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Ostracized by Nuns

will to be diff’rent
fractals with cursive curlicues
cream-colored overalls

ostracized by nuns
and formal catechisms
with habitual fashion sense

now I’m in control
spinning like a pinwheel
with poetic enunciation

showed them, showed them all
i could take off my uniform
it’s monotone gray

Copyright © Kim Rodrigues | Year Posted 2024

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Duke Beaufort Date: 2/13/2024 12:33:00 PM Good for you. It's funny or maybe not that I view school as prison in some sense. Freedom is much better. Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/13/2024 3:24:00 PM LOL…we have to eat our vegetables too!

Mike Bayles Date: 2/7/2024 8:16:00 AM I relate to this poem. The girls in my high wore uniforms. Shedding the uniforms is an act of breaking free. Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/13/2024 3:25:00 PM I went to two different Catholic schools. The second uniform had some blue, a little nicer. The first was too gray…ho hum.

Daniel Henry Rodgers Date: 2/7/2024 6:17:00 AM Dear Kim, Your poem stopped me in my tracks. The imagery is so real. But it's the raw emotion that truly captured me. The feeling of being ostracized for being different, of yearning to break free is something I deeply connect with. At some point, we all have felt the pressure to conform, to suppress our unique selves. Your poem captures that struggle so powerfully, and the triumphant ending – "showed them, showed them all / I could take off my uniform" I Loved it! - Blessings, Daniel Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/13/2024 3:27:00 PM I appreciate your comment! Blessings!

Paige Hind Date: 2/5/2024 5:04:00 PM I'm sorry about whoever tried to limit you- plus, it makes the world quite boring! Keep love on high- and shine! Hugs, just me <3 Login to Reply Paige Hind Date: 2/14/2024 6:25:00 PM Aww, thanks. You are wonderful, too! <3 Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/13/2024 3:28:00 PM Thank you, Paige! Just you…wonderful you :)

Victor Buhagiar Date: 2/5/2024 11:23:00 AM I read reports of nuns and unfortunately, priests, who create their personal catechism menu. Disgraceful. Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/5/2024 2:45:00 PM Oh my! Blessings to you, my friend!

Yann Rolland Date: 2/5/2024 12:54:00 AM glad you escape to nuns, this is a wonderful poem, so creative and touching, God bless you poet Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/5/2024 5:04:00 AM Thank you, Yann! :)

Bill Baker Date: 2/4/2024 9:15:00 PM Organized religion is not necessarily spiritually correct. Living a life of service to others with an intention of loving for the heart is honorable, regardless of the name of one's religion. Being who you feel the spirit within wants you to be is more important than following rules. Smiles ~ Blessings, Kim. Bill Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/5/2024 5:05:00 AM Funny the things you remember…having your creativity curtailed.

Gershon Wolf Date: 2/4/2024 6:21:00 PM I don't know. The older I get, the better nuns look. ~ Mr. Twenty/Twenty Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/4/2024 6:58:00 PM LOL…well, I did have a sweet great-aunt that became a nun at 14 years old.

Karen Jones Date: 2/4/2024 5:09:00 PM I can’t imagine how hard that must have been. This poem gives insight and perspective thanks. Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/4/2024 5:46:00 PM Hopefully we move forward in kindness!

Jan Allison Date: 2/4/2024 2:52:00 PM I understand the regime of the nuns could be quite brutal, you have risen far above it and banished the grey and bring sunshine into our lives with your wonderful words:-) hugs jan xx Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/4/2024 5:45:00 PM Thank you so much, Jan! Hugs xx

David Kavanagh Date: 2/4/2024 2:46:00 PM Gotta love stanza 2 Kim it’s sheer genius, (habitual fashion sense) but I read further into this one as a whole, a lot of people mostly women have been ostracised and worse by nuns in the past, whilst being indoctrinated by catechisms, hopefully these unfortunate souls can find their own path now without coercion, cheers David Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 2/4/2024 5:44:00 PM The schooling was good but… boy sent to principal - head banged against the doorway, don’t touch another nun’s robe…worse for mom who endured the ruler against the knuckles. Oh my!