Skin touching skin fingertips tracing the warm darkness of tired lovers. Nestled deep into beds birds are asleep their songs are fading into the soft echoes of night. Like the painter regards the subject. Running small, soft hands across the canvas of her body hungry, unafraid searching for meaning, potential. Mountains, valleys and rivers, woman […]
Tag: feministpoetry
How to love a woman (3/3)
if you’re going to love me
you need to understand
that I love me,
and I love me too much
to watch myself suffer.
How to love a woman (2/3)
when you hurt
I will carry your pain
if it’s too heavy for you alone.
How to love a woman (1/3)
will you love the parts of me that I find hard to love?
I want you to be mesmerized by my strength,
dazzled by my mind,
hypnotized by my movement
For the girls who are too much
…keep your neck long to gaze at the stars
and your fingertips coated from trying to reach them.
