La Luchadora
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Ed Ross
Her hair is dressed in roses;
a waved trellis,
verdant and visceral,
rooted in animus
(head-as-hostile-soil).
She likes the irony,
invokes contrast.
Her eyes speak thorns
quite fluently,
scalp blooming.
(see “Related Poems” below to find poems on similar topics)
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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful
for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.
No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks.
I will not resign myself to the usual lot of some who bow their head
and become concubines.”
Trieu Thi Choi
“It’s hard not to be a fighter when you’re constantly under siege.”
Cassandra Duffy
Tags: anger, angry woman, battle of the sexes, ed ross, empowered woman, fierce woman