Instead of denying our rights, we need to spend energy to perfect our rights I can share my love
With wind
With roses
With thorns
With whoever makes me
Feel in love
I ask the wind, “will you blow my kisses
To the other side of the river
To the one not given the chance
To pass the water”
To the only one my eyes can see
Through the forbidden cup of wine
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Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934, Diane di Prima lived and wrote in Manhattan for many years, where she became known in the Beat movement and other experimental post-World War II literary and art movements.
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Costa rican poet Paula Piedra has published one book of poetry called Mental Exercises. Below are two of her poems translated from Spanish to English by Andrés Alfaro.
You were children, curious. Something splashed
in the belly of the well and she took your hand, descended
into the mouth opened wide,
step by concrete step down its dark spiral throat.
Nicholas Hughes, son of tragedy-scarred British Poet Ted Hughes and US Poet Sylvia Plath, has killed himself at age 47 years old. "It is with profound sorrow that I must announce the death of my brother, Nicholas Hughes, who died by his own hand on Monday 16th March 2009 at his home in Alaska," his sister Frieda Hughes said in a statement published by The Times of London.