Beautiful Igbo Woman Poem by Ejiofor Alisigwe

Chukwu kporo gi Adam maka na ahu Chukwu ka ibu
Nwanyi oma, priestess of beautiful womanhood
Queen of all things beautiful mother of God
Onye di ya na umu ya ji eme onu mgbe nile
Great Mama, sweet bosoms of my wean
Daalu nnem oma exotic flesh of God

From your sensuous mouth gushes maternal wisdom
Your lips decorated by uli sashay your beauty
Though subtle but a potent oja to Nnayi veins
Site na ehe gi ka nwoke si puta bee akwaa mbu
To herald the emergence of man to accompany you
And as the daughter of Chukwu He named you Adam
Adamma Chukwu, a daughter, a sister, a wife

Yet Anyanwu ututu, as graceful as a beaded swan
Waltzing to a peacock, a hencock courting fawn
With elegant grace from your will of motherhood
All sensual nights clad your sensuous womanhood
With entwined legs and ugent embrace of Nnayi
And the perpetual beamings and bold whistles
Of Nnayi to sweet nothings all day afternights
Bringing gifts on his returns to your homage

But gifts are gifts bought from Afo Ndu market
Your gift is life to the image of man and God
You are Adamma mother and daughter of God
You are first man with a womb called womb-man
Ihudiya, it is your beauty, it is your strenght
One for your man and the rest for your children

Mama I forever hunger for your sweet suckle
To wean me of my lingering adulthood to date
To remain craddled in your warm embrace
Forever close to your beating virgin heart
Your beauty dazzles man and Papa's Igbo heart
And from your womb blossom Igbo lineage tree
Mama take my head in your fair hands so sweet
As I bow my head in worship on bended knees