Poetry Prompts and Inspiration Day 13 April PAD Challenge and NaPoWriMo 2023

 

Image by María_Alberto from Pixabay

Today's prompts conspired to inspire me to go into full angry feminist mode (definitely not the fun kind.)

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-13

The April PAD Challenge prompt asks participants to write a "forgive" poem.

My poem begins with the line "forgive me if my continuing demands."

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirteen-9/

I couldn't get into today's prompt from NaPoWriMo, which asks participants to try writing a short poem (or a few, if you’re inspired) that follows the beats of a classic joke. However, I fit in the "joke" theme by impressing upon the reader the fact that feminism is no joke to me. 

I also make it clear that by feminism I do not mean third-wave, choicey-choice, show your tits for a cause, slutwalk, "sex work is empowering" fauxminism. I mean real, uncompromising, for the purpose of emancipating women from male-dominated and male-oriented power structures feminism. I mean the kind of feminism fueled by rage at the biases women still face. I mean feminism that has the courage to say the word WOMAN. I mean feminism that is committed to making the world a better place for females. I mean feminism that has the courage to say what needs to be said, even if it isn't pretty or might piss people off. 

That's the kind of feminism I've been supporting since 1973 when I was just eight years old. That's the kind of feminism I'll support to my dying day, and beyond if there is a beyond. 

~Ornery Owl is Still Fighting the Good Fight For Women's Rights~

Image by Willgard Krause from Pixabay

Here is what I was listening to while creating this post.

https://odysee.com/@Rave_Archive:e/Ed-Rush---Optical---Wormhole-%281998---Virus%29:c?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

November PAD Challenge 2022: Day 25: For a Moment

 

Image by 愚木混株 Cdd20 from Pixabay

I wonder if society will ever

if only for a moment

give a damn about the words spoken by a woman

rather than obsessing about the size of her chest

which could be concave for all it matters

is the focus on female appearance

a deliberate tactic to keep a woman in a shell

while man fools himself that she hasn't the sense

to assemble a jigsaw puzzle because she stays silent

if she is home stirring the pot for his dinner, so he reasons

she can't be stirring up trouble elsewhere

society is set up so women not paired with a man fare poorly

conversely, many women entangled with men also fare poorly

a man who does not have his finger on the pulse 

of female dissatisfaction with our lot in life

will fail to notice that the pendulum has swung

away from the idea that a woman needs a man to be complete

a woman needs confidence

she needs an education

she needs opportunity

if she has all these things

she may decide in the end

she doesn't need a man

for anything at all

a woman with dreams can go far

perhaps even to the stars

if she perseveres

and engages her ingenuity

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

Image by S. Bartels from Pixabay

Girls are magical beings

Their imagination and ingenuity should be nurtured.

notes and prompts used

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-24

For today's prompt, take the phrase "For (blank)," replace the blanks with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-25

For today's prompt, write a serious poem.

I'm deadly serious about feminism and have been since I was eight. That's damn near fifty years of feminism under my belt. I find the state of today's feminism very concerning. Feminism that doesn't stand up for the rights of women and girls to be something besides decor or helpmeets for males is not feminism. Slutwalk and flash your boobs for a cause "feminism" is not feminism. 

We ain't there yet, Baby. Now's not the time to quit fighting.

https://imprompt.wordpress.com/2022/11/25/day-25-2/

Word List

chest

concave

damn

deliberate

finger

jigsaw

poorly

shell

stir

swung

Today's Playlist

https://odysee.com/@GamingAmbience:6/deus-ex-mankind-divided-prague-ist-4:9?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

https://odysee.com/@GamingAmbience:6/deus-ex-mankind-divided-prague-2:e?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

Similar Houses (Tanka)

 

Free use image from Pixabay

similar houses

dark havens for Stepford girls

sinister shelters

mold and shape little women

made delicate like china

~cie~

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-day-6

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.

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/04/04/mlmm-sunday-writing-prompt-three-senses/

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.

https://www.napowrimo.net/1942-2/

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.

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/three-things-challenge-559/

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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