forcing manhood
on boys with skin
still made of
silk and mother's love
is cruel
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
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If you aren’t willing
to love her,
do not put dents
on her heart
that will inf...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY ![]()
Mothers observe all, absorb all,
give all, forgive all,
offer all, suffer all,
fee...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH She is silk--
essence of power,
in command.
TARA ESTACAAN ![]()
I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long,
I must prepar...
ROMAN PAYNE What was that?" Belgarath asked, coming back around the corner.
"Brill," Silk replied blandly, ...
DAVID EDDINGS Love is just Love.
It's self sustainable.
Togetherness however needs trust,
loyalty ...
DRISHTI BABLANI ![]()
You see her
and ascend into love.
You become enchanted,
a found madman.
In yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joy
In killing my favorite characters.
Wi...
JUSTIN WETCH ![]()
At our age the imagination
across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stan...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ![]()
A Mother's love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sa...
HELEN STEINER RICE ![]()
My featherbed is deep and soft,
and there I’ll lay you down,
I’ll dress you all in yel...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ![]()
The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden<...
ALLEN GINSBERG ![]()
...
You can colour your eyes…
You can put on your skin tattoo…
...
- ...
DEYTH BANGER ![]()
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no rea...
ALAN MOORE ![]()
Soft you day, be velvet soft,
My true love approaches,
Look you bright, you dusty sun, <...
MAYA ANGELOU in the end
it is words
poetry. sunsets
someone’s deep blue
silk voice.
m...
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
THE WEATHER OF LOVE
Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the s...
SUZY KASSEM ![]()
The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with sil...
ROMAN PAYNE ![]()
Invisible
She scanned through the magazine
for girls who looked like her
with d...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO ![]()
No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill ALLEN GINSBERG ![]()
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Beauty's only skin deep.
Everybody has ugly days.
We're all made of the same stuff underne...
SHANNON DELANY ![]()
I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouth...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Blue Planet Phenomenon.
she’s from the pink planet called Constellation
he’s f...
R.M. ROMARNEY i’m not scared
of the monsters
hidden underneath
my bed.
i’m muc...
AMANDA LOVELACE In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shar...
DENISE LEVERTOV ...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
BARBARA BLATNER ![]()
Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed<...
MATTHEW ARNOLD When did you first fall in love?"
"I think, I first fell in love
when I was in fifth...
SAIBER ![]()
Oh draw at my heart, love,
Draw till I'm gone,
That, fallen asleep, I
Still may love ...
NOVALIS ![]()
So you're still in love with my brother."
-Wendy Avery
CYNTHIA HAND over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE ![]()
I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
PABLO NERUDA ![]()
Knowing you,
I became mindless.
Having wasted previous wishes,
I'm riddled with regre...
KAMAND KOJOURI ![]()
We were The Hottentot Venus
Draped in our mothers' dresses,
Wearing rouge & lipstick,<...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA We are broken. Our ways are apart.
Still we laugh together and taunt.
We fight and get hur...
IRFA ADAM ![]()
Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace) <...
E.E. CUMMINGS i want to be
in love with you
the same way
i am in
love with the moon SANOBER KHAN The amount of her madness
depends on the amount of her love.
If she is crazy, frantic, ins...
MELODY LEE ![]()
Dear Teenage Self,
That guy you're crazy about,
Will ask you out
On a date
JOYCE RACHELLE We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE She made broken look beautiful
and strong look invincible.
She walked with the Universe ARIANA DANCU While they all ink their skin,
I crave something permanent within.
Bare your soul
Ope...
MELODY LEE ![]()
The man, most man,
Works best for men, and, if most men indeed,
He gets his manhood plainest f...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING There is a desire within each of us,
in the deep center of ourselves
that we call our hea...
GERALD G. MAY Your skin has a memory.
In ten, twenty, thirty years from now,
your skin will show the re...
JANA ELSTON Your skin has a memory.
In ten, twenty, thirty years from now,
your skin will show the re...
JANA ELSTON ![]()
If love weighs you down
and casts a shadow on your life
then it isn’t love.
Love KAMAND KOJOURI ...flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender s...
MUSE ![]()
They tell us the only way to move on
is to forget.
“Forgive,” they say.
Realise ...
KAMAND KOJOURI I want to fall to sleep with you,
and I could care less
whether it is in
layers up...
BEAU TAPLIN ![]()
The yellow glistens.
It glistens with various yellows,
Citrons, oranges and greens
Fl...
WALLACE STEVENS ![]()
ENDURANCE
I don't know you,
But I love you,
Just as God loves me and you.
...
SUZY KASSEM ![]()
In love madly,
traveling though the
life-raft's unraveling
in a beautiful tragedy, CURTIS TYRONE JONES You are made
out of comets
and stars.
