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Patriarchy Poems - Poems about Patriarchy

Premium Member Wombstorm: A Herstory of Hysteria
I. THE WANDERING I was born with a life that bled— a seafloor womb dragging tides of fern and marigold char The priests brought saffron and fear crowning me with diagnosis They said: She is too empty They said: Fill her with figs with seed with stillness They said: Her belly speaks too loud Mute her O Plato old patriarch of phantoms my body was no beast— just prophecy you never learned...

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Categories: patriarchy, body, history, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
What is love?
What is love, really— a figment of hope sharp enough to shatter centuries of lived patriarchy? To think education could make a dent in what’s already carved in bone & name. To think a stranger could be chosen over the familial veins of caste, of home over the womb of belief one never questioned. Perhaps what’s whispered in secret was always meant to be hidden— buried, before it flowers into...

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Categories: patriarchy, angst, conflict, confusion, cry,
Form: Free verse



My Existence Itself Is My Threat - Part 2
"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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Categories: patriarchy, anger, betrayal, conflict, extended
Form: Rhyme
My Existence Itself Is My Threat - Part 1
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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Categories: patriarchy, anger, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anguish And Admonitions Of Eve
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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Categories: patriarchy, abuse, conflict, courage, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



The Bee Poem
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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Categories: patriarchy, allegory, extended metaphor, gender,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Wife's Rebellion
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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Categories: patriarchy, wife,
Form: Free verse
my earliest memory of shame
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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Categories: patriarchy, abuse, anger, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Never Enough
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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Categories: patriarchy, 11th grade, confidence, girl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Repair 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: patriarchy, culture, forgiveness, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Therapeutic Climate
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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Categories: patriarchy, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Deep Estuaries
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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Categories: patriarchy, culture, extended metaphor, health,
Form: Political Verse
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: patriarchy, analogy,
Form: Limerick
They Made the Patriarchy, Part Ii
...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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Categories: patriarchy, conflict, culture, men, political,
Form: Rhyme
They Made the Patriarchy, Part I
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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Categories: patriarchy, conflict, culture, men, political,
Form: Rhyme

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