Wednesday, July 4, 2018

a better half rightly so!

                                                                                                         Author Briancua
Image: Happily Ever After (here)

11 of 12 given words:
bread, smile, promise,
braid (material woven into a decorative band for edging or trimming garments)
wrapper sleep kiss candle doorbell porch rock

who to deliver the bread?
did it come with a smile?
was it a promise that came with equality?
all braided in a tight understanding
were these arising from the saying
'equal pay for equal work?'

or was it just a wrapper
to provide a cover
to enclose women within?
to sleep with followed by kiss and tell?

women had been subjected
to such indignities

women are to be adored
with candle-light dinners of old perhaps
not a doorbell at the porch
to be rung at random

women have come a long way
strong and stable as a rock
a better half rightly so!

MMT's Sunday's Whirligig #169
Susan's at PU's Midweek Motif  - lady liberty

10 comments:

  1. From your lips to all nations' ears! I like the bread wrapper imagery. Equal treatment would be better than adoration, but truly, Hank, I wouldn't complain!

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  2. I like this take on Lady Liberty & love your title. So true.

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  3. A long way indeed and hopefully more so.

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  4. Always i look to the happily ever after. Yum what a tasty treat this poem. Thanks for droppibg by my blog Hank

    Much💞love

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  5. Better half and certainly the better looking half!

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  6. Thank you Hank for appreciating the females the way we would hope all our sons, brothers, fathers and husbands will.

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  7. Sigh. This poem reads like a fairy tale come true, for those, who have survived domestic violence/abuse. Something, I have experienced and witnessed happening to my mom and I, by my younger brother. So do wish, more women were blessed like this.

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  8. Wonderful title for a splendid poem of women's lives.

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  9. A wonderful poem and theme Hank.

    Yvonne.

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