My Inner Peace

My soul’s filled with
joyful silence
holding this myth
in defiance
of all the sounds
of life’s surrounds
to stay this day

(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2020

Originally published advertising free at “If You Haven’t Got A Sonnet”

She Must Be Mad

It’s about her
the young woman
who caused a stir
by getting in.
She thought there’d be
equality.
Poor soul. How drôle.

(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2018

Ha’sonnet title inspired by the 31 August daily prompt at the Brave & Reckless blog and based on the title of a seminal feminist book ‘she must be mad’ by Charly Cox.

Added title to a ha’sonnet I had written last year because the prompt immediately jumped out as a better fit than the title options I’d come up with.

In The Eye Of

The beauty myth
says there’s a norm
encumbered with
a defined form
And yet for me
it’s what I see
with my heart’s eye

(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2019

In response to the 18 August daily prompt at the Brave & Reckless blog and based on the title of a seminal feminist book ‘The Beauty Myth’ by Naomi Wolf.