Poems of Woman

I am always missing a word for something in either language. The way you smell after being out all day.

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The lump in your throat. I want a clap on lamp that works as a polygraph; when you swear you still love me, the lights flicker. I want the green grass and the tomato plants. I want the peace in you; the front porch rocking chair lullaby; our cricket legs rubbing together under the covers. I know that, but humor me. Maybe this cigarette is my Valentine, all mint-smoke smell in my hair; or the card my grandmother picked out carefully three days ago for me. I wander lonely through Target, buy small things like nail polish, a scarf, breath mints. About us Contact Us Privacy Policy.

As an art form, poetry holds its worthy place in this world. Here is the list of poets and their works who defined and empowered women in their own distinctive style. A creative by the name of Allen from Los Angeles. He goes by cdlv on Instagram and writes about life, love, and everything after.

He is a year-old Male from England. He is a father to a beautiful baby boy and has a wonderful girl by his side.

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Poetry has helped him with his mental health in the past and now he writes to express his inner thoughts and musings. A mechanical engineer by morning and a writer by night Sagar puts everything he feels into words. The same one I always use. And I just begin. Until it feels like I've gotten out everything that needed to be written and then I will put it away. And come back to it with fresh eyes some other time. What prompted you to share your writing? Back in November of , what moved me to share was the idea that I was tired of being quiet.

I felt like, for the first time ever, what I had to say was so much more powerful than my fear of what people might think. It was almost as though I had no choice. It seemed more important for me to express solidarity with women going through similar struggles than to continue being that "polite, shy, quiet girl". What was it like to have your poems published? To have those poems published was like a dream come true.

The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that. But to see the book come to fruition was such a graceful blessing.

One that's filled me with so much compassion I'm left softer and kinder for the world. Your illustrations really add to the poems, did you study art at all or is it just something you enjoy doing? I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression.

I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5. We were moving around a lot. Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up. So we couldn't take trips and I didn't have the toys the other kids had, so drawing was my playtime along with going to the library of course. I created the world I wanted to live in on paper. But once I took up writing in , I stopped drawing all of a sudden.

Because I was focusing so much time on improving my writing, I told myself I had no time for art. Eventually, this made me a little upset. The fact that I had left my first love behind cause I had found another passion just didn't seem right to me. So in January , I had an idea. Why not mix the two mediums?

And that's how the illustrations came about. I'd explain the style of illustrations I use with my poems as "childlike, and semi-scribbled". They are simple enough that they don't take away from the poetry.

I chose this style because it created juxtaposition with the words. Where the poetry was very serious, very mature, and dealt with some hear wrenching topics, the free-handedness of the illustrations expressed this feeling of innocence. To show that the subject of the poem is experiencing and dealing with things you wouldn't wish upon another person. I'd like to think that when paired together they might almost leave the reader feeling slightly uncomfortable. Your poems celebrate being a woman despite the fact that there are many challenges to being a woman.

Was this positive outlook something that developed over time or something you always had? I wish I always had this outlook. Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.

But I realize now that it wasn't being a woman that I hated. It was being treated in a specific manner for being a woman that I disliked.

I had very low self-esteem for most of my life. As is the story for a lot of us. I didn't fit in with the popular girls.