tenderness Tag

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

In Winter by Michael Ryan

By T.

22 February 2023

668

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

Tags:

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

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World, Linda Pastan, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

I Am Learning to Abandon the World by Linda Pastan

By T.

16 February 2023

528

"And every night I give my body up / limb by limb, working upwards / across bone, towards the heart."

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poetry, readalittlepoetry, moon, mornings, nature, snow, wounds, surrender, tenderness, universe, trees, grief, being broken, body, death

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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

660

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

Tags:

poetry, readalittlepoetry, tenderness, intimacy, desire, body

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World, Susan Glickman, Poetry, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Canada, Canadian

Poem About Your Laugh by Susan Glickman

By T.

19 September 2022

738

"When you laugh it is all the unsynchronized clocks / in the watchmaker's shop / striking their dissident hours"

Tags:

yearning, poetry, readalittlepoetry, relationships, love, tenderness, nature, laughter, desire

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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."

Tags:

relationships, love, moon, poetry, tenderness, the ordinary, intimacy, growing old, 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."

Tags:

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

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World, Pat Schneider, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

Instructions for the Journey by Pat Schneider

By T.

601

"It’s easy to lose this tenderly / unfolding moment. Look for it / as if it were the first green blade / after a long winter."

Tags:

poetry, self, winter, world, water, tenderness, letting go, forgiveness, growth, becoming, dawn, journeys

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World, Li-Young Lee, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Languages, English, Asian American, Indonesia, China

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

By T.

19 December 2020

311

"O, to take what we love inside, / to carry within us an orchard, to eat / not only the skin, but the shade, / not only the sugar, but the days

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poetry, persistence, summer, tenderness, living, fruits, gratitude, dust, beauty

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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.

843

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

Tags:

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

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

Encounter by Czeslaw Milosz

By T.

244

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

Tags:

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

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