– Spilling everyday experiences with words –
Posted on June 13, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
When my skirt was torn, I gasped in fearThe last shed of my dignity laidSolemnly on the floor having paidA plea; willing the beast in between your legs to hearThe angry inferno from your long exhaust pipe to douseWhere my tears have failed to… Continue Reading “Broken”
Category: Family, Sex & SexualityTags: Betrayal, Disappointment, Engagement, lust, male-privilege, Rape, rape-culture, social-norms
Posted on May 23, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
Category: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Politics & Social normsTags: equality, feminism, Girl-child, male-privilege, rape-culture, society, stereotypes
Posted on July 5, 2019 by Ugo Nkwoala
Don’t come to me during work hours or at home deliberately wearing so tight fitting, so low-cut a dress baring your Double D expecting not this lump – this rude fellow with no will or brains from growing stiff and long, I am only… Continue Reading “#MeToo”
I recall you told mewhen we talked over the air,you would come to see me like a VIP.At Nekede, I’ve with fanfarebeen planning what to show you:an umbrella tree, a bloom here,a crooked path there; yonder a groveclose to it a wellspring, on this side a slopeon that a stream glare.Indeed, madam, I know nothingso […]
IDear Irony, “Tell me, my goddess.”What numbers have you laid sway?Is it the Wise – who derides Folly?Or the ridiculed who derides his mocker –“In all his insight and contemplative devote he isa maverick proclaiming without any result his knowinglike a parched lost vagabond in Saharathe thirst for knowledge had led him to drinkfrom the […]