Second verse [elanya]

The bees are massing in their hive
And with their multi-faceted eyes
They're scouting down the passageway
That lies between my warrior's thighs

My back betrays their monthy charge
The battle soon begins
I arm myself with a cotton spear
My mount unfurns its plastic wings

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I'm thinking of a third verse, probably somethign conclusive. I actaully like this poem. It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, and it *sounds* good when you say it. I bet there aren't many other poems out there about crotch drippings, but I've never looked, so I could be wrong.

I'm in a bitchy mood tonight. I don't want to do anything. I want everything to be already done. I'm starting to regret my plans of baking for christmas. It was all well and good when I had pelnty of time. No one who needs stuff mailed is going to get it in time, I can guarantee. I'm not going to bother sending stuff to M&I until after New year's, because they're both gone. Bleh. And I have to send stuff to Liz and co, but I have to get that all made still... who knows when it will arrive. And when am I going to Waterloo? I don't know. I haven't talked to Joel about it yet. I don't even know when I'm goign to visit dad over Christmas. bleh.

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I think Atwood has at least come close to menstrual poetry. I don't remember _exactly_... maybe hers were more about institutionalized rape. Centred around the vagina, anyway.

I've never heard those vagina monologue dealies. Do those count, or are they just banal, pop culture rantings about being a woman?

-- Rum

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The Vagina Monologues don't really count, I'd say, being monologues and not poetry. But this does...

http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/7271/period1.html

There are others, but I don't have time to find and post them now. Maybe later.

I wrote one, too: The Animal Within. It was accepted for publication in a book of poetry about menstruation, but I guess the book was scrapped. I can't even remember the title of the proposed book, anymore. I wish I still had my acceptance letter, because it was pretty funny. I did see a book by the same title several years later, but it wasn't an anthology--just a book of personal experiences. I suspect it may have been published by the same collators.

Well, maybe it's just me, but from the two verses you've already got, it sounds more like an epic-style piece rather than a little three-verse ditty.

Perhaps you could turn it into something that's intended to be read over a five-day period? ;)

*wisely scurries into hiding*

elanya

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