In addiction and patriarchal culture. Over many years of emotional and spiritual healing process, I have learned that the force that most strongly holds me back is a constellation of traits and values rooted in patriarchal. Culture and the patriarchal concept of god. I call this constellation my Inner Patriarch. Patriarchy here refers to a mindset. It also may be thought of as a lens through which everything is seen.

Posted by journeywomanchi in Liberation Poems. I know the power of my womb. As the meeting ground of the. Prepared to bring forward new life. I know the strength of my love. To nurture more than warm beds. But to fuel the fight of our people. I know the depth of my pain. That shoots from the base of. The spine to the crown of my head. Constantly feeling every emotion of.

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A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars -W. One of the things I can. I think I have often been quite aware of my surroundings and even the recent changes to them in part because. What practices the heart that is settled, I wonder. Is that a poem, improbably, that I am to write? .