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she/her. 27

Dee Rees, "Pariah"

#on self #screenplays

Tino Villanueva, "You, If No One Else"

Ken Saro-Wiwa

#art as resistance #new tag!#we must combine hope with action #doom creeps in but do not allow it to seize your autonomy

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

#fangs #vampirism #virginia woolf #grief

Ruth Awad, "Reasons to Live"

#the last line is faded because #the atlantic wanted to gate the poem #with their paywall/accounts #but i think it adds something?#readability wise it's difficult #last lines read:#will set their stones and ribbons//at your door if only//you'll let the world//soften you with its touching

James Cagney, "America, I Am"

#resilience #there's a dream in which i love the world

there are no words.

Danez Smith, "undetectable"

#oh yeah #on love and grief #past love #<- new tag maybe if i remember in the future

Matthew Nienow, "Someday, If I Am Lucky"

#and all this borrowed epiphany #gnawing #death

Pablo Neruda, "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII (I don’t love you as if you were a rose)"

#on love #the blurring of you and i #it's just a good love poem idk what else there is to say

Charles Rafferty

#mothers and bees will understand me #on self #whole poems

Adedayo Agarau, "still photo in a room with Adejoke"

Jeremy Radin

#yeah #on fruit

Athena Farrokhzad, "These days, the weather is nothing special"

#yellow #on hope #daughters #hope

Ester Naomi Perquin, "Song" trans. David Colmer

#i #on self #i can't describe what this did to my heart #i love poetry!!!!

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