Feminist Poems

I Will Not Stop

He says –
“Your place is in the kitchen,”
I say –
“My place is wherever
my thoughts can reach.

No curtain will confine me,
no wall will surround me.
My words will become swords,
my steps will rewrite history.

I have learned –
to fight without fear,
to live without bowing down,
and to turn dreams into reality.

I am not just a woman,
I am a revolution
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Categories: feminist, dream, feelings, history, me,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhere is the Feminist Movement

Today is International Women’s Day.

A day to celebrate women’s rights but those rights and freedoms are under attack and the wounds appear to be self-inflicted. So my question is where has the feminist movement gone? Their silence has left real feminists and past heroes of the cause turning in their graves. In America, and in
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Categories: feminist, women,
Form: Prose


Wraith of the Cavern

The cavern breathes.
Its walls slick with time, with damp, with secrets.
It has seen centuries of footsteps,
but tonight, it watches.

Above, the sky stretches wide—
galaxies shifting, burning,
too far, too indifferent
to witness what he has done.

She is beneath him.
Was beneath him.
Her breath stolen, her body cooling,
the fight long gone from her limbs.
He had taken what he wanted.
More than
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Categories: feminist, abuse, dark, emotions, violence,
Form: Free verse

THE GROANING RADICAL FEMINIST

Bitter and heartless
Carefree and perceived to be mannerless 
That is my identity 
The identity I am given in our community

To them, I hate men
For them I am not fit to be in the midst of women
YES! I am the radical feminist 
The one everyone has labelled extremist 
But no, I did not start like this
I
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Categories: feminist, anger, black love, courage,
Form: Rhyme

Pandora

everyone thinks yours is just another Eve story
   the first woman
   punished for desiring knowledge
   and for disobedience
but people forget you were created by the gods
as a gift of revenge for men,
all beauty and mischief–
	no, not ‘and’
	but ‘therefore’:

   	it’s boring to be bait:
	after a minimal amount of
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Categories: feminist, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberIntegrity's Sublime Communion

Integral Therapeutic Practice (ITP),
brought to us by Ken Wilbur, 
and systems theoretical colleagues,
responds, with win/win communication skills,
to chronic RightWing/LeftBrain dominant
nihilistic narcissistic
predative colonizing 
win/lose trauma,
personal local
and also international
Earth global

Anthro-supremacist
monotheistic
monocultural
monopolistic
monstrously unchanging violence
rooted in Patriarchal political
and Capitalist economic
oppression
of universal-unitarian
peace restorative 
ecofeminist worldviews

Emerging liberal loving
and green conservational
ego/eco
inside/outside
concave/convex 
bilaterally systemic 

Co-passionate health and safety
grows Earth-Tribally
panentheistic 
organic
sacred communionation,
eco-political creolization

Synergetic Health Practice
is
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Categories: feminist, culture, green, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberChloe

Chloey was a concubine
By the time that she was nine
Gents who should have saved her
Said only she was mighty fine.
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Categories: feminist, abuse, child abuse, father,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberRepair Justice To Restore Peace

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 way,
wealthiest co-managed gift
of sensory sense rife,
not always so elderly sedate,
indigenous
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Categories: feminist, culture, forgiveness, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberGreen Keys For Redrusty Locks

Said the sacred green EcoFeminist
to the hard 
and carnal red EgoPatriarch:

If one's only ego-weapon
is a hard erectile key
then every perennial trauma
will seem to be a locked 
and toxic 
traumatized
closed up tight
back and forth shut down
with all his might
anti-bright
Black Hole.

So it is
in monocultures,
where spirited nature
abhors a well-rooted YangWoke vacuum

As if pregnant enculturing wombs
were a personally disempowering
contradiction
of
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Categories: feminist, culture, health, humor, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberContext of Consciousness

Feminist
and LGBTQ
and DisAbility
and All Colors and PolyCultures Deeply Matter

EarthViews
engage neuro-systemic
sacred felt natural reflections
inviting spiritual polytheistic
celebrations

Indigenously remembered
as clearly not
Straight White Predative Male
monotheistic worship

Rather
Left liberating responses
resisting AnthroPrivileged
unecologically
monoculturally rabid

Lack of polytheistic
indigenous wisdom
nurturing
naturing
nutritioning
sacred EarthCommons

Curious
compassionate
contextually circling 
recycling
repurposing
reconnecting intelligence.
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Categories: feminist, color, corruption, culture, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

This 'Feminist' Malarkey

When Heard dared to question her partner,
men suited up in outraged armour.
Battling patriarchy,
this ‘feminist’ malarkey,
makes women prey and men the archer.
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Categories: feminist, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberGrowing Trust

We do not listen
or learn,
sing
or dance easily
when we do not feel safe

When we are not sure we can trust
the voices not speaking and listening
with us,
but speaking over us,
around us,
against us,
beyond us,
without apparently caring about us

Our Lose/Lose
through Win/Lose
neurosystemic imaginations
are triggered by toxic anxieties

Trauma anticipations
infilling vast lands
and oceans 
of omnipresent win/win uncertainty,
win/lose insanity

Reinforced by capital investment
and patriarchal
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Categories: feminist, education, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberSometimes People Share

Sometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story

That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
or touch,
or deeply feel...

I flinch, sometimes.

Wince.

Maybe flirt with longer-term
dissociation,
to protect myself
from suicide
to protect ourselves
from ecocide.

Make sure I'm OK
for now
right left here

And agree with my hurting
therapeutic parenting
wounded child
revisiting this past
and present chronic stress
including emotional
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Categories: feminist, abuse, god, health, muse,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberBreaking Through Nationalism

Yuval Noah Harari
suggests that Nationalism's
Big Three Nemeses are fear of
nuclear holocaust,
degenerative climate trends,
and Business As Usual disruptions 
of eco-politically salvific technology.

When I first read this list
of his global Three,
the one that stood out
at least for me,
to potentially
break through our tendency
to see through lenses
nationalistically
is Earth's great climate pathology.

Still,
all three are LeftBrain dominant,
StraightWhiteMale privileged,
Patriarchal-Capitalist nationalistic systems
of scientific
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Categories: feminist, caregiving, earth, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberPregnant Nonparalysis

In feminist political analysis,
when not stuck
in all day systemic paralysis,

Every win/win
v win/lose 
v lose/lose energetic trend,
synergetic person,
integral narrative,

Each interdependent development
and apartheid decay,

All seasonal health
and unreasonably greedy
fractured wealth,

Exhales multi-paradigmatic power
non-autocratic,
more neuro-sensory automatic,
and inhales enlightening Ways
for cooperative Earth's holonic sacred promise

Beautiful Truth Trust

For Energy's massively co-passioning 
Green CommonSquare Democracy.

Matriotic enculturing wombs
were not climate created for
and from only
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Categories: feminist, earth, health, meaningful, passion,
Form: Political Verse

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