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
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Introduction and Content Warning
Duración:00:02:20
Part 1 Poems of a Hard World
Duración:00:00:06
1-1 Three Ghosts of Misogyny
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1-2 Silence in White
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1-3 The Nightmare
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1-4 The Truth about Monsters
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1-5 Treasure
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1-6 Mother's Training
Duración:00:00:26
1-7 A Cautionary Tale
Duración:00:00:30
1-8 Cathedral Aesthetic
Duración:00:00:54
1-9 Self-Esteem by the Numbers
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1-10 Pregnancy Dilemma
Duración:00:00:56
1-11 Unjust
Duración:00:00:23
1-12 Endless Striving
Duración:00:00:10
1-13 Inverted Morality
Duración:00:00:10
1-14 Power and Control
Duración:00:01:23
1-15 Medusa's Legacy
Duración:00:01:18
1-16 Indirect Conversations
Duración:00:00:54
1-17 Driftwood
Duración:00:00:51
1-18 House in Ruin
Duración:00:00:32
1-19 Tomorrow's Nightmare
Duración:00:00:10
Part 2 Poems of Survival
Duración:00:00:04
2-1 Bone Corsets
Duración:00:00:09
2-2 Nostalgia
Duración:00:00:20
2-3 Empowerment
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2-4 High Risk Behavior
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2-5 Nobody Could Have Known
Duración:00:00:40
2-6 Air of Sophistication
Duración:00:00:39
2-7 Protectiveness
Duración:00:01:26
2-8 Self Care
Duración:00:00:10
2-9 Lost in the Ivy
Duración:00:00:50
2-10 Grief
Duración:00:00:15
2-11 Your Silence Whispers
Duración:00:00:13
2-12 Pregnant Pauses
Duración:00:00:45
2-13 Confrontation
Duración:00:01:22
2-14 What Did You Expect
Duración:00:00:42
2-15 Broken in Healing
Duración:00:00:11
2-16 Exhausted Lamentations
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2-17 Running on Empty
Duración:00:00:26
2-18 Uncertainty
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2-19 Indecision
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Part 3 Poems of Resilience
Duración:00:00:04
3-1 Growing Pains
Duración:00:00:09
3-2 Paper Butterflies
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3-3 Battered but Unbroken
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3-4 Kintsugi
Duración:00:00:10
3-5 Personification
Duración:00:00:32
3-6 Mother Ocean
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3-7 Under the Surface
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3-8 The Denouement
Duración:00:00:49
3-9 I Tore the Sky Apart
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3-10 The Tempest
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3-11 The Rain Never Stopped
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3-12 The Facade
Duración:00:00:43
3-13 Healing Hurts
Duración:00:00:11
3-14 Sleepy Yet Awake
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3-15 I Try
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3-16 Maintaining Integrity
Duración:00:00:18
3-17 Who Might We Have Been
Duración:00:00:18
3-18 Lingering Effects
Duración:00:00:54
3-19 Jarred Memories
Duración:00:00:09
3-20 Not Quite Yet
Duración:00:00:44
3-21 Sunshine and Seashells
Duración:00:00:12
3-22 Keeping Silent
Duración:00:02:13
Part 4 Poems of Hope
Duración:00:00:05
4-1 Unsettled Spirit
Duración:00:00:51
4-2 Lilacs in Bloom
Duración:00:00:10
4-3 Clarity in the Storm
Duración:00:00:09
4-4 Suspended Childhood
Duración:00:00:40
4-5 Written Recipe
Duración:00:00:09
4-6 Tattoo
Duración:00:00:50
4-7 Drowsy Minuet
Duración:00:00:25
4-8 Missing Pieces
Duración:00:00:24
4-9 Bridging the Gap
Duración:00:00:45
4-10 On Healing
Duración:00:01:12
4-11 Caterpillar Dreams
Duración:00:00:14
4-12 Whispered Wishes
Duración:00:00:09
4-13 Hopeful Forgetting
Duración:00:00:11
4-14 Creativity's Candelabra
Duración:00:00:53
4-15 Winning the War
Duración:00:00:34
4-16 Aging with Wisdom
Duración:00:00:18
4-17 Am I Still Here
Duración:00:01:40
4-18 Hope Is a Thing on Wheels
Duración:00:01:56
4-19 Poetry Is
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4-20 Trigger Warnings
Duración:00:01:47
4-21 Writing Myself Whole
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About the Author
Duración:00:01:35
Ending Credits
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