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I Voted

by Kristina Woodhill

I voted

covered those oval spaces
with all the black ink my sisters
bled in grandmother red
just a few black and blue-eyed blinks ago
oval bruises
we took and made
our own purple stars

blue of the open skies above
always intuitively in our grasp
we mixed it up
threw that blue against black-walled opaque voices
and forever claimed our transparent right

11/06/2012

Author's Note: Never forget

Posted on 11/06/2012
Copyright © 2025 Kristina Woodhill

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Rhiannon Jones on 11/07/12 at 12:45 AM

Sistah Suffragette! I love it.

Posted by George Hoerner on 11/07/12 at 12:58 AM

Now if women were the only ones who could vote we might get some where!! Nice write lady.

Posted by A. Paige White on 11/07/12 at 03:06 PM

Fantastic reminder Kristina. I, too, don't take the right to vote lightly. It does seem poetic justice to be written of in black and blue. Especially when I think of the women in nations that are required to walk behind men, second class in every way. I do not understand that thinking. I do not understand how a man, who was carried inside a woman's womb until his first breath can then look at a woman and say "you are beneath me, I don't need you at all". Ultimately, they are dishonoring themselves and totally unaware that's what they are doing.

Posted by Ken Harnisch on 11/08/12 at 07:29 PM

And all you and other women have to do is look at New Hampshire to see how well you succeeded, Kristina

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 11/10/12 at 02:20 PM

I danced, I voted, too! "forever claimed our transparent right" is a whistle-perfect line!

Posted by Laura Doom on 11/11/12 at 01:08 PM

You have my vote, collectively, individually, perpetually...

Posted by Gail Wolper on 12/08/12 at 01:02 AM

I love the way you presented this, very impactful.

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