#diaspora poetry

[ijzelen-ijzel]

“almond milk” April prompt from @nosebleedclub

#poem #poetry #diaspora poetry #my poetry #bad poetry #dutch diaspora #sad poem #original poem #short poem #immigration poetry #contemporary poetry #original poetry #poems and poetry #Michi Nijen

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

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#poems #poetry #old ghosts #nneoma ike-njoku #nigerian writer #nigerian american writer #nigerian american poetry #nigerian poetry #diaspora poetry #diaspora writer #diaspora #wordplay #wordplay poetry

[little-muses]

Inherited Echoes

There are days when I remember The shtetl I’ll never see Great aunts and uncles I’ll never meet The dust and dark That choked my great-grandfather a coal miner the whispered prayers changed names the candles snuffed out

The hours weeks years spent pretending not to be

There are days I remember My own whispers The looks I got calling my father papa saying bracha before I ate refusing baptism with hands so small they could barely hold a pencil

I have inherited journeys years of wandering through deserts snowfields unfriendly cities I have inherited stories Songs of mourning bitter work hardship

But on those days when my great-grandparents’ voyage across oceans, across worlds feels closest I remind myself of the songs of joy of the challah recipes the prayers sung with voices loud and shaking, rejoicing

They never made it to the promised land they never got to see their candles standing proud on a shabbos table but I know they hear my voice now they see me on the bima holding the torah for all to see they rejoice with me in all our hardship

I have inherited journeys hardships sorrow but also the strength the joy the passion to stand up and keep walking

#poetry #my poetry #Jewish poems #2022 #tw: antisemitism #diaspora poetry #inherited echoes

[soracities]

Dunya Mikhail, Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #typography #dunya mikhail #diary of a wave under the sea #id included #iraqi lit #west asian lit #reading #diaspora blues #m #x

[anonymousdandelion]

after too long in exile

I hear Yiddish and feel immediately at home.

I hear Yiddish and the rhythms sound like family.

I hear Yiddish and my heart yearns for more.

I hear Yiddish feel Yiddish want Yiddish am Yiddish

I hear Yiddish and I do not understand a word.

#jumblr #judaism #yiddish #poetry #jewish poetry #dandelion poetry #jewish dandelion #galut #diaspora #ashkenazi jewish #jewish feels #what a strange sort of pining it is #when the thing you are aching for is itself a language of exile

[kafka-bug]

Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

#books #literature #poetic #poetry #books and literature #lit #poem #poems and poetry #poems and quotes #books & libraries #art #writing #the namesake #jhumpa lahiri #english literature #diaspora #books and reading #reading #booklr #spilled ink

[childofnakba]

O youthful heart

This poem is dedicated to Palestinians everywhere in Palestine and beyond, and it serves as a voice of comfort for myself as well.

#palestine #poetry #palestinian poetry #original poem #original work #palestinian diaspora #west asia #levant #middle east #gaza #west bank #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #falasteen #free palestine #free gaza #anti zionisim #genocide #history

[brother-emperors]

ngl some people have bad opinions on the relatability of Dante’s Divine Comedy

#the genre of exile poetry and the politics of exile-diaspora trauma are weeping #as someone who has been reading dante scholarship for eleven years bc the divine comedy spoke to my heart in high school #I will simply have to start posting from my archive of Dante material to ward off the bad takes #you can keep your opinions but i am someone who plans to get the opening and closing lines tattooed

[gender0bender]

Kwame Dawes tells a story about a panel discussion on poetry and translation. A writer expresses her frustration about Russian poetry in translation, since taking it out of its original context affects the rhyme and meter. “How would you like to be kissed through a curtain?” Someone answers, “Better than not kissing at all.”

What attracts me to translation is its mediated, flawed nature, its human-ness. I tell my students that poetry is about deep listening. The poem is both a medium and a material/object of attention-making. The role of any poet is as a transcriber and a translator, wending through language’s essence. Poetry is for the immigrant child making their way across fractured landscapes, the artist forging trails into the unknown, the migrants traversing borders into an unfamiliar world. This wending, like Celan’s welding of words, brings us to the languagelessness of breath: pure poetry. Like kissing through a curtain and then lifting the veil to open up a new path.

- Kissing through a Curtain: Notes on Translation By J. Mae Barizo

#J Mae Barizo #diaspora #poetry #writing

[wrecklwj]

a compliation of my writing for all the poems we’ve studied in poetry club! i’m all caught up yay

#chinese poetry #chinese diaspora thoughts #chinese calligraphy #i play fast and loose with the word calligraphy because i haven’t had formal lessons

[ijzelen-ijzel]

Dutch-American figure skater Dianne De Leeuw and poetry about diaspora and language

#sorry for projecting my immigrant pains on some random athlete do you still love me #diaspora #diaspora poetry #dutch #dutch diaspora #poem #poetry #diaspora blues #nederlands #immigrant #immigration #Olympics #figure skating #figure skater #ice skating #figure skating tumblr #⛸️ #web weave #web weaving

[sivavakkiyar]

Naipaul, An Area Of Darkness

#naipaul #diaspora #mango poetry

[diasporicstory]

What of the children

Counted in eighths and fractions

In a world begging to be whole

Would we be chopped and skewered

And sent back to places

Or would we bind our eighths

And call them whole

#diasporic poetry #filipino #jewish #diaspora #poem #writeblr #community organizing #organize your block #poetry #writing #colonization #blood quantum

[soracities]

English is my native anguish.

Amit Majmudar, from “Vocative”

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #amit majmudar #thinking of this and......hm #vocative #diaspora blues #m #x

[stealingfromwoolworths]

#Dutch Australian musings ig #dutch #Australian #immigrant #web weave #web weaving #poetry #poem #diaspora #ww2

[coinywords]

If we agree on the same lies, that makes us countrymen. --Bad Diaspora Poems Momtaza Mehri

#quote #quotation #poem #poet #poetry #diaspora