I’ve taken on Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-A-Day Challenge this month (http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides). It’s a fantastic way to crank out the words and get new ideas flowing. Some poems will probably be duds, but the fun is finding the firecrackers along the way! Feel free to join in! Check out Writer’s Digest’s Poetic Asides blog daily in April for each new prompt, and add your poems to the comments section at the bottom.
Today’s prompt was “Since (fill in the blank).” Here is my go at it:
Since I’m a Girl
and this is the deadliest country
on earth in which to be one
and since I somehow survived
the unhallowed womb
and the horror on the faces
I saw as I popped out
and since nobody’s namaste-ing me
because what aspect of the divine is there
in me to salute
and since I’m an unwanted loan
to this man and woman until
dowry-day and bogey-woman
mother-in-law, fire in her eyes and hands
to scorch me for being me (and her)
since all this
is true (listen!)
I’ll try not to make
a noise