"SHHHH!!!!
BE NICE
NICE GIRLS DON'T FIGHT!!
sanguine whispers stain white walls,
dotted glances crystaline hate
seeps out of curved lips and into
shattering souls
Ponytails whip from side to side
blonde curls hold a bitterness
Brown sugar ringlets grip anger
Moonless glitter fly carrying
sparks of shunning-
snap of bitten nails are colored
not by race but by the grey shards
of shunning and the crimson blushing
spots of silence desiging sorrow in
sixth grade cheekbones
We control each other through the
raised eyebrow threats of telling secrets
and the uplifted shoulder of hopeless Sorrys'
- determined to win a war that society
defines as taboo for girls to even whisper
Blockaded anger and piercing melancholy
fall out of confused heads into a cyclone
of destroying each other while flashing
pretty in pink smiles at any adult
backfiring of a culture's teachings
of what nice girls do- teaches us the
ABCs of how to make your best friend
cry when you don't save her a seat at Lunch
The nursery rhymes of cruelty are the outlet
for the ordinary conflicts we aren't allowed to have
Starting to read steps of understanding the power of
silence, when six of you don't tell her why you aren't talking
for weeks at a time- sending her begging back to you
Product of your culture and your teaching
Popped pills, and too many cuts lace
the context for those of us armed with
scars as we reach high school - anxiety
disorders become the puppet masters
for the girls unlucky enough to be victims
We are the culture society has named us
Author notes
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thanks for entering
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How true... maybe it's just because I'm so familiar with all of these scenes, but it was a really strong poem. There were a couple places where the rhythm broke down a little, but overall I really liked it-- nice job.
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great great great! love this one. so much to see in your writing! Many disorganized thoughts put together fabulously encompasses how the human mind runs. this poem would do well in my other contest lol! you should enter it!
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