Poetry – Red Tent Living

In Her Image

By: redtentwomen April 3, 2020April 2, 2020

Art, Day to Day, Faith, Femininity, LiteratureHolly Lowmiller, Inspiration, Poetry4 Comments

In Her Image I am a dissident daughter No one taught me, God is my Great Mother War alive in my mind Starvation in my desecrated heart

Unstoppable Force: truth in love

By: redtentwomen March 30, 2020March 29, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureDanielle Castillejo, Poetry, Recovery, TherapyLeave a Comment

Truth in love. I wait for you Not very patient Confused, battered, Ramming my way along.

She Knows

By: redtentwomen March 23, 2020March 22, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureJill English, Poetry6 Comments

God is present in the dark. I remember reading this in scripture – something about the darkness being as light to God. Like her, you were in the darkness before you were in the light. I watch her – this tiny human who tests the limits of her independence. This tiny human who tests the…

The Evidence Is In

I am done proving me. My life is not one prolonged job interview, a permanent Olympic trial, an ongoing all-state music audition. I am not a college application for admissions officials to peruse, an employee scrutinized for business acumen or her annual performance review, an associate striving to make partner. I refuse to be

Desperation

By: redtentwomen March 11, 2020March 10, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureHannah Wilder, Poetry1 Comment

Desperation is a sliding tear A world abounding with hounds and fear It is a question that scalds your soul Temptation that comes too high a toll

Lit

By: redtentwomen March 2, 2020March 1, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureHannah Umphress, Poetry, Recovering from Abuse1 Comment

The light has faded out of my eyes Where it once burned alive Until a series of moments I wouldn’t want Made me live them.

How To Kill A Mexican

By: redtentwomen February 21, 2020February 21, 2020

Day to DayDanielle Castillejo, Poetry, Racism, Representation, Reversing Racism5 Comments

Joke to him and to me he’s there she’s not seen I’ll tell you the stories of eyes not blue here in your backyard You know I am You’re here in my driveway This is my land

Grief

By: redtentwomen February 18, 2020February 16, 2020

LiteratureMelissa Dempsey, Poetry4 Comments

A shell, her home so brutally shattered — maroons a tender soul adrift in open water. Cold. Afraid. And self-protection makes an unwilling warrior. A noble mother. Sword unsheathed. And broken hearts make an unyielding will. She battles sorrow and joy and birth and death, all that is vital. Captures all of them, (save the…

(Un)Barren

By: redtentwomen February 12, 2020February 9, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureHannah Umphress, Infertility, Poetry3 Comments

Barren was the name given me at birth (Named after Hannah in the Bible) And by the fertility doctors (Unexplained causes) So many voices (Where is mine?)

Permissions of Breath

By: redtentwomen January 21, 2020January 22, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureEducation about Sex Trafficking, Poetry, Scarlet Road, Sexual Abuse Survivor, survivor, Victoria Ahlfors2 Comments

What happens to the heart when the walls come closing in? When the thunder makes one hide amidst the shadows? Just breathe. Give yourself permission to just…simply…breathe.