Recycled Woman/ happy march 8 …

 Poetry
Mar 072010
 
woman by: Mahnaz badihian

The recycled woman
Has a heart filled with fumigated love
All her dreams will be reborn again

Recycled Woman

Some say she is haunted
And never belongs to one city
A woman with the look of graveyards
And a new kind of temper
They don’t know how she was born
Her birth certificate is an open page with no notes on the birth
But a description about her
Hands: from bodies collected in the Caspian Sea
Legs: of bones from a famine in Africa
Hair: each strand comes from the hair of women in burka
Eyeballs: from expectant eyes, always waiting.
Appended: this woman has multi-metal teeth
With plastic nails and breasts of fire
And dreams that will last

The recycled woman
Has a heart filled with fumigated love
All her dreams will be reborn again
Her voice is load as she sings in a language unknown to men
Where women need to fight to be heard

woman by Mahnaz Badihian

poem and painting by: mahnaz badihian

  One Response to “Recycled Woman/ happy march 8 …”

  1.  

    this painting is amazing….can you tell us who painted it?

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