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Best Suffragette Poems

Surrogate Suffragette

So your great gran
was a suffragette
She fought for the right for women to vote
She thought that would make a woman equal,
put them on the same footing as a man
Looking back, that was misguided thinking
by woman like your great gran
Your great gran
and her suffragette sisters
didn't count...

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Categories: suffragette, culture, granddaughter, grandmother, women,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Emancipation

Clippity Cloppity
    Emily Davison
    confronted race horses
    losing her life

    dissident suffragette
    indiscriminately
    committed sabotage
    chaos and strife

    Hickory Dickory
 ...

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Categories: suffragette, conflict, death, discrimination, women,
Form: Double Dactyl