Don’t sit with your legs
crisscrossed.
Sit like a queen
Mind your manners.
Curl your locks.
Priss and preen
Everyone knows the
world loves pretty.
Don’t sit with your
legs crisscrossed
Sit like a queen.
Smile.
Show those gleaming
pearls.
Never be cross or mean.
Don’t grow old,
frail or weak.
Don’t sit with your legs
crisscrossed.
Sit like a queen.
Paint your nails.
Fingers and toes.
Give up food.
Remain a size 2.
Be the princess
married to the king.
Don’t sit with your legs
crisscrossed.
Sit like a queen.
-Tosha Michelle
Great Post
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Thank you. 🙂
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I love this!
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Thanks. Hope you’re having a good day.
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I’m having a lovely day. Super windy… I may end up in Oz, but I’m okay with that. Hope you’re having a good day, too.
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If you do give the wizard my love. 😉
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Will do!
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🙂
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Great blog xx
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Sure. Thank you.
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Or… I can be a queen without sitting like one!
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There you go. Perfect.
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There is so much truth to this, at least in how we nag our little girls. I can’t imagine having to grow up and be the recipient of these parental demands. .(Thank God I was born a man). Lovely write. Amazing hair.
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Thanks. I agree there’s so much pressure put on young girls and women to be a certain size and way. The real beauty is in imperfections. My Granny use to say “pretty is as pretty does” She right character is the most important thing.
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Exactly. Prim and proper. Funny thing is I bet you do it to your girls, right?
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I don’t. I taught him to be respectful to people, but above all respect themselves. Sadly, it’s a lesson I need to learn myself
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Don’t believe that.
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🙂 xx
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Said like only a Southern girl could say it 🙂
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You know it! xo
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Even though I’m not a southern belle, and I sit with my legs crossed sometimes, I totally understand and love this poem. Great work!
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Thanks! I bet you look cute doing it too.
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You should see me when I curtsey.
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Ha-ha 😉
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I’m the queen….or I like Queen…one or the other.
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No comment 😉
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Dang Skippy, no comment….
…you shut your mouth when you speak to me. Lol
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Ha-ha. Yes, master of the world
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Yay, me. I’ve mastered the world….I should win a lolly
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Or a sock in the nose. Ha
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You’re violent. I don’t like this side of you…..I’m frightened.
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You should be! I know karate. Kidding. I know how to throw a high heel though!
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Stiletto in the eye….ouch. lol
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Ha! I’m really a pacifist. I’ve outgrown my high heel throwing ways.
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Pacifist….more like pass a fist…
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Ha-ha. You’re a hoot
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Did you just call me an owl….so you’re saying I’m a geek….4 eyes, huh? Sigh.
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Oh Lord and I thought I was the insecure one. Ha. From one four eyes to another hoot hoot
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Hooty hoo or whathaveyou
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Hooty and the blowfish to you.
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Let Her Cry
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Let the tears fall down like rain
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How about Prime Minister?
🙂
Love this, Tosha. Understand it and think about how my daughter is going to not sit like a Queen too. 🌹
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Girl Power, Pencil Poet man
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Penciling Right!!! ❤
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Love this. I used to sit like that as a little girl often 😀
This poem is like a “pied-de-nez” as the french call it to all that is conventions 🙂
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Thanks. I still sit that way.;)
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Good for you 😀
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😉 xo
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one of my FB friends the other day wrote a bit about “Mansplaining” and “wombsplaining” being just as valid – she went on about how she sits on public transport “airing her lady garden” ha,ha, it was pretty funny, she’s very cool – an old friend and flat mate (house sharer) used to sit like that, she was cool too! And pretty! 🙂
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That’s a hoot! Hope you are well!
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Yes, quite well, horrifically busy doing little, with short outbursts of doing lots! Xx
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I hope more artwork is coming!
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I wish someone had told me that when I was little, too late now 😉
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Yes, me too!
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You’re a queen. Keep on being your awesome self. Love you lots. xo
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Thanks. Love you too.
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Love the poem, I like your taste in music too.
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Thank you!
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😊
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never conform
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Exactly! xx
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💜💜💜
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Great post Tosha, too late for me I’m afraid! 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂
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🙂 Ya rocked it again. ♡
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Thank you. Appreciate the kindness.
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So much pressure to be anything but unique. Here’s to never being what someone else wants us to be! Great write, Tosha!
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Amen I’ve always been an outsider and a nerd. I use to want to fit in but now I’m glad I don’t. I have a lot of insecurities and still have times when I don’t feel good enough but I still wouldn’t change who I am. I’m comfortable with me xo
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That is refreshing to hear and you, my friend, are perfect, despite any imperfections. We all fall from time to time but it is how we rise that determines our true value. I am happy to hear you are content with who you are, because that is something we should all learn to be. Bravo!! xo
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Thank you, Thomas. You’re a gem.
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My pleasure, Tosha! A reflection of your beautiful self, I am sure 🙂
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xoxo
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🙂 xo
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Fun read, it reminds me of cotillion class. Have a wonderful evening. ~ Mia
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Thank you. Perfect description. xx
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You’re welcome! XO
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Ha, I love it! “Sit like a queen” — “never be cross or mean.” I’m reminded of Alice in Wonderland here … And I like this very much! So fun!
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Thank you! Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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Thanks, Tosha! Wishing you a wonderful weekend as well. Believe it or not, it snowed this evening — what an April Fool’s joke!
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Good grief! That’s just wrong! 😉
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Tell me about it! 🙂
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Plus crossing legs is terribly bad for circulation! 🙂
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So true! xo
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xx
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Hello how are you? 🙂 How many comments! Congratulations on the blog.
Regards,
Anthony
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I’m well. Hope you are too xo
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I’ll try it out. Might be a bit sore afterwards though!
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Ha-ha!
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i like your words😍
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Thank you!
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Crazy good! Own it ❤️
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Thank you! xo
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❤️xo
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Thank you.
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Tosha, I was a queen once in a Canterbury Tales play, I forgot some of my lines and had to listen to the plebeians nag…. Pretty is as pretty does, yes indeed, my grandmother also 🙂
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😉 Grandmothers are wise.
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This is so true of our culture today. Thank goodness we can opt to choose not to be the queen.
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Amen sista
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❤
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