Ode to an Anchoress
Andrew Tate would hate you
for locking your body away.
He believes that women should be
raped and made prey, scream and not
heard, constantly available
to worship him on pedestals.
His pillars thick as tissue paper;
pyramids of tin.
What would Tate make of medieval mystic sisters
who write a revolutionary Jesus
is our Mother, God the Holy Daughter?
The first female author to take
the common pen, spread her precious
message in a language free of hierarchy,
make us understand that an anchoress’s hand
holds the key:
fluid is the Host.
The Holy Ghost is everybody.
So let him stamp his manly feet
for he is dull and incomplete
and you were rare and radical,
counsel-kept and iron will.
And what does Tate give to his men
but bitter whistles, broken bells?
Your heart would take his hatred hostage.
Hir name es Julyan of Norwich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich

Ray Miller
Sun 8th Mar 2026 10:32
Enjoyed very much. scream and not heard, - well put. Have to say, I thought an anchoress was going to be a female TV presenter.
Jesus is our Mother, God the Holy Daughter? - was that their belief?