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 […]
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A JOURNEY TO YOUR DREAMS
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 […]
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SHAMEFROMANIACS
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 […]
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TO THE MAKER
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 […]
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ONE AT A TIME
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 […]
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EARS AND FEARS
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 […]
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THE OWNER OWNS
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 […]
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A CITY TO WIN
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 […]
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THE PRIZE OF LOVE?
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 […]
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HOW DOES GOD LIVE?
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 […]
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A SAVAGE OPINION
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 […]
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LOVE BATTLES
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 […]
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TEEN FANTASIES
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 […]
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KWAHU BRAVES- A CHILD OF STONE
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” […]
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EVER FELT THIS WAY?
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 […]
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HOW ARE THEY?
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 […]
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I ASK GOD WHY
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 […]
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IN LOVE’S TOWN
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
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FLASHING BACK UNFLUSHABLES
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 […]
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PEACE TURNED CHAOS
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 […]
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NO EXCUSE
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 […]
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BRIGHTNER BRIGHT
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 […]
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BUBBLES IN BLOOD
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) […]
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UNCOVER
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 […]
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DESORROW ME
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 […]
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A DREAM OF FEAR IN THE LAND
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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BE MY ROPE
Hunchback television Paved way for the flats All inspired by Edison’s light Harvested food’s love with famine Gave reason for the canned and tinned All inspired by the need to eat and survive Brown leaves fall In wait of the greens All inspired by the tree’s need to flourish At a time […]
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YOU STONY MOUNTAIN!
Stony, stony, stony mountain No water, no food, no assuring fountain Heart on fire No heart’s desire I’ve lost my bid on the painful counting Stony, stony, stony mountain Fearfully, heartlessly and horribly daunting All you’ve made me is a crier As the sun do me frier And some hungry lions keep on haunting […]
Hospitality Brutality Extreme poverty Queer animosity On this continent  of love Rare corruption Thoughts on a mission To accomplish their visions Of filling their pockets with grave decisions On this continent of love Like ants around wood Looking for food If we work as they stood Our forefathers will be in the blessing […]
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VILLAGE BLISSING
I woke in the morning To the calls of crowing And loved the air blowing And saw the trees swinging I loved the birds singing And loved the bush brushing Happily, happily, to the stream I went singing The stream kept waving The rats kept strolling The sun kept smiling The dust kept dancing […]
Faithfulness! A word as beautiful As a flower With many opened Holes of deceit in deed Love! A word sought From mouths of worthy beings But heavily utilised By pain, mockery and hatred Trust! A word which lights The face and tingles the heart Only to be a pawn In the hands of […]
Stumbling upon a bloody kite On an unimaginable stony site He made to run with all his might But was caught and jailed by the unfair light He thought a lot about this trappy bright And saw clearly how he was poorly indict’ He swore to never be confined without a fight So he […]
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AFRICAN PRESSURE
Papa’s pipe must be filled, Because he gave me life Not because he took care of me, For blessings from the gods. Mama’s clothes must always be new, At any occasion because she gave me life Not because she took care of me, For blessings from the gods. My siblings; twenty and one […]
Owls I must fear From my mother’s words I infer If their minds are fixated on me at night Nothing I do will go right Crocheting crochets Please leave my clutches Mouths of oldy angries Must be treated with care An angry growl and their curse Connives with thunder to deal me a blow […]
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SAVE ME A PLACE
Save a place for me Grandma Please save a place for me I do not know what country or town awaits After my eyes close and my breathe seizes Save a place for me Grandma There may be a long cue which might require one knowing another If the current bribing here is […]
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POLITRICIAN’S TRICKS
I need to feel the sun I need to feel the sun in my land I don’t need blankets When it is too hot for clothes I need to drink water I need to drink potent water I need no liquor When thirst warns to drown me in the sea of death I […]
From the soothing balm of shea To the ginger, pepper suppository Through to hunger which was queer And quenched with thick breakfast of ‘coco’ With plenty sunshine, my happiness was sealed By the creator I, like an angel, knew no colour I knew no difference I knew humans, black, white, yellow and whatever And […]
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PAINASOMANIA
From painful smiles The mouth burst Scattering  blood, breeding relief and pain Like an overfilled drum Hurt pushes to be free But the harder it pushes, the tighter it closes Oh soul of hunger! Soul of thirst! I’ve exceeded my danger! I’ve exceeded my pain! Get the pain seamstress! Get the hurt cleaner! […]
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A WORRIED WORLD
Growing guns Gleaming groans Gleaming groans Crying crosses Crying crosses Painful platforms Painful platforms Worried world Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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