tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940155.post6062030327261549407..comments2023-11-05T01:35:11.677-07:00Comments on A Yarning to Write: Silent Poetry DayAmy Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04885706951931450373noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940155.post-24917964767809752932007-02-06T19:05:00.000-08:002007-02-06T19:05:00.000-08:00wow. both your poem and the lady in red's are GREA...wow. both your poem and the lady in red's are GREAT!!!! If they aren't already noted, make sure they are at<br />http://pagantheologies.pbwiki.com/Silent-Imbolc-poetry-reading-2007<br />where there's a growing list of the poetry posted for Brigid/Groundhog Day.deborahoakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08885597618292635710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940155.post-29724624927871387842007-02-04T07:53:00.000-08:002007-02-04T07:53:00.000-08:00My dears, I am so awestruck I can't even formulate...My dears, I am so awestruck I can't even formulate a limerick. Write on, Ladies! Write on!!roxiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14916948065233137971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940155.post-26143753788261126632007-02-02T23:58:00.000-08:002007-02-02T23:58:00.000-08:00The one on Yarn Harlot's blog made me actually cry...The one on Yarn Harlot's blog made me actually cry--and the one by our Lady made me think that lady is A. a very good poet, B. a very strong person (I knew that already) and C. could not have been anything BUT a woman--the Goddess simply would not have allowed it at all.Amy Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04885706951931450373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940155.post-82678281954176148852007-02-02T18:07:00.000-08:002007-02-02T18:07:00.000-08:00This is such a cool idea. I love your poem Amy (an...This is such a cool idea. I love your poem Amy (and you too Lady). The one over at the Harlot is great too.Catiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02422312014288178089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940155.post-92229138358367820792007-02-02T15:24:00.000-08:002007-02-02T15:24:00.000-08:00Sweet. I really like that poem. SInce I don't ha...Sweet. I really like that poem. SInce I don't have a blog o'my own, I'm going to post a poem here. I wrote this after a conversation with my father about his disappointment over my gender. Yeah, he's father of the year.<br /><br />For Lack of a Penis<br /><br />Failed faery tales and disembodied dreams<br />Masculinity not desired and apology not an option.<br /><br />The men in my family, <br />Proud Mexican men<br />Have first born sons.<br />They have daughters too.<br />But not first, <br />Never first.<br />What then, was he to do with me.<br />The audacity with which I entered the world, <br />first in line, potentially the only one in line.<br />What was I thinking, <br />leaving my womb without my penis?<br />A mistake that would earn me a lifetime<br />of reminders of my inadequacies.<br />An affront to his masculinity, his machismo.<br />He blamed my mother, <br />said she didn't eat enough meat<br />to make a boy.<br />In seventh grade, <br />we learned about sex, <br />the kind you have and the kind you are.<br />Funny how one little stroke is all that separates <br />an X from a Y.<br />I told my father that he was to blame <br />for my lack of a penis.<br />That I hadn't forgotten it at all.<br />There was never a penis to forget.<br />Again with the audacity, <br />the affront, <br />and this time, it was me who didn't eat enough meat<br />to keep me sane.<br />God is punishing me he said, but I was the one who got the spanking.<br />He left.<br />Reproductive disappointment overwhelmed him. <br />Three sons could not make amends for<br />the usurper, <br />for me.<br /><br />His failed faery tales and disembodied dreams, <br />Masculinity not desired and apology not an option.<br />At least not by me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com