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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

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 2/4/2024 5:46:00 PM

Hopefully we move forward in kindness!

Sara Etgen-Baker

Date: 2/4/2024 4:08:00 PM

hooray for tossing out the monotone gray and finding your poetic 'enunciaton.' What a fabulous feeling to have moved past that...a statement of her personal fortitude. Liked: habitual fashion sense--that was creative and brilliant, hugs, Sara

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 2/4/2024 5:45:00 PM

Thank you so much! xx

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

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

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!