Feminist Vogue Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

Women expelled
pushed to rim
buried under snowdrifts
in earlier epochs
signaling mounting
phobic masculinity.

Presumptuous paper mountains
pile up academically learnedly
writers postmodernist bourgeoisie
dispute white male middle class
dominant discourse disclaimed
centre focus on discourse of other.


Autumn thaw
snow melts
washing away
discourse
illegible illegitimate.

In a classical era narcotic
Sibylline raving discourse
was translated hailed officially
as indisputable revelation oracle
god spoken charged for accordingly.


Was revelation the ultimate
in recognized esteemed fabled
female divine ancestral wisdom?
Or another glaring example exhibiting an
established manipulative male priesthood?

Ultimately entrenched power
is derived from concerted ability
displayed by reining puppet masters
pulling skillfully plied hidden strings
which make plebeian masses dance magically.


Is this dance madness
or artistry magnificent?
Victors, vanquished, masses,
scholars, paupers and history

may all beg to differ
their postulated synopsis
dramatically and significantly
in inscribed or transcribed reviews.


Copyright © Terence George Craddock