him […]
Categories
A PRAYER FROM MY HEART
I Lord Great thanks I give To you II God Your words I believe Are true III Almighty My life I know You own IV God I act bored But you know My heart V Lord My sins You know I loathe VI Sweet God My fears You know Are pure VII Oh Lord Save […]
“Pa, panananana, panananana Panananana, panananana, pananananaaaaaaa” Softly, Play me that piano softly Putting passion in your fingers And softly Play me to sleep “Pa, panananana, panananana Panananana, panananana, pananananaaaaaaa” Doves hover to listen Nature keeps silent to listen The angels gather to listen And witness So softly, Play me the piano softly, Just play me […]
Laws learn to lie Lie so low to live in loss Loss when left loose will lessen lives Lives needed to lead the led Laws limp when they see love Laws leap when they see the Lord Laws lie low when they see truth Laws, laws, laws, laws, laws Laws made by men who are […]
Categories
COLOURLESS
I Colourless What the world needs is colourless What beings want is colourless To live blameless II Colourless Our problems stem from our need to be colourless Blacks, browns, red and whites need to be colourless For all to be blameless III Superiority hates colourless Racism hates colourless Geography hates colourless Only colourless will make […]
I So the old man saw The umbilical cord of the great being severed, Saw his first wobbly step Heard his first ridiculous word Saw his first fall And saw him learn his first lesson And so? II There are path-makers There are path-finders Whoever thought Jesus Christ Will be more important than John the […]
Categories
A FROWNING FLOWER
A flower frowns from far and flops Telling tales of taints which cleared it from the tops Repeating restlessly with renewed rancour It tells of friends from the highest heights And of their hailing which held her high Only to push her past her speed to fall Tainting her beauty and making her call Only […]
Categories
PATH? GIVE ME A MACHETE
Grandma was no doormat She had three husbands Husbands she gave three lives each And the earth took one from each Mother was a direct opposite A doormat used by three And taken by one who stepped harder Through her journey of five lands In nine moons apace The three lands she had journeyed Gave her […]
Orphaned by ebola, it is hurtful to see families shunning the companies of the young ones. My heart bleeds for these young ones. I pray that many voices will come together as one to bring comfort to these children and bring hope to those who have conquered the sickness. This poem is for all those […]
Categories
LIVING BEFORE LEAVING
When dew kisses erect leaf The sun pushes it into the leaf Its punishment; Never to be seen as itself ever But help the skin of the leaf to shine To attract its rivals Play in the lions den And only your bones Will have that opportunity to scream The fly which hovers around cobwebs […]
I The poor cries wolf And sees no wealth in health The rich sleeps not And hopes for peace like the poor II Two eyes Walking legs Working hands Ungrateful mouth III Every blessing deserves a praise Who helps an ingrate Who sees not the little things And nags as the wounded dog with flies […]
Clear it there And make it rare This ebola scare Needs some care Make it fair Face it square It is a cheater who cannot with humans pair The pain it brings none can bear And even with its presence all fear to dare Because its teeth are ready to tear Aiming to make black […]
Categories
EBOLA TO THE BOOLA
Let’s send ebola to the boola And bury it under the heap of rubbish Deep deep beneath the rocks So the rocks will rock them dead II Let’s take ebola to the boola Men are falling Women are falling Even children are falling as they laugh III Let’s take ebola to the boola […]
Categories
EVAPORATING ICE
The heat is on So the cold which won Is entirely gone Now sweats brew On the loving ice Which was so nice When it lied in the arms of cold What can be done? Get a cooler Or risk evaporation And be left like a shell Completely empty Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I Need to hide your precious Without an African being conscious Open a book and slot it in II Words are pains In which they see no gains Most complain they hurt their brains and break their sanes III Need to hide from an African Hide in a stuffy library Even the scents will repulse […]
The land tries But still cries Blood of purity shouts Anger of truth roars Justice in pain screams High pitched voice of abuse unbearably sounds Feet of lies thump As cheating massacres Tribal unrest turn  chaotic Every face has hidden mask of a lion Who covers the ears of the land? Everyone for himself The […]
