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Ms. Shire’s previously published verse forms the backbone of Beyoncé’s album and its exploration of family, infidelity and the black female body.

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do not choose the lesser life. do you hear me. do you hear me. choose the life that is. yours. the life that is seducing your lungs. that is dripping down your chin.

Salt, Nayyirah Waheed

When you are struggling in your writing (art). it usually means you are hearing one thing. but writing (creating) another.

honest | risk, from Salt by Nayyirah Waheed

I never really realized this poem before this class. This poem stands out a lot amongst Waheed's collection as she doesn't have anything else like this. It pushes the boundaries and I like that.

From "milk and honey" by Rupi Kaur

From "Twenty-One Love Poems" by Adrienne Rich

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6. Thought about the art of loving, 7. about the art of loving in the right way, the art of loving casually, the art of not loving when you love, the art of loving even though you can't, the art of ceasing to love what you cannot help loving, the art of loving even though it doesn't pay, and waiting, the art of waiting...