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"Protection" I see you behind your mask protecting all your marks (LadyLabyrinth/ 2020) gvlm

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 11/2/2022 2:42:00 PM

"Exposure" / Fripp - https://youtu.be/kAFEE3os4F0

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 12/4/2021 6:56:00 PM

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/i-am-a-child-of-domestic-violence-and-i-am-breaking-my-silence/ar-AARt5la

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/4/2021 7:00:00 PM

"Poetry, rather than psychology, was my first path to speaking about my childhood experience of domestic violence. Poetry allows for hesitation. It allows you to feel your way into an expression of things that you don’t even understand. The techniques of metaphor and persona also give you some cover. Creative writing, generally speaking, is a way of both revealing yourself and hiding yourself away."

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/14/2020 3:53:00 PM

"They looked down their nose at me’: Domestic abuse survivor says public agencies belittled her."

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/14/2020 3:53:00 PM

http://a.msn.com/01/en-au/BB1921UD?ocid=se2

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 8/19/2020 2:33:00 PM

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-20/hannah-baxter-camp-hill-car-fire-suspected-murder-suicide/11981348

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 8/19/2020 2:39:00 PM

https://www.smallsteps4hannah.com.au/

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 8/19/2020 2:33:00 PM

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/mother-of-children-killed-by-father-on-sydney-s-upper-north-shore-found-dead-20181212-p50lua.html

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 8/19/2020 2:33:00 PM

Rose Batty. / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Batty

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 8/19/2020 2:08:00 PM

BPsychCrim commence 28.9.20.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 2/16/2020 2:56:00 PM

"Exposure" / Fripp

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/16/2020 2:56:00 PM

https://youtu.be/hzFsDQeTUT4

Kai Michael Neumann

Date: 2/16/2020 5:50:00 AM

And it is staring us right in the face ...

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/16/2020 2:55:00 PM

Let us hope it imprints hard upon all the silent masks and leaves its mark. Thank you.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 2/15/2020 10:48:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/wishing_well__1212891

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 8/19/2020 2:06:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/sanitized_for_your_own_protection_1249150

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/15/2020 10:49:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_mirrored_war_room_1225254

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/15/2020 10:49:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/another_mans_treasure_1225073

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 2/15/2020 10:41:00 PM

"Chilling Leanne 1 can only hope It's a Death Mask To be worn for all eternity." A chilling response. Women and children most certainly are affected for life in many cases. Restraining Orders are usually ineffective. In the extreme cases, the result is death and usually the children are taken first in the case of Domestic Violence, through death or bitter custodial battles, to further the emotional abuse. Australia's Rose Batty and son's case, comes to mind. But there are many children who have been murdered in revenge. And there are many women who lose their life through acts of violence. You may argue that sometimes the woman will exact that punishment, and this sometimes happens, but usually it is the male of the species who delivers the violence and exacts the punishment.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/15/2020 10:42:00 PM

So your chilling comment is correct in one way, some women and some children do wear that Death Mask for the rest of their life. Others with the support of strong networks, who will listen to these women and children and believe the truth of the violence these women and children are experiencing, and show these women and children respect in their life situation, will enable justice to occur and eventual freedom/release from the violence of the perpetrator. Some women and children are able to break the cycle of violence and live a half decent to nearly full life. Police should be the first call. The Domestic Violence agencies, Dept of Childrens Services, and other social welfare agencies are there to assist and will assist with strong support. Family, friends, work associates, schools, churches, psychologists, GPs etc should be encouraged to listen, believe and support these women and children.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/15/2020 10:42:00 PM

These support networks are usually in place within first world countries for women and children. Women and children from other countries and cultures are not so fortunate.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 2/15/2020 3:26:00 PM

“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” Tennessee Williams

Arturo Michael

Date: 2/15/2020 11:21:00 AM

It's truly savage...one that keeps us in the jungle...A conscious write

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/15/2020 3:26:00 PM

Thank you.

Ts Poetry

Date: 2/15/2020 9:32:00 AM

We as a society should make it easy for victims to come forward without fear of shame. The bullies, the tormentors, the abusers, the manipulators should all be publicly punished and stripped of their freedoms...i despise them all...even those hiding behind a screen or a book.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/15/2020 9:39:00 AM

Education, must start at the beginning, with the very young to stop the cycle of abuse. It must be very clearly recognised and accepted, by all genders, that abuse on any level, but with particular emphasis on physical and emotional abuse, Domestic Violence, is not LOVE, and protection is ALWAYS (underline, bold), always, first for yourself and your children, not the abuser. Never ever the abuser.