Hi All,
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I am looking for recs of poetry books – specifically interested in the following
Immigrant poetry
POC/Queer POC content
Recovering from Abusive Relationships
Parenting Centered
Chronic Illness
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Thank you!
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(If you want, post your fav poem and then book title?)
by zemexa
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Teaching My Mother how to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
[Home](https://youtu.be/nI9D92Xiygo?si=jy9KL1WGMN7yHN6l)
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark.
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city
running as well.
your neighbours running faster
than you,
the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind
the old tin factory is
holding a gun bigger than his body,
you only leave home
when home won’t let you stay.
no one would leave home unless home
chased you, fire under feet,
hot blood in your belly.
it’s not something you ever thought about
doing, and so when you did –
you carried the anthem under your breath,
waiting until the airport toilet
to tear up the passport and swallow,
each mouthful of paper making it clear that
you would not be going back.
you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land.
Body, Remeber by Cavafy – Selected Poems of Cavafy
Constantine Cavafy was a gay Greek poet who died in 1933 and I think he was brilliant.
Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds you lay on,
but also those desires that glowed openly
in eyes that looked at you,
trembled for you in the voices—
only some chance obstacle frustrated them.
Now that it’s all finally in the past,
it seems almost as if you gave yourself
to those desires too—how they glowed,
remember, in eyes that looked at you,
remember, body, how they trembled for you in those voices.
PANSY by Andrea Gibson
Autopsy by Donte Collins
you’ll come back to yourself by Michaela angermeer