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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK

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My hardy perennial in support of the sisterhood.  I'm not convinced I "ground" the poem properly.  Suggestions welcome.

 

Raise your voices; sisters speak!

International Women’s Week.

Banish weakness.  Let’s be strong.

Time to right what has been wrong.

Linking arms in sisterhood,

Pledged to Justice, pledged to Good.

Standing proud and standing tall,

The worth of one the strength of all

Yellow, brown or black or white

Joined together in the fight.

Joined in gender, joined in name

Equally we are the same.

Bald or bushy, straight or dyke

All our fannies look alike.

◄ SWEETLY, SWEETLY DONE

ADDICTED ►

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John Coopey

Mon 8th Mar 2021 17:41

Thanks YRP. Now, now, MC; that’s not the fashionable thing to say. And thanks, Stephen, Tom, Branwell and Nazia for the Likes.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 8th Mar 2021 16:38

That's right JC - let's have the poetical form explained.
Now - how about pushing for a "Long-suffering Men's Day"?? ?

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Your Royal Poetess

Mon 8th Mar 2021 16:02

Sisterhood ??

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John Coopey

Mon 8th Mar 2021 13:06

A form poem called an Anacreontic. Seven syllables per line (ish) arranged trochaically.

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