Do not surround
yourself with those<...
NOOR SHIRAZIE ![]()
So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on t...
PABLO NERUDA Fall in love
with the energy
of the mornings
trace your fingers
along the...
SANOBER KHAN Watch, how the sun
slowly rises
from behind my ear
new lines, new countries
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."
...
HAFEZ I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustlin...
ALAN SEEGER ![]()
I am the Turquoise Woman's Son,
On top of Belted Mountain
beautiful horses--slim like a weasel...
ANON. His hands fluttered like birds,
each with a fancy silk ribbon
to weave into their nest, TED KOOSER ![]()
A mother's love is like an island
In life's ocean vast and wide,
A peaceful, quiet shelter HELEN STEINER RICE tread carefully
into my life, my dear.
the currents
are strong.
you...
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man;
Never fea...
SARA TEASDALE ![]()
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
GEORGE HARRISON LET’S GO BACK HOME
I can't think about you,
Without smiling.
What I wouldn’...
GIORGE LEEDY Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and ...
GARY PAULSEN What if you died?"
"I'd sit up there on the edge of my cloud and throw stuff at you."
GRASSHOPPER love
wounds me
with soft pillows
with tender lips
and fingers
SANOBER KHAN Radiant Day is slowly fading;
and the evening calm and still.
Gazing through the oak and willo...
SARA LOUSISA OBERHOLTZER i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA. ![]()
I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT ![]()
The love of Christ embraces all without exception.
Fire of love, crazy over what You have...
BRENNAN MANNING ![]()
When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Dear Human:
You've got it all wrong.
You didn't come here to master unconditional lo...
COURTNEY A. WALSH ![]()
My darling I still love you,
no matter that you're gone.
You'll always be with me,
fo...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS whatever you do
be gentle with yourself.
you don’t just live
in this world
or ...
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:
1. Acceptance
2....
VERA NAZARIAN I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think
of the fire...
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
As for life,
I'm humbled,
I'm without words
sufficient to say
how it has b...
MARY OLIVER ![]()
And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a s...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS do you dare to step in-
to the vulnerable black, stripped
to the soul with human blindnes...
BETH MOREY ![]()
We'll Go No More A-roving
So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the nigh...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON ![]()
In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER ![]()
Why is my love for you, dyed in wool?
What is the hindrance to moving on?
Why in lov...
ZUBAIR AHSAN ![]()
The door is cracked
We used to meet
like water does land
no
not that
...
DAVE MATTHES It’s not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it t...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Decca: sisters are life's cruel ad...
MARY S. LOVELL ![]()
Maxon, some of those marks are on your back so they wouldn’t be on mine, and I love you for them.�...
KIERA CASS ![]()
Before I fell
in love with words,
with setting skies
and singing birds—
it wa...
LANG LEAV ![]()
Looking for Your Face
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI ![]()
So the nymphs they spoke,
we kissed and laid.
By noontime’s hour
our love was made....
ROMAN PAYNE ![]()
He Is Not Dead
I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY ![]()
Dreaming at the Ballet"
The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed.
They will do anyth...
JACK GILBERT we met one strange summer
in a regular tangle of sticky webs
you had the air o...
MOONSHINE NOIRE We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us.
We dare not talk of the fire, for ...
LUCY H. PEARCE ![]()
Some people
Are worthy of a bullet straight
to the heart because that is where
cruelt...
ELLEN HOPKINS ![]()
I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the s...
ANA CASTILLO 
Mothers observe all, absorb all, 
I took her to bed with silk and song
You see her
At our age the imagination
A Mother's love is something 
My featherbed is deep and soft,
The weight of the world
...
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
Soft you day, be velvet soft, 
THE WEATHER OF LOVE
Invisible
No rest 
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
I am not the first person you loved.
Up the still, glistening beaches,
Oh draw at my heart, love,
So you're still in love with my brother."
I do not love you except because I love you;
Knowing you,
We were The Hottentot Venus
Love is a place 
Dear Teenage Self,
The man, most man,
If love weighs you down
The yellow glistens.
ENDURANCE
In love madly,
And still, after all this time,
I am the Turquoise Woman's Son,
A mother's love is like an island 
Child, child, love while you can 
Give me love
I said to my soul
The love of Christ embraces all without exception.
When the thunder rumbles,
My darling I still love you,
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:
As for life,
And yet one arrives somehow, 
We'll Go No More A-roving
In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Why is my love for you, dyed in wool?
The door is cracked
Maxon, some of those marks are on your back so they wouldn’t be on mine, and I love you for them.�... 
Before I fell
Looking for Your Face
So the nymphs they spoke,
He Is Not Dead
Dreaming at the Ballet"
Some people
I ask the impossible: love me forever.
1. You must let the pain visit.
Survive