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Anonymous asked:
hi what are your favorite love poems/letters?
firstfullmoon answered:
I have a compilation of my absolute favourite love letters
as for poems:
- “Having a Coke with You” “For Grace, After a Party” and “Morning Poem” by Frank O’Hara
- “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled With Shrieks” by Christopher Citro
- “Elegy for My Sadness” and “Song of the Anti-Sisyphus” by Chen Chen
- “Intifada Incantation: Poem 38 for b.b.L.” “Poem for My Love” and various poems for Haruko by June Jordan
- “One Last Poem for Richard” by Sandra Cisneros
- “Snow and Dirty Rain” by Richard Siken
- “Wish” and “In Time” by W. S. Merwin
- “A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention” by Yehuda Amichai
- “Like a Small Café, That’s Love” by Mahmoud Darwish
- “Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally A Love Poem” by Bob Hicok
- “For M” by Mikko Harvey
- “To Kiss a Forehead” by Marina Tsvetaeva
- “When I Tell My Husband I Miss The Sun, He Knows” by Paige Lewis
- “The Quiet World” by Jeffrey McDaniel
- “Morning Love Poem” by Tara Skurtu
- “[Of all the things I have done, I am most proud of our relationship]” and “Aubade” by Yanyi
- some French ones: “J’ai tant rêvé de toi” “Les espaces du sommeil” by Robert Desnos, “Les yeux d’Elsa” “Les mains d’Elsa” by Louis Aragon, “La courbe de tes yeux” “Ma morte vivante” “J’ai fermé les yeux” by Paul Eluard
girls learn to watch themselves in third person so they can constantly fix their laugh and smile and hair and dancing and speech in hopes they can transform into a different person that someone will love and girls fear that if anyone sees them in their most candid self then they will be deemed unlovable and I’m so exhausted from practicing my smile in the mirror but girls also know that the ability to be loved is synonymous with their worth