There is a reason hands hung Legs stand Eyes see Ears hear And mouths talk But in my home Mouths walk in talk And swing in fling Closing ears like clashing bombs Forcing eyes to shut in disgust II Little things turn typhoons Then tsunamis Covering bigger fishes to sail beneath national seas As small […]
The sky sees many monarchs Those whose sadness floods the earth Giving life to most and taking some Those whose happiness burns the earth Warming most, drying fractions and killing some Those whose air barber trees Burning weeds And aiding and abetting fires The sky really sees many monarchs II Amazing how all weathers have […]
There are walls around a nation A nation fought for with priceless blood A nation whose beauty, like mud fish in muddy water, Hides in walls too high in ugliness Walls of corruption Walls of deception Walls of greed Walls of power-drunkenness Walls of ridiculous stunts Walls of begging Walls of tribalism Walls of labeling […]
We remember the claws of yesterday After feeling the smooching of palms today A new dawn easily sheds its night And falls into nothingness If it records no history And acts like a boring copycat Yes, believe it or not History has teeth which bite through memories II Whichever crown graces your head On the […]
After angst and jubilation have gone to roost In an opposing clash which selections boost What is there but a sea with no boat Calling all eyes; with hurt and gloat To look past emotions and rise to a challenge II All in laughter show their teeth All in outcries show their teeth What is the […]
The beginning of love Is like the beginning of creation I am sure God’s heart raced As he created it all His joy sat in a celebratory palanquin Developed wings and danced like an all powerful ruler Hailed by satisfaction as a look upon jubilant When all was done Chorus: My ears can imagine his […]
It is only in the house of politics We find blinding smoke without fire Its finances, like confusing qualitative thesis, lacks mathematics Its words flying with no hands to tame to collate II Tongues of tongues are begged in hire Hands with corrupt cash magnets Get to be called sires Brains with guttered tricks Get […]
Laughter boils on fires of pity When mice speed in armyhood In support of the enstoolment of cats Forgetting they are their edibles II Don’t thoughts, like farmers Dig their reasoning farms To grow fear on trees of their scatterings? III When planted promises Knock on my ears I wail in happiness Don’t these mice […]
Ghana is a country blessed. I say this not because it is beautiful, has many mineral and agricultural assets or living conditions are better, but because we have the crown of peace. Of late, I foresee chaos as many decisions we are making today are like terrorists of our peace in the near future. Why […]
If the winds destroy the umbrella And the elephant finishes all the grassy trees And the cock pecks all the worms and crumbs And the eagle eats the cock Do remember Still the naked land stands II The naked land will stand Disgraced Like a queen caught by prostitution law Of an unforgiving god As […]
A nation’s dictation Is a need in deception Well, man’s creative sensation Failure of creation Is filth covered in adoration Separation is no emancipation But a concoction of suffocation The only salvation Is truth which hovers like the sky But eternally covered by dark clouds Which blind to mislead How sickening! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
Chaos boils like hot water In the highest place of the land Can it melt its saucepan To help create another in good shape? I think not Given the fact that Here is here And choas boils to cool Never to ever rise in heat Ah! Kwa kwa kwa kwa, beaky chirps II This fire […]
Do I need the stool Of the queen of England? The seat of Liberia’s power buttocks? The stance of South Korea’s head? The heart of Yaa Asantewaa? To have gazing eyes mellow to look? Flaunting egos listen to bow? Strong shoulders stand down from arrogant ladders? Peppery mouths calmed by salt? Tight trousers loosening to […]
All that they dish Are traps filled with many a little fish Acting like baboons accomplished While living like gluttons, so childish Wanting to be those hearts cherish While breaking through coffers to garnish Themselves to have others famish Aren’t they greed-stricken foolish? I pray criminal seas you banish! To lose all you relish So […]
We have crossed Crossed the rubicon And can never get a head To dream of change Change which can alter positively II We have, like gluttons, dined Dined with the undinables Food whose stench can never be removed Let alone hidden from its seekers Who have the light to chase We who have no light […]
