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Published: 2004-05-28 01:14:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 121; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 12
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Description Society wracked with kaleidoscope of pain
Tearing through our mindscape
Like unwanted advertisements
On the billboards of beautiful old buildings
Making them filthy
Making them commercial whores

Making all of us seem imperfect
No one like me, I see upon the colored screen
You see…. I feel like I am the only one who has a flesh outside that world
Like Alice in her looking glass
Wanting to get beyond the glass and
I am on this side alone
Or so I am made to think

So women are made to feel ashamed


Women tortured with their flesh
Scarring and cutting their mutilated bodies
Told they are
Made unnatural by bearing oceans
Of children
Bodies with rivers of green and blue lines

My scars are my own my warrior marks
My skin stretched over life and made humanity possible
Mother earth herself is broken with quakes
Scribbled with rivers
And blemished with forest and sea

So am I
I am beautiful in my blemished skin
Dotted with freckles
Torn with translucency
Skin thinner here than there
And my scars so pink, so thick
And pretty colorful drawings applied just so…………

For this moment I know myself to be beautiful
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Comments: 4

firelily24 [2004-05-31 02:52:33 +0000 UTC]

I love the fertility connection between women and Earth. This is a beautiful poem, and a beautiful concept.

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indioglessia In reply to firelily24 [2004-05-31 05:05:32 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou I really like the connection too, and am feeling a stronger connection as I grow with my son, thanks again for the fav

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indioglessia [2004-05-30 06:39:53 +0000 UTC]

"I'm basically consigned to female superiority"...Hmm in personal life only I am sure, thanks for the fav, however I do feel looking at world stats all over that the images and messages and stigma's though do relate to both sexes definately still to this present day apply more to females, ie: 90% of all eating disorder sufferers' are women, not saying the male %10 is insignificant and the stats are changing but you must admit I do not think we are as far away from 30 years ago as we should be, or we think we are!! Myself being a mother now at a young age has only proven to further my case more, how society as a whole, (western), really does not support, nor praise motherhood, or'house duties, housewife' or whatever you want to call it as a 'real' job, nor are you spoken to with anywhere near as much respect as your male counterparts at the same peer level, in fact I am now spoken down to even more because of my mothering status, and the fact I have 'no' job, really meaning no income therefore am assumed dependant on someone else for monetary means and therefore not as important, as my capital worth has devalued. I could go on and on, this is all from personal experiance, previously being a uni student, and often part of the paid woprkforce, so to me the distinction between sex is so significant being a mother, maybe, especially being a mother now......

Thanks again for the critique I love getting feedback, and hearing how other people relate, or feel when they read my poetry

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Aladdin-Sane [2004-05-29 07:26:48 +0000 UTC]

Ehh... I'm not sure I like the idea that this applies only to women. And if I'm not sure it's fair to say it does, but then it's probably because I'm a guy. 'Mother Earth' seems a little far-fetched to apply your point only to women, but then that's more a spiritual thing to me in that we're all of the same space and matter. Maybe your points were valid 30 years ago...

Bah. In any case, I'm basically consigned to female superiority. And, apart from the points there on the basis of the poem, the content itself is wonderfully done. So, despite myself, I'll fav it

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