Category: Enlightenment

Presage

On By DaniIn Blog Family, Enlightenment, Heartbreak, it needed to be said., Poetry, Telling it like it is8 Comments

The older women… the ones who remember…and their daughters who grew up hearing the first-hand accounts…

Try to warn the younger women…and their daughters who bask freely in the fruits of their foremother’s labor and suffrage…about the urgent need, and the lengths to which they must go… to defend and protect our hard-won rights.

Too often the warnings are rebuffed or fall on deaf ears…the younger generations feeling they are over-blown and unwarranted.

They utter ridiculous things like…

“That will never happen”

“That can’t happen…here…in today’s America”

The thing is… it did happen…here…in America…to women.

It’s still…happening…here…in today’s America…to women!

Roe was overturned in today’s America!

“Me Too” and “Times Up” should indicate to anyone paying attention that the fight is far from over.

Everything that can be done…can be undone.

Women take heed…you must stay informed and vigilant here…now…in today’s America!

   July 2, 2025

Red Egret

On By DaniIn Enlightenment, Heartbreak, it needed to be said., Poetry2 Comments

Her words…his words…their words fill the cavernous space that her heart once occupied, before it was ripped out of her chest and stomped beyond recognition.

They drone on about her unworthiness to experience any semblance of happiness because they perceive her as flawed, imperfect and less than whatever it is they think she should be

Their incessant echoes are cacophonous, and they almost always drown out her own voice of reason… almost...always.

Death by a thousand cuts…

Red Egret sometimes believes them and self-sabotages her awaiting bliss

She finds solace and sustenance in nature, in the cool calm waters of rivers and lakes.

Beneath the soothing waters in the silence, she can hear her own still small voice

It offers grace, redemption, forgiveness, love, compassion, but most of all… acceptance and encouragement to be who she is…just as she is.

You see, Egrets are never red… except when soaked in the blood of the unthinkable

Hopefully Little Egret can fight her way to the surface…washed clean in nature’s purity, with the knowledge, will and determination to escape and start wonderfully anew.

4-2-2025