dreams Tag

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World, Safia Elhillo, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Sudan, Arabic American

For My Friends, in Reply to a Question by Safia Elhillo

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897

“in my dreams / I am touching the faces of my friends, we are / each one of us touching” — Safia Elhillo

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anxiety, community, dreams, family, fear, friendship, journeys, living, memory, mortality, poetry, prayers, readalittlepoetry, self, surviving, war

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World, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Black Poets, LGBTQIA+, Languages, English

Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich

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"There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair."

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being human, being poc, city, dreams, grief, identity, loss, people, poetry, readalittlepoetry, wounds

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World, Hala Alyan, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Palestine, Palestinian

September a week in by Hala Alyan

By T.

21 September 2022

1.99k

"I’m trying to be enough / for this body: one heartbeat, flung like a shovel into the day."

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body, dreams, grief, loss, memory, moon, poetry, readalittlepoetry, relationships, self, time, yearning

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World, Aracelis Girmay, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Black Poets, Languages, English

I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay

By T.

3.6k

"I want to live longer. / I want to love you longer, say it again, / I want to love you longer / & sing that song / again."

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birds, death, dreams, endings, intimacy, language, living, love, mortality, poetry, sea, sky, tenderness, trees, windows

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World, W.S. Merwin, Poetry, United States of America, Languages, English

Wild Oats by W.S. Merwin

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768

"September when the wind / drops and to us it seems / that the days are waiting / I needed my mistakes / in their own order / to get me here"

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dreams, forgetting, garden, growing old, growing up, language, memory, mistakes, moon, nature, poetry, rain, time, waiting, wind

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World, Denise Levertov, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, United Kingdom

The Broken Sandal by Denise Levertov

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733

"Where was I going? / Where was I going I can’t / go to now, unless hurting?"

Tags:

being lost, body, dreams, journeys, poetry, questions, self, universe, wounds

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