~Bethany Lauren Grigsby To my potential-but-not-guaranteed or wholly essential future male life-partner I come with a proposal That if we commit to walking down an aisle of marriage We commit to walking in a certain kind of life First order of business: Let’s take an axe and chop down that white picket fence they told [...]
~L. B. Nelson Warm Sun Breeze flowing through Work-worn Hands clapping Life-worn thumb harps Spring in rapid unison; Fiddle strings stroked Slowly up, Slowly down; Harmonicas inhaled exhaled; Double-time guitar strings Pulled then released swiftly in-between Children chatter, crying, laughter Flowing through people drumming Community humming Swaying their best give-take joy, Nutrition to all Souls; [...]
~T. R. I hurried into a religious bookstore one day anxious to pick up a book previously ordered. Old-time church hymns played on overhead speakers. As I waited in line a nearby magazine caught my eye, the caption reading, “Woman of the Year.” My eyes traveling upwards saw a blond woman with long softly curled [...]
~Jeanette Iskat @ www.facebook.com/jeanette.iskat Love for all the mothers the grandmothers all your mothers all our mothers good bad perfect imperfect human. Love the step mothers the foster mothers the run away mothers the absent mothers the baby mama mothers the girls not-ready-to-be-mothers the girls too-ready-to-be-mothers the girls letting-another-woman-be-mother-mothers the would-be mothers the never-will-be-mothers the [...]
**CALLING ALL ARTISTS! CALLING ALL ARTISTS!** I’m holding a logo contest for In the Words of Womyn. You–and anyone artistic that you may know–are invited to submit original artwork for consideration. Contest Information: I’m looking for a sharp design to be used as a brand logo for the ITWOW project (which I hope will one [...]
~Dolores V. I am the daughter of the fifth sun Waiting for the promised one Ven a mi I am the everlasting weeping willow tree Resembling your abuela I bear the infinite rings of wisdom Escucha me I am the mother of this earth And of your soul Tu madre Replenishing the hole A brisk [...]
~Arlene Mejorado Set me free! I beg myself. I raise my hands up But my womb stays in place The soles of my feet mold into the mud my toes clench the brown clay dirt the hardest place to arrive is inside me I am a series of smiles and tears What might I more [...]
~K. Lovich @ K. Lovich: artist & poet I love women All kinds of women Tall women Short women Loud women Quiet women Tattooed, Wild women, Women that roll their eyes I love women that worry if their butt Looks big in those jeans. And I love women That hope Their butt looks big in [...]
