Warrior Women

The fragile-brave woman

who refuses

to kill

an unborn girl

and stands by 

her daughters

through every storm

the little girl

who insists

"education"

in the face of

a terror regime

and a gun to her head

the young woman

who speaks

periods, breasts

and abuse

without the shackle of 

honor, 

fear or shame

the survivor

who battles a 

crime

violence or a

fatal disease

but doesn't compromise

her mind,voice or name

the old woman

who lets go

of centuries of do's & don'ts 

and stands with the girls

against the men

warriors all

in words, thoughts

and essence !

All Warrior Women !

This post is for a Blogathon titled WARRIOR WOMEN here @ Women's Web

When a Greek pirate ship sails in to loot the wealth of the Cholas, it is brutally defeated by the navy and forced to pay a compensation. A payment that includes a twelve-year-old girl, Aremis. Check out this new historical novel Empire (http://bit.ly/DeviEmpire) with a warrior woman, Aremis at the heart of the novel.

Mansplain !! (Men Explain Things To Me )

The do's and don'ts

should and shouldn'ts

yours to say

and mine to obey

the list is long

- smile some more

- just ignore

-let me handle this

- just dismiss

he takes the call

crawl or brawl

Since Mahabharata 

they have the dice 

as if we are mice

blindly following a piper

into a ditch

Dear men

please abstain

I understand

this pounce and save

is an old game 

I need no saviour

no patron , no saint 

I can take my calls

and wage my wars

keep in your pants 

your mansplain* !

*verb

informal

1. (of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.

Term derived from Rebecca Solnit 's Men Explain Things To Me

Lord of the Flies

Image: Google images

Rapes, abuse and deaths

suicides and silences

battered breaths

only numbers

mere statistics

Women - 

nothing to the

Lord of the flies

amidst a thousand

patriarchies !

This post is part of a #blogathon at BAR

Anatomy of Abuse #ALetterToHer

The vase he threw

was not to express

his anger or frustration

my dear girl, it was

- Intimidation

the hollow apology

was not to undo the harm

but dear naive girl, it was

- Manipulation

the counting of 

your "inadequacies" 

was not to improve you

but - Humiliation

the keeping you away

the don't go anywhere, stay

was not to protect you

it was subtle Isolation

the threats of harm

to self and/you

to frighten and terrorize,

the loud voice and 

sometimes the silence

the gaze, the body language

to coerce and threaten

Dear blinded in love

remove the tinted glasses

and see it as it were

a cycle of abuse

the silence before 
the eye of the storm
and the honeymoon

over and over
in a vicious gyre
Dear girl
Inhale strength

Spit fire.

Must read a copy of Meena Kandasamy’s new book, When I Hit You because the conspiracy of silence around domestic abuse labeling it as a personal matter,must be broken, because one story is many stories.

Of Ice and Men

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He rubbed her wrong

and you looked away

She body shamed her

and not a word to say

 the sexist jokes

and the street harassment

the discrimination

fear and embarrassment

you remained aloof

and closed your eyes

patriarchal men

as cold as ice.

This post is part of a #blogathon at BAR.

Life of Pie

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If there was ever a pie chart

of things people say to women

that cause grievous hurt

What all do you think 

would figure in there?

Do you think

that they even care?

How sexual violence

uses victim blaming as a tool?

How something as sweet as pie

can turn into a weapon cruel?

This post is part of a #blogathon at BAR