Strong woman

IWD - Daisy Chain Flower Crown 2024,

Written with love, admiration and community and proud to be alongside

Lauren Barber

Lyndsay Kaldor

Tamzin

Laurita Gorman | MSW SEP

Claire Venus

Zoe Gardiner

Lindsay Johnstone

Charlie Swift

Laura Durban

Kerry Hinns

and - I am sure - many, many more.

Photo by gryffyn m on Unsplash

She managed to brush her teeth today
She won a big deal and got her own way
She wants to be heard and have her say
She wants the mean voice in her head to GO AWAY
She’s a strong woman and, dear heart,
so are you

She is devoted to children and creating a home
She is devoted to Art, happily alone
She is lost and she’s searching but self-doubt is loud
She’s a dreamer, a wanderer, her head in the clouds
She’s a strong woman, and sweet soul,
so are you

She strives for greatness, for difference, for change,
She works for money, a simple job, is that so strange?
She works at home, keeping all the wheels turning
She’s not allowed to work and she’s angry and burning
She’s a strong woman and, my love, 
so are you

She’s got skin the colour of molten gold
She’s got eyes that are haunted, full of sadness and cold 
She’s got skin the colour of deep, richest bronze
She’s got a neck as long as an overworked swan’s
She’s a strong woman, and (u ok hun?)
so are you

She’s got abs of steel, a body of power
She’s “got it all” but berates herself every hour
She’s got a softness, she’s curvy and round
She’s got rolls and ripples and two glorious mounds
She’s a strong woman, understand 
so are you

She is Venus, she is Gaia, 
she is Nyx, this girl is on fire
She is God’s child, 
she is her servant
She is her own charge,
God-less and fervent,
She’s a strong woman, God knows, 
so are you

She is all passion, all vigour and vim,
She is quiet and contained, all thoughts are within
She fizzes and whizzes and “just never stops!”
She’s slow-living, quick-thinking, free from the clock
She’s a strong woman, indeed, 
so are you
.
She’s got a career, she’s “just” got a job
She thinks your jargon makes you sound like a nob
She’s obsessed with crystals, the universe and more
She loves the data, the facts, knowing the score
She’s a strong woman, and I know 
so are you

She was “trying”, got lucky, popped one right out
She pees on sticks but no baby, a drought,
She cries for her losses, her could-haves, her dreams,
She’s got a brood and is bursting at the seams
She’s a strong woman and, brave one, 
so are you
.
These limiting categories are holding us back
Fear of difference, of change, self-doubt, and all that
Here’s the truth, can we all just agree
She is you, you am I, we are her can’t you see?
We all are strong woman, 
her, she, them, you and me.

- Laura Oldfield, 11.11am GMT for International Women's Day, Friday 8th March 2024. 

Come and join us? There’s always time.

INVITATION - Let's make a Daisy Chain Flower Crown...

With love to you all,

Laura x

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P.s. if you’ve seen my Substack Sound Circle audio community and read this poem, you might be wanting to learn more about how I work and how I joyfully use all the opportunities places like Substack offers me to find clients to coach and mental. Good news! I’m beginning a hybrid course and 1:1 support and strategy for clients in a week or so: you can learn more and sign up here.