RUMINATIONS
Ruminations Poems : 1. Benign Thoughts... ( on this page) 2. Roots
3. When I Must Go 4. Loss of Innocence 5. Wrong Timing 6. At Odds 7. What Might...
8. Fusion
Benign Thoughts On Feminism
Though I live my life
as a woman
sexless in battle
for free expression
of a life
lived as a woman.
Needs bra be burned
to denounce encumbrances
wrought by every man's limitations
and later fret
when vain breasts sag.
I see doors open
only to the daintier wonder
of God's creations;
as I see doors open
only to the muscled breed
of creatures of the same god.
My cup runneth over
when mixed blood of life
throbs in the privacy
of my ungendered matrix
to turn me into a mother.
Not a father, and be
a mere spectator
of the birth of a poem
which ecstasy
only a woman is gifted to feel.
Is it then, a woman's frailty
to let the male specie rule
upon kingdoms
mothered by women
who reign on silent thrones
in gentle homes?
12/28/87
next poem : Roots
