Hellcat – April Ekphrastic Challenge

Kerfe Roig

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Don’t react if they bully and tease.
Turn your other cheek and say please.
Don’t hit back!
No one likes a girl who attacks.
Don’t show you’re smarter than the boys.
It will them only annoy.
Don’t talk back to adults.
Even if they are wrong it’s an insult.
Don’t show you’re smarter than men.
You’ll just be a bother again.
Don’t speak up for anyone’s rights.
They’ll just think you’re picking a fight.
Don’t claim any self worth.
What? Do you think it comes with birth?
Don’t state your opinions.
You’ll just get shun.
Don’t stick out, it’ll break Jante’s law.
Remember you’re just another bah, haha!
Don’t pursue creative dreams.
You might as well chase moonbeams.
Don’t be a nuisance girl.
Do you think you’re a precious pearl?
Don’t be a disturbance.
No one wants to see your brilliance.

Or..
Do the opposite of all that!
Better be called a hellcat than live as a trampled doormat!

©RedCat

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More information of the Law of Jante, something that have had a negative effect
on me and many other Scandinavians.
(From Wikipedia)

To see all art and read all poems for today go to The Wombwell Rainbow.

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Photo by Martin Vysoudil on Unsplash

Kerfe Roig

A resident of New York City, Kerfe Roig enjoys transforming words and images into something new.  Her poetry and art have been featured online by Right Hand Pointing, Silver Birch Press, Yellow Chair Review, The song is…, Pure Haiku, Visual Verse, The Light Ekphrastic, Scribe Base, The Zen Space, and The Wild Word, and published in Ella@100, Incandescent Mind, Pea River Journal, Fiction International: Fool, Noctua Review, The Raw Art Review, and several Nature Inspired anthologies. Follow her explorations on her blogs, https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/  (which she does with her friend Nina), and https://kblog.blog/, and see more of her work on her website http://kerferoig.com/

April Ekphrastic Challenge – GloPoWriMo 2021

• 1 April – Dark Orchid
• 2 April – A Dirge for the Drowned
• 3 April – Granddaughters of Red Riding Hood
• 4 April – Raven Dream Flight
• 5 April – It’s Spring Time Again and The Sweetest Wine – A Quadrille
• 6 April – There Once Was A Cat and To All The Good Girls
• 7 April – Mind Finds Soul Fearlessly Shines
• 8 April – Trapped, Imprisoned In Her Own Mind – A Triple Triolet and Ode To My Dream Girl
• 9 April – The Aurora Butterfly – A Sonnet
• 10 April – The Dawn Sky Is Ethereal Blue – A Triolet
• 11 April – Blue Forest Of Remembrance
• 12 April – Incantation to Bau-Gula – A Sonnet
• 13 April – The Stars Are Out Tonight – A Villanelle and Cat Searching High and Low
• 14 April – Shadow People Before My Eyes – A Triple Triolet
• 15 April – Three Times Three Times Three
• 16 April – Autumn feast – A Sonnet
• 17 April – In The Badger Sett
• 18 April – Hellcat
• 19 April – Life Lessons and No Bother! – A Quadrille
• 20 April – Fairy Dust Magic – A Trio Of Ovillejo’s and Crows Calling At Night
• 21 April – Polished Mirror Women – Dedicated to Marisol
• 22 April – Word Salad and A Beltane Song
• 23 April – Floating Around Everywhere and Oh Bother! – A Quadrille in Ovillejo Form
• 24 April – A Thousand Paper Cranes
• 25 April – Change and Restless Body and Mind
• 26 April – Through Hell
• 27 April – Weaving Web and Another Piece Of The Puzzel – A Puente Poem
• 28 April – Sounds In The Wind – A Puente Poem
• 29 April – Fire That Burns Away All Fears – A Sonnet and Blackbirds Dusk Sings
• 30 April – Star Prayer – A Sonnet