Best Suffragette Poems

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...

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With glorious primordial certainty
  the sun will rise, the sun will set;
likewise you languish knowing what you're about,
  you know what is and...

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Clippity Cloppity
    Emily Davison
    confronted race horses
    losing her life

    dissident suffragette
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Rosemary’s Baby


Rosemary’s baby is a baby of mine,
Rosemary’s baby dropped right on time for me.
Rosemary’s baby is a baby of mine,
Rosemary’s baby dropped right on...

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Translation of " Bury Me in a Free Land " by Frances E. W. Harper
(Homage to Frances Ellen Watkins HARPER, the First Black Lady of...

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On a runup to the past,
lightning lies are striking fast
Speak a little Fuhrer con,
Dollar sanction appease a wannabe Stalin
In the Big Ivory House,
every hussy dictator...

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How can I snap out of it? 
Open hearted, contents spilled to the world; 
crying as if that might redeem it, 
self-same reliant, or did...

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The women's body does not
Belong to the government.
  Once again this, borders,
On personal harassment.

  The woman's body is hers,
It's a personal choice.
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slithering through a suffragette smattering
the serpentine has no shoulder
on which to give 
or have taken 
piggyback rides through pantsuit criterion
so certainly lacks the same of...

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At What High Price is Freedom?
At What High Cost is Liberty and 
Justice for All!***

Are we willing to pledge: our lives,
Our hopes, our dreams, ...

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Composer Ethel Mary Smyth
broke her glass ceiling when alive
Also an active suffragette
writing her own liberette...

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Dignity, purity, hope,
Entwined in a delicate rose.
These are the colours which hold
The futures of all women to come.

Run, run, run,
To the Free Trade Hall we...

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"Wherever women gather together failure is impossible."
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Oh, wish I had the skill to draw or paint
my vision of her, the woman dubbed the ‘Quaker Saint.’
Borne...

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