Poetry Blogs (womens rights)

You spit "Nay"

in our "Ayes"

to express

your oppress-

sive nature.

Nothing new-

old tea brewed;

spring cleaning-

first inning.

Soul-less laws

abolish

human rights,

to sell slaves.

Bordered walls

paved with blood-

stained bodies,

buried below.

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I am not free

but tense and unwavering

I am not heard

but roused and spoken for

I am not seen

but misguided and reassured 

I am not understood 

but manipulated and suppressed

I am not felt 

but raped and ashamed

I am not yours

but degraded and sold

I am not inanimate 

but painted and wound up

I am not free, how could I ev...

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For ages
Saddled with
Domestic chores
Confined in doors
With a traditional muzzle
Devoid of a voice
With fellow housewives
We were sweltering
Under the class
And gender yoke
Seen weak though
We were strong as a rock.

Things taking
A positive turn,
When people about
Women's potential
Came to learn,
Enjoying a level ground
And expertise,
An outshining
Women farmers
We have begun...

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‘It’s my skin,’ she said,

But he still shook his head.

Did she not understand

The risk entailed? Once the

Fine pale surface was broken,

There was no going back.

The permanency of a foreign body

Worming its way beneath

Her flesh - this he could not 

Permit. For her own good.

Though he paid no heed

To the multicoloured rings

And patterns that each faded

Fr...

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Here we ask is the media and the cosmetics industry as oppressive to women as the Islamic burqua?

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