Here are four excerpts from poems by women poets from the Philippines, Ukraine, China, and Ireland. They are all parts of longer poems. It is my hope readers and teachers will seek out biographies and poems of these\u00a0notable 20th\u00a0century women in honor of International Woman\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
Philippines: Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (1932 – 2010) was a Filipina poet,\u00a0author, editor, teacher. She is the winner of many awards. Her poems\u00a0have been translated into Russian, Japanese and Italian.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026 claw at the same straws Ukraine: Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was born in Ukraine, lived most of her life in Odessa, died in Moscow. Survived Josef Stalin\u2019s purges. She is considered the greatest woman poet in Russian literature.<\/p>\n \u201cI have lit my treasured candles, one by one China: Qiu Jin (1875 -1907) was a Chinese poet, essayist,\u00a0fiction writer, feminist activist, and revolutionary.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t speak of how women can\u2019t become heroes: Ireland: Evangeline Patterson (1928-2000) was born and raised a\u00a0Protestant in predominantly Roman Catholic Dublin, Ireland. She says, \u201c\u2026 I think poetry should reach beyond sex, politics, class and all the\u00a0other barriers, to the level where we are all human beings trying to live our lives the best way we can in this bewildering world.\u201d \u201cBorn with such gentleness of you, Here are four excerpts from poems by women poets from the Philippines, Ukraine, China, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":355846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\npore over the same jigsaws
\ntrying to make heads or tails
\nyou take the edges
\nI take the center
\nkeeping fancy guard
\nloving beyond what is there
\nyou sling at the stars
\nI bedeck the weeds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nto hallow this night.\u00a0\u00a0With you, who do not come,
\nI wait for the birth of the year. Dear God!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nalone, I rode the winds eastward for ten-thousand leagues.
\nMy poetic ponderings expanded, a sail between sky and sea,
\ndreaming of Japan\u2019s three islands, delicate jade under moonlight.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHere is an excerpt from her poem titled, Song For An Innocent:<\/p>\n
\nwith such a pure and trusting face,
\nhow could I tell you what I knew?
\nThis world is not your kind of place.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"