"A woman grows up with mythology stitched into
ill fitted dresses.
She’ll break hearts, they say.
Not a second
of girlhood is unintentional."

*blows raspberry*

I think I've written this poem better before, nor is it really a poem worth writing right now.

Into the abyss you go.

"I love rituals, I relish in them.
I lay all my make up out and pick them up one by one, stroking over my face with
brushes and pencils.
I love rolling my own cigarettes, I love the tea making ritual we have in this
house.
But there is a special place in my heart for the soft tinted pink rituals of
the women I have around me.
The 60s coloured curlers in someone’s home perm kit, the tacky 80s pink of the
cheap wax strips.
The colour of bargain bin nail polishes and the smell of red hair colour.

I love that we’re two women shaving each other’s heads,
I’m plucking hair off my face and she’s painting her lids gold, I love it.
I love every burn, sting and scrape.
It feels like sisterhood, like survival, like playing a game we’ve been taught
when we were too young.
But damn,
we play it so well now."
— Bargain Bin Beauty Bonding.

A poem I wrote 3 ish years ago, really I don't need to rewrite it, but it needs a rework.

@CorvusRobotica What lines do you think need reworking?
@StevenDBT the rhytm is off, mainly, so I'll rework it around the last bit where it mentions sisterhood. I'll most likely split it into two verses and work from there.
@CorvusRobotica Yeah, that is the hardest thing to do, and hardest with free verse. Anyone cannot write a poor free verse poem. Much harder to write one well, though I know many poets who avoid form because they claim it's more difficult.
@StevenDBT I'm not sure it's more difficult,as with any format it just takes practise. But yeah it's not an insignificant format to write in.