To all the fierce women who helped me write a future, may I everyday strive to pay forward that debt #InternationalWomansDay #EavanBoland #OurFutureWillBecomeThePastOfOtherWomen

Let no love poem ever come to this threshold.

Quarantine
Eavan Boland

#Poetry #EavanBoland #Ireland #IrishPoetry

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/01/saturday-poem-336.html

This #poem shared with me about 20 years ago made me an #EavanBoland fan for life:
“The only legend I have ever loved is
the story of a daughter lost in hell.
And found and rescued there.
Love and blackmail are the gist of it.
Ceres and Persephone the names.
And the best thing about the legend is
I can enter it anywhere. And have.”

https://poets.org/poem/pomegranate

#poetry #books

“If what was not said was never seen
If what was never seen could not be known
think of this as the only way an empire could recede
— taking its laws, its horses and its lordly all, leaving a single art to be learned, and one that required neither a silversmith nor a glassblower but a woman skilled in the sort of silence that lets her stitch shadow flowers into linen with pastel silks
who never looks up to remark on
or remember why it is the bird in her blackwork is warning her: not a word not a word not a word not a word.” #EavanBoland

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“A Woman Without a Country: Poems" by https://a.co/3EIMMz5

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