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If people have any love poetry that they have read and would recommend please send it to me! I want to make a birthday gift of a collection of poetry for my girlfriend and I want as much variety as possible

💌 some of my favorite poems for World Poetry Day 💌 

A Cloud in Trousers by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Don’t leave the room by Joseph Brodsky (the original)

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

You, Darkness by Rainer Maria Rilke

I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

a splinter of my imagination by Halina Poswiatowska

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

Wait For Me by Konstantin Simonov (tr. by Mike Munford)  

Before You Came by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado by Emily Palermo

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What’s Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Dear [ ] by Nick Lantz

Dogfish by Mary Oliver

Persephone the Wanderer by Louise Glück

Scheherazade by Richard Siken

The End of Poetry by Ada Limón

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin

Poems for Blok by Marina Tsvetaeva

I’m Glad Your Sickness by Marina Tsvetaeva

Wait for her by Mahmoud Darwish

The Guest by Anna Akhmatova

Listen! by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Carousel by Vahan Teryan

Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors by Richard Siken

Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light by Richard Siken

Notebook Fragments by Ocean Vuong

Headfirst by Ocean Vuong

Advice from Dionysus by Shinji Moon

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hiiii these are some of my favorite poems taken from the 2015 poetry anthology “Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation.” i hope u guys enjoy them as much as i did!

abecedarian requiring further examination of anglikan seraphim subjugation of a wild indian reservation - natalie diaz

blunts - major jackson

in defense of small towns - oliver de la paz

kingdom animalia - aracelis girmay

nervous system - michael dickman

new york boys i miss kissing your faces in the backseat of cabs - angela veronica wong

obedience, or the lying tale - jennifer chang

poem voted most likely - josh bell

richer than anyone in heaven - jennifer foerster

sonnet - prikanth reddy

sound part 1 (girl with red scarf) - yona harvey

the tea and sage poem - fady joudah

where to bury a missing girl - hafizah geter

poems that remind me of monet’s paintings 

Monet’s Haystacks by Robert Bly

Monet’s Waterlilies by Robert Hayden

Entering the Kingdom by Mary Oliver

Give Me Your Hand by Gabriela Mistral

Flower-Gathering by Robert Frost

Water and Flowers by Ameen Rihani

Early Spring by Rainer Maria Rilke

Notebook Fragments by Ocean Vuong

[The flowers and my love,] by Ono no Komachi

Love Song by Rainer Maria Rilke

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

the poem is a dream telling you its time by Marwa Helal

Morning Poem by Mary Oliver

The Spring Has Many Silences by Laura Riding Jackson

When Spring by Alberto Caeiro

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I love this! Makes me think of The Life of The Party by Olivia Gatwood who is another amazing poet that everyone should check out :)

The Woman Dies | Aoko Matsuda | Granta Magazine

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my poem:

Show me where the boys have hit you

Where the knives cut through

I’ll kiss your wounds clean

With my magic spell of love

Care and caress

Who am I if not healing you?

My baby I didn’t birth

I can’t promise you my legacy

I can only gift you what’s free

My unclean and worn out soul

Body in shock

You lost a part of you

Gave your power to the men in camo suits

Your energy can’t be groomed

Can’t be tamed

I’m not here to change you

You won’t let me and I’m just the same

My favorite name is you

My body aches not with hurt

Only regret

I’m passionate in every way

Dramatic might as well be my middle name

I don’t wanna have fun

I wanna be loved

Explode in rainbows

Sugar in my veins

I’ll share my babies with you

I like you

And I don’t like anyone

Dr-g Daddy, Motherless Mommy, Bum Baby

I choose my family and I’m always adopting

Love, I’ll mother you like neither of us were

The choice is yours to commit

It’s really up to you

Up to you