After all the noise, 2015’s music runnings has sped off Winners are like things on cloud Well, unwinners see clearly now With shoutings meant to scatter ears And hips fuelling the condition of the shouting Bringing it to normalcy God’s chosen, was awarded by Ghana’s chosen With a Kantanka, mereba o speedo The highly anticipated Oh, […]
Palm-wines dance and shine In fine calabashes as wine Accentuating foods so fine Calling on souls to come and dine In a happy chatty line II The sky is filled with cloud Cloud turning, diving and proud Vultures hate the sky’s crowd And promise to build to shame the cloud Knowing it is the […]
Goats Stubborn, smelly Perverting, destroying, terrorising Noisy, fast, pitchy, smart Sniffing, intriging, licking Tasty-in-death, scenty Chevon Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Goats Change right Like smart stoats Acting stubborn Tasting like heaven From all angry runnings To all the naughty chewings Their sins are forgottten when their Scents hit noses and their taste hit tongues Just as human corpses lose sins to death Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
So I went to a haughty club I saw a begging stinking pub Kneeling, weeping and blocking smoke From mouths of many a stinking broke II “Save me you fresh clean broke Don’t smoke me, you can get stroke Help me breathe air and not smoke I’m dying of the many travelling smoke” III I […]
I need a December to remember In another December as a happy member I need no pretending December Which will smile and my life endanger I will my life surrender If December opens its safe chamber I need no chamber which’ll make me an offender So December shed your temper And be a December to […]
I love packaging But humans hate packages Humans keep un-packaging Hating their own packages So they show their presents Which make many resent Their presents Why hate packaging? Why hate the packaged Who live in their packages? Why love the presents Who love to live outside packages? Package the un-packaged And stop un-packaging the packaged […]
I When you always chase the Ivys You sail through unscathed Lovey-taunty Sackey-laughy Well, that was because Poison Ivy Was preparing II You bathed in their streams Faking heavens in their dreams Powdering on their tears Shaking their grounds to intensify their fears Well, that was because Poison Ivy Was preparing III Funny how you […]
Some Osofo Moko is born I know he took a soundful horn And divulged his visions loud and clear That Ghana will be wiped smooth and clear From the football plate and be placed in its rear For sins in Brazil which made God swear To hold the grudge But his words will now be […]
I Swimming in sweet and sour Sounding so strong and sad Struggling but striving and safe Searching for sin’s setback II Sweet sounds, sell sweet sources Sour slices, slip from this shore Sending songs scented in sorrow Sealing our safe and sound serenity Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 […]
I Know this, in times past Kwaku Ananse, Ghana Taught children the right II His taunts, jeers, cunning Mostly nearly made him a Frankenstein Monster III Yet he lived on in Fresh new episodes brewing Trickeries and mischiefs IV Children loved him? Yes. Children loathed and feared his taunts Yet waited for more V Yes, […]
“Pa, panananana, panananana Panananana, panananana, pananananaaaaaaa” Softly, Play me that piano softly Putting passion in your fingers And softly Play me to sleep “Pa, panananana, panananana Panananana, panananana, pananananaaaaaaa” Doves hover to listen Nature keeps silent to listen The angels gather to listen And witness So softly, Play me the piano softly, Just play me […]
Machines That’s what we are We work And work Some servicing with affluence Others with water Others with sand But like those with water and sand The affluent servers break down Maybe without mouths That’s their way of saying They need rest And a rest never hurts Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I You can say she had no night sleep Her hungry stomach all night weep So she rushes to get the train Watches not, runs, and falls in a ditch clearly deep II She thinks of the job appointment Sees herself in disappointment Who is her guardian angel now? His or her job is a […]
So one came With thoughts of putting me to shame His goatee looked so lame Yet he sought to me tame I let him go with ego deflated Completely different from how he came Another came Betting to have me tamed His antagonistic tricks I had defamed His time belled out and he was […]
Like packaged sardines they sit face to face With ears screaming its disgust The “Tabora, Alhaji, Lomnava” hallelujahs of the conductor cum driver The airless arena breeds grumbling mouths and frowned faces He sits quietly like a fish out of water Dreading the very thought of other’s skinny seas touching his standing hairs A sharp […]
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