Best Patriarchy Poems

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, your swell, they treated like machines.
You can be the light midst darkness, woman

yet why they see your body as gold...

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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 , good muscle tone, a boxer's solid build
 army tour in Burma where his discipline was drilled
 his right and...

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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 of humour.

His heir and son was cultivated and charming.
Yet the earl's wife was a fiery woman of red hair
with an...

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A woman can't just walk away from
patriarchy for her power, authority 
and privilege has been cast and 
woven deeply into its bones. Fathers
are in charge of the family, not for 
scientific reasons, only because of 
physical power. Children find their 
mothers cleaning and cooking are
left...

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Do we really want  that patriarchy,
or all that malarkey with matriarchy?
What we need are guys and gals, 
gals and gals and guys and guys,
who share the task of daily love,
the loving struggle, the daily shove:

But the world’s so foolish, not just a stage,
to jaunt...

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HEAR ME ROAR….

You think you’re better than me,
Trying to dominate the very soul that created you, protected you
Maybe a century ago you could say men had a say,
Only because we were not allowed to, in the law of tradition not principles,
But not now, not this...

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The village head summoned the meeting
The elders, the sons, the warriors came greeting
Sitting on a round table all eating
Great minds at work in this honorable seating 
     Talks of hunting errands
     Arranged marriages
    ...

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PATRIARCHY

We had Fathers.							
Distant creatures						
beings aware of another dimension
condemned to keep its secrets,
protect us from its presence
for as long as possible.

Solitary creatures – these Fathers,
lone hunters
stealthily disappearing
and re-appearing.
Loud creatures –
snarling at the world,
growling and nipping
at their children
to protect them – from it.

Lonely creatures – these Fathers
prowling...

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I am the grass
on a windy day,
held back
by its own roots.

i am a horse
with blinders on its eyes,
you use me
to feel powerful.

and i connive 
to the fiction
that you are stronger,
better.

because of you
i think about the length of my dress
and nod when they say
i should talk...

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Did you know there are more than 20,000 known species of bees, but only 5 percent are social bees? Only 5 percent allow you to get to know them. They’re minding their business, building their nests, and you interrupt their day to tell them, “You’re...

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Behind Summer's fullness
richness,
nutritional and nurturing sunlight
empowering bounty

Lies another deep
darker sacred truth
of EarthTribe's inevitable mortality,
death
loss
cosmic stress
universal trauma

MonoTheistic distrust,
disaster,
despair
of patriarchal autonomous
lonely at the top
supremacy

MonoPolistic colonizing,
divisive,
aggressive,
violent,
rapacious,
racist,
sexist,
terrorist
climatic pathology

MonoCulturing Straight Western Male 
historic white 
protagonist light,
choosing win/lose inside voices
over win/win outside choices
is not so healthily bright

Against deep dark green
ecofeminist
co-passionate
co-empathic
co-arising bicameral
panentheistic...

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Before restoring outside perfection,
perpetual pleasures
of prosperous peace

I remain responsible,
compulsively responsive,
habitually receptive
to repairing inside win/lose
past competitive aggressions,
negatively suppressive 
non-communications

My most resilient repentance
includes self-forgiveness
for over-stressed addictions
to trauma repressors,
for failing to do my best
on a bad day

I usually fail to trust 
win/win strategic play
and work my best truth
healthiest...

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EarthMother grows impatient,
despite her curiosity driven
cooperative inviting polyculture
reconnection with SunFather's Great White
monotheistic climate
of Patriarchal-Capitalist classroom activity
RightHand saluting
salutary competitions.

Your historic move,
S/He dissonantly
defiantly intones,
from sacred polytheistic peak experiences,
inherently dipolar co-arising,
not monotheistic judgments
punishing bipolar sick people
for manic/depressive original sinning

Missing win/win marks
is also a monoculturing move
away from sacred arts...

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Once upon a time a gymnast teacher told a girl, 
and all her classmates, 
to gather round 
to spot the student currently bouncing 
on the trampoline. 

They circled 
to volunteer a ring of imperfectly rhythmed
but positively patterned
intent to help, 
should the witnessed bounce go horribly...

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daddy long legs spinning its' web from the ceiling 

8 legs of terror, to 8 years of life as a kid. 

monster under the bed hurry,

big terrible eyes, gleaming at me from the dark unknown corner. 

go wake your mother from her slumber, Dad must...

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