Should I be like you and tow the line,
follow rules that served a different time?
Tag Archives: poetry
Solutions – My Friend Temper
Exploring Patriarchy Chapter 28 – Temper. My Friend. You keep me safe when the load gets too heavy and they won’t give me a break.
Speaking out calmly and assertively when there’s pushback is always a risk. Now, it was a risk she was willing to take. A risk she was angry enough to take.
Access To Vitamin D
Do they have access to sunshine and Vitamin D? All of these women whose skin the sun doesn’t see?
I Won’t Be A Victim
I won’t be a victim – I ‘ll take the controls. Dig my own ditches or explore a new road.
My Clothes Have Shrunk
My clothes have shrunk
No – I do not lie!
It’s not all that cake and apple pie…
Solutions – Moving On From Anxiety
Exploring Patriarchy Chapter 27 – It’s cuddly dog and happy face and we have to look our best, hair always neat and in place. Skirt around what’s going down because talking like it’s okay can turn things around.
This chapter was inspired by a wonderful book on positivity – ‘I’m OK – You’re OK’ by Thomas A Harris, MD.
Unbroken
Will you accept your role and the part that you played, all those years that you looked away, pretended that all was well and things were okay, even though you knew she lived with fear each night and day?
Practising Sovereignty
Exploring Patriarchy Chapter 24 – Microwave Madam learns new skills.
Practising. Some steps forward. Pushback. . .
Lonely
They want to know when we’re happy but not when we’re sad
when we’re laughing out loud but not when we’re mad.
Express our feelings and they close their minds
would no more conversations really make them feel fine?
Don’t Let Go
Don’t do today what you can do tomorrow, hold on to things. Don’t acknowledge sorrow.
the relaxed housekeeper 