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humanodon  ·  4192 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Three Landais, Twenty Minutes, And One Revolution

I don't mind. I'm not very involved with poetic forms and don't know anything about Afghan poetry, canonical or otherwise. It's sad that those poems had to come out of terrible circumstances, but then, poems often do.





_refugee_  ·  4192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It just really makes me think what these women are willing to risk to write poetry. I don't know if I'd be willing to risk my life. I mean, hopefully I never find out, right?

humanodon  ·  4192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hopefully. Given the location of the women, I think there are plenty of other threats they might have to consider on a daily basis, so perhaps writing poetry doesn't seem incredibly risky in the scheme of things.