Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: anger, conversational, defiance, gender, love poetry, Margaret Atwood
Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: anger, conversational, defiance, gender, love poetry, Margaret Atwood
Then
self-pity dries up, a joy
untainted by guilt lifts her.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: ageing, Denise Levertov, gender, loneliness, relationships, solitude
It so happens that I am sick of my feet and my nails
and my hair and my shadow.
It so happens I am sick of being a man.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: gender, imagery, melancholy, Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, Spanish, translation