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Pastel Projection

I asked to keep
the lights off—
and in the pitch black
you pulled me in

Megan FebuaryOctober 26, 2021poetry, writing, women writers, literary magazine, trauma, healing, for women who roar, online magazine, magazine Comment

New Name

Let this halted journey have nothing in common with who you are, who you dare.

It happens, every accident, in slow motion; your past finding a full stop.

Guest UserFebruary 11, 2021journey to heal, FWWR, pOETRY, women writersComment

Her Body A Temple

Mirrors stretch ceiling to floor only

wall decor her own body black-legginged

taut white tank top torso-molded

action figure ready to raise iron

Guest UserFebruary 4, 2021Poetry, women writers, FWWRComment

I Speak the Language of Sorrow and Pain / Hablo el Lenguaje del Dolor y Sufrimiento

I Speak the Language of Sorrow and Pain / Hablo el Lenguaje del Dolor y Sufrimiento

Sorrow so deep

As a river-split canyon

Being gagged so I can’t

Speak my pain into space

The rocks pound deeper

Guest UserNovember 5, 2020Poetry, WOC, women of color, women writers, fwwr authorsComment

Whose Grief

Whose grief do I hold in my hands

it is a dark animal shape

asleep on my chest, a stone

worn smooth

Guest UserNovember 3, 2020Poetry, FWWR authors, women writers Comment

Dear Girl; Dear Woman

Flushed
Freckled cheeks
Framed by curls
-kept wild to
collect dandelion fluff-

Guest UserOctober 29, 2020Poetry, FWWR, women writers, self-love, self-affirmationComment

I am

I am

an artist witch,

with a black bear patronus I am

an ally for alliteration

created to create!

Guest UserOctober 27, 2020self-affirmation, FWWR, women writers, PoetryComment

I am watching the woman I love

I comb shards of glass from my perfect hair
smooth my apron with its bloody handprints

and tell you what I have been waiting to say.

Guest UserOctober 20, 2020FWWR, Poetry, women writers, LOVEComment

Alchemy

Beneath your hands I become poetry

And beneath your lips I grow wings

When we touch I have knowledge

And all sorts of gadgets and things

I am the bionic woman

Guest UserOctober 15, 2020Poetry, fwwr, women writers, loveComment

Through The Air

she dances

through the air

Guest UserOctober 13, 2020FWWR, women writers, PoetryComment

Beauty

Not in the curves of her body, beauty is,

In the bend of her smile,

In the slant of her sign, it lies, unconcealed.

Flawless supple skin, beauty defines not,

But in her stretch marks and burns revealed it is.

Guest UserOctober 6, 2020WOC, women of color, FWWR, women writers, BEAUTYComment

On Letting Go

…I’m caught in the quicksand of my mind, I say

This is how it is when you face it, she replies

The threat, instead of subtly calling the shots

from a long-forgotten corner, now greets me…

Guest UserOctober 1, 2020women writers, fwwr authors, FWWR, survival, mental healthComment

Hazard

I’m hurricane and typhoon

tidal wave and slipped fault lines

Guest UserSeptember 29, 2020women writers, women authors, poetryComment

And then, she grows

Fallen from a flower,

The seed begins to grow.

From a tiny timid seedling

To a beautiful red rose.

Guest UserSeptember 24, 2020Poetry, women writers, for women who roar Comments

Blended Survival

Dark skin blend of holiness,

blessed by the days to come,

breathing in and out.

Guest UserSeptember 22, 2020women writers, fwwr authors, PoetryComment

Reflection | Temptress

She wanted to share

Make life into art

Real wasn’t in her

She tore time apart

Guest UserSeptember 17, 2020Poetry, FWWR, women writers, women of color Comments

Denying the Obvious

I have never seen a black man cry

Until You

Guest UserSeptember 15, 2020poetry, women writers, for women who roar, black writersComment

Exhale | Siren Songs

As our voices unfold stronger

wilder with every lost cause

Guest UserSeptember 10, 2020poetry, women writers, fwwr authors, fwwrComment

Knock & Enter

When you enter into a woman

You can’t feel her pain

You can’t see the

heaviness of the earth

Guest UserSeptember 8, 2020feminist, fwwr authors, women writers, for women who roar, PoetryComment

The Man Box

1 woman a week, is more than we can bear.

Let’s redefine the masculine- to safe and kind and fair.

Guest UserSeptember 3, 2020FWWR, poetry, women writers, feministComment