Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.

Stephanie Hemphill

Mots clés poetry ladies gilded-cage

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She said the night was March and black
and that the hill where he kissed her
and enveloped her in his arms
was a sea of grass and she rooted
to the ground like a sapling,
like it was natural and yet
all created for her moment of romance.

Stephanie Hemphill

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I fret for Sylvia.
She appears anchored

to the idea of sinking,
which is silly when she so clearly

soars above almost everyone.

Stephanie Hemphill

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If I were a man
I might not wear the cloak
of anonymity.

Stephanie Hemphill

Mots clés gender-equality

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I cannot be assured of
exactly what I created
be it madness and monster
or beauty and light.

Stephanie Hemphill

Mots clés monsters

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I see my future
now not as something
intangible like a dream,
but like a boat
meeting land
after time spent at sea,
a destination I will reach.

Stephanie Hemphill

Mots clés future-plans

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We built a world of words
and yet none satisfy now.

Stephanie Hemphill

Mots clés writing

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