Coffins vary The feet stay the same; Six. Riches are shown The body stays the same; Lifeless. People cry The soul stays the same; Gone. This thing, that thing, All will end at the same; Dust. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
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Tag: POETRY.
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THE WORSHIP OF MAGGGOTS
The edible maggots form from the palm nut tree They come out, wiggle and know they are free They worship their maker, promising their piousness and their love Promising their souls and bodies as they look above Then they touch the ground and eat their god They wiggle around the home without measure Eating […]
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MY BULB WITHOUT A LIGHT
When I need that touching And I need that loving And I need that moisture And I see that empty bulb lightless I curse my stars And I ask them why This high demand you Has no light to emit When the body calls for it To think that most for you have insulted Most […]
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NEEDFUL WANTS
I live here in lonely wants Going only in troubled fronts All the hollow ears open At every steppy country All the many hands open At every steppy country But I want only those ears of yours And only those hands you wore I want it all to come from the grave To listen and […]
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MUTE MOUTH
Your heart will ache In pain, no gain If you close your mouth In desire, don’t require Acts go hand in hand with wants Entering always succeeds the knock Fold your arms and harm your heart. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c)
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THE PROPAGANDA OF THE WIND
When the clouds are mating The winds throw dust into the eyes of interested parties Then even highly inquisitive eyes will shut Until each body in the mating posture cools Minds are so wonderful, That though they know something sinister is ongoing, They bury them deep and live in the day Moving on with new […]
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BABY FOX TURNS INTO A TIGER
Baby fox turns into a tiger In the mind of a paranoid sailor Who like a greedy dog hated to share So bolted with all the world had to give many On the blood of many, many heads He paddles through the angry storm Who seeks to sit on heavenly throne When he takes […]
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SAKAWA
It takes a smell to attract flies Dirt always attract pigs and not penguins A magnet always attract pins So consent is key for it to be Eyes must always be used to see Carelessness always comes with a fee You sit in the comfort of your canoe in your pool Looking keenly for […]
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SAY MY NAME; DAWADAWA
Say my name with a careful thought Don’t say it like I’m some disgusting thing For I have seen many who have because of me fought And many others who have for me sing I know you cannot stand my stench I stink, I know Ask yourself, did I create me? And say my […]
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AGYA THE VILLAGE DRUNK
I am standing on coal Mmmmm, on coal, So I cannot walk, Cannot walk properly “Bue! Santa Maria! Agya gyinagyina, Gyina, gyina bↄkↄↄ” I am a quaffer, A quaffer of apio So I cannot think, Cannot think properly “Bue! Santa Maria! Agya gyinagyina, Gyina, gyina bↄkↄↄ” But you too are a […]
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I AM A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER
I am a flower, yes I am a beautiful flower I am that beautiful flower Which chooses to wither in time Than be scattered into pieces with no shred of dignity After my blooming I may use my eyes to see beautiful things And beautiful places I may use my scent to dazzle critic […]
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PASSIONS OF A NUN
“Come to me all ye that are weary and are heavy laddened And I will give you rest” So I go to Him not as a being, As a woman The strict abbess tries her hardest To test the genuineness of the decision, I remained my readless self and sailed through Little did I know […]
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THE WALKING TRAIN
“Ketekee nam nnadeἐ so Esu hwam hwam hwam hwam hwam Ehefa nn’ade yi reko? Koforidua!” When I am resting, All that fills my mind is yakka yakka My temporary internal maggots and backpack come in all shapes and sizes As air of acrid smell are the hobbies of the lot My belly is the […]
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INDULGE ME
Hold me close in your house of thought Bless my ears with its juicy lot Quench my yearn so I could no one sought Then wads of notes could never me bought I couldn’t your love in a million quantify A word from you could my veins electrify To light positive rays and lonesome […]
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THE HEART OF GRIEF
The heart weeps The pain seeps Thoughts go deep And so fast the mind cannot keep The mouth yearns to speak But its trembling has reached its peak It shivers and hates all eyes that seek To make it sympathetically weak But such is the depth of loss No amount of words can […]
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THE LOVE OF HOUSERS
I love him, I love her, I love these, I love those, I love them all who have stayed in the inner me The ugliness of a little monkey In alien eyes Is the beauty its mother sees. Bad traits changeth no motherly love Those moons of nine, Those sicknesses of the fullness of the […]
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SLEEPY GOODIES
Too beautiful to behold This hairful chest Its beauty like lightening in a cloudless sky Outshine all his human surrounding My eyes feast against my head’s warning My mouth opens like happy thirsty leaves in the virgin rain His eyes sparkle and speak in volumes As his hand, like the hand […]
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TO HER COY MASTER
If I had more lives in time I could you chase in all my prime Wasting hearts on all thy lovey crimes With trippings in all your hurty slimes I could shed a river full of tears And sit on all the hurts and fear As your words hold knives and in me tear […]
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UNSAYABLE!
