In preparing ɛtɔKwansimah knows…plaintain is one…ripe plantain is 2…pepper is 3…onion is 4…salt is an optional 5…palm oil is an optional 6 elevated to the 5th spot, should it be omitted…groundnuts is an optional 7 elevated to the 6th…further being promoted to the 5th, should 6th and 7th be redcardedAll others follow in their stead, […]
Time walks in a rush With no ears for stops No eyes to turn back No mouth nor stomach to stop and feed No breath to feel tired let alone pause to rest It sure is the creator’s robot Set like a watch man to impartially measure us What tough scrutiny it gives! Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Shadows wake tall To shorten to tall Begging clocks to save their height But tick tock Is a rhythm unbreakable Its heels sing to break many hearts II To beg time Do beg yourself To hop on its speed Like a good passenger To reach destinations in time To dance to its chime Life is […]
A decade ago I was a decade less from three My leaves as fresh as the morning dew My stem as strong as the odum tree My roots as firm as the nim tree But here I wilt Into the dungeons of death II My voice was as sharp as the sharpest sword Cutting down […]
Time sits Immortally charming on its throne Wondrous like flower of the holy spirit Tasking suns to open morning gates Caring not for celebrations Mournings Or indifference Nor dawns thrown rudely into the past II Suns advance to bosshood As time progresses Melting the weak to flea for cover Heating the poor to cooking Just […]
There was a time When time rhymed with heartbeats Danced to desires Clapped for exuberance Chatted with life And bonded with hearts Making muscles jump in happiness II There was a time When hearts loved their times Spoke with pride about their times Ruled their time And thought they rocked like gods Hearts; I mean […]
I am just a visitor thrown to tour I want to use patience to view and store The beauties of life and feel its happiness to the core But time’s wheels come to the fore II It runs like hell’s flame is in a craze Leaving me like a hawk in an eagle’s daze On […]
Ancient of days pass Like a fast rolling football Caring not about Anything blocking its way Battling with force to bursting Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Horror can rain Terror can maim But time’s long legs Never cease to run II Hearts can stop Hurts can harm But time’s long legs Never cease to run III Shame can tame Risks can shatter But time’s long legs Never cease to run IV “Ko ko ko” Oh “ka ka ka” Time’s long legs […]
If I step on your tail Don’t ask for a bail Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks II If you’ve swift tick tocks At least pause for a talk You’re so under lock And cares not for a weak flock Oh time you rogue You’ve swift tick tocks III So tick, talk Block […]
Yearn and sit On carved horse’s seat And the “n” would flee And show you “year” And the “y” would flee And be replace by “t” For the lonely “r” to call an “s” They will then travel to your eye’s land Pinch and fall like angry rains As they take you back to be […]
Each comes with its own songs And each wants its name among Like a battle where none belongs The songs sing themselves like an odd wrong II Travelling with time, one must mime To hear its sounds so one can rhyme To feel its pulse so one can time And work so right to desist […]
(Happy New Year to all you beautiful people. May this year strengthen our bond and help all creators have great breakthroughs! Blessings and good tidings! This is one of my New Year pieces; enjoy) Time tells toys of travellers That it tows them to tiredness After testing them with trial treats Of beauty II It […]
Donkeys are nothing Like monkeys The former walk like heartless robots The latter have options to walk, swing or jump II Cats are no bats The former are forever walking thieves The latter, forever banished livers of daylight Each sect nursing its scandal III Fishes have liberties in seas But know the fact that they […]
Kisses in grave heat Tends to all high passions beat No good comfort here II Kisses in cold breeze Blend with passions and honour; Blessings if you like III Why fall to timing When best songs do the rhyming? Good times rightly bless IV I need to be there Under wings of timely time To […]
Time! Travel backwards To the day of creation And take me there II Time! Make me no alien In that crucial moment Please help me blend III Time! I need to see Like a child watching TV With my eyes the order of creation IV Time! I need to fathom How initialists lived Without religion […]
I Under the hold of loneliness Thoughts confess As time stops or moves backwards II Under the hold of bad health Pain in severity profess As time stops or moves backwards III Under the the warm hold of fulfilment Happiness profess As time moves quickly forward IV In truth, Time is fair It moves at […]
Hear the world’s bell chime And the world’s air rhyme See many a crime With payment of no dime See the world as lime And do goodness mime Now know your prime Then you can use your time In time Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
The same tick tock Which grows the plant Is the same tick tock Which kills the plant Every leaf, stem and stalk Will dance to the tune It grew to love And learn to detest its hands and discipline A time for one, Tick tock will pass And will never bother To take […]
I am at a yellow position Watching your quick reds And your greens As they switch in fast paces against me Giving my thoughts no rest And my heart no peace I have been at this position Waiting for you to come to a decision And help me be at ease My chest cannot […]
The centipede coils When the stick pokes The stick wanting to see its length The centipede wanting that in wraps He pokes, It coils, He pokes, She coils The sun watches in anguish Seeing fun flee from their encounter Time laughs at their clumsiness The sun closes its eyes And leaves them to the scare […]
What do we want? What are we doing? Why are we aiding time When we need our souls to race time? It is vanity upon vanity Crying in seclusion Shattering our own hearts Into million pieces Under the teary eyes of dumb ceilings, It is vanity upon vanity Quickly putting together our hearts […]
It has no legs but we can’t catch it Let’s run with it, let’s run with it It has no heart so it won’t get tired Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can’t fight it to stop running Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can do […]
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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