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similar houses
dark havens for Stepford girls
sinister shelters
mold and shape little women
made delicate like china
~cie~
Write a "change" or "don't change" poem.
Little girls are often forced to change into obedient little ladies, giving up their dreams, ambitions, and sense of adventure to make them ready to live lives as what women are supposed to be, not what they actually are.
To be honest, I utilized the picture for inspiration and condensed my memories of my sense of what it meant to be a girl into a few lines of poetry. I was aware early on that girls were expected to sacrifice their "impractical" dreams, aspiring instead to find and support the "perfect" man, then to take his surname and give birth to and raise his descendants. I remember that even at a young age, I found this edict for women extremely unfair.
Today's assignment was to find a line in a favorite book, write a poem based on that line, then change the poem's title.
I found a line in one of the poems I wrote during the past few days, wrote a poem based around that line, then didn't change the title because I think it fits this poem perfectly.
The three things were the words adventure, china, and ready. I used one of the words (china) in the poem and two in the notes. The poem is far from light-hearted, but there isn't any cussing, so I guess that it's family-friendly.
The Icky, Sticky, Nit-Picky Legalese If You Please (Or Don't Please)
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