This fourth arm Is limp to arms Its mouth turned into licking Licking dirty boots of unscrupulousness Leading in pleading the misleading For unnoticeable rolling coins Fleeing from pockets of thiefs After being cut from the blood of the disadvantaged II The fourth arm Meant to serve as eyes in the dark Snores in connivance […]
You saintly quacking parrot Sit on your legs On the biggest tree of the land And look at all like a slug on a couch Watching a tragedy on a giant screen And quack like tongues of a quack pastor Who even knows not what he says Remember there is a sea which feeds your […]
Huge sharp blinding stones Fall on what once was gold coast Shielded by mandate II Swords in umbrellas They cover, hit to quiver Fail to deliver III Animals run wild But will forget when swords hide Faking protection IV A little water Few gifts so swift calms all rifts Then mandate again Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
We have lived to finally see What youthful limbs have fixed as bill And presented to cheering hands as fee Sums which aim for nothing but to kill II Now the lions’ masks have finally fallen Showing clearly their frame of donkeys As the sheeps’ paint erase appalling To show lions and hyenas’ breed with […]
I know a turkey from Turkey Who thinks Thanksgiving and Christmas are red and dark Their final destinations are so murky That they find no way to their presence mark II The turkey complained about usurpers in Turkey And how they colonised them in charm And threw their beauties in the murky To spice their […]
Ye gods of the land Open your hidden eyes And take these feathers Almost stripped of its skin To distill your ears To hear the prayers I pour Through the ‘nsafufuo’ my meek calabash has to give And help the land respond ‘ewie!’ To all the points of prayer II Let the evil fishes in […]
I know mouths of my land are like machine guns Digging bullets of the past Putting them in golden throat guns Soiling voices meant for firing monsters And firing through Gunning for hardworkers And yelling into international microphones Their unfortunate past Seeking sucking sympathies While real works stare our faces Like infants needing their parents’ […]
Maame Yaa! Wake up please Maame Yaa ei!!! Wake up Wake o! Wake and look at the professors of supposed servings Look at them seeking to butcher themselves Just because they, like servants, want to make the poor royals Just open an eye And look at how humans are madr goats ob paper Substituting heads […]
If legs had eyes Coupled with mouths With internal brains On their stem structure like heads They won’t act kings Always being carried There are many a places They would have boycotted And many a thorns Would have tongues Which would have never tasted their skins Oh many aches Out of long strides Would have […]
We can’t surely say That the tons of blood on Alata land Were by knives of the known devil II We can’t surely say That the new shoot of hope on Alata land Is free of all knowledge of the slaying knives III Alata is at the crossroad With eyes watching from all angels To […]
Laughter Stealing, sharing, chopping Stinking Frights, fights, flights Catching Blaming, catching, crying Politicking Praying, playing, freeing Like a tale All those bails God does see It will never go without a punishing fee So flee and defend the caught Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
There is a never dying plantain plant Which is rooted in the centre Of a coast initially golden When it is cut down, other shoots emerge When it is uprooted, new shoots succeed Funny, how a plantain drains And never ceases to create holes of mouthings Holes of horrid deceits Holes of disappointments Holes of […]
When the cats are mewing And the dogs are backing And many birds are chirping And many snakes are hissing Trying to get the lion’s attention, Trust me, all it hears are meats Yes, meats calling to be chewed *** Instead of planning a trapping And getting a catching So they can get ears to […]
I have thoughts to say; Lion as chief of the forest Concatenates to Loss of smaller animals In the forest of Hanah II I’ve more thoughts to say; Leopards and hyenas know it But are afraid to Stir the nest of fearful bees Others think their stomachs precious III I still have more thoughts Coterminously, […]
