Muscle Up Gentle Roses

Image: Women's Land Army 1917 ~ WikiMedia Commons

Nothing like a war

to bring out the man in a woman.

Necessity has a way of making work

progressively gender neutral.

When a belly is hungry

it doesn’t care who

tends the potatoes.

Muscle up gentle roses.

Men’s hands have been filled with rifles.

It is now your collective spunk

commanded to tend the fields.

You’ve always known your strengths,

unfortunately war has provided opportunity

to pull away layers of I can’t to expose I can.

  ©Susie Clevenger 2016

Izy at Real Toads asked us to take the last text message we received on our phone and create a poem. Mine was: "Have you seen Land Girls?" The question refers to a BBC series on Netflix. Find out who the Land Girls were here.

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