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World, Poetry, United States of America, Languages, English, Michael Ryan

In Winter by Michael Ryan

By T.

22 February 2023

670

"are you smiling / at an idea met in a book / the way you smiled with your whole body / the first night we talked?"

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poetry, mouth, love, readalittlepoetry, winter, tenderness, relationships, intimacy, hunger, happiness, desire, joy

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World, Poetry, Collection, Black Poets, Languages, English, Nigeria, Ifeanyi Ogbo

forgive me for the parts of you i’m yet to kiss by Ifeanyi Ogbo

By T.

27 September 2022

661

"i used to think there was only one part of / the body meant for kisses, / but on your body I discovered a thousand places."

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readalittlepoetry, poetry, tenderness, desire, body, intimacy

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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Languages, English, Yanyi, Asian American

Aubade by Yanyi

By T.

5 September 2022

611

"I woke up with so much love for you / It doesn’t matter where I am"

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yearning, readalittlepoetry, poetry, mornings, love, intimacy, endings

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World, Eavan Boland, Poetry, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Ireland, Irish

Once by Eavan Boland

By T.

572

"I do not want us to be immortal or unlucky. / To listen for our own death in the distance."

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poetry, relationships, love, the ordinary, tenderness, moon, growing old, intimacy, being human

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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.

1.04k

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

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World, Kate Light, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

There Comes the Strangest Moment by Kate Light

By T.

508

"Your heart’s in retrograde. You simply have no choice. / Things people told you turn out to be true."

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poetry, love, relationships, intimacy, body, desire

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World, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Filipinx, Languages, English, Asian American

Naming the Heartbeats by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

By T.

346

"When you / get a group of heartbeats together you get names that call out / into the evening’s first radiance of planets"

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poetry, paying attention, nature, love, language, intimacy, identity, family, being named, joy

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World, Ocean Vuong, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, LGBTQIA+, Languages, English, Asian American, Vietnam

Notebook Fragments by Ocean Vuong

By T.

844

"Woke up screaming with no sound. The room filling with a bluish water / called dawn."

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poetry, rain, prayers, mouth, memory, love, war, wounds, world, water, transformation, tenderness, surviving, spring, self, gratitude, intimacy, identity, holy, existence, journeys, family

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World, Tess Gallagher, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

The Hug by Tess Gallagher

By T.

25 December 2016

634

"Love – that’s what we’re talking about, love / that nabs you with “for me / only” and holds on."

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readalittlepoetry, poetry, love, relationships, tenderness, kindness, intimacy, being human, body

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