See, All the animals wailing and cursing in the jungle At their chosen master See, When like bathed pigs They went for the same dirt to soil their own clothes. See, They are the pigs and he is the lion Roaring to tame as they squeak to wail You watch, They may […]
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A MOUTHLESS HEART
I had a brain without watchful eyes I had a heart without an expressive mouth I had a head filled with meat and coloured water You came Gave eyes to my brains, A good mouth to my heart And filled my head with thoughts Who would’ve ever known That your about-turn Could turn your […]
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NATURE AGAINST INVENTIONS
There is the UK’s follow my leader, Double ’Dutch, hopscotch And the general blind man’s buff. Long ago in Africa; Ghana, We the children giggled and laughed As we, like little angels with no serious assignments, Circled in kneeling as a chosen chose the smart or the dull For our admiration or booing, While we […]
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OCEAN BEINGS
One drop can be no mighty ocean It needs a welcoming hollow land, Which will accommodate her in his bosom It needs another’s hand It needs watery leggy droppings It needs others’ drops It needs the bubbly water stars Which annoyingly parade their beauty Before joining his growing kingdom Above all, it needs the most […]
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HAILING TO LET GO
Sing to the birds of one tree And they will make it their hobby to sing to birds of many trees Your very private song Will be heard everywhere in the sky before long Some songs must not be sang in the face of collaborationists We must turn into worry abortionists To do away with […]
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THE DEFORMED
She was a dab hand in many things And received beaming from many satisfied mouths Until that cataclysmic rendezvous for good Saw her losing her capable tools. With no ‘lings’ on her hands, She tries her best to maintain her smile And be no burden Respect must be given to who respect is due Bow […]
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SKULLY TANKS
Breathe in the flesh suffering, no attention A breathless being ready to join the earth, full attention It’s time somebody thinks If this selflessness in making skulls money sinks Is enough to quench our thirst by serving as storer of drinks. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
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DANCE WITH ME
When the moon dances in the flirting sky With the stars giggling and cheering their mother on And the wind making love with the leaves In the clear view of all shapes of eyes without a care And the fireflies light in love and happiness I shrink into a little ball, hiding in the dark […]
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WHEN THE MASTER SPEAKS
“Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” The waters are still. “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” The farms are quiet. “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” The land is shaking! “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” Mouths are shivering in hiding. “Agya ahunuabobirim Okokroko Odumgya Kasapreko Akasa” Thoughts are wavering with […]
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THE STORY OF THE APONKYES
Languishing in thoughts Of failures of satisfying ardent passions under a moonless sky, Ama Okom sits under the talking tree of doubts and anger Little did Kwaku Aponkye know of the words Boiling in her crying bosom He stirred her doubt and suffered the burns Of her hot carefully boiled and arranged words He thinks […]
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SOFTER NOT HARDER
Red petals Yellow petals One needs no metal Just these will be instrumental Smooth words Beautiful words Those are no puzzled surds Just pour these into ears and bodies will satisfy heads The fist may break The land may shake But words spoken can have no brakes Hence no control once it from […]
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THE TEACHER MADE YOU
Standing like a peacock On a pulpit of deceit Forcefully opening mouths of pockets To afford a golden bed and disrespecting them, No matter what you’ve become, the teacher made you! Sitting and being fanned like an angry lesser god ready to explode On a stage of many eyes Spewing commands upon commands, Belittling […]
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YOURS IS YOURS
Even vultures know Yes, vultures sympathise with their village corpses Like their own families, they eat but leave a little to be seen. On other lands, new meat, different taste If care is not taken, even bones cannot be seen. I was told but I thought not And just like a child viewing a beautiful […]
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A STORY LIKE A POEM
I met my first love at the age of eighteen She was as fresh as a blooming flower She exuded the scent of womanhood And her charm, like a magnetic wave, threw me close But she had few words for me “I don’t roll with babies, begone!” I cried and cried Time cleansed this […]
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LOVE IN ODDS
Close trees cross paths Lovingly, Harshly, Both needs make love. Close trees share a space In little, In abundance, Both needs make love. Close trees share a risk Lightly, And in severity, Both needs make love. So in the worst whirlwind Hold my hand In the craziest storm Hug me tight […]
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WE ALL LIVE
Seeking for the huge When we can do with the little Like the greedy creatures we are A huge room with a huge bed May be comfy but we still sleep on a little portion of the bed at a time Like the greedy creatures we are An expensive cup with water May […]
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THE BEST’S BEST
