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Saturday 1 April 2017

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Hi all,

Today is day 2 of the 30 poems in 30 days challenge.
Look at yesterdays post for more details.

The author of this poem is......ME.....

This is a poem I was asked to produce for International Woman's Day





I’m not a size ten
Never been petite
Suffered throes of passion
Or lived with conceit

In height I’m bereft
No leggy lofty form
Not even 5 foot
The UK norm

My face is not symmetrical
No make-up would repair
No artists canvass
A painter would despair

But inside this frame
An esoteric fact
No yesterday woman
No submissive artefact

There beats a heart of a lion
Someone once said
But this strength lays within
My chest, my breast, my head

Society sees me simply
A frail and withered maid
But this country was built
On my slave trade.

So when you see me
Look beyond the shell
A soldier, a builder, a mother
The stories I could tell







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