BIPOC
Representation matters to the Library of Love. If it’s important to you too, these poems from Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) writers might be a wonderful offering.
7 poems
I want to die while you love meby Georgia Douglas Johnson, 1880 ~ 1966“Who would care to live til love has nothing more to ask, and nothing more to give.”
Invitation to loveby Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 ~ 1906“Come, O Love, whenever you may, and you are welcome, welcome”
Love from NGC7318by Tanerelle, contemporary“You make me feel like each of the five galaxies swirling in Stephan's Quintet”
Love Songby Henry Dumas, 1934 ~ 1968“On hands and knees the ocean begs up the beach, then falls at your feet.”
The kissby Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 ~ 1941“Love is writing a song in a delicate script, kiss-calligraphy on lips”
Touched by an angelby Maya Angelou, 1928 ~ 2014“Love costs all we are and will ever be, but it is only love that will set us free.”
Wishing Wellby Gregory Pardlo, b. 1968“I cough up daylight like I've just been dragged ashore”