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Women's Way's
This poem was inspired by Margaret Atwood's novel, THE HANDMAIDS TALE.
Their eyes probe
All over my mission's
blood-red robe
They don't say much
I am a Handmaid
that they cannot touch
You instruct me
Disrupt me
Peruse me
Reduce me
And I'll lie on my back
But not for you
Defenseless
And I wont forget my
youth's sandaled dreams
Relentless
From my walk
sin derives
from your darkest
angel eyes
With the soft sway
of forbidden hips
you rise
and long to hold
A Handmaid
You cannot unfold
That piercing stare
A face forever dour
in my blood-red robe, tonight
you've given me your power
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| Yea, it has that sort of beat to it and all. I haven't had the joy of picking up Ms. Atwood's novel yet, but now it seems like reading it would be only in a supporting role to this. I often get the resiliency feeling out of this, too. |
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| That's good stuff. I like the smooth rhythm you put the reader in from line to line. Your choice of words makes the reading flow so easily. I love it. That and the topic...playing around with the Handmaid's Tale. It's tight. |
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| Yes it is most certainly about The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood. I should have probably noted that at the top. hehe |
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Comment by: LPrim - 2007-05-15 13:49
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| Some how the theme here recalls the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Do you know the book perhaps. If you do, quite a good way to pay tribute to it. If not... a big coincidence but still a good piece nevertheless :-). |
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Comment by: tjp1984 - 2007-05-01 13:17
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Interesting structure. Reminds me of the chiastic from a lot of the Psalms were written in, where you have corresponding elements at the beginning and end, next and next-to-last, etc.
The whole thing reminds of the "On the Bus Mall" by the Decermberists. |
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