When Can We Be Soft?
Bobbie Isabel
In this debut poetry collection, Bobbie Isabel explores the pressure women face to constantly be strong, and the exploitation they endure when the world will not let them be soft. Employing a combination of free verse and more traditional forms, Bobbie expresses the female perspective of strength and resilience through pain, trauma, and ultimately hope. Within poetic expression, she has found her voice, as the poem "Keeping Silent" says, that speaks for the little girl she was, that comforts her tormented adolescent self, and that fortifies the broken woman she has been with boundaries of empathy and compassion for who she was at each stage and what she lived, understanding that her tears were not silent but rather screams of injustice.
This collection of poetry comes from a place of pain; even the poems of hope grew from those ashes. Therefore, there will be subjects some will find difficult to read.
Duration - 1h 4m.
Author - Bobbie Isabel.
Narrator - Bobbie Isabel.
Published Date - Sunday, 01 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2023 B. Isabel Writes LLC ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
In this debut poetry collection, Bobbie Isabel explores the pressure women face to constantly be strong, and the exploitation they endure when the world will not let them be soft. Employing a combination of free verse and more traditional forms, Bobbie expresses the female perspective of strength and resilience through pain, trauma, and ultimately hope. Within poetic expression, she has found her voice, as the poem "Keeping Silent" says, that speaks for the little girl she was, that comforts her tormented adolescent self, and that fortifies the broken woman she has been with boundaries of empathy and compassion for who she was at each stage and what she lived, understanding that her tears were not silent but rather screams of injustice. This collection of poetry comes from a place of pain; even the poems of hope grew from those ashes. Therefore, there will be subjects some will find difficult to read. Duration - 1h 4m. Author - Bobbie Isabel. Narrator - Bobbie Isabel. Published Date - Sunday, 01 January 2023. Copyright - © 2023 B. Isabel Writes LLC ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:34
Introduction and Content Warning
Duration:00:02:20
Part 1 Poems of a Hard World
Duration:00:00:06
1-1 Three Ghosts of Misogyny
Duration:00:01:36
1-2 Silence in White
Duration:00:00:12
1-3 The Nightmare
Duration:00:01:22
1-4 The Truth about Monsters
Duration:00:00:14
1-5 Treasure
Duration:00:01:02
1-6 Mother's Training
Duration:00:00:26
1-7 A Cautionary Tale
Duration:00:00:30
1-8 Cathedral Aesthetic
Duration:00:00:54
1-9 Self-Esteem by the Numbers
Duration:00:01:19
1-10 Pregnancy Dilemma
Duration:00:00:56
1-11 Unjust
Duration:00:00:23
1-12 Endless Striving
Duration:00:00:10
1-13 Inverted Morality
Duration:00:00:10
1-14 Power and Control
Duration:00:01:23
1-15 Medusa's Legacy
Duration:00:01:18
1-16 Indirect Conversations
Duration:00:00:54
1-17 Driftwood
Duration:00:00:51
1-18 House in Ruin
Duration:00:00:32
1-19 Tomorrow's Nightmare
Duration:00:00:10
Part 2 Poems of Survival
Duration:00:00:04
2-1 Bone Corsets
Duration:00:00:09
2-2 Nostalgia
Duration:00:00:20
2-3 Empowerment
Duration:00:01:42
2-4 High Risk Behavior
Duration:00:01:04
2-5 Nobody Could Have Known
Duration:00:00:40
2-6 Air of Sophistication
Duration:00:00:39
2-7 Protectiveness
Duration:00:01:26
2-8 Self Care
Duration:00:00:10
2-9 Lost in the Ivy
Duration:00:00:50
2-10 Grief
Duration:00:00:15
2-11 Your Silence Whispers
Duration:00:00:13
2-12 Pregnant Pauses
Duration:00:00:45
2-13 Confrontation
Duration:00:01:22
2-14 What Did You Expect
Duration:00:00:42
2-15 Broken in Healing
Duration:00:00:11
2-16 Exhausted Lamentations
Duration:00:01:01
2-17 Running on Empty
Duration:00:00:26
2-18 Uncertainty
Duration:00:00:10
2-19 Indecision
Duration:00:01:00
Part 3 Poems of Resilience
Duration:00:00:04
3-1 Growing Pains
Duration:00:00:09
3-2 Paper Butterflies
Duration:00:01:18
3-3 Battered but Unbroken
Duration:00:00:44
3-4 Kintsugi
Duration:00:00:10
3-5 Personification
Duration:00:00:32
3-6 Mother Ocean
Duration:00:00:38
3-7 Under the Surface
Duration:00:01:36
3-8 The Denouement
Duration:00:00:49
3-9 I Tore the Sky Apart
Duration:00:00:26
3-10 The Tempest
Duration:00:00:14
3-11 The Rain Never Stopped
Duration:00:00:30
3-12 The Facade
Duration:00:00:43
3-13 Healing Hurts
Duration:00:00:11
3-14 Sleepy Yet Awake
Duration:00:01:32
3-15 I Try
Duration:00:02:40
3-16 Maintaining Integrity
Duration:00:00:18
3-17 Who Might We Have Been
Duration:00:00:18
3-18 Lingering Effects
Duration:00:00:54
3-19 Jarred Memories
Duration:00:00:09
3-20 Not Quite Yet
Duration:00:00:44
3-21 Sunshine and Seashells
Duration:00:00:12
3-22 Keeping Silent
Duration:00:02:13
Part 4 Poems of Hope
Duration:00:00:05
4-1 Unsettled Spirit
Duration:00:00:51
4-2 Lilacs in Bloom
Duration:00:00:10
4-3 Clarity in the Storm
Duration:00:00:09
4-4 Suspended Childhood
Duration:00:00:40
4-5 Written Recipe
Duration:00:00:09
4-6 Tattoo
Duration:00:00:50
4-7 Drowsy Minuet
Duration:00:00:25
4-8 Missing Pieces
Duration:00:00:24
4-9 Bridging the Gap
Duration:00:00:45
4-10 On Healing
Duration:00:01:12
4-11 Caterpillar Dreams
Duration:00:00:14
4-12 Whispered Wishes
Duration:00:00:09
4-13 Hopeful Forgetting
Duration:00:00:11
4-14 Creativity's Candelabra
Duration:00:00:53
4-15 Winning the War
Duration:00:00:34
4-16 Aging with Wisdom
Duration:00:00:18
4-17 Am I Still Here
Duration:00:01:40
4-18 Hope Is a Thing on Wheels
Duration:00:01:56
4-19 Poetry Is
Duration:00:00:28
4-20 Trigger Warnings
Duration:00:01:47
4-21 Writing Myself Whole
Duration:00:01:17
About the Author
Duration:00:01:35
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:11