I When hands touched hands We hugged and kissed Laughed and teased That was what streghtened its stands II We fought poverty Battle sicknesses Were each other’s blanket Cried in each other’s arms Loved truly in hunger And prayed for the rains to seize III Then the sun begun to shine You cried confusion Denied […]
I Kwaku searched and searched To steal and have happiness His search was futile But he kept at it with hope Stalking every smiling face II He bought spectacles And bought guns to scare and seize, Saved money to please, And bought handcuffs to cuff him When he catches him at last III He went […]
Lie on the sickness mat And see who uses his fanning hat When the sun sits at its angry best And many flies hope to push beings into the earth II Never be disappointed by what you see None will want to pay that fee Their safety is their thoughts’ keys Which locks consciences to […]
Categories
A DOVE WITH LOVE
A dove with love Fears nothing from above This dove is like the banished Living love famished Flying alone sends chills through the bones Something nature condones When the air whispers The trees in pleasure stroke their whiskers And the dove feels worse Where is its half? Could this be a curse? Hope of a […]
Their thumb powers are unknown to them Like our forefathers exchanged gold for salt They exchange their powers for cheap coins, cloths Bicycles, motorbikes, cars and promises Which never come to pass When will they see their thumbs are worth more than little fees? Grave sufferings, avoidable sufferings […]
It is dry It is dry here So the creator made it fair By planting shea The market reeks of dawadawa While children sit under heated sun Their sad faces attracting trade for their parents There is that taxi meandering here There is that taxi going there The motor cycles and bicycles battle pedestrains Tomatoes, […]
Oh Ghana! Land of my birth A land with gold and greens The only land with a black star which shines To lead the way One powerful land fought for with blood Where did we pass? To get this lost? Where did we go so wrong? That we use baskets to fetch water? We all […]
I stand on the head of the mountain Looking down at angry rocks Watching around as companion trees dance Looking down as angry trees fight the winds But I still aim for the sky What does this mean? Satisfaction taunts and never delivers? The more I hold, the more it pulls The more I get, […]
Categories
DEFLOWERERS (FOR THE ABUSED)
I Unripe fruits, abused Weak seeds, used New born plants, deflowered What are these? What are these? II Full blooms, seek Beautiful grooms, speak Strong hearts are weak So they abuse their strength They abuse the weak III The weak weeps With broken hearts They hide the fears You imprint on their souls. Â IV […]
I Clip not my wings When I fly I sing Even if you can’t hear You’ll see me there II Break not my wings You know not what I can bring Just throw me high And help me fly III Ingrates abound But I blow grateful sounds Just give me a nudge And keep watch […]
I A lie needs a lie To help it go by Clean that hot lie And help it die down II A lie needs many lies To make it smile as it flies Uproot its deep roots To save it the many hoots III A lie ignites with lies To ruin many skies Quench the […]
I Frowning fits not the sky It makes the world so dry Please let there be a smiling sky So my time can go happily by II Darkness makes all things sly It makes all things go awry Let me take rest as it draws nigh So my wake  will be free of sigh III […]
Categories
YOUR ENVELOPE
I Make me a letter I wish to be a letter Posted just to you II Make me that letter In this time of angry cold To get right to you III When I’m enveloped I will quietly lie in wait Of your warm embrace IV I might travel land Or might travel sea or […]
Categories
IF ONLY…
I If only there were special lens Which see hearts’ writings which never ends And reads clearly; hurts, pains and yearns Each one will another properly fend II If only hearts have speech Which reaches hearts intended to reach All silent aches will be noticed with most cleared Saving deep wounds mostly dug till death […]
I We all know but refuse to acknowledge It hides, calm like a lioness about to hunt, Giving its prey silence to encourage It to draw near for a catch so easily blunt When its growth goes far beyond its storage Its dreadful fumes will […]
Categories
