Comments on: If You Want A Boxer http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/12/if-you-want-a-boxer/ The Poetry of Nicole Nicholson Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ravenswingpoetry http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/12/if-you-want-a-boxer/#comment-172 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:02:21 +0000 http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-172 Thank you, both of you. It has taken me 13 years to build up the courage and work through issues…to the point where I could finally write this poem. I think, though, this is for anybody who has ever gone through abuse, whether from a parent, another relative (as was in my case), a lover/spouse, or anyone. Eventually, the courage and strength will come. I only regret that the person who this is addressed to isn’t alive for me to tell these words to her very face.

-Nicole

]]> By: paisley http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/12/if-you-want-a-boxer/#comment-170 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:16:03 +0000 http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-170 i am not that powerful…. it came to me one night when i was being beaten by a man that continued to scream….”look what you are making me do!!” as he blackened my eyes and broke my nose.. those words i am not that powerful have been with me every day since then,… they are a source of power within me…

this is a very excellent piece….

]]> By: poetswhoblog http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/12/if-you-want-a-boxer/#comment-168 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:25:42 +0000 http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-168 Wow. That’s intense. I love that the narrator is taking a stand.

This is my favorite line in it

Don’t give me that bloody rot

about how I supposedly made you
lose your religion

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