My father did not just breed He begat completely besotted with us Knowing we are his seeds And are parts of his being and must be treated thus My father knows no mistrust Our words are his bond Our only whips of words stemming from his being just Holding our hands through storms to […]
The government is bad The government is bad That’s enough said and enough heard If you’ll close your mouth and open your thoughts You’ll get to know the root of all Could it be the fault of you and I? Who fill our pockets And cast our votes? To choose the one to drain […]
Human beings with many needs I leave my town to family feeds And goes far far to alien lands Where the weather is cold with different sands And people look at me like a funny television in developed lands And all I have to my stomach feed Are some alien leaves and weird looking seeds […]
Criticism is just like lime For those whose mouths are just like slime So if you’re depressed because of mood Just check yourself, it’ll do much good. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
Criticism is just like lime For those whose mouths are just like slime So if you’re depressed because of mood Just check yourself, it’ll do much good. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
I see in you diamonds of light I see them shining so so bright I will keep you like you deserve If only you’ll come to me Or even look at me for once Each day I sit, I look and wait Dying many times as he kills your soul He has a diamond […]
I want to stand on the heels of the stars And kiss the moon increasing my light I want to dance with the whirling of the wind And kill the beats of birds that prey I want to marry fireflies in the night And have them glow even when there is light I want to […]
Come to Ghana And hold our banner Freedom and justice we preach Hospitality we teach Your mood will change from red to green, From green to yellow with a black star of hope being your facial screen Come to Ghana Let’s share our banner From the many sites in the beautiful Accra city We’ll […]
You hide in darkness With sharp eyes you fail to use And blame the world And curse your stars When many arms have rooms for you You try rebellion And close your ears When many are singing songs of joy You have the heart but fail to yield Cussing the world when someone’s is […]
Strawberry, ginger, pepper and rice Are all things mouths do crave Though some are sweet and some are hot, They all have unique roles to play Do your thing and have them say Their taste may differ but some for you will pay And will go through all the thicks and thins To have […]
Are storms raging and cursing your life Browbeating you to hide in fear? Breathe the breath and have good thoughts The sun is coming to clear the sky. Are mouths convening to plan your coup? Looking on with no clue as to what to do? Breathe good breath and have good thoughts Hope is […]
Blended colours will dance Blended colours will happily fight For the little rounded peacemaker On many beautiful peaceful grounds. Sweat will merge In seriousness and play Misunderstandings will arise Not between individuals but nations Every nation becomes one people Every person, no matter where, Becomes an officer defending his nation Cheering on when […]
Fishes convene for a solution on safety The president of anchovies narrates his loss His world is evaded each blessed day His subjects are killed in million folds The herring president narrates his plight His country has alien eyes which watch their growth Many like prisoners are caught, killed and caged To please a […]
Happiness lived with us Its family was enough for every house Before the Paleolithic era When we discovered the armoury of Homo Habilis It is no Gordon Bennett that happiness developed wings Due to the intense afterglow the taste of worldly dominance brought Volcanoes and storms must have been the only firemakers Animals being […]
Sitting lugubriously Watching as juveniles engage in a bacchanalian orgy She reaches deep in her passions’ cache And finds a bottomless fleapit of madness She dawdles, anxious at what perished within All the pain she feels are deadened With every step, with every thought As she sees that old screen flecked with dust […]
I have seen the face of God Pouring nothing from a gourd I have seen it You have seen it They have seen it. For happiness He employs the sun For meditation and approachability, He employs the moon and stars so we will not from Him run For anger, He employs darkness and the storm […]
When I lie awake in tears And my heart speaks in only fears Like a soldier without weapons at the war front, I bow my head in my head and think of bolting from the human front When stories are told of the meek And eyes look down on the weak Like a grass […]
From afar, It is a pile of filth Until you step in Then you become part of the filth So speak not When people talk and are disgusted about the filth They do not know They are the filth You are the filth I am the filth. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
They will look They will keenly look As some stalk When we take a walk And they will talk But let us write our own story They will taunt They will jealously taunt As we embrace in love When we, the bad omens, look above And stay in love So let us write our […]
From far far Family faced faced Fabricated fable façade Facilitated from faddism Girding gab gab Gal gaily gayed Grounding guessed galleries Guessing gross gaffes Still sounds sounded Still strength sapped Still security screeched Sucking saccharine, spelling sabotage. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
My mother my pride I’ve nothing to hide She’s always by my side Taking all love’s stride Even if it means she cries My mother my hope Trying to right words grope All my gaffes she copes I’m attached to her love’s dope Will do nothing to have her mope My mother is […]
My mama is an angel My mama is an angel There can’t be any other angel In this lifey hurdle Cos she loves, loves and loves me Out of her busy schedule To set me free She’ll sit on a huge needle When I cry she cuddles She understands when I mumble In […]
Tell me a story Tell me a story so sweet and fresh Tell me a story undiluted Tell me a story from times past When the trees provided the sound as the waters spoke Tell me that story from when the birds met as a choir to sing only cheerful songs Tell me a story […]
The mighty pen Pulls me into his den At the count of one to ten He makes me the woman among men He asks me to on him depend So he can the words contend He knows I love to myself fend He helps me to a lovely bend Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2013.
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