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	Be a part of Migritude's journey. No contribution is too small - or too large. $2 buys coffee for a volunteer. $15 rents a rehearsal studio for an hour. $100 covers 2 hours of lighting / tech / set design. $500 helps fly Shailja to international festivals!! You can also make a tax-deductible donation by check. Please email shailja@shailja.com for details.		my blog Tuesday, January 17, 2006 love poems: part 4 The only way to write a good love poem – hold nothing back. Love poems demand greater rigor, honesty, self-revelation stripped of exhibitionism or self-pity, than any other form of writing. You have to bring everything to a love poem. All the largeness, grieving, beauty, rage, cynicism, anguish, fear, you hold in your body. I think you can only write a true love poem when you embrace fully the irony of love poems, in the face of all that militates against life on this planet. More, at Love Poems: Part 3 posted by shailja at 10:25 PM 0 Comments: Post a Comment Links to this post: <$BlogBacklinkTitle$> <$BlogBacklinkSnippet$> posted by <$BlogBacklinkAuthor$> @ <$BlogBacklinkDateTime$> Create a Link << Home Previous Posts blogging in bed From Walt Whitman bill mandel I'm going home! I'm going home!! countdown my hero Writers With Drinks angelina jolie and brad pitt scary things happen in my next lifetime

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