Crafting Verses. Shaping Dreams.
Offering Evocative Poetry and Creative Insights to Inspire and Enrich
Crafting Verses. Shaping Dreams.
Offering Evocative Poetry and Creative Insights to Inspire and Enrich
Building Worlds With Poetry and Design
Holly Dowds is a poet and architect. Her poetry has been published in Poetry for Mental Health, Lake Region Review, Dust & Fire, The Talking Stick, The Southeast Journal, The Little Book of Abundance, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Big Women
in memory of Maya Angelou, 1928-2014
You know the ones I mean,
they puff and whew on a humid-hot day.
You hope they don’t sit next to you
on the skinny-seated bus.
You plan to never be like them.
Now listen here.
These women can cook a whole
chicken and make it last all week,
know how to raise a family,
comfort the ailing, help the needy,
and lift a loud voice to the Lord.
They know all the ways that this world
can pain a child, and why the caged bird sings.