Went tonight with some "new" friends (Cincy Theatre/Carnegie folks) to see the movie "Free the Mind," (a film about mindfulness, meditation, and contemplative training for those suffering from learning disabilities and different forms of PTSD). Here is the poem we heard tonight:

The time will come ( Read more... )

For Women Who Are Difficult to Love
Warsan Shireyou are a horse running alone ( Read more... )

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

Rainer Maria RilkeYou see, I want a lot ( Read more... )

by Taraneh WilkinsonI want a partner not a protege ( Read more... )

You Are Tired
e.e. cummingsYou are tired ( Read more... )

Witch Wife
by Edna St. Vincent MillaySHE is neither pink nor pale ( Read more... )

5/29/12
by Caroline Stine

Her hands were dusty with regret
covered in the carefully accrued grime
of last-calls and missed kisses
of men half-claimed
and desires half-retrieved.

Is it fear or common sense which drives her?
Caution or the seduction of the chasm's edge?

So, possibly one of my favourite poems of all time, which I know I've already shared with y'all before, is this one by Denise Levertov:

In Mind
Denise LevertovThere's in my mind a woman ( Read more... )

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