hello !!! do u know any poems that are abt not giving up and finding strength in urself etc? kinda like intructions on not giving up by ada limon! it can be book recs too ! boooks that just keep u going when things are hard?
“a litany for survival” by audre lord (i believe ive read that ada limón had this poem printed on her wall to look at every day during a difficult time in her life.... i have too)
“the peace of wild things” by wendell berry
“wild geese” by mary oliver (you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves)
“from blossoms” li-young lee
“the trees” by philip larkin
“á la recherche d’ gertrude stein” by frank o’hara (all is wiped away revealing lifes tenderness)
“this morning” by lucille clifton (i survive survive survive)
"have you ever tried to enter the long black branches" by mary oliver (listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?)
“i am not ready to die yet” by aracelis girmay
if you want something philosophical: the myth of sisyphus by albert camus
if you want something fictionalized and slowburning: his dark materials trilogy by philip pullman
if you want to read those whose words will never fail me: letters of vincent van gogh, letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke
dededos
annaxmalina
titsay
yousharknotpass
germansingergirl
theartofmadeline
