
Photo: Dikla Nachmias
Ladies of the borrowed time,
Mistresses of undemanding,
Mothers bearing down the twine
To faithful understanding,
Sisters of this Earth and sky,
Daughters threading needles of
Life verifying,
Girls who hearts ignore —
I hear you roar.
Do know:
Together we’ll weave words
From crying.
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: roar
I should have read this before I replied to your comment on my blog. Your comments make more sense now. Yes, it is about weaving the new together through our tears. Thank you.
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Thank YOU. Yes, and making and finding and allowing a voice.
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Yes, absolutely. Finding a voice is so important – and yet, so difficult. I agree with your idea that we weave this new world together.
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Communities built this world. Communities can heal it.
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What a great statement. You could make it into an Instagram meme 😊
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🙂 Thank you!
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I should have read this before I replied to your comment on my blog. Your comments make more sense now. Yes, it is about weaving the new together through our tears. Thank you.
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I love this, Na’ama.
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Yay! 😘😍
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🙂 😘😍
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I love this, especially these lines, “Together we’ll weave words
From crying.”
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Thank you, Ali! 😊
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You are most welcome. Keep on writing.
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Just try stopping me … 😉
(Thank you!)
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Together we’ll weave words From crying …. Beautiful and wonderfully evocative.
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Thank you, Reena! So glad it resonated!
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Oh, MY. This is just stunning. So much YES.
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Woohoo! 🙂 YAY! Thank you for this!
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Nice last two lines about weaving words.
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Thank you, Frank! 🙂
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This is so inspiring – women coming together, finding their voice, making themselves heard.
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Thank you Sarah! I’m glad you find it so — we are all of us, no matter what we’re born — the product of a woman’s womb, and, really, literally, her body, which provides ALL the building blocks for a baby. ANY baby. So, yeah, it should be evidently clear that women’s voices must be found, and heard, and understood. 🙂
Here’s to finding words, together!
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Problems can always be solved if we join our forces.
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Yeah! Here’ to collaboration, cooperation, and communication! 🙂
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Beautiful wording for such an important statement. The girls must, must know that they’re hearts are heard, that we share the tears and that so many lifelines , woven from just those tears exist to grab on to – including this one. Thank you.
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Thank YOU for such an excellent comment. Yes, girls should be helped to know that they are heard, that they always have a voice, at the very least with other women who can speak for them and support them till they are able to find their own voice and speak for others in turn. Many lifetimes woven, many realities of suppression and oppression and silencing, which continue to this day in all too many places and communities around the world. Together, women (and the men who support women, and the boys who can watch the men who support women and learn from them), can weave stories and words that heal and hold.
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“Mothers bearing down the twine” — great image!
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Thanks, J. 🙂
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Women finding their voices—yes!–and those last lines are wonderful!
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Thank you, Merril! Here’s to all having a voice, finding their voice, supporting others’ voices!
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