Category: women poets
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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…
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An Appeal to Women
“We are thy sisters, Oh, woman, woman in thy brightest hour Of conscious worth, of pride, of conscious power”
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“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
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“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.”
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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
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“A Jelly Fish”
The blue Surrounding it Grows cloudy, and It floats away From you.
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“Welt” by Georgia Douglas Johnson
“For I would go a further while with you…”
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“First Fig” by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950)
Here’s an excerpt from a #poem, entitled, “First Fig” by Edna St. Vincent Millay: “It gives a lovely light.”
