“Who would’ve known The one who made the powerfuls terror known Could be taken down In an open town By one whose name rhymes As his and lived in his same times? Who would’ve known The one whose fear was never shown Would have no voice And no choice And would be stripped off […]
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AN EXCERPT FROM PARENTINOLOGY
“Kwaku Ananse wove a nest Which caught him in his naughty quest” The Ghanaian parenting sages Go with many of these adages “And the princess met the prince Became queen and king, gave birth to a prince” The European parenting sages Tell the little agers in their thoughtful sages Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
I see, I hear, I laugh, I yearn, I hurt, I cry, I turn to you My sacred diary Dear open diary blog I hope you never Wash in-shore Swear you’ll always be here And hold my thoughts Without judgement On and off In and out Be my server Though I’m a thorn […]
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LEAD THE WAY
I stand on a little mountain Surrounded by so many huge mountains Some with openings showing many a beautiful fountain I tried but lost the countings All shout to be looked and booked I sit, stand, try running But realise I am rooted Until I choose, my running is no running Imagine all […]
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I’M AN OPTION
My arms can be your home My chest can be your Rome My eyes can be your mirror My ears can be you microphone My nose can be your identifier My hands can be your carrier My legs can be your sender My hair can be your burner My back can be your shame pillow […]
Maama, where is the past? I think I’ve grown too quickly Walking is seized Mobiles are sent And people speak to machines Maama, where is the past? I think I’ve travelled so quickly Televisions are old The internet trends Air relieves firewood in cooking Maama, where is my thought? My brains have been […]
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SHOWN LOVE
Converging crowd Donning love Thinking aloud A startled heart smiles Goodness is freshness When the winds of life blow Crashing and beating For it is then the crowds chant in your favour. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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A POET’S CRADLE
In the comfort of the dark With a gentle stream of light In the sea of silence With a perfect mind scenery In the chaos which surrounds With no ears but mouths at war At fears stroke and pity’s mope With emotions rushing up and down In the perfect city of […]
Associators are interested in the past Money makers are interested in the future So I used to look back; Back to a place I could not hold And into the future; Looking into what I could never see And ended up in the same place, Juggling between two poses Past and future As time placed […]
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A TRAVELLING TRAVELLER
I’ve come from far Far, far from alien lands I swam from the ocean of life Onto a hardened ground Sans clothes, sans pride Tears being my only escape I slept, then sat, then stood Then walked, then took to my heels And I’m still running From a toddler, I jumped into childhood Then […]
Flowers wilt Plants wilt Weeds wilt So do you You step on it; The earth You spit on it; The earth You ease into it; The earth You’ll also end up in it; The earth So like a treasured mattress, Step on the earth With respect, Spit on the earth With apologies, Ease […]
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FOR MY LATE UNCLE: KWABENA BOATENG
You lie on the roaster tonight Flanked by many cooks under a beautiful light You lie being garnished with tears Of those who will never want to be you For they know, they will never eat you Nor sit for anyone to eat you You are the special food of the earth Tomorrow, you’ll […]
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OUR WILTING FLOWERS
In blooming, A Bacchanalian orgy is exciting A farther travelling of our times Make it a soggy living. Partying tiredness sets in As we near our holes of eternal rest A noise we jumped with Becomes an unfunny scare Thoughts of fun no longer feature showing off Tranquillity is peace not freedom uncensored Every […]
Walls climbed walls At her order Pride joined beauty at her table, Made her an unmatched princess And froze her thoughts of age Inside a wall without an opening Age minded no frozen thoughts And walked through to his territory Taking hold of her skin like wild fire Making mirrors her enemies As […]
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FOR THE EARTH
Whatever you see Comes with a fee But the hand that pushes into the earth Takes no fee You can turn You can burn You can sit, spit and kill You are bound to be slaughtered like the hen So much for good living When a fall causes land seeping Let’s open our […]
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LOST CHANCES
Chances popped With me on your table To prepare as you pleased Be with as you pleased And eat as you pleased But you decided the dustbin was my home Mouths surrounding were indifferent Knowing not my worth but staying safe in case… The housekeeper looked and picked me He decided I was too […]
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A COMIC SERIOUS GAME
I stand and watch As the show goes on Beautiful drums drum. When the drums drum themselves, The dancers sit. When they stop drumming, The dancers dance their hearts out. The audience are appalled The dancers are seething with anger at the audiences’ ingratitude No one seems to know what is going on I see […]
