What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the ...

Afghan women express forbidden love through secret poems, or landays. Eliza Griswold looks at the words of rebellion that have been passed down for centuries. When sisters sit together ...

they tried to count me like grains of sand. In the desert I was tempted by gold and fire. I became a harlot and its male equivalent. In the desert I was called to task and had all my clothes ...

The love poems are not romantic so much as acerbic female expressions ... One thing these women will have to fall back on is their forbidden poetry. Richard A. Kauffman a former Century senior editor, ...

The five poems, Forbidden Love, To Sadness, The Waiting Room, The Dream and the Glory and The Vegetable and Fruit Vendor, have already been uploaded on the quarterly magazine's online version.

Mark returned to his home in the Bahamas and he sent love letters, poems and paintings to Penny before returning to England to go to university on a scholarship, where they were together again.

The poems in this first collection show off Birtha's considerable ability to endow ordinary perceptions and occurrences with a profound significance. Many poems take as their subject the painful ...