The road prostitutes Letting all vehicles through Why doesn’t she have a voice? Poor roads, Even in rain, you accommodate all In heat, you are accommodative of all No rest for you? Like a helpless beauty, you lie As your beautiful flower is being flawed By layers and layers of ungrateful tires The washing bays […]
Madiba made us See signs of peace walking on Strong legs in Africa II An ex-convict who Made his good heart a public Display to shine a healthy ray to break ills III Who thinks of the good Coming from a stinking cell? One would say revenge but his legacy is worthy to sell IV […]
Their thumb powers are unknown to them Like our forefathers exchanged gold for salt They exchange their powers for cheap coins, cloths Bicycles, motorbikes, cars and promises Which never come to pass When will they see their thumbs are worth more than little fees? Grave sufferings, avoidable sufferings […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I can tell you pride has been sold For power in my home For the first man status, a sheep clothe was worn. To be the keeper of all, A known affluence was paraded But a lion could never stay in a sheep clothe forever It tore free immediately it landed on the stool […]
That will be one saviour appliqué
So she lies like a helpless bulldog
Being dug, cut and licked like a dog
Her beautiful features are giving way
Giving way for horrific skin which cannot sway
She is the punching bag of all desperadoes
As her bodyguards always play the rondos
I hear the hushes of the bushes And the marshes of the brushes I hear the soreness of darkness And fleeing plans of the fireflies I hear the lifting mats of the bats And weaving spectacles of some tentacles Even the headless carries a headdress A great storm is about to storm […]
I take a stance And look from a distance Chickens like famished children Wailing in anger Hens like desperate mothers Crying in anguish Cocks like men with bruised egos Sitting with capped jaws As the Hawk sits comfortably on his throne He, the hawk comes down And takes what he needs to fill […]
ἐne diἐ ἐyἐ bↄne a, yἐnka sἐ ἐyἐ kuro
Y’ahunu SADA, GYEEDA ἐne ne DA DA foↄ
Y’ahunu faanwo ntaban a aban de ama
Y’ahunu ἐboↄ kἐseἐ a ↄde ato adwumayἐfoↄ akatuya chↄↄↄku
Mentumi nka akumatesἐm yi nyinaa
They hold it They hold it in their thumbs They hold it in pieces A great law by whomever So we will not be cheated But a handful of people come together And pat the backs of few, Grease the palms of some, Stroke the egos of some, And buy the thought of others with […]
Hearts must have their decisions Yours is to lay bare and not to force Religious zealots! Heads must have their decisions Yours is to lay bare and not to cajole Education zealots! People must decide Yours is to candidly lay bare your capabilities Political zealots! All zealots, bow in shame A time […]
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 […]
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 […]
Like humans taming cubs of the wild We have been caged by our minds so mild we sit in the blessings of our wealth and beg When salt and cocoa Bauxite, diamond and gold are but a few of our wealth Whose fault is it that we have eyes but cannot see? Whose fault is […]
I know not I stay shut I roam round I see stirred Because I have no need to mix sand to the cooking pot of this creature. I smile slight I look light I play plain I clean clean Because I have no need to mix sand to the cooking pot of this creature. […]
Let’s get out of this uncomfortable stream Just let’s yell and scream As fowls scream when fleeing danger Let’s get out of this dangerous manger Into a neat peaceful manger Of the colourless oasis This filthy muddy poisoned gutter water will not do We have paid so much and so deserve much more We have […]
So the big hotels suddenly have owners of power And the huge monies suddenly walk into the pockets of beings without reasons And men with little powers suddenly develop wings flapping them in the eyes of their host And others decide on catchy and a insulting phrases to tag their masters in reality And people […]
He stands unclothed But feels very confident and clothed In a judgeless public Who his many booty dust lick He hits his chest And orders at his comfy quest With means of the ‘seeful’ but mute Shooting empty glances of talk and I’ll shoot The irony is on you The irony is on […]
We work under the moody Sky Running when we have to Lifting with strength conjured, baggages of pain, Hatred, Dissapointments, And need, But she never gets satisfied. She lashes out her anger by bellowing her flames to burn high We the slaves She frowns with her scary clouds to blind We the slaves She […]
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