Patriarchy Poems - Poems about Patriarchy

"What is my role?" I asked. "You are part of the crew," he said, not the captain as I was told. "But I know maps! I read compasses!" I pleaded. He thundered, "Don’t you see? Your existence is your biggest threat!" "What threat am I to myself, when real monsters roam?" He sighed. "That is the point." "Your kind attracts the...

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I dream of far shores where my name was meant to be carved. I aspire to climb mountains where my flag was to be raised. I imagine a distant land where a song calls me home. So many ambitions—yet my existence is my greatest threat. I was always ready for adventure, Belonged to no land, no boundaries, no chains. The repeated...

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No! you weren’t born to be beaten raped chained to a life bloodstained ingrained with pain wordless worthless voiceless choiceless No! you can’t live being beaten raped chained to a life profaned restrained caned for being female —don’t you dare cry out! he shouts wordless worthless voiceless choiceless b***h! Yes —...

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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 not like other bees,” because to you that’s such a...

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In a world where whispers were the currency of women, a letter dared to roar. Tagore, the weaver of unseen truths, unfurled a tale with threads of fire. Mrinal, a caged bird with a song unheard, her beauty admired, her voice a muffled word. Years of stifled dreams, a mind in disguise, until a spark ignited, a rebellion...

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The thought of you reminds me of what it feels like to scream without a voice To scream and internally feel the words fall deaf Fall deeper down into the pit of my soul I despise you, although I’m sure you don’t remember me The way I feel about you is difficult to put into words I despise you,...

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Society sets standards of perfection The patriarchy has decided that all women must act like ladies Prim and proper, do as you are told. For years men set the stage for the "ideal women" Perfect hair, perfect body, always on their best behavior We stand up for ourselves but are told not to be foolish. We are told to hide our...

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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 way, wealthiest co-managed gift of sensory sense rife, not always so elderly sedate, indigenous...

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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 and scientific metaphysical traditions favoring polycultural communion fueling resiliently cooperative health care systems networks creolizing organizations synergetic...

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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 empowering harmonic mindful balance, EarthTribally accessible democratic co-enlightenment....

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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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...The hard-core just leave men altogether, but in the rank-and-file there’s a trend of these women speaking of ‘gentle’ guys, then shacking up with the dominant men. Tale old as time, women love the ‘bad boy,’ there instinct responds to his aggression, some deign to marry the ‘sensitive’ guys. but then cheat, and take half their possessions. It is quite the cognitive dissonance, to...

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It’s a word the feminists always scream, ‘Patriarchy! Patriarchy!”they say, claiming that all is set up to oppress, that men seek to get in a woman’s way, that this world is made only for the men, and that we’re scheming to keep them all down, but something about this doesn’t sit right, is this world not what women have allowed? Stubborn fact cannot...

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There is a horrible hollow ache inside me, That murky feeling of being loved , That love which keeps a section apart ; Fills the void with sadness and betrayal. That feeling captured & wrapped around with distrust & dishonesty , My eyes brimmed with tears of disbelief , A society with patriarchy and misogyny ; Are so selfish & yet so...

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The house mourns now that she has gone Desperately I dig through her cabinet to find anything to hold on. My dewy gaze lands upon her glitter eyeshadow. Mesmerized, I put it and my eyes lit up like rainbow Unaware, the devil stood behind me with his eyes filled with rage “Stop this at once! Act like the boys your...

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