~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 [...]
~Jenuine if the womb of this belly never bears fruit am I still a woman? what about all the poetry that has been conceived in the womb of my soul? if these loins never labor forth a child am I still a woman? what about all the dreams that have labored out of the loins of [...]
–Lindsey Marcus @ I Run in Heels A year ago, my brother Seth and Ali, his girlfriend of 2 years, visited my parents in Oklahoma. While Ali appreciated the family-centric culture of our hometown, she commented on the emphasis on getting married young. Girls remarked she had the “patience of Job” at not receiving a [...]
~Jenuine I parked behind a flashy car out of which a woman stepped I noticed her license plate around which these words proclaimed: I’M BAD…because the men like it and I thought about all the decades and all the centuries throughout all of history during which womyn have been taught to bend and to twist [...]
~Jenuine I savor your story, my sisters my kindred I drink in your poetry like water over parched throat I devour your songs like bread after famine I relish your words like first sun after long winter I embrace this bond between us like a reflection of my own soul I cherish your voice, my [...]
