Category: women

African-American, America, American, American Poetry, General, Life, Literature, Love, Other Stuff, poet, Poetry, Religion and Spirituality, Teyuna T. Darris, United States, women, women poets

September 1, 2024

Book Release: Stuff I Wrote from My Heart

by Teyuna Darris Exciting News: My First Poetry Chapbook is Now Available on Amazon! 🎉 Dear Good Poetry Community, I am so happy and grateful to share some exciting news with you, today I self-published my poetry chapbook, entitled, “Stuff I Wrote from My Heart— Part One: The Ingenue. This collection is now available on…
19th century, African-American, America, American, American Poetry, Black History, Christian, Christianity, General, new england, Sara Louisa Forten, United States, women, women poets

April 23, 2023

An Appeal to Women

“We are thy sisters, Oh, woman, woman in thy brightest hour Of conscious worth, of pride, of conscious power”
18th Century, African-American, Lucy Terry, poet, Poetry, United States, women, women poets

February 2, 2023

“Bars Fight”

August ’twas the twenty-fifth, Seventeen hundred forty-six; The Indians did in ambush lay, Some very valiant men to slay, The names of whom I’ll not leave out.
15th Century, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

October 22, 2022

“The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672

“…I washed thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw.”—Anne Bradstreet
18th Century, African-American, Literature, Phillis Wheatley, Phyllis Wheatley, poet, Poetry, Uncategorized, United States, women, women poets

February 14, 2022

“To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth”

“May fiery coursers sweep th’ ethereal plain, And bear thee upwards to that blest abode, Where, like the prophet, thou shalt find thy God.”
American, American Poetry, Black History, General, History, Phillis Wheatley, poet, Poetry, Religion and Spirituality, Uncategorized, United States, women, women poets

February 2, 2022

On Being Brought from Africa to America

“Some view our sable race with scornful eye, “Their colour is a diabolic die.” Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.” — from “On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA.” by Phillis Wheatley
America, American, American Poetry, Marianne Moore, poet, Poetry, Uncategorized, United States, women, women poets

January 1, 2022

“A Jelly Fish”

The blue Surrounding it Grows cloudy, and It floats away From you.
19th century, English, English poetry, European Poetry, Love, Poetry, Victorian Era, women, women poets

January 7, 2019

“How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861)

Here is an #excerpt from a #poem, entitled, “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( #Sonnet43 )
19th century, African-American, America, American, American Poetry, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Harlem Renaissance, Uncategorized, women, women poets

September 10, 2018

“My Little Dreams by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 – 1966)

My Little Dreams BY GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON I’m folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight. For time’s deft fingers scroll my brow With fell relentless art— I’m folding up my little dreams Tonight, within my heart.
20th century, British Poetry, England, English, English poetry, European Poetry, Literature, Poetry, UK, Uncategorized, United Kingodm, women, women poets

September 7, 2018

“Clowns’ Houses” by Edith Sitwell (1887 – 1964)

“Blind are those houses, paper-thin Old shadows hid therein, With sly and crazy movements creep Like marionettes, and weep. ”