Best Glass Ceiling Poems

I was born in Green Valley, west of Liverpool, west of Sydney, Australia.
It's like being born in the Bronx, or Tottenham, or Shankhill, or Govan in Glasgow.
I might as well have been born there too.

Where those of Green Valley's DNA
Kiss the ground with a bent...

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The Glass Ceiling

“Woe there sister, where do you think you're going?
 Turn around, go back, stop, cease, desist!
 Nothing for you above my see-through barrier. 
Yes, yes, I know you can see them up there.
 They are welcome up above. 
Why? 
Well, because they have...

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Glass Ceiling


Crouched here in the corner of the ceiling
watching myself – fighting to endure –
I stifle tears, for I am but his essence
growing dimmer as his color pales.

He struggles to make sense of life – in death.
Whereas I struggled to make sense of death –...

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BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING

Deborah,God annointed Judge&Prophetess
a matriarch,overseer of men,..no less;
Mary,at Jesus feet,studied...just as a man
in Christ there is no gender ban...

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Forbears,Edie,Kate and Ann furnished apiece with brush and pan.Each 
Victorian 'Miss' tied in service's  abyss.Far off days,now long gone,their toil each 
day was lengthy and long.With fires to light,floors to scrub,and carpets to brush 
and drub.Mops forbidden,as they smeared the dirt and begrimed their...

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Ladies! Ladies!Ladies!!!
focus on your career
not on the barriers......
always pare yourself; to be the best version.....
all the time better than yesterday;
be greedy for your ambition.
Gambol with your passion.....
Why be in a glass slipper.....
unless you can break a glass ceiling; promise yourself that you will not Brittle.
Keep...

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Mary and Angelica ,ladies of great renown
Painters extraordinaire in Ol' London town
Both founding members of the R & A
Still life,portraits & history on a grand scale-
Left out of a group painting because they were not male !

Mary Moser & Angelica Kauftmann help to found the...

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Lee bridged the race divide
when prejudice had nowhere to hide-
Riding a mustang in the sky
His deeds gave bigotry the lie,
sterotyping his,to defy.

Tribute to Lt-Colonel Lee Archer (1919-2010) WW2 fighter pilot and VP of General Foods who 
died this past week...

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A great artist was Sofonisba
Due to her her enlightened pa-
A court painter to a king
Throughout Europe her fame did wing-
So now her praise to you I sing

Tribute to Sonfoniba Anguissda 1532-1625 an acquaintance of Michelangelo and Vn Dyck

http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/Phillippy/_women_artists/anguissola/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofonisba_Anguissola...

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old tracks
 to
      the water edge
  a
    thatched cottage
a river a harbour a boat

with
    woman&child
a beach a village a park

'neath lilac
         on the terrace
hanging out...

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Social evolution invented down the line
selective and complex, customs skewed,
placing men in the lead, women behind,
for they are deemed the weaker gender,
born unequal in the nonpartisan world 
under blue sky of freedom made for all,
to obey silently all the time, subjugated.

As the dark clouds of...

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A woman in a man's world was Artemiia Gentileschi
broke the glass ceiling to be free
She much to her famous pa did owe
but in her day ploughed her own furrow


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi...

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WOMEN OF AUTHORITY
Women of the world may
lead,teach and oversee.
Deborah a leader upon God’s
call and Miriam & Esther ,
females to name but three.
In later times these four 
as well,Anna,Phoebe,Priscilla
& Junia and many more;
freed by Jesus’ law.In Him
we see neither Greek nor Gentile
male or female or the...

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Thanks to everyone
Who made me realize that
I alone am master of my destiny

Who showed me strength, gentleness
And the power of determination

Who challenged me to reach beyond
For all the treasures of within

Who taught me life is a playground and
Living means a thirst to experiment

Thank you for...

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The Glass Ceiling

She cracked the glass ceiling
shattering his world!...

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