Laureal Sibanda wrote"As a society, we’ve long demonised anger and rage, especially in women but truthfully a lot of us really do just need to accept it, own it and love it because it is a part of being a human being. When we suppress it, it either makes us ill. Mentally, physically or spiritually, or it comes out in ways that hurt the people who didn’t actually hurt us, to begin with. Seek to understand and love your anger/rage without trying to deny it. (source)
What makes YOU angry these days?
This week I would like you to write a poem about anger. Or better yet: Write an angry poem, letting your anger out!!!
Here is an example by Laureal Sibanda:
No One Loves an Angry Woman
I’ll swallow down my anger
meet my oppression
with practised charm
smile through my disgust
bite my tongue through my
screams spit the bloody mess
where they won’t see it.
I’ll learn to tame it
with my velvety laugh
dress it in diamonds and
other sparkly, pretty things.
I’ll be so lovely, light in my steps
sway my hips a little bit more
when I feel it as the ravenous
beast foaming to bite.
No one loves an angry woman.
But I will learn to.
Making space for her rage
for when it finally escapes
as it will -
a guttural howl
the unravelling
of the twisted, mangled
thread long coiled deep
inside her
I will be right there
loving her.
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I am looking forward to reading your poetry!
When you have linked your poem, be sure to visit the poems of others who link. Mr. Linky will close Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern.
