Womanhood Poems - Poems about Womanhood

MANHOOD V WOMANHOOD I use my favourite chat-up line as I join her at the bar, ”What’s a girl like you doing without a man like me?” She raises her eyes disdainfully, “That’s the worst I’ve heard by...Read the rest...

This 30th of November, I can be dragged down by men that I loved. And they feel no guilty I’m caged in maturity. A little girl tugs my fuchsia leg-split...Read the rest...

To be a woman: Is to search your...Read the rest...

Behold my rebirth As I take strides towards a brighter version of myself, Emancipating from a darker existence. As I begin to discover a revelation As radiant as a star-studded night sky, I venture closer to the mirror. There, I feel...Read the rest...

i will write haiku so that my big feelings don’t take up too much room i know well enough silence wields no rejection so i stay silent. the feminine urge to scream like a wounded beast but i just say...Read the rest...

Smog, not only in my streets but in my brain, my neural pathways Holding weight. Holding weight in my shoulders, in my neck in my core. I run until I'm sore. Still don't know if want to grow or...Read the rest...

I'm a woman Yes, an African woman ...Read the rest...

The story of every woman, They are not all the same, They vary as their faces are, No one author can have all written down, Given his length of days, Hidden in their chambers are untold stories, Stories to be told...Read the rest...

Four Things Four things in any land must dwell, If it endures and prospers well: One is manhood true and good; One is noble womanhood; One is child life, clean and bright; And one an altar kept alight....Read the rest...

O' Woman ! You are not some Damsel in Distress , And Surely no less than an Empress . Never Let Patriarchy Wither your Madness, Isn't it Minute for all the Life and Gladness ? The time...Read the rest...

The calendar is no longer a friend, its messages are clumsy numbers working with the clock to drift her from men’s fantasy that’s all she thinks of, life’s self acclaimed orphan with a lonely heart, she curses every...Read the rest...

The next test that's coming, study for it, but don't think the world will collapse if you don't do well enough; The next time you're on that weighing scale, try to work for losing some weight,...Read the rest...

Adolescence is usually such a hard game to play. The game board is a complicated one to go through. You worry, fear, love, say you can’t go through the day, But it’s all in the game of adolescence...Read the rest...

Immeasurable maturation profoundly transformed thy Shana Punim within whose corporeal femininity gravitas resonates and doth hum whose unbelievable transition, now follows the beat of her own drum approximately four years ago, thee second and youngest born daughter didst squawk and crow aforementioned fledging eagerly, instinctively,...Read the rest...

A girl just on the verge of puberty Unaware of the pain her body could incur Excited on a train with family Smiling at the countryside Cows grazing in sunlight The train stops at their destination Many getting off- bodies against...Read the rest...