{"id":639,"date":"2011-08-19T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thequeenofmyself\/?p=639"},"modified":"2011-08-05T19:41:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T23:41:12","slug":"homage-to-my-hips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2011\/08\/homage-to-my-hips.html","title":{"rendered":"Homage to My Hips"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is summer, hot and horny, and I am on a roll. So I am going to continue this theme of beauty, attraction, seduction, sex, love and self-love until I run out of content \u2014 or steam, whichever comes first.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Homage to My Hips<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Lucille Clifton<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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these hips are big hips<\/p>\n

they need space to<\/p>\n

move around in.<\/p>\n

they don’t fit into little<\/p>\n

pretty places, these hips<\/p>\n

are free hips.<\/p>\n

they don’t like to be held back.<\/p>\n

these hips have never been enslaved.<\/p>\n

they go where they want to go.<\/p>\n

they do what they want to do.<\/p>\n

these hips are mighty hips<\/p>\n

these hips are magic hips.<\/p>\n

i have known them<\/p>\n

to put a spell on a man and<\/p>\n

spin him like a top!<\/p>\n

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*****<\/p>\n

Donna Henes is the author of The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife<\/em><\/a>. She is the Midlife Midwife\u2122 offering counseling and upbeat, practical and ceremonial guidance for individual women and groups who want to enjoy the fruits of an enriching, influential, purposeful, passionate, and powerful maturity.\u00a0 Consult the MIDLIFE MIDWIFE\u2122<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Queen welcomes questions concerning all issues of interest to women in their mature years. Send your inquiries to thequeenofmyself@aol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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