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The Red Pain
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The Red Pain |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan 
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It begins in her youth, when each month she finds the awful red pain uniting her with all womankind her breasts feel heavy, her skin breaks out the week before, is almost worse she wants to scream and shout the red pain visits every twenty eight days forty years of suffering, forty years of bloat and pain the price all women pay, for Eve's sinful ways when the forty years are over, and the red pain disappears ironically, she misses it in her advancing years its the marker of her womanhood her salad days, her fertile youth a reminder that she's aging and now she has the proof |
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Silver Streak Member Elite
since 2002-01-02
Posts 3625FL, USA |
Wow! What a powerful poem!!!! Sharing God's Love through perfectlovepoetry.com |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Lyra, I got heckled for writing about menopause! LOl Oh, sorry this is a serious topic. Again I feel obligated to say what a lovely poem you have written my dear.  excuse me!  |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Lyra, I hope I was supportive enough. Can I get you anything while I'm out? sorry. |
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peaches73533 Senior Member
since 2001-11-04
Posts 981OK, USA |
Lyra, Very well done. Peaches |
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peppermint35 Senior Member
since 2000-05-28
Posts 1106Texas, USA |
Lyra, what a good job you've done here in writing about this.. for some strange reason.. mostly verbotten topic  Pepper |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much for replying to this poem, Newell...I'm glad that you think its powerful.  copyright2002 Lyra Nesius |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks Larry, are you one of those men who doesn't mind buying feminine hygeine products? My husband doesn't mind...but my first husband sure did!  copyright2002 Lyra Nesius |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Oh and by the way, Larry...I absolutely NEED some chocolate...  copyright2002 Lyra Nesius |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Peaches...that sure was peachy of you to reply to my poem!  copyright2002 Lyra Nesius |
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RosePetal
since 2001-08-26
Posts 2985South Florida |
I hate having the red pain with a passion! It feels like someone is constantly poking at your lower abdomen with a knife! Larry says he wants to volunteer to go to the store and buy all of us ladies our feminine hygiene needs! LOL |
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strbbux Member Elite
since 2001-12-19
Posts 3859 |
HAHAHAHA Lyra you are so funny. Now who else would think to write about that, LOL floriaFloria |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
Oh, oh my goodness, well you get an A in originality, I've never read a poem regarding this subject, which of course i know nothing about this isone for the books! Kathleen--(Kay) |
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N orth Carolina Girl Senior Member
since 2001-12-04
Posts 962NC,USA |
Lyra,lets not talk about it TAKE CARE!  Juanita |
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Pilgrimage Member Elite
since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945Texas, USA |
Dear Lyra, Last year they wanted me to start taking hormones, and it all came back. So I threw the hormones away and said uh-uh. I've already been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. Love your poem. Nan |
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Mistletoe Angel
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (big hugggssssss) Being a boy, I cannot relate to the pain, but my heart cries out to all these women who fill this and my heart goes out to them all always! (kiss on cheek) I pray that her pain can ease and she can always enjoy life and joy from here on in, we all love you so much, God Bless You! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Lyra, thank you for sharing!   May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks for the reply, Joanna...Larry has volunteered, now we'll have to make sure that he actually does it. LOL  Thanks Floria...I write about life and this is definitely a big part of life for every woman I know. Kay...Thank you, and don't we wish we all knew nothing about this pain?  copyright2002 Lyra Nesius "poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks [This message has been edited by Madame Chipmunk (02-06-2002 07:01 PM).] |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Juanita...thanks..but I would rather we didn't even feel it either.  Nan...You are probably better off without them anyway, I never even tried them. Thanks for your reply  Noah...You are lucky that you don't have to put up with it every month, but thanks for your sympathy. copyright2002 Lyra Nesius |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
Interesting thought provoked by this piece with regard to the missing of past "pains" coupled with the passing of time. Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks Interloper...but this is a pain which no woman misses.  copyright2002 Lyra Nesius |
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