but it didn't turn out to be what i thought (smile)

great write boni - the things i hear that happen to women are horrifying
i heard somewhere that the women are buried up to their necks, whereas men are only buried up to their waists and thus have a chance of getting away....

one typo = 'adulatress' (adulteress)

love judy
xxxx

He never seems to learn what makes life worth living, how can those who stone someone not be affected by what they do? Unless they are psychopaths, they have feelings like all of us, how can a man become so cynical, so brutal in mind and body that he makes life for others unbearable?

Well put this poem Bonni. Love from Ann.

A powerful and well-written indictment of the double standard and hipocracy of paternalistic society's view of women pursing love. Few if any men are treated such, even when they take their victims in violence.

I thought at first, as well, that "adulatress" was a typo, but once I knew the meaning, it fit exactly with the rest.

And yes, in stoning women, it is common to bury them up to their necks, then kill them with large stones or concrete blocks. Notice, of course, that invariably the men who are involved in the "crime" are usually only lashed, and serve prison time, but are seldom killed because they were "inflamed with lust" by the executed woman.

The barbaric hold-over from a more mysogenistic and savage time, unfortunately still extant in some less enlightened parts of our world.

Excellent poetry, Bonitaj, thank you.

Nice to see you here and welcome back, Boni. Was that place Iran or Iraq where a woman was going to be stoned to death?
Regards
Ayaz

and, I for one...was glad that I saw enough "shine" in this, to warrant my almost immediate perusal.
One might be inclined to say, "...d'jou hear that ? Somethin' jus' "rocked", my world !"
Thanx, for this.
Doc.