Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Corporate Ghana Woman - A Poem


A poem for you all: Corporate Ghana Woman


This tight skirt

That brings out  
the full ambit
Of Your Elmina Sea Defence
And a body-revealing blouse
or a long-sleeved shirt
That shows Your bloom

Your bottom power,
Dunaa ni mashi
Evenly distributed
Like ECG, showing where the power lies
Wedged—
Below Your curved
waist like Madagascar
in Communion with Africa's
Mainland siblings

You know where the Power lies
You know that Power lies.

22 October 2012. Ridge

12 comments:

Efo Dela said...

Herh!! Too much give u!!

Nana said...

Hahaha thank you man

Anonymous said...

hahahahah where you talking about your girlfriend?

Wise said...

I feel this. Smh at Elmina sea defence

Nana said...

@Anonymous not at all.

@Wise, thank you

anguah said...

hehe 'Duna ni mashi'. couldn't put it any better

Unknown said...

very well, written. good poem, actually. But it reminds me of how women are still sexualized even in workplaces.

Nana said...

Debbie, my opinion is that no one can avoid being sexualised and not only women get sexualised.

As far as the poem is, i think it reminding you of sexualised women at workplaces isn't what it's meant to do. But it's art and you have the license to the references you make.

Fantaxy said...

Hahaha, it ended when I was almost starting.. Sensuous and freestyled. I feel

Unknown said...

Interesting. Nice piece

Akua said...

Good try. I think its a little to raw. I personally don't like it when guys treat and describe women like a piece of meat. It is kind of disrespectful.

Serwa Akoto said...

I personally don't feel disrespected as a woman..."like a piece of meat"'? I'm intrigued instead because it reminds me of a Game of Thrones quote "power resides where men believes it resides'. Nana Yaw has expressed what many men must feel in the workplace...mmmhhhh

"I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones i set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf saved them from."
Morning Yet on Creation Day, 1975. Chinua Achebe.

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