LOIS GREENE STONE - POEMS

​Lois Greene Stone, writer and poet, has been syndicated worldwide. Poetry and personal essays have been included in hard & softcover book anthologies.  Collections of her personal items/ photos/ memorabilia are in major museums including twelve different divisions of The Smithsonian.  The Smithsonian selected her photo to represent all teens from a specific decade.

​Substitution?

​Does she know
when I lace her
shoes that I’m
helping and
loving?  Does
she know when
I comb her hair
that I’m stroking
caring?  Does
she know when
I place her toys
on the dresser
that it makes
me smile?
Would I trade
my fatigue,
occasional wish
for adult
conversation,
for time alone?
Never.

published Summer 2006   Shemom

​Print

Fountain pen filled
with South Sea blue
liquid formed words
on margins of my
books.  Thoughts,
feelings, arguing
with authors' phrases,
I look back on my
decades-old texts,
girlhood hardcovers,
and find my
unchanged
values.


published spring 2014 “Shemom”
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​Sports Chic

​On crutches or in walking cast,
Some skiers spent the season last.
More status my torn muscles showed
When I bragged "running in the road".


published 2002    Words of Wisdom

​pants suit

Why did Betty Friedan upset me
with her “Feminine Mystique”
when I actually enjoyed playing
multiple roles and my spouse’s
was static?  Politics and power
proved synonymous as the
phrase ‘glass ceiling’ was
coined.  Where was feminine?
Could I trace a line where it
was and when it ended?
Business suits replaced flirty
dresses, and strong suggested
macho; females forgot assertive
and forged aggressive to be
taken seriously as leaders.
A labyrinth, unlike Daedalus’
maze, seemed to lead to nowhere.
I flinched, a reflex, when women
insisted a country’s leader
must be female.  I’d rather
vote for a person, either
sex, who is capable and
passionate about the
enormous task.


published May 2017  Indiana Voice