Awadifo Kili bravely weaves a BOLD Verse on Menstruation.



AWADIFO OLGA KILI is our WOMAWORDS representative for young women and girls and  represents Uganda in #WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS Hall of Fame. A  Youthful Literary,genius.A dedicated and widely published writer poet attending her Law studies at a University in Uganda, African land of great political history, cultural anthropology and a haven of literary arts doyens.   This installment features Poet Awadifo Olga Kilis Profile and her unique set of poems touching on the hot bun subject matter, MENSTRUATION. While this set of candid and bold verses require brave readership, Kili celebrates womanhood and uses her sharpened weapon, her pen to smash stigma and discrimination . She then spiritedly flexes her poetic muscle and dare every Goliath set to discriminate  girls and women  on periods.  Her poetry is candid and her verses are thought provoking, she pushes her spear yonder by saying that  periods reflect purity and it is a blessing from Almighty God . Mind boggling poesy.  Awadifo Kilis poems are trendsetting and are clearing our path towards the # DaughtersoftheEarthProject t Her set of poems including these titles. WOMAWORDS is greatly excited to see heads rolling on this our digital thicket. Yes , we yearn to promote dialogue , exchange of ideas , scholarship , freedom of expression  and peace.  Aluta Continua( blurb by WOMAWORDS eDitor-Mbizo CHIRASHA).



 



HELLO PERIODS.



The moon just nicely appeared
Opening the doors of the uterus.



Dear Uterus, about one lunar month
From puberty, you shed your lining



As blood stains on my bed sheets
I see a flower into an eerie metaphor.



Externally, I express this cute feeling
And internally I experience the beauty.



As I perform this menstrual ritual
It inherently remains poetic to me.



Like a rhyme scheme, equal, steady
My body pushes onward and inward.



I praise my periods with sanitary pads
I say HELLO to my periods without pretense,



With beautiful shiny ribbons I crown
My uterus for other periods again.



 



FEMININE STORY



Cool breeze gently blows my styled hair



And I tuck it behind my ears.



Who knows who exactly I am?



I am woman, bearer of life.



I proclaim my identity as female



When I smell my blood in nature’s will.



With cramping stomach enough to faint,



I drip from my womb; I bleed for life.



With a tired soul, I bleed all day and night



Like raindrops from an angry cloud.



Severe pain, muscle cramps ,I undergo



Iced by mood swings against my will.



Yes, I can bleed and call me impure.



But see this, my blood my life.



My cramps and pains are mine



And my periods God are god given.



So I’ll sleep calmly like a sheep



For this won’t take me to my tomb.



 



DAUGHTERS OF EVE



Dear daughters of Eve,



In celebration of our uterus,



We receive our womanhood stamp



That comes with menses.



We receive our bundle of joy,



Moments to attend to self



And blessings of an inner process.



In celebration of our uterus,



The souls of the women we are,



We paint our EARTH with new colors,



We sign notes with our white cloths.



With my blood of that is pure



Like a banquet of English roses.



So, I rejoice like an Angel



For another month of life and purity



 



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AWADIFO OLGA KILI is an Author,Law Student, Poetess and Human Rights Activist from Uganda. Kili sits in the #WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS as the  Ugandan Associate and Representative of Young Women and Girls .She is the Author of the book Victorious Tales which is human rights based and has written so many poems that have featured in International Journals and Anthologies, this Menstrual Equity and Health Poetry feature was recently published at  WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS,https://womawordsliterarypress.home.blog/2020/05/09/awadifo-bravely-weav...



 



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Writer and Chronicler MBIZO CHIRASHA is a staunch member of  World Pulse. Founder and Chief Editor of WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS.UNESCO -RILA  Affiliate Artist. Freedom of Speech/Literary Arts Activism Culture Fellow # PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, Germany.  Poet in Residence at # Fictional Café
(International publishing and literary digital space) USA . 2019 Sotambe
Festival Live Literature Hub and Poetry Café Curator. 2019 African
Fellow for the International Human Rights ArtFestival(https://ihraf.org/international-fellows ) , Essays
Contributor to Monk Art and Soul Magazine in United Kingdom .ArtsFeatures Writer at the International Cultural Weekly .Featured Writer Poet Activist at The Poet A Day(https://jamiededes.com/). Core Team
Member and African Contributor to Bezine of Arts andHumanities(https://thebezine.com/) in USA. Flash/Short Fiction Writer
for Squawk BackPublication(http://www.thesquawkback.com/2020/01/mbizo.html).Contributing
Writer( Africa) to IHRAFPublishes-https://ihraf.org/ihraf-publishes. African Contributor to the 2020 BlackWell Poetry Pamphlet of Oxford School of Poetry, UK. Hybrid Writings Contributor to Pulp-Pit Review, USA.



 



 

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