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Premium Member Conquering the Blind Scales of Patriarchy
CONQUERING THE BLIND SCALES OF PATRIARCHY

Crystal cold are the pupils of some men
staring red to jailed porcelain dolls skin
dowered for the title of chastity,
your curves,...

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Categories: patriarchy, abuse, change, conflict, inspiration,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Patriarchy- For Contest
As fathers go, I used to say, I thought he was alright
 took the work wherever he could and kept our fire alight.
 Brylcreem hair...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patriarchy, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Patriarchy
He ruled his kingdom with an iron fist
all looked up to the earl of otherworld.
Women sighed over his handsome face,
his manly stature and his sense...

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Categories: patriarchy, leadership, son, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Dear Men
Dear men,
Explain to me why I stand alone. 
Women are quick to uplift their father, sons, and brothers
Quick to maintain the home,
But when she needs...

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Categories: patriarchy, abuse, anger, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poem For Whomever
she is tranquillity
yet lava flows in her veins

cut her open and you'll burn

she is Eve's apple
nemesis to patriarchy

one bite and you'll bleed

she is a rainbow
an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patriarchy, friendship, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Neopocha
"Neophoca"

I was dragged 
out of my ocean 
of dreams 

when they peeled
my skin, I was broken,
an endangered species

feeding bits of me 
to the carniverous 
genus...

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Categories: patriarchy, abuse, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Air of Freedom

In a world where chains restrict,
my one wish would be for everyone to be free.
If I could alter the fate of those forced into silence...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patriarchy, abuse, freedom, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Their Precious Jewels
where *Sharia reigns
women are precious jewels
hide them from the world
let no other man behold
the diamond that you possess

guard that precious gem
her ovaries will get hurt
if...

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Categories: patriarchy, men, power,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member In Defense of the Guardian
While the guardian of night watches
a  looming thunderstorm , the power
of his animus defends earthy home
and a village’s turf with grit… and in
the stillness...

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Categories: patriarchy, devotion, men,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Patriarchal Prisoners
You rule this family with an iron fist
Thriving on having your ass kissed
Without constant adoration you become pissed
There are too many items on your wanted...

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Categories: patriarchy, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Freed From My Shackles - Translation From Tagore
This is a poem (Original Title “Mukti” in Bengali, which means “Freedom”) by India's Nobel-laureate poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) - a poet, writer,...

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Categories: patriarchy, freedom, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Therapeutic Democracy
Democracy is what we do
and breathe together
to empower ourselves.

Some would say the same of prayer
and holy communion
and secular communication
and healthy relationships.

Democracy seems like an empowering...

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Categories: patriarchy, community, earth, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Born Defective
I come from the land of coffee,
plastic breasts and nonsense,
drugs and narco past, 
very proudly they'll exalt.

Woman so pretty as blow-up doll, 
got so many...

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© Eva Soup  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patriarchy, community, identity, immigration, political,
Form: Free verse
Flip-Side Simple
Feminism,
Neo-Marxism,
Catastrophic cultural schism,
Rallying against the "patriarchy",
Waging social war by tweeting,
Against superficial enemies of the ideology,
Submission through guilt and gender supremacy power,
Cracking down the whip to...

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Categories: patriarchy, anti bullying, corruption, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Great Ironic Co-Arising
Positive nutritionists co-arise!
Now, while toxins mutually self-immunize,
then co-subside,
then decompose,
to implicate potential revolutions.

Health,
cooperating abundance of Self with
as by of Other!
Now, while decay slinks into silos of
"That...

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Categories: patriarchy, culture, integrity, money, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs