Okay, this is a little dorky, and stating the bloody obvious. But I haven't written a villanelle in a while, and wanted to see if I could do it. Yes, I've bent the rules a bit. Hanging offense, sans doute.
Sed Contra
Enough with old-school men who blindly see
women as mere adornment, decoration:
to hell with such flagrant misogyny.
A dolt who scorns a woman's artistry,
who sees her power as abomination:
travesty of a man! He fails to see
in her his equal intellectually ---
often, indeed, a mind of higher station!
To hell with such brain-dead misogyny.
He'll praise soft skin and pert nubility.
He'll blurt out Queen and Goddess in elation.
Such rancid ballyhoo. These men who see
their heaven in a woman of twenty-three,
but deem that fifty is past expiration:
who needs such evident misogyny?
A predator once held the presidency
and boasted of his loutish violation.
But other more restrained men fail to see
the consequence of their misogyny.
Poetry by Uncle Meridian
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Written on 2024-04-10 at 10:18
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