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”

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