Beautiful Women Poems

I’m a single gal who’s not looking for love
I’m a single gal who goes for the dreams I dream of
I’m a single gal
I like to...

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everyone wants women to be a sunflower;
bright, tall, forever reaching for the sun. 

but honey, 
some of us are sprawling bushes filled with blackberries, 
hidden...

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Natives interrupted
Guns pointed to their chests
Blown away like beautiful dandelions
Into that sweltering sun

Americans lollygag
In their newly claimed land
Under that grand old flag

Slaving away, picking cotton
Under...

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Weekend's sweet reprieve unfolds
in Lagos's vibrant streets, alive
with rhythm and laughter, I stroll
down alleys, searching for a place
to rest my weary soul

A lounge beckons, warm...

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When I meet you. 
I found you odd. 
You sparked my interest. 
With your cute nods. 
I tried to leave, but you pulled me back....

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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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CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Sung to the tune of “I Paint My Lips Red”
by an anonymous courtesan or Li Ch’ing-Chao
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

After...

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leave room in your heart
for even more love
like cracks in old stone
still reaching above
what’s broken can bloom
if you give it the air
what’s heavy can heal
if...

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the women of my lifetime
are women of a lifeline
they teach me kindness from bright minds
the ones who
despite it all
are still planting seeds
in this ugly world
turning...

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a small position given in a place of chaos
perfect place to flourish and gain
hiding behind unhealed trauma and pain 
playing a role as a trusted...

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Women I our life
n the line	
The cashier talks to another woman
They are both about forty
The age when women are the 
Most handsome
And they know
So much...

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               they're there
        ...

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Perpetual
Intellectual
Mother
Just another
Smother, then cover
“Too weak to recover”
“Be our good maid”
“Just to be betrayed”
“Don’t give her a voice!”
It’s not love if there’s no choice.
To deal with...

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How do these women cut with their bare hands- their surrounding net?
Well, I refer to- Jane, Margaret, Aphra, Virginia and Charlotte,
Who are well known even...

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If you asked me what beautiful means,
It’s being loved by a strong woman
Empowered, chasing her own dreams,
Engraved with grace on soft moon, beams

A thoroughbred she...

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