A Poem (And An Assignment For You!)

I wrote this shortly after my last post on POW. It's a sort of response. I don't want to say too much about it until after you read it, so here goes.

The Belligerent Goddess

I fell in deep love with a divine presence.

Scowling spirit of indisputable beauty.

Who could resist her charms?

She is a woman of size and fire,

of passion and swear words and love and

bullheaded hope she does not buck for a moment.

Thinness does not become her,

nor long-legged-ness nor

a button-like nose for, for you see

she is not a

goddamn doll.

Instead she has curves,

a wit that fells royalty

and draws in men

like so many

rainbow trout.

One large mouth, she possesses

often loud and often open,

Some say too much, but, being an adult,

she is polite and merely

disembowels them.

                                   

I fell in deep love

with a glorious sprite of water and noise

champion of the masculine and feminine

one who celebrates food            

and intelligence

and the bright broad spectrum of beautiful bodies.

It just took me twenty-four years to realize

she was me.

This is my self-love poem. Your new assignment (should you chose to except it) is to write one either about your internal goddess/spirit/whatever, or about how fabulous and wonderful you are. You pick. :)