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Women Like Her Breathe Fire
Women’s Day Special free-verse poem
I wrote this ambitious, five-stanza, Plath-inspired poem in August 2020. I sent it to many literary magazines and finally, it got published in Sledgehammer Lit on October 28th, 2021. You can read the poem here. I am republishing it here on the account of International Women’s Day. The poem is a narrative from a woman who’s caught in a patriarchal marriage and struggles with her misogynistic husband every day and yet strives to be herself, putting up a brave fight. I hope you all love the poem. Happy Women’s Day!
A roar is caught in her throat,
as she notices him watching blaring videos
Swimming in a lake of idiotic sentiments,
that do not work in a lion’s household.
There are these ghastly dialogues,
Where misogyny croaks a terrible ballad.
He still does not realize
that a man who eats sexism for breakfast
is a man who dies of his wife’s liberalism
Forming a noose around his neck.
He still does not understand
that her pen is sharper than his dominance,
And that she rips his audacities
and throws them into her poems,
where he bleeds to death between her lines.