The teacher calls that teacher “A teacher” Because the teacher cannot teach what that teacher teaches The preacher calls that preacher “A preacher” Because the preacher cannot preach what that preacher preaches The singer calls that singer “A singer” Because the singer cannot sing what that singer sings The wise man calls […]
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STAGES OF LIFE
Green Light green With no blemish Clean slate Green Pure green With little holes Soiled slates Yellow Sickly yellow With white edges And an unusable slate Brown, Earth brown Dried to break Breaking to enter its root, no slate. Such is your stay On this hardened earth Now read it again. […]
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THOUGHT ARREST
Verbal assault Wearing clothes Coming directly at you From the mouthy house Of unsuspecting heads? Arrest them with your thoughts. Feisty fist Wearing iron gloves Coming directly at you From the lovely arms Of unsuspecting shoulders? Arrest them with your thoughts. Like an empty monkey Some empty heads Think of your head Making […]
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REFLECTIONS
I’m looking at you Looking at me I’m not sure I like what I see But then again, I’m not sure you like what you see either Many may say I’m you And you are a reflection of me But wrong, I can never be you You can never be me You’re just a picture […]
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UNSYMPATHETIC TIME
Tick, tock Tick, tock Time travels like a programmed machine Whose only command is to go forward It does not look side ways, Does not look backward, Does not wait for even a second on anyone, We go at its pace. Time feels no sympathy, Hears no pleas, Cares not a hoot about bribery We […]
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FALSE PROMISES
When fathers die Other fathers live Such words pouring like honey onto dry bread On hearts shattered with uncertainties, Minds lost in fear, Eyes crying rivers of tears, Mouths wailing shamelessly and pouring words of desolation, Rested hearts and consoled affected parts Reassuring security, Protection and love Little did they know Delivering Words Is a […]
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LOOK IN AND NOT OUT
Strange! Booming sound Loud cries Pungent smell Failing visions Broken legs sapped hands Runny noses Cloudless sky Sunless sky Hollow dark sky Painful hearts, Where are all these from? Don’t look at me Don’t look at him Don’t look at her Don’t look at them Look at you Let me look at me Let […]
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THE SAFE SHELL
My mother was left in a tiny web In an occupied shell Its corner had no space for two So as I came she had to go That is how I was left in a little corner of an empty shell There were no lessons on talking, No lessons on singing, No lessons on […]
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SINGING POETRY
The air is blowing Branches are swinging Happy birds are singing Happy birds are singing Singing on the swinging The face is glowing Happy thoughts are flowing Smiley mouths are singing Smiley mouths are singing Singing on the glowing Now you are smiling Your nice face is shining The pretty sun is shining […]
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DOGMATIC CANCELLATIONS
Staying cooped up? You’re not a store crap Cut the doleful mien and wake up! Revolutionize and fly with wings. Living a gossip? You are like the cow oblivious of being taken to the abattoir Cut the repulsive trait secure that foul gate and carefully ruminate Living for fun? Life is a journey […]
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LOTUS METAMORPHORSIS
The scent of lust The acrid scent of backbiting The bad odour of hatred The awful scent of theft The foul scent of murder I want to be the lotus flower to disinfect it all The atrocious scent of ethnicity The pungent scent of oppression of women The unpleasant scent of racism The poor […]
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AT THE MOLE NATIONAL PARK’S MUSEUM
At the museum; a cub of an elephant which was preserved after its mother was killed by poachers in 1982. I cannot believe this has been here on earth longer than I have. The frozen remains With no locomotion A wonder. I watch… This is the balloon or global fish. The guide told us that […]
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LET’S DANCE ADOWA
Hit the atumpan Hit the agyegyewa Hit the apentenmma Hit the dawuro Hit the nnawuto Hit the dondo, let the bells and rattles sing As we dance adowa. We will dance and give thanks to Otweadeampong Nyankopong Then move on to speak in languages only a royal like you will understand Both hands of mine […]
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GIRLY WITCH
Looking at her worn out face with a tyre around her neck, Many standing and watching, a mob holding petrol and matches With all hope lost as she sadly looks on, My questions jump from my mind. Before I had time to ask, They were dangling in the air. What has this poor girl […]
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HIDE UNDER NO THREAT OF BLASPHEMY
They say you are the living God Whose name must start with a capital letter Because you sit in the heavens above And preside over this global earth. They say you created everything The earth, the plants, animals, water etc… And you have so much mercy, your children lack none I will ask then, Why […]
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DEBTS RUNNING ON LINE
Large humorous haunter school fees drums With its feisty nails on my skull. Extravagantly dressed rent bills stand Threatening to pierce ejection sword in my heart Light bill maniachically taunts with thoughts of darkness Water bill with its compiled many zeroes sit still, peeping in my vision Making me watch a video of no drinking, […]
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