Poetry Wednesday. Oh yeah!

This week's poem I dedicate to all the women out there that are not cut out from a magazine or from a Hollywood movie. There is a long history of us women being told what is beautiful and what is not beautiful and trying to fit in to those size zero molds. We find ourselves buying pills, lotions and potions, new this, new that and improved whatevers just to reach someone else's idea of wonderful. And stupid us have believed it! Hook, line and sinker!! Well I for one have witnessed the power of inner confidence and how that confidence turns into magnetism and how that magnetism has made me not only happy but very fun and very, very popular.  Each and every one of us has the power of awesome within. We don't need to be thin. We don't need to be pretty. We don't need to have a magazine or a man to validate or define us. We only need ourselves.

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.