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A 1976 work by Ntozake Shange that consists of 20 poetic monologues accompanied by dance and music, telling the stories of seven African-American women who have suffered oppression. The choreopoem explores themes of love, empowerment, struggle and loss, and was adapted into a book, a film and a Broadway play.
A famous poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, published in 1924 and translated by W. S. Merwin. The book comprises twenty love poems and a final poem of despair, inspired by his real-life love experiences and blending romanticism and modernism.
A poem by Sylvia Plath about a young woman's struggle between memory and madness after a lost love. The poem explores themes of darkness, light, and dreams, and was influenced by the death of her father and her own mental health issues.
Sometimes, the heartfelt note you want to write your partner isn't the heartfelt note that comes out. Unless you're a master wordsmith, there's only so much you can do when you put pen to paper ...
The section, "Twenty-one Love Poems," is a group of lesbian love poems that aim to present the power of love between two women and the need to change the cultural values that do not recognize this as a kind of love. The love poems comment on how women involved in lesbian relationships are alienated because their love is not recognized by the ...
Sappho 31 is an archaic Greek lyric poem by the ancient Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. [a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι) after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman.
A poetry collection by Amanda Lovelace about a princess who learns to save herself from abuse and trauma. The book is the first in a series called Women Are Some Kind of Magic and won the Goodreads Choice Award for poetry in 2016.
The poem is one of five surviving poems by Sappho which is about "the power of love". [8] It expresses the speaker's desire for the absent Anactoria, [ 9 ] praising her beauty. [ 4 ] This encomium follows the poet making the broader point that the most beautiful thing to any person is whatever they love the most; an argument that Sappho ...