A Feminist Literary Collective (& outlaw poets swearing)
My bloated thoughts in my withered body swimming through the turbid emotions unperturbed unmoved un-oscillating dead and stale lying motionless in the stench of the old memories I sit and sip time my haggard face and the crestfallen soul carries those inundated tales of pain through the thin stale air in the room carrying the silvery dustContinue reading Healing-Megha Sood
I want to offer my body petals of seduction, curved and surviving into the madhouse of sickness to the surviving lotus. I may not scream as icicles of tears, with hallow bites of you clinging my wrist, Engines of ruffled sleeps, constant pain and pool of madness, I want to offer my naked eye hangingContinue reading Ways of surviving
This poem is part of the series on the Global Exploitation of Women. This poem is based on the social evil of Child marriage where a young child (usually a girl below the age of fifteen) is married to an adult man. This poem encompasses the feeling of that child bride being devoured by this evil. Gender inequality, socialContinue reading Final Goodbye-Megha Sood
This poem is part of the series on the Global Exploitation of Women. This post is an ode to the strong, fierce women who are survivors of acid attacks. They go through immense physical and emotional pain but still manage to rise from the ashes like a phoenix. Approximately 1,500 acid attacks are recorded worldwide annually. But globally, 80 percent of acidContinue reading Brave-Megha Sood
He painted me dark like the goddess on the wall, and in grandma’s locket. Then, he pinned me against glass; Hands apart, wide-eyed, coffee-skinned; My arms covered with copper bangles, fingers bore silver rings, golden chains in my neck, along with a rope that also held my feet, to tie me upside-down, to bind myContinue reading Kali- mahish.asur-mar.dini
This poem is part of the series on the Global Exploitation of Women. Rape is a severely under-reported crime with surveys showing dark figures of up to 91.6% going unreported. A United Nations statistical report compiled from government sources showed that more than 250,000 cases of rape or attempted rape were recorded by police annually. The reported data covered 65 countries. 1 out of every 6 AmericanContinue reading Lucky-Megha Sood
This poem is part of the series on the Global Exploitation of Women. The deliberate killing of a newborn female child is called female infanticide. Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) stated that female infanticide for son preference due to a variety of reasons is a worldwide phenomenon with 1.5 million female fetuses being aborted every year. These measures of theContinue reading A cry for life-Megha Sood
