Prekese and dawadawa Unlikenesses in rawness Loved refined Momoni and Koobi Nose irritants in the process of refinement Delicacies in refinements By being in the sand And getting stepped on Gold walks through shame To attain fame In the eyes of the refined Amoafowaa […]
A mouth keeps opening Dressed by a walrus moustache Its door at every opening Shows two crooked chairs Which tell tales of collapsing in kola But voices dressed in words so horrid Dawdle to battle the strong And guess what? They win A […]
She lies like the vast ocean Knowing not her tenants’ mission With five legs and 49 intestines She feels like a Frankenstein’s Monster She created a world for herself And stayed back watching it glow But the glow turned into tears which flow Without a […]
Seas sell shores, Shores with sores Sauntering seas Sell static shores Stops by sides, seeping, Struggling with steeps Silly shores lie still In solemn solidarity As seas sing in satisfaction Sell me out And I’m sold I’m no shore I see you’re no sea […]
“When evil goes to bed And its angels sleep tight When hell’s gate is closed And the guards get so drunk When shameful walking sounds Stop running in my mind When past pictures of me In my head seize to be I will rise like […]
At this point The hunter can gather its game In the forest And tell it the story Of the eater and the eaten I do not care At this point Time can walk like a taunting trolley Ringing its irritating bell Waking the dead To know its […]
The bird cries at night Begging for more humane rights To fly like a kite Yes fly like a kite When the sun is shining bright To feel the cool breeze It is so glaring That guns thirst for its poor blood When the sun […]
When the soul does not fit And the heart fails to sit When the eyes swim in tears With the head drowned in fears The body moans in the heat In millions I feel the claws of lions Every set of smiling teeth seethe Pain […]
Thanks to ebola The poor and the rich alike Kneel at the altar Praying for great calm As the tree of sickness shakes And panic’s taunt scares Peaceful in panic Holding hands in hopeful calm Perfects of pictures Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
The peace and serenity That was with my completeness Fled into the arms of the savage Who squashed and swallowed it whole The moment my guard was down And the holder of my emotion took charge Now I am in need Of that peace and innocence […]
In the heat of the sun And the shame of the poor Amidst the problems which stand tall And the pain with no gain Even on the market which sells the bad And the faces which are made sad With the many viruses walking […]
Sorry, In the heat of the fire And the temper of the sticks Say sorry to calm the stakes With the heat of anger And the thirst of the guns Say sorry to calm the stakes Caught in the hunger Of the cutlass and the heat of […]
Thoughts of pepper Thoughts of salt Thoughts of sugar Thoughts of onions Thoughts of oil To bring them together Singular thoughts gives not all Thoughts of rivers Thoughts of land Thoughts of fishes Who live and follow Thoughts of trees Thoughts of stones […]
Africa is not a bush It is also no country There aren’t people living on trees Houses, mansions, great architecture And great minds are found in Africa Which including its Island Nations Are 54 countries in all Africa is a continent Like Asian […]
I’m taking a journey To your dreams To banish the screams And feed you honey I’m taking a journey To your dreams To sack the screams And make you peaceful money I see your headaches And your heartaches I see your pain […]
“Please m’aam? How do you do m’aam? How may I help m’aam?” And so the words started to walk From a mouth hiding  murderous words Honorifics clothing horrifics Rely on me like the Odum tree And I’ll protect you like the mountain With a soul Go this […]
I stand on a branch of sincerity And watch as they march To the office of parties: Over ambitiousness Corruption Unfairness Murder Tragedies Shame Scandals Hatred Each in his or her own filth But when they emerge I see them draped in beautiful Party colours Looking […]
In the mirrored eyes of the world I see myself as the vulture parasite Spewing fire Wanting to kill and devour The movie of me in their eyes Scares me So I made to get a mirror of myself Struggling and struggling I get the mirror […]
In my fire rantings Let the seed of river sewn within Grow mysteriously to quench the thirst I give In my savagery Let the balm of coolness sitting within Speed to heal In my moment of chaos Let the peace you planted like petrol spread To take over […]
Future filth Stop the frown Straighten up And be around Your time is now When you can ask how When your time stops There’ll be no sound So future filth Don’t act like gold You will get old And can’t be sold Your buyers will pay For you to be hidden from […]
Let it rain When the drum Of the heart Fills with tears and regret Just let it rain and let the waters wet your chest Watch When the rays seem So faint And your world seem so dark Just carefully watch till the rays gets you your needed Sing When melancholy sits on […]
Open stores With free goods Which have unfathomable price tags And no attendants to protect them But none dares to think of stealing Open doors With beautiful furnishings Which invite but scares And no caretaker to answer the door But none dares to enter A beautiful church Which many instruments Which giggle for […]
The body with no ears Does everything in anything Risks hearing no hazards Stands in the mouth of death And sees its teeth only when They are clamping down on it Have ears Even the deaf uses his eyes as ears Have thoughts To […]
The claws of the crab Knows not the golden soil Once it harbours the water it needs The crows of the cock Escapes not the eager farmer Who has a goal in a time frame Our measured life span Stops not at our pauses No […]
Travel with me Travel with me into the comfort of love A city of bright lights and smooth sounds Holding hands and looking into our souls Through the unending seas of our visions Let us stop time And kill all mouths Shutting all eyes with our brightness […]
Just how much will it cost To have a peacock love a hen? Just how much will it cost For beef to shine positively in the eyes of men? I am cat With human thoughts Sniffing and mewing But talking too Having whiskers And walking […]
I wish for a spirit so divine Which will close eyes of all who with me dine And leave my living to be mine So I can treat myself superbly fine Then I’ll put all my feelings in line It doesn’t matter if it sums up to […]