IT’LL BE ALRIGHT
When your heart is deep in doubt As your blessings start to sprout Harbour no shattering murderous fear Shed no humiliating blinding tear Push through even if you look queer And all faces tend to annoyingly sneer For darkness gets bored without light Especially […]
Categories
A SORE STATE (MONORHYME)
I think of now and before I know not what is in store I see not the work of law I see crimes brought to the fore And see children refuse their chore I aim to know its prompt core Living such life I abhor For real justice, I swore But my voice always mops […]
Categories
SUFFERING FOR NOTHING (HAIKU)
I It roams in some parts Of Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Guinea, scary! II It has not spread wings To other fifty countries Yes we are that many III Shun not the largest Using ebola as bait For it hunts for all IV Instead of shunning Why don’t we find a stronger Force to fight […]
I Whereas hatred boldly stands Where chaos reigns It hides in the realms of love II Whereas sadness is king In the town of tears It is a thief in the city of happiness III Pain will always stalk peace And never want to be seen Until it conquers IV Such is life We must […]
I If there comes a messiah Or a future disciple of God Would we ever know or believe enough To acknowledge that life from the start? II No! I don’t think so Not in a billion years Those whose times produce them Will laugh and jeer Make mockery and sneer At the words of another […]
We In  the arms of armoured earth Protective of us Fight with race Fight with gender Fight with geography Fight with ethnicity And fight for what we can’t forever own II When we Crossing over into soil Take nothing but our beings Our skin being butchered by moth Our bones being powdered by age and […]
Categories
REJECTS’ SUCCESS
Even rejects’ success hurts Not witchcraft, pure humanity Not wanting and aiming to keep somehow Is pure humanity They have a name for it: Selfishness But honesty of these feelings Spell maturity And that maturity brings respect Respect for the self And blessings for the future So feel all you want But love the growth […]
I They see a lonesome  me That’s what they see If only they knew what is They would know I’m one of the clouds not the earth II Too bad, they have no eyes To see that I dine And wine on the moon With the most handsome creatures My mind can make up III […]
Sky beings live As we live Clouds travel Respecting the stars and moon As fiery animals move farther To get out of the reach of humans There are the tensions Those tensions which get resolved Perhaps, the clouds fear the sun Perhaps, the moon fear the clouds Perhaps, it’s the other way But they live […]
Categories
GAIN IN PATIENCE
I The earth Swallows to give II Seeds rot For life III Chameleons blend For safety IV Rocks break To build V In all, just hold tight Your pain is meant for great gain Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I I saw no clouds I heard no thunder It was just the sun So where from this rain? II Intruding rain What do you seek to gain? Just as you came Please leave unnoticed III My things need drying My world needs brightening My feet hate muddying In this present standing Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
I How pretty The budding smile Of the new born beautiful flower Which feels the air And sees the sun, Tastes the rain And hears the humming of thunder II Oh how beautiful It sways in youth As all do look Her way more than once Dazers gaze for long As it dances to show […]
Categories
IN SLEEP’S HEAVEN
Soft light Beautiful whispers of the air All flowers smile Beckoning as trees and shrubs drum and dance While beautiful birds provide soothing music Angels with wings receive you in their embrace Giving you a heavenly massage You are taken on a tour to God’s parliament Where thoughts of pain are nil Smiles implant themselves […]
Categories
PLEASE HAVE MERCY
(This poem is dedicated to all women in all corners of the world who are being mistreated by men who think they are their properties. It also goes to women sold by their own families. I pray with you because I know it can never be easy living and being used like an object. Forced […]
Categories
BALD TREE (HAIKU)
I The bald lonely tree Gets no sympathy from birds Even when it is in pain II Birds chirp in dancing Flying here and hopping there No weather bother III The tree sits under Be it hotness or coldness No deliverance IV Who sees its hot tears? Who knows its coldness and fears? Who can […]
Mum Cee 