英文小诗

以下这些英文小诗选自加拿大多伦多诗人Rupi Kaur的诗集《牛奶与蜂蜜》（Milk and Honey）。用她自己的话说，这本诗集所选的诗都是有关“生存”的，所涉内容包括暴力、虐待、爱、丧失与女性等。

此处所选的基本都是有关女性的小诗，请欣赏。

1.

what is stronger

than the human heart

which shatters over and over

and still lives

2. 

what's the greatest lesson a woman should learn?

that since dayone. she's already had everything

she needs within herself. it's the world that

convinced her she did not.

3. answers

the way they

leave

tells you

everything

4.

she was music

but he had his ears cut off

5.

we all move forward when

we recognize how resilient

and striking the women

around us are

6. balance

i thank the universe

for taking away

everything it has taken

and giving to me

everything it is giving

7. 

                  you

             have been

         taught your legs

     are a pit stop for men

   that need a place to rest

a vacant body empty enough

   for guests but no one

     ever comes and is

           willing to

               stay

8.

it was when i stopped searching for home within others

and lifted the foundations of home within myself

i found there were no roots more intimate

than those between a mind and body

that have decided to be whole

9.

the way you speak of yourself

the way you degrade yourself

into smallness

is abuse

10. all you own is yourself

let it go

let it leave

let it happen

nothing

in this world

was promised or

belonged to you

anyway

11. 

to hate

is an easy lazy thing

but to love

takes strength

everyone has

but not all are

willing to practice