In arbitration And granting mercies Or adjudicating, Doe He sit, cross his leg, Stand, lie, sit in a palanquin, Hide behind curtains Or mysteriously has His voice represent Him? I’m asking this of The God whom many talk of. In listening To prayers […]
There is that vast ocean Of cancer, one that lies to be seen And she stands at the bank Eyeing the serenity at the other bank Would she be able to swim through To her loved ones? Could tales of others winning be true? Should she […]
The earth sat millions of years ago And ruled that he won’t take part Of the competition between beings And plants And she resolved to watch Then, the plants ruled Their pests hunting beings down Their trees killing beings instantly Their leaves poisoning to depletion […]
Upon her eyes meeting him There was electricity Through her body wires Like one shocked to dumbness She stood rooted Waiting for a useless pestle To get her out of her reverie Upon his eyes meeting her He stood stupefied Like a horse foreseeing a […]
In teenage river Swimming in the pool of innocence Passion’s impressions Was for her, perfection and happiness In teenage love’s shiver Basking in hopes of ever afters Pampering and queen-ship Was her dream and fantasy She reached the steps of Cupid And thought perfect celebrations Were […]
I am a child of stone I am from the great stone Which was refuge to my generations gone What was a weapon turned shelter For my forefathers And later became my mothers and fathers I am from the stone which protects And tells enemies “go and die” […]
I stand in the midst of two deadly ditches Holding on to tiny tattered stitches Wanting to close my eyes but needing the eyes Hating to say goodbye but compelled as every second eyes I stand in the middle of this antagonistic wind Being blown here, […]
In the light Of this fight We find the sight In an insight And lose our might Like a kite We fascinate in light In God’s sight As our colour bright No matter our height But  there is our night Which brings our plight And turns all things right On this site Into […]
The rude visitations of the rains Touch my sanes What becomes of Those with unsheltered homes? What happens to Those with no mother’s arms? Who tends to Those with no towels of comfort, Who feeds Those who live from hand to mouth? I weep watching their plight in my mind Cooped […]
As the many land With golden spoons And the many land With silver spoons With others landing With a bronze spoon How can you sit there watching While I land with no spoon? As the many reject The many clothes in boos And the many reject The many shoes With the many loving […]
Eyes Attraction Daydreaming Giggles Goose pimples Smiles Trust Belongingness Companionship Fast heartbeats Hugs Kisses Time pauses Everything beautiful A boarder, then Hurt Pain Mistrust Withdrawal Enmity Disappointments Regrets I realised too late Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
On this shore I sit My tears being The water source Reminiscing the pace Of my steps from the womb On this shore I stop At the time You crossed my path And try to meander Past your gaze to no avail On this shore I fight To resist your gift And to […]
Inhibiting filthy aggressions Show when our interests tempts An order came For a continental meeting For world peace All reps were in seat Battling for their own to rule the world A voice A louder voice The loudest voice Chaos, no voice was heard Until a money bone fell in their midst The trusting pushers […]
Once in the land of the wild God staged a judgement in the mild He called king lion Who sought to sing to enter Zion But sang the song of the murderous The crowd cheered in happiness Their terrorist has been fairly judged by His Holiness They sang and praised God’s name was raised […]
A noise, I stop, Turn, Shiver, Panic And rush back into my hole If that is my trait as an ant, Would I be a master Going down the annals In the school of Christ? Amidst the fears, I strive For the times of the rains I gather In the promising sunlight, […]
None to inform No light for television No interest in falling currency The people of Crotoa village Only think of feeding They owe no one They feed themselves But in trying to feed others They come at a cost, A cost the government bears Ghana, ghana Gold turning sand Thieves of the poor […]
When the sun goes to sleep And wakes at dawn It smiles And brights When the moon goes to rest And wakes in the eves It smiles And brights When the breeze goes to rest And wakes It makes The mouth smile So smile; your highness Bright; your goodness Lead in aptness […]
Bubbles in the blood Yearning suddenly flood Eyes are closing Hands are holding Breathes suddenly rule A dance as sweet as honey Change of names into honey Legs in rhyme Feelings like crime Cupid stands smiling “Abena, Tawia, wake, please wake There’s chaos that needs unravelling” Damn these dreams. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
Two grasses On many lawns Fight But the poor lawns Have their beauties smeared And their lives ended I live I see The unfair blues I try I cry But no good You go in spirit Your lives are taken But your marks remain on firm minds Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
It seems sealed All boxed up Like a nice package But in there are pains Suffering, fears, longing And under the box lies The hope wanting to be seen So uncover Peel Peel Peel And peel Until all those you want hidden Give way to the one thing Which will attract the light Like magnet […]
I was born beautiful With an added original for a purpose Man thought they were not enough There was the mouth Ears, nose and you know what But my ears got an earthly Why must you tamper with My original earth path of the mighties? Cries of the land for me were ignored Cries […]
I yearn for a day of no sorrow Where words will have no sadness to borrow To have life to enable them leave the hollow And light the pain to mellow When spring calls And summer falls I yearn for many made halls Of sunlight in my head’s thinking walls Let the shine […]
Croaking frogs sing in fear Scared antelopes run to save their lives so dear The pain in the owls’ voices, so clear Nothing seems mere In these times, in this jungle Ants are hiding in their tiny holes Snakes are hiding in borrowed anthills The lions’ den is crowded by strangers But the lions […]
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