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CourageIt starts of quickly and subtle..
Ignoring the warning signs.
You've soon become a victim..
Red Flags scream between the lines!
Dont allow him to hurt you..
Please listen to what I say!
Leave now and be a survivor..
This is not...
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Categories:
women, abuse, fear, hope, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 2Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
CHIYO-NI POEMS ABOUT WOMEN AND DESIRE
How alarming:
her scarlet fingernails
tending the white chrysanthemums!
—Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
women, desire, flower, mother son,
Form: Haiku
Think Of Nothing But MeThink of nothing but me,
hold no arms, only mine;
see what love has done:
put these distant hearts together
when they refused to surrender:
who was the clever one?
Think of nothing but me,
see what they can't see;
another man would...
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Categories:
women, allusion, fear, longing, love,
Form: Lyric
The NegotiatorShe walks in the room with courage swinging in her bag, she looked so cool and had nothing significant to lose, her high heels made her look proud and she weather the storm without a...
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Categories:
women, america, blessing, celebration, community,
Form: Narrative
My LandMy Land
This is my land.
I will cultivate, love, and cherish my land.
I will choose when Spring will come,
I will choose my own Husbandman,
I will choose if there be none,
I will...
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Categories:
women, abortion, allegory, baby, extended
Form: Free verse
From a Passionate Swain a Straightforward Declaration of Love Is MadeI love women who gracefully dance
And sweetly sing; and women who
Avidly read and who brilliantly think;
I love women who love to love—
And who despise to hate—and who
Receive and give of themselves, as well....
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Categories:
women, for her, grandmother, inspiration,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Name is Girl by Amenah ManzoorMy name is “Girl”
A girl with wings
I had a pearl
A pearl filled with inks
I had a dream
A dream to fly
I heard a scream
A scream, nothing but a lie
I am blessed with a gift
A gift...
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Categories:
women, confidence, girl, identity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
The bonfireWas this simply a predestination or one fate made true?
It all happened so fast, just as my eyes can blink from green to blue
Paper flowers unfolding; artificial growth of life's prose that show rhymes have...
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Categories:
women, for her, i miss
Form: Monorhyme
PersiaPersia, my homeland,
an ancient domain
a realm of poets' refrain
memories of love's seasons renew
Eternal springs flourish under the sun
Where women are cherished, like morning dew
Not to be tormented, but wrapped in loves warmth
In a life of...
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Categories:
women, absence, history, humanity, passion,
Form: Free verse
A wellSo few have ever understood me on a level well; so deep
Even less have I let witness my tears as they seep
They come forth in the darkness while others sleep;
Thoughts of you can be so...
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Categories:
women, devotion, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Monorhyme
I AMI am but a single shuddering whisper trapped beneath the shroud,
a lingering fluttering flicker of self indulgent doubt.
I am but a small one, an itty bitty insignificant flake of dust,
among the sunlight.
A little soft, though...
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Categories:
women, creation, philosophy, universe, woman,
Form: Free verse
MossHER FEET IS SMOTHERED BY MOSS,
HER ARMS SPROUTING MUSHROOMS,
HER LEAFY FINGERS,
HER IMPOTENT EYES,
HER HAIR HOUSES NESTLINGS,
FROZEN BRAIN WITH REBUFFED THOUGHTS,
FAINT HEARTED,
HER LIPS READ EULOGY OF HER PAST LIFE,
HER NOSTRILS BREATHE DRY ICE,
HER CHEST HOLDS DRIED...
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Categories:
depression, wife, women,
Form: Classicism
Categories:
beauty, sports, volleyball, women,
Form: Haiku
Lost and BlackA black girl lost in the world,
Feeling like she doesn't belong,
Her skin is a shade that stands out,
In a society that tells her she's wrong.
She walks the streets with a heavy...
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Categories:
women, adventure, africa, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Her RadianceNeither the starlight nor the bright of day
could end the darkness that confined my soul
But the spark of your eyes, to which I turned my gaze
Illuminated my life, and made it whole....
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Categories:
women, beautiful, girl, romance, romantic,
Form: Couplet
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