Life Girl Poems

The world got caught under her breath
They could never hear her precious mumbling, only realized when she left

One second she was there
One second she was...

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Jester Girl had the well-known idea that she was a big deal
Her parents would drop everything for her, including their meal.
If she wanted a costume,...

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CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Creamy Melons
by Chao Luan-Luan
translation by Michael R. Burch

Scented with talcum, moist with perspiration,
like pegs of jade inlaid in a harp,
aroused by...

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Gray Blue, by Lisa Norton

Gray skies. Gray cement walls. Gray gravel. Gray emotion as I lead myself single file into the long line that yet...

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WHERE TO BEGIN I LOVE MAN  BECAUSE GOD MADE ME FILLED WITH DESIRE FOR MAN A GIFT TO MAN THERE WAS JOHN TERRY ALFRED...

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"My daughter, a precious gift from God. She's the apple of my eye!" - quote by poet.

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I held her first before the world,
A tiny hand, a dream unfurled.
So small she lay upon my chest,
My loudest heart, my quiet rest.


She looked at...

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She is not the broken echo of a single night,
Not the shadow stitched to silence by a stranger’s crime.
There is no adjective in violence,
Only the...

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I look down now
And I can just barely see
The thin, pale white lines
From the girl I used to be

The girl who’s not so far gone
Not...

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The river runs with silver light,
A ribbon wound through fields of white.
The moon looks down, so round, so bright,
On love that whispered in the night.

She...

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I remember that little girl who never doubted what others said
I remember that little girl who believed that everyone was her friend 
I remember her
I...

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Run, Girl, Run
She was just eleven, small and spry,
Her father said, “You’re due, oh my…”
A spanking, harsh, the kind she knew,
But this time she thought,...

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She walks with caution, her gaze cast low,  
In a world where danger lurks, where can she go?  
Her body, a battlefield not...

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The girl in the gold-rimmed spectacles
Lips red bright
Face that once was alive
Now show the lines
That life betrayed
Flowing blond hair
But not below

The guy in the ten-bob...

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There once was s girl,
Everyone said was crazy and it was all in her head.
She mY have been going out of her mind.
Dazed and confused...

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