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ademiife (m)
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MY BREASTS
my breasts are small
the village say am but a girl
three moons after now
they ask why the golden pair has come
so robust
my breasts are big
the village say am spoilt
by the fondling hands of men
who stay behind at the ancient stream
does the act make breasts grow?
my breasts are known
like yam tubers in the village market
they are the topic at the village square
mama and papa say i bring home shame
in this court i can make no plea
to a harrowing ritual I submit myself
i am another lamb
in the shadowy shrine of breast-ironing. FACE OF BEAUTY
a powdered face
with bleached and transplanted teeth
advertising themselves
a pair of lips dyed with luxurious lipstick
20-karat gold in the holes of erring ears
like gold-ring in the snout of a swine
toe-nails pedicured in scarlet
constructed mediated breasts that
shame reality as they pop out
like the head of seething anaconda
a vain and glorious caryatid sculpted
over thousands of moribund nights
a face of beauty no more than skin deep
our conscience may mock you
how many of our eyes feast on you!
and in the name of light camera action
we glorify your beauty. I CAN TALK ABOUT IT
i can talk about it now…
dusts of broken china clouded the room
pearly pieces of earrings jangled out of their holes
and balls of beads bounced brazenly
off my violated neck
shreds of sundered dress carpeted the floor
pints of blood dotted the bedspread
as the stiletto tore through my flesh
i can talk about it now…
the filthy fingers froze feelings on my face
i looked on ceaselessly like a decapitated head
as by a cruel stroke of lightning I was put asunder
and shook like the epicenter of a sacrilegious violence
a temple desecrated
he was on top
as my world began to crash
in the fleeting ecstasy of a stranger
but i can talk about it now. |
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bluespice (f)
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u capture the true feelings of a rape victim i love the " i can talk about it" i love the emotions u depict
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ademiife (m)
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bluespice,
thanks for stopping by to leave a comment; very well appreciated!
you know there are feelings [overwhelming ones] whipped up by
some of us that only reading or hearing of similar encounter can
truly help us to edure and or survive the trauma,
thanks for your comment once again!
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nd2g
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Good Lord! I love your poetry. It's magic! Simple, yet sucks one into every scene. Lovely.
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Seun (m)
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Your third poem is in bad taste. There's nothing beautiful about rape. Art is about beauty.
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agerho (m)
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nice one ademife (i hope I got that rite)
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ikamefa (f)
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@topic is the 1st poem about breast ironing   Your third poem is in bad taste. There's nothing beautiful about rape. Art is about beauty.
i agree! nice word -play though! |
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ikamefa (f)
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scambater aka ikamefa2 why are you stalking me all over Nl?  bikonu leave me alone! abi them send you?  |
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scambater (m)
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Madam ika abeg no vex |
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MasterUwem (m)
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Poem |
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coolguyz (m)
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seems some of us read messages upside down or hw do i reconcile seun's comment on the 3rd poem (it's in bad taste)
u rily must be suffering from olodoiasis or an acute deficiency in the knowledge of art.
RAPE as we all know is a crime against humanity, a trauma victims go through and can't talk bout, the rejection and alienation victims suffer when their stories are known from people like seun and others,
now, someone captures the harrowing experience in a poem, and d boldness depicted to talk about the experience and put in our sub-consciousness this often neglected crime, the trauma and why we all should rise up against it.
and my all-powerful seun says its in bad taste, tufiakwa!, only if u have a friend that has bn raped, i had one and i knw she still suffer from the trauma, 7 years on after she was violated.
ade', thanx for the poem, it conceptualise the act in total and we can put ourselves in that act and see that we all need condemn this CRIME!
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iice (f)
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I actually like the third best. . .
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vescucci (m)
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Seun you sanctimonious self-righteous preacher! I think the person wallowing in bad taste is you sir! There ain't nothing beautiful about rape but there's beauty in the description which is amplified by the fact that the writer is male. Apparently you're not familiar with folks like Edgar Allan Poe or you'd think this poem was a walk in the park!
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Eddydeyemi (m)
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That is one helluva poem! Can you write! Thumbs up. More muse to your elbows and more ink to your pen
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FactorChic (f)
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Lovely write up, u got a fan in me!  |
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biife
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cool poems indeed!
poems 1, 2, 3 are all splendid!
who says bad taste?
that\'s an irony to waste!
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pcicero (m)
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Great job. i thought u were trying to inject rhyme? the second poem did not do much to condemn breast implant and facial surgeries or tummy tuck, the things u rightly refer to as "vain -glorious" Those Mary kay people are really milking our economy. i think the 3rd poem captures the right mood of a rape victim though but unlike Seun, i think the victim is willing to talk about it rather than bury her head in shame as others would and live with the stigma forever. it is a positive action!
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biife
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TEXTURES OF DARKNESS
glimpses of foggy feelings
outlined in rough texture of darkness
cataclysmic sadness enshrouded
in sunken sockets
of eerie eyes in broken skull
my fears are my self
immortal thoughts bargaining an end
adult eyes immobiled by painted devil
dilating pupils picturing a final closure
deathly sight of holes of hidden hearts
my fears are my self
unshared soul divided by self
self-shut self-hidden self-sold
in dungeon of nothingness
in cold blood of sudden cessation
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janedoe (f)
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@ poster,now I still believe there can be another Nobel Prize winner in poetry from Nigeria(If your Nigerian )
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janedoe (f)
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oh you are Nigerian.
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