Other Woman Poems

VI.
Reg looked from the dinner table,
heard the door take a hard pounding.
Jolene frowned, said, “He sounds sober…
He’s much worse when he doesn’t drink.”

But Reg knew...

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IV.
An awkward silence fell on them,
Reg felt bad, and looked at his feet,
“I didn’t mean to pry,”he said.
she laughed and said, “Don’t look so meek.

“There’s...

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II.
Now Reg was good at pressing flesh,
always had a gift for the gab,
in twenty minutes the locals
treated him like the best friend they had.

He bought...

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I.
He was riding south from Boise,
having split from the other men,
they’d got together for this job,
would not see each other again.

It was much safer doing...

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Mary Shelley was born to a woman’s rights advocate.
Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft died when Mary was two weeks old.
Her father raised her to be independent...

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I heard a story being told by a traveling man. He told of a story that was passed down from father to son for generations...

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Ebony skin, tendered beauty that's how she made her mark.



The beauty of her woolen hair, scented with the soft drizzle of jasmine blooms and baobab...

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Mae West's Room

Every hierarchy exists
dependent upon those below to support it.
Can it be any different with the gods,
when some are greater and some are less?

We...

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I wish I could run straight up a flagpole.
I would stand on the top, on one foot.
My other foot at a ninety degree angle,
People would...

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In her ivory tower, she was raised,
A sheltered child, a life of ease,
But Alice's tale, Lorina's heart had seized,
Her mind now set on a different...

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Believing, I choose to care not be silent
You pierce my heart's pleas by trident
You're healing me with your genuine caring
The benefits are bold in what...

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you are beautiful
it that way
smells can overpower sight
and strong
stronger than me
from wherever you stand
you do not look my way
as often as i wish
here amongst are...

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Oh black woman
Your ebony dark skin is a rival to other tribes
Your face, defined and jealousy protected like a pirates treasure
Your skin, scented with perfume...

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Who has ever understood a woman?
Neither her creator nor her admirer
She is a mystery herself
Sometimes as wife, sometimes mother

On her shoulders,
She carries her family's burden
With...

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Tumultuous empress of the waves 
turning the tide for a resister;
She shares style and possibility
adding a dash of feminine grace;

The message rings onto the airwaves...

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