I was born with nothing No fangs No claws To talk of clothes and rings and slings to cling Look at me now Looking at these crossroads II I was born like mixed flour So light Does the sun boil me like heat Which fans the buttocks of pots As air stirs my content to […]
I wish, I wish, I wish! I wish I had a day To travel to the mind of man I would want to explore all his caves To know the wires that touch To electrocute some senses Into forming actions gargantuans To horrify my sisters and I II I’d first love to be a tourist […]
I am a product of a nation Which was stung by the bee of slavery That I am But that is centuries ago I was never a slave I acknowledge the pains of my caught brothers and sisters of my ancestors That should not drag me Into caves of self sympathy Wallowing in the dirt […]
 Many have thoughts of society Making fem effete Tonight, I will defray your machismo And lock your manpower In my power packed handcuffs In preparation of doing you II I need no hands on you I need no legs on you Touches of electrification To numb all, will wake my thunders to work Tonight […]
 If my voice strokes your choice And my moving cells you ensorcell Come Come get me II If my yoke in another makes you broke And my charm causes you sweet harm Come Come get me III If I am the witch who burns your bitch And the flower which scents your shower Come […]
Excuses are the mucus of falling Helping hands of failure to receive many favours If you are a favour so slimy Let your tongue walk your work As your legs cross to slide Downhill Where failure waits impatiently for star meals Giving fun to mouths whose eyes keenly follow Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2016
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 […]
Breath lures greed In hope of immortality Food lures need in hope of eternal satisfaction Money plants demons In hope of more into much In the hands of all pockets Stirring the pot of vanishing only to outlast 1b. For pleasure shovels and accomodating holes Beings build mental castles To chain targets like goats in […]
Walking through this book of life Which flips and turns in love and strife How can I the best’s wife be If I read not of kings doting on skirts of their shes? II In the read Hides machetes which tears ignorance in shreds Kwaku Ananse’s morals Which walked the spoken of the sages of […]
Skies of the throne of Freejustice Rain to ruins Like ships draining their seas while at sea At high fees The waves that keep them afloat Are divided into three II The blind waves Which push like donkeys even in drought The on-fence waves Which would give their lives Than lift fingers to right any […]
Koo Kum anticipated and anticipated Like a villager promised a city tour His crown being his foolish grin When he thought of his awesome spin On top of the heavenly angel Whose beauty had consumed All her gargantuan flaws In his eyes II Mere fantasies made him drool His perfect words Manly looks Controlling initiation […]
Kwabena Amoafo lives in a bottle A bottle too small even for his hand A bottle whose scent throws more punches To noses than the best boxers alive But like a diminished grasshopper He lives in what he blinds Putting pressure on his people II What at all is in the bottle That has the […]
A fish with parched throat Afloat the vast ocean waves Gets no mercy cries From a flying bird right up Drought in flood is deceptive II A bird in flying Can never show breathlessness Let alone be saved By a sheep walking the land Can minds be blamed for thinking? III A sheep in sweating […]
When the shores of sleep Wash dreamed souls Into immobile bodies At the first crow of the king of cocks Let not the waves of stench Give away the carcasses Slaughtered by fantasy horses Who fled and led their opponents To their chambers To take what souls they deemed needed II When tears from priced […]
All in slumber By the crow of cocks Wake and line by your street Especially those with itchy ears Busy mouths And gossip eyes Abena Gyantra I will be seen passing II After working my pants into tatters Messing my hair into dreads And working my waist into a cripple That should add to your […]
Dig the foundation Like a mason with the strength of a bull Let me shovel Like the strong apprentice Loving her vocation Hoping rains of the future aid To mix our cement of need With our sand of laughter To solidify our foundation of love Smile, no matter how tough Even ants build huge anthills […]
Times have travelled Travelled far But what the seers see In closed eyes Even the tallest man alive Will never see with million eyes wide opened So they speak not in plains II Poetry is not naked words For thoughtless prostitutes Neither is it naked wires To shock into reality fools with no eye thoughts […]
Things are knocking things Making humanity more laughable If spiders build human houses And dogs build webs If ants stay in caves As lions stay in anthills I guess creation will turn upside down II Here we are Drawing many a bar Some hens pretend to be cocks Some cocks pretend to be hens As […]
I killed you In my dreams When your flaws burnt bright And I lost my way in fears of screams II I killed you in my creams When your texture dried And my skin lost all moisture As I, all the seas of tears cried III I killed you in my dims When your light […]
(This is a poem specially dedicated to all great fathers. Happy Fathers’ Day to all those trying so hard to pay tgeir dues and to tend to their children. May God/Allah bless you all) A fertile farm Needs a great farmer Who will carefully choose its seed Meticulously prepare his land In weeding Tilling Up […]
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