Women Light Verse Poems

These are chicken eggs?
My husband stared at me.
“I thought so.”
They look different.
“I got them at the store.”

With that endorsement, I cracked one.
A tiny dancing dino...

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Life at ninety has no frills,
gone are all my youthful thrills –
women, sex, and overdrinking,
the dynamo of all my thinking.

I live on pills and wonder...

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look at me Twiggy says
I am so thin
So doe-eyed
So young
So innocent
So slender
So svelte


Who wants to?...

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"Margaret's activities must be circumscribed," said the doctor.
Her husband was horrified.
He did not know women could be circumscribed....

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Vargas pin up girls of the thirties
intrigued us, delighted us, incited us
then along came Barbie, reinforcing
that women are beautiful,
almost as delightful as the automobiles they...

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Jerry stared at the travel poster for Hawaii
The women were shaped like perfect hourglasses
wearing skimpy outfits, dancing for him 

if Jerry jumped on a plane...

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When it comes to aging and our hormones, I'd like to discuss
that big one, testosterone.
Estrogen will dry up as a woman's body ages.
Could she now...

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That part of our anatomy
often remembered first, usually,
and by which others form an opinion 
of our character, unfortunately 
is the face. With some women 
it...

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I don’t know anyone who has gone to a drag show
my prissy friend Adeline says.
You do now, I reply.
Feeling smug.
She gives me a slow nod.
And...

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On a Caribbean beach he asked her to be his forever after
She was young, not ready yet.
Told him she would have to think about it.
He...

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She is a flapper
1920
vintage

I am enthralled and enthused
I cannot get enough of her
I have drawn her on many canvases

She reminds me of my grandmother
who divorced...

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ring of fire dancer is skimpily clad with tall fur lined boots
if flames catch his loin cloth everything will be revealed
I stare at the dancer’s...

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In a department store mirror I glimpsed an old lady’s hair.
It was a weird ugly orchid color.
She thinks she is young!
And she looks ridiculous!

I meandered...

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Her house was decorated in sea turtles.
They were crawling on the walls,
lying around in rugs,
decorating tea towels, draperies and pillows.
I guess you like sea turtles...

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The brazen way some women dress,
I swear they’re in need of a redress.
With swaths of fresh skin exposed
decency demands they wear more clothes.
Advocates for women’s...

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