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Claire Madarang Happy Women's Day to all the beautiful and wise women here in Gratitude Log! I am happy to be reminded how wonderful - and sometimes how challenging - it is to be a woman on this day and age. =) But it has certainly been an unforgettable journey so far.

I am also glad to re-discover and read new poems on womanhood. Here's one with a powerful message:


Poem In Praise Of Menstruation
by Lucille Clifton

if there is a river
more beautiful than this
bright as the blood
red edge of the moon if
there is a river
more faithful than this
returning each month
to the same delta if there

is a river
braver than this
coming and coming in a surge
of passion, of pain if there is

a river
more ancient than this
daughter of eve
mother of cain and of abel if there is in

the universe such a river if
there is some where water
more powerful than this wild
water

pray that it flows also
through animals
beautiful and faithful and ancient
and female and brave