An oven when the sun fumes A freezer when the rain spews Chaotic battlefield when tempers rise Pauper worshippers without shame in the light But true serenity stays in Tamale Strong muscles dazzle at work Loud voices call for customers Angry consumers get into their own way Fuming and cursing the patient ones But affordable […]
It’s a man’s world It’s indeed a man’s world Although we give them life But let’s face it, We give them the maximum offerings There are those of us who sell for pleasure Without measure Their treasures There are those of us who covet Without regret What our peers have, an open secret […]
I need us to sit In chairs that will fit And speak abjectly Because I am bereft of happiness And I can see the clouds of sadness hanging on your head Forget the pain And think of what we stand to gain We’ve cast aspersions, loathed for public viewing We’ve sat in wild silence […]
When eyes gaze into nothingness Mouth opens unconsciously Ears shut its doors to prevent its neighbours entry And the heart trots listening not to the head I know I’m in the beautiful land of Daydreaming There, I need not pretend I am me all through and through I dance naked in front of whoever […]
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THE PUREST LOVE OF ALL
In the chambers of my heart The rain of tears which flooded Heats on its way to self evaporation Thanks to the fire you spark In the garden of my thoughts The cloudy weeds of sadness which grew Now wilts and flee like its met its enemy Thanks to the potent weedicide of trust […]
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THE CORNER STONE
The junk, joined the filth By the sweeping of the broom With the power of hands Which I loved Sorry to say I was in there Somewhere between the filth And the junk She saw me She looked and swept dust Into my pleading eyes When we were gathered, We were thrown into a […]
The hair on the skin cry out The hair in the nose freak out The hair on the head pouts out And armpit hair ask why? If it is being bombarded with scents It has its fair share Being hidden and suppressed It has its fair share Apart from those who live in the […]
Someday, I’ll walk my life away I’ll be seized from seeing day Somehow, I’ll shed this skin and bow I can no longer chew my favourite cow And These bones, these knuckles These stones will come off This water These nails This blood will dry off Some day It will all make way So why […]
The winds which blows Knows no greens It takes the yellow And angrily pluck the greens You my dears are being plucked unfairly But you are gallants Who will be hailed The fevers burn So does my heart Your blood boil and flow through facial holes Eyes which watch cry in pain We’d love […]
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THE PRISON OF MY THOUGHTS
I am no tower Which wishes to on you tower I am the river which wishes to flow into your sea I do not wish to charge you any fee I am stagnantly on bended knees I don’t wish to take over your movie I am no fanatic of a movie I just want […]
My friend turned foe? I planted in sweat what can’t grow? Welcoming teeth fill my vision Hungry angry claws appear In front of my eyeless back? Not fair if you ask me Why can’t you be in front of my camera? Why hide in darkness If bitterness watered By the water from my stream grew […]
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LET ME SEE YOU
Wherever you walk Connect with me Wherever you are Please make me see The dreams of you Sometimes feels like flu It goes and comes Or like the chameleon blends with its host Straining eyes to see this sight Is making these old eyes weak It may not win its fight If it […]
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DREAMS
The sun rises light But it does shines bright It works with all its might Until time for rest is right We won’t forget the clouds They mostly come with the louds They can interrupt the sun But time makes them run I am the pretty sun Who wants to have fun I […]
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EBOLA FEVER
Ebola, Gloves on my hands for ebola A mask on my face for ebola Skin curving in for ebola But I still shiver Lord don’t hover Rain with your meds to sack ebola Thrash it to extinction; ebola Help your beloved from this ebola We are helpless Helpless, hopeless, Prevention failing We call, […]
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WOMEN SHAME-ERS
They hear “fuck you bitches You ain’t shit, damn you bitches, am ma fuck you” But clad in skimpy clothes And shake their properties As overdosed dopers slap squeeze them like unripe mangoes How can you betray your kind, Insult them and brand them useless By dancing to your insults and theirs? Tears of disbelief […]
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A DAY OF CREEPS
It is a day of creeps Trees want to climb the climbers Guns want to hold the hunters Hoes want to hold the farmers As if that is not enough; Songs want to sing the singers Preachings want to preach the preachers Television wants to view the viewers As to why? Defiers they say abound […]
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PLEADOSACKO
With tears you pleaded For something I thought I never needed In suspense of what the future holds I conceded Little by little, to love’s call I heeded When you shouted for issue sharing I yielded When I doubled my steps your voice made me receded Together what seemed like a beautiful cupid farm we […]
