School Women Poems

Coach Z is a formidable opponent on the football field.
In a team full of women, she stands out as aggressive.
Her coach and she have not...

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Her mother said “no color”
Her father would concur. 
He never went against her mother.
Neither did her sister or her brother.

But I am an artist, she...

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Pleaded she, topless when in street caught:
Equal rights with menfolk I’ve or not?
I’ve just done what they do,
Not more, nary less new,
If men do, so...

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when I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when...

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From the beginning 
men denied women
independence.
  We were trained, 
And treated like 
An apprentice.

   They denied us
  mobility.
   They...

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The children called Damian into
The foyer to inspect their
Achievement. Damian came
Down the staircase and looked
Around. Pleased with the
Organization skills of his
Offspring, he Loosened his 
Belt....

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She has no job
Professes to not care
Has taught school for six years

I do not care what job I get she says
Anything but teaching.
I never want...

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Carmena knew why he was here,
their parents’ smiles made it clear,
to set her up with Oliver,
who always had made eyes at her.

They didn’t like her...

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Dolly answered, "I'm  just a little 
Fatigued,  I'm ok though. I
Think I should lie down. Molly
Followed Dolly to the master
Bedroom upstairs. Dolly 
Confessed...

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Cynthia Kwiecinski and Suzanne Colby
  You've broken every rule of civility
  With the execrable decision you made recently

  You withdrew a job...

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I watched “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” last night - we’re going to be reading Truman Capote’s book after the break and I wanted to start thinking...

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I
He left to learn more: art of love to make,
And sun down, wished to rest in a village,
To take off at the dawn soon as...

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There are actual people
half woman half man
running mornings and
dream people in movies
half language half light.
Tomorrow is John’s funeral.

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This is my minute
my moment
Oops, gone!

Anything can happen
if...

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She loves doing housework and cleaning her husband said.
He assumed this, as she enabled the rest of them to be pigs.
She expected to do the...

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I’m busy as a bus.
Ten hours on the telephone, research resources,
school staff, counsel clients.
Some sleep.
Then invite Lorraine downtown, the lovely loyal
secretary, to hear jammin jazz...

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