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Beyond the Hype – Padre

Aunt Elsa tossed the copy of Vogue onto the coffee table shaking her head dismissively. “It just isn’t right,” she observed. “Excuse me, what’s not right?” I asked. “These highfalutin magazines, with the sickly skinny models tell’n us how we should look.  That one on the cover there, eyelashes up to her eyebrows and a mascara line almost to … Continue reading Beyond the Hype – Padre

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Don’t Tell Me I’m Not Woman – Kindra M. Austin

Within my womb cells divide, and fuse. Brain grows. Heart grows. Lungs grow. Eyes, ears, mouth, and nerves all form inside my sacred space. Man is formed in womankind. Are you not my child? Did you not thrive at my breast? Ain’t I a woman? Surely Jesus hears my woes. Ain’t I a woman, daughter … Continue reading Don’t Tell Me I’m Not Woman – Kindra M. Austin

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Ain’t I A Woman – Devereaux Frazier

Read more of Deveraux Frazier's writing at Poetry of An Aspergian or D. Frazier Writes

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Bamboozled – Heather Carr-Rowe

"Now that's some woman" you exclaim I look, shapely curves smooth velvet skin curls in place wrinkle free ironed on pages of some magazine, bamboozled you are by a million dollar industry. "Ain't I a Woman" I exclaim, a little less shapely no time to preen days of working for the man up all night … Continue reading Bamboozled – Heather Carr-Rowe

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Ain’t I a Woman? – Tamara Fricke

same skin and muscle same strength and hunger whole-souled and whetted wit we are as constant as surging seas more bountiful than fruited plains filled with kinetic energy and on the brink of eruption Ain’t I a Woman? having begged and cajoled on bended knee, tongues lagging, blurry-eyed, our pints remain Sahara dry, and now … Continue reading Ain’t I a Woman? – Tamara Fricke

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Ain’t I a Woman? – Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris is a dreamer, crafter, gamer and digital artist who loves creativity in life. She is a devoted mom who can be found doing a variety of art when she isn’t penning poetry and writing words. For more from Patricia, check out Facebook or her blog.

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