silently she rose and made her way.
Words like daggers and actions like thorns
just made the champion in her determined to stay!
Battles for an equal pie and a right to be acknowledged,
- struggles that were fought within and without.
She wasn't a sacrificial lamb, rather a Tiger that pounced,
she's mundane and divine, obvious yet a mystery, without doubt.
Emperors, Poets and singers rave about her beauty,
But was an honest effort ever made to understand her!?
She's a synonym of sacrifice and everything beautiful,
a conqueror and a queen set to face an avalanche of challenges!
(To the women of our hearts and homes - you make us proud and happy every single passing day! Not just today
being International Women's Day!)
Poem - "She" - on the eve of the International Women's Day 2022
- Not surprisingly, the idea of an International Women's day has a
global and leftist origin. At the dawn of the 20eth Century, it was the
German delegates at a Socialist conference in USA who first proposed
such an idea. Later, when USSR proclaimed and issued voting rights to
women, the idea caught up as a concrete celebration. After the rise of
the feminist movement in 1960s, in 1977, UN started celebrating March
8th as International Women's day. For the year 2022, the official theme
of the event is 'Gender equality today for a Sustainable tomorrow.' The Governments of India and Andhra Pradesh took a slew
of measures towards that lofty goal of Women Empowerment, still a
distant dream, one that hinges on perception as well as ground reality.
Maheeth Veluvali,
Tuesday, 8th of March, 2022,
16 Saladi Jamindar Street, Palakollu.
