imagedescs:warsanshayar: Ijeoma Umebinyuo, your love poems need politics to survive // Ju
imagedescs:warsanshayar: Ijeoma Umebinyuo, your love poems need politics to survive // June Jordan, Directed by Desire // Warsan Shire, Conversations About Home // bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love // Mahmoud Darwish // Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light // Rod Smith // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous [ID: eight images of black text over white backgrounds. image one reads: “where does politics end / and your love poems begin? / sometimes, they are both rhe same thing / sometimes, they have to be the same thing.” end image one.image two: all-caps text that reads: I said I loved you and I wanted / genocide to stop / I said I loved you and I wanted affirmative / action and reaction / I said I loved you and I wanted music / out the windows / I said I loved you and I wanted / nobody thirst and nobody / nobody cold / I said I loved you and I wanted I wanted / justice under my nose. end image two.image three: text reads: “i want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.” end image three.image four: text reads: Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth. Only love can give us the strength to go forward in the midst of heartbreak and misery. Only love can give us the power to reconcile, to redeem, the power to renew weary spirits and save lost souls. The transformative power of love is the foundation of all meaningful social change. Without love our lives are without meaning. Love is the heart of the matter. When all else has fallen away, love sustains. end image four.image five: text written in arabic. the translation given below reads: When are we going to see each other, she asks / After a year and a war, I say / When is the war going to end, she asks / When we see each other, I say. end image five.image six: text reads: Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. end image six.image seven: text reads: We work too hard / We’re too tired / to fall in love. / Therefore we must / overthrow the government. // We work too hard / We’re too tired / to overthrow the government. / Therefore we must / fall in love. end image seven.image eight: text reads: “All this time I told myself we were born from war–but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty. Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence–but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.” end image eight. /end ID] -- source link