mortality 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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993

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

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

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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Elizabeth Metzger

Lord I Thought at Least You’d Be Here by Elizabeth Metzger

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542

“When I lay next to you in life / only you had the life.” — Elizabeth Metzger

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death, existence, surrender, holy, being human, grace, longing, prayers, mortality, poetry, readalittlepoetry, self

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World, A.R. Ammons, Poetry, United States of America, Languages, English

Mission by A.R. Ammons

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1.35k

"as if anything here belonged to you / as if anything here were your concern"

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change, existence, readalittlepoetry, being human, anxiety, poetry, despair, endings, living, time, wisdom, questions, mortality, letting go, truth, universe, wind

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World, Marie Howe, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

Hurry by Marie Howe

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15 October 2022

1.93k

"Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave? / To mine?"

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existence, family, relationships, growing up, being human, anxiety, readalittlepoetry, living, poetry, mortality

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World, Hanif Abdurraqib, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Black Poets, Languages, English

If Life Is As Short As Our Ancestors Insist It Is, Why Isn’t Everything I Want Already At My Feet by Hanif Abdurraqib

By T.

28 September 2022

2.85k

"I am a simple man. I want, mostly, / a year that will not kill me when it is over."

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body, mortality, small pleasures, death, being human, growing old, being poc, readalittlepoetry, living, political, poetry

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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

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3.76k

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

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World, Ellen Bass, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, LGBTQIA+, Languages, English

Any Common Desolation by Ellen Bass

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902

"You may have to break / your heart, but it isn’t nothing / to know even one moment alive."

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suffering, sorrow, hope, grief, despair, awe, poetry, memory, mortality, nature

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World, Nicole Sealey, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Black Poets, Languages, English

Imagine Sisyphus Happy by Nicole Sealey

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1.21k

"But birds / pluck their own feathers, dogs / lick themselves to wound. Allow me this / luxury. Give me tonight to cut / and salt the open."

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stars, death, birds, grief, living, mortality, poetry, nature, loss, moon

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World, Derek Walcott, Poetry, Collection, Black Poets, Languages, English, Saint Lucia

Endings by Derek Walcott

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1.17k

"even love’s lightning flash / has no thunderous end, // it dies with the sound / of flowers fading like the flesh"

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endings, body, death, silence, journeys, poetry, nature, mortality

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World, Czeslaw Milosz, Poetry, Collection, Languages, English, Translations, Poland, Polish

Encounter by Czeslaw Milosz

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862

"O my love, where are they, where are they going / The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles."

Tags:

dawn, tenderness, growing old, awe, poetry, mortality, memory, questions, time

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