Motherhood and any kind of public service or career are seen as a binary choice for many women. Many women have now agreed that “you can’t have it all” and have decided that the thing to sacrifice is the motherhood. 2,266 more wordsThe Dying and Rising Art of Motherhood — The Imaginative Conservative
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Haiku: Consent
Photo by Ryanniel Masucol on Pexels.com Deserving to live,those we choose will shakle us:Our consent is blind Copyright Francis 2022
Today’s Tarot: Difficult Choices
A day perhaps of ambivalence, where we are in two minds. Making the choice is the important thing but it won't be easy. A good day for reading and mental pursuits. Emotionally there is a need to make progress, to set the ball rolling in some important matter, to make changes, although this is unlikely … Continue reading Today’s Tarot: Difficult Choices
Haiku: Narrow Road
Photo by Domen Mirtiu010d Dolenec on Pexels.com The road is narrowOptions are disappearingI'm walking the line Copyright Francis 2021
Haiku: Choice
Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com Angels protect uswhile demons undermine usI have made my choice Copyright Francis 2021
Haiku: Here Now
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Does time run backwards?The future already known?I chose to be here Copyright Francis 2020
Travelling in the Wilderness (Tanka)
Photo by Mathias P.R. Reding on Pexels.com Family strangersYoungest -- I am odd one outMission accomplishedHurled into this mad, mad worldDid I really choose this fate? Copyright Francis 2020 *Poetics dVerse.
Haibun: It’s Up To You
The tension is palpable. We stand at the crossroads. It is clear which road we should take, yet ultimately it's our choice. Let's not pretend we don't know but don't let me be the one who said: "I told you so." Now at breaking point Desperate actors go rogue Pray deliverance copyright Francis Barker 2020
Tanka: Your Choice
You see division Whereas I see unity In this together Each of us must make a choice Love always wins in the end copyright Francis Barker 2020
Tanka: None So Blind
Toss a coin up high it will not land on its edge Do you have a choice? Heads and tails mean the same thing Remove the coins from your eyes copyright Francis Barker 2019
Tanka: Elephant or Donkey, or…
Politics hurts us A merry-go-round charade Real choice would be nice Parties like supermarkets Same stuff sold differently copyright Francis Barker 2019