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EBOLA FIGHTING
There is this deadly eater Which eats through even sweating A sneeze gives it sharper teeth To chew the human from inside Merging blood is its travelling aeroplane Pleasurable kissing its smooth vehicle We’re lucky the air begrudges it Or it will wipe us all out Lovers must be shunned When they are caught […]
So he gave the head for thinking Strengthening it outside for carrying And he gave the eyes for looking Looking at everything, no discriminating He gave the mouth for talking Giving it a hose for eating And he gave the ears for listening Listening to everything, no discriminating He gave the hands for touching Touching […]
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APPRECIATING POETRY, THE LAYMAN’S GUIDE
Many people find it difficult understanding poetry, so they abandon the subject and conclude that poets are “confusers”. Some poems are straightforward but not all of them share this feature. Some poems twist our minds to make us dig deep to find meanings. With poetry helping me through many of life’s challenges, I have realised […]
When I sniff and sniff I think I stink and stink When I blink and blink I think I’m blind an blind When I listen and listen I think I’m deaf and deaf When I walk and walk I think I’m a crippled cripple When I touch my hair I feel I’m bald and bald […]
I have always dreamt Of having beautiful features To fly close to places in the sky Where my eyes’ lovers lie But my mother Always told me Fishes swim They do not fly No matter how I flapped my tail Bobbed the water and jumped, I reached no further than deeper my waters My […]
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INTERVIEWING LOVE IN MY DREAMS
In my tired dream I crossed a vast stream And saw Love gleam I caught a hold of its seam And asked that he had a chat with me, I can’t tell for sure if his sure was a beam “I am not a dog To do all your bidding I am a servant […]
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BETTER OFF
Three friends met to play But none had anything to say Toothpick suddenly begun complaining That his work always leaves him nauseating Toothbrush told him to stop the whining As that is his itinerary every morning and evening Cotton wool cleared his throat And asked if their suffering exceeded his Toilet roll who was passing […]
I bowed head To fight my thoughts And closed my eyes To shut the void Only to feel a tingle On my leg What alien snake Aims to bite? I turn on my senses And see the commotion It is that borrowed Brazilian hair Things alien Need some getting used to. Amoafowaa Sefa […]
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BONKERS TURNED BEAUTIFUL?
I have lost my way I saw Ama And I didn’t know what to say She took Yaa’s man and made her single Could it be karma at play? She had her lips and cheeks Soiled with blood And her eyes blocked With divided whiskers of rats Her hands disabled With claws of a tigress […]
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A COVETER’S REGRET
“What beauty! The worldly materials they fancy I must be among So I can also belong” Now I see my mistake I sold my freedom For materials I cannot take When I enter the pores of the earth I have been tied with ropes of demands Which tightens at my failure Where is […]
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I CAN’T LEARN
Papa, I don’t know what to learn When you say I should learn, I can’t say know They say “cell” is not “sell” “Bank” has different meanings But has no tag for differences They say soul is not sole That you can see one and can’t see the other They say sort is not sought […]
Stillness, In the land that was shaky is stillness Which floats in the cold, this stillness Abounds It was trust It was trust which caused this stillness Trust for respect on corruption In this town There was merriment There was merriment when he won, No wonder, disappointment sits in stillness And weighs […]
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WORK AND PLAY ON SLATES
We are children With clean big slates And long white chalks We will write, write and write Until we get life right We will see it all And will heed when there’s a call We will rise when we fall. We have play in store As we will have work in store An important […]
Now in the arms of money Lies the fairest of beings Kwaa Attah, being a bird Whose wings have been clipped by The sharp teeth of money What will be my fate? I watch as perfectly painted beaks, Claws and faces saunter like Angels in perfect outfits walking on rainbows into arms of apes […]
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THE MAGNET IN OUR MIDST
Symphony, Your breath and mine are in harmony So going in different paths will be a felony Blimey Asking for more will be pure gluttony We, even in a desert, will form a colony Isn’t it an irony That we lived like cat and mousy And now our union is branded as […]
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CHERISHING KIDS
Charley Pee Come and pee Don’t you pee On your hot pants Cos your mum Will never find it fun Do the right thing And be free Don’t cry out Don’t you pout Just sit here And learn to grow Cos your blessings Will fall in that way Good, good children Love to learn […]
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