Category: women poets

21st Century, European Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, women, women poets

March 14, 2018

“Differences of Opinion” by WENDY COPE

“She tries her best to prove him wrong. But he has learned to argue well…”
21st Century, American, American Poetry, Uncategorized, United States, women, women poets

March 13, 2018

“What Kind of Times Are These” by ADRIENNE RICH (1929 – 2012)

“I won’t tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods meeting the unmarked strip of light— ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise: I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.”
20th century, American, American Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 12, 2018

“Instruction” by HAZEL HALL (1886 – 1924)

Instruction By HAZEL HALL My hands that guide a needle In their turn are led Relentlessly and deftly As a needle leads a thread. Other hands are teaching My needle: when I sew I feel the cool, thin fingers Of hands I do not know. They urge my needle onward. They smooth my seams. until…
20th century, America, American, American Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 12, 2018

“White Branches” by HAZEL HALL (1886 – 1924)

White Branches By HAZEL HALL I had forgotten the gesture of branches Suddenly white, And I had forgotten the fragrance of blossoms Filling a room at night. In remembering the curve of branches Who beckoned me in vain, Remembering dark rooms of coolness Where fragrance was like pain, I have forgotten all else; there is…
African-American, American, American Poetry, Lucille Clifton, Poetry, Uncategorized, United States, women, women poets

March 11, 2018

“blessing the boats” by LUCILLE CLIFTON (1936 – 2010)

“…the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever…”
20th century, African-American, America, American, American Poetry, Celebration, Lucille Clifton, Uncategorized, United States, women, women poets

March 11, 2018

“won’t you celebrate with me” by LUCILLE CLIFTON (1936 – 2010)

won’t you celebrate with me BY LUCILLE CLIFTON won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one…
20th century, African-American, American, American Poetry, Lucille Clifton, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 11, 2018

“It Was a Dream” by Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010)

“…whirling in a gyre of rage at what my days had come to. what, i pleaded with her, could i do, oh what could i have done?”
20th century, American, American Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 10, 2018

“Life” by Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937)

“nd one, to wake the mirth in Lesbia’s gaze, Carves it apace in toys fantastical. But least is he who, with enchanted eyes Filled with high visions of fair shapes to be, Muses which god he shall immortalize…”
19th century, American, American Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 9, 2018

“The Watcher” by SARAH JOSEPHA HALE (1788 – 1879)

The Watcher BY SARAH JOSEPHA HALE The night was dark and fearful, The blast swept wailing by; A Watcher, pale and tearful, Look’d forth with anxious eye; How wistfully she gazes– No gleam of morn is there! And then her heart upraises Its agony of prayer! Within that dwelling lonely, Where want and darkness reign,…
19th century, Alfonsia Storni, Hispanic, Latin America, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 8, 2018

“I Am Going To Sleep” by ALFONSIA STORNI (1892 – 1938)

“…so you’ll forget . . . Thank you. Oh, one request: if he telephones again tell him not to keep trying for I have left . . . ”