What A Woman Can Do



What a woman can do!
What can a woman do?
The woman's womb can carry children and ideas
The woman's legs can walk miles into Dreamland
The woman's hands can reshape the world
Like the delicate cut of the sculptor's' blade
The woman's eyes can behold those days
When she will serve in office
And still serve her children at home
The woman's belly can hold food
While letting machine carry the pregnancy
Or maybe a surrogate mother
The woman can divorce unhappy homes
And marry a machine that she alone will set into action
If she's not lesbian.


The woman's wound can bend the world
Like a once-straight-now-warped bar
"A woman's job is beyond the shores of kitchen
And way above her roles in bed," some would say
But what can a woman do
When his arms are not free from the shackles
Set by herself and society
What can a woman do?
Silent is consent  
Maybe what men can do
Are what a woman can do
Maybe

About this poem

The poem is centered around refining women's identity, strength and relevance in the world of men!.

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Written on April 09, 2021

Submitted by Olajide1900 on October 17, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme aAxxbxxxxxcxxdd bxdxaxcAxaac
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 919
Words 190
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 15, 12

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