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Although the classic poets will always be an inexhaustible source of inspiration, especially when it comes to love in its different dimensions, the truth is that a new generation of authors has arrived to refresh poetry.

And among them, women from all over the world are standing out with texts that, far from being written with bombastic words, express experiences, emotions and contingent issues, in a much closer way.

Discover these seven poets of the new generation who speak of love and incorporate them into your everyday reading.

1. Rupi Kaur

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Born in Punjab, India in 1992, but living in Toronto, Canada since the age of four, she is a writer and illustrator whose work is marked by direct and groundbreaking verses, written in simple language and largely inspired by her own experience. Poems that she also shares through her Instagram account @rupikaur_, where she accumulates 4.3mm followers.

To date, Rupi has published the successful collections of poems "Milk and honey" (2014), "The sun and her flowers" (2017) and "Home body" (2020).And while Kaur mainly explores themes such as healing, self-esteem, identity and femininity, she also writes about love.How does she approach it? The poet breaks with the myth of romantic love and. proposes new bases for good love that always start from one's own.

Excerpt from "Milk and honey".

I don't want to have you

to fill the empty parts in me,

I want to be full on my own.

I want to be so complete

that can light up an entire city

and then

I want to have you

because the two of us

combined

we can set you on

fire

Excerpt from "What love looks like".

("The sun and her flowers")

love doesn't look like a person

love is our actions

love is giving all that we can

even if it's just the biggest piece of a pie

love is understanding

that we have the power to hurt each other

but that we're going to do everything in our power

to make sure we don't do it to ourselves

love is to imagine all the gentleness and affection that

we deserve

and when someone shows up

and he says he'll give it to us just like we do

but their actions break us

more than building us

love is knowing who to choose

2. Lang Leav

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Born in Thailand 40 years ago, raised in Australia and now living in New Zealand, the novelist and poet, who won the 2014 Goodreads Award for "Lullabies" in the Best Poetry category, delves into themes of love, sex, pain, betrayal and empowerment. Lang Leav, who also shares her work on her Instagram account @langleav, writes candidly,simplicity and emotion.

"Love and misadventure" (2013), "Lullabies" (2014), "Memories" (2015), "The Universe of us" (2016), "Sea of strangers" (2018), "Love looks pretty on you" (2019) and "September love", are the poetry titles that position her among the most relevant figures of her generation.

Excerpt from "Love and misadventure".

If you love me

by the way I look,

then only your eyes

will be in love with me.

If you love me

so I say,

then you'll just be

in love with my words.

If you love

my heart and my mind,

then you will love me

for all that I am.

But if you don't love

every single one of my flaws,

then you shouldn't love me;

at all.

3. Elvira Sastre

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Born in Segovia, Spain, in 1992, Elvira Sastre is characterized by her visceral, intimate and direct poetry that allows readers to empathize with her work. Love, heartbreak and, basically, emotions are what move Elvira Sastre when she writes.

Notable among his successful collections of poems are "Cuarenta y tres maneras de soltarse el pelo" (2013), "Baluarte" (2014), "Ya nadie baila" (2015), "La soledad de un cuerpo acostumbrado a la herida" (2016) and "Aquella orilla nuestra" (2018).

Sastre, who combines her poetic career with novel writing and literary translation, accumulates 525k followers on her Instagram account @elvirasastre. "For me love is being with someone who gives you peace of mind, I don't ask for much more. I think it's something complicated to achieve and when you get it, you're a crack," the poet once said.

Excerpt from "I don't want to be a memory".

("Forty-Three Ways to Let Your Hair Down")

I don't want to

Make a mark on your life,

I want to be your way,

I want you to get lost,

Get out,

That you rebel,

That you go against the tide,

Don't choose me,

But may you always come back to me to find yourself.

I don't want to promise you,

I want to give you

No compromises or pacts,

Put you in the palm of your hand

The desire that falls from your mouth

No waiting,

Be your here and now.

I don't want to

That you miss me,

I want you to think of me so much

That you don't know what it's like to have me away.

I don't want to be yours

Or that you're mine,

I want it to be with anyone

We find it easier to be with us.

I don't want to

Take the chill off,

I want to give you reasons so that when you have it

Think of my face

And your hair is full of flowers.

I don't want to

Friday night,

I want to fill your whole week with Sundays

And that you think that every day

They are party

And they're on sale for you.

I don't want to

Having to be by your side

Not to miss you,

I want you when you think you have nothing

Let yourself fall,

And feel my hands on your back

Holding the cliffs that lie in wait for you,

And you stand on mine

To dance on tiptoe in the cemetery

And laugh together at death.

I don't want to

That you need me,

I want you to count on me

To infinity

And that the afterlife

One your house and mine.

(...) I don't want to make love to you,

I want to undo your heartbreak.

I don't want to be a memory,

My love,

I want you to look at me

And guess the future.

4. Mercedes Romero Russo

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From Argentina, another representative of poetry in the era of social networks is Mercedes Romero Russo, who has stood out after the publication of "Los mil y vos" and "Luciérnagas en frasco", books of poems in which she explores the lights and shadows of relationships, pain, nostalgia and transformation, among other themes, drawing on her own experiences and on those of her own readers.that it absorbs all around it.

In her Instagram account @mercedesromerorusso, the poet born in Buenos Aires in 1990, announced that she will soon release her new work, "El derrumbe de los que perdonan" (The collapse of those who forgive).

Excerpt from "NN".

("The Thousand and You")

I want to find

that person

who loves me even

when I cry watching

"The Bicentennial Man"

When I speak little

or much

too strong

or with your mouth full.

Who loves me

When you ask

Football Bullshit

And also

when I'm in a bad mood

because I didn't get much sleep.

Who loves me

on premenstrual days.

After a

absurd arguments

to win a fight.

Who loves me

when I asked him

and what did you eat today,

day after day,

without being aware

that it ate us

the routine

(...) And that without wanting to

I'll be found loving me

when my hair

change color, but not because of the dye.

When I fail

the memory

but I remember

of the day we met

And insist on telling them

in detail

to strangers.

5. Ingrid Bringas

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Born in 1985, in Monterrey, Ingrid Bringas accumulates several titles that have made her an outstanding figure of poetry in her native Mexico, among them, "La Edad de los salvajes" (2015), "Jardín botánico" (2016), "Nostalgia de la luz" (2016), "Objetos imaginarios" (2017) and "Flechas que atraviesan la espesura de la noche" (2020).

An author who writes from the familiar, from the close, from the corporal and, essentially from the human, as she herself has emphasized. And when it comes to love and romance, the poet moves in the waters of nostalgia, permanence and belonging, as well as in those of desire, sexuality and eroticism.

"The dance of lovers"

I left the door ajar,

come in, speak to me with your flesh

while god contemplates us

open fruit,

the exact and immobile wound

enter-

rests on the edge of my bed

take my hands of carnivorous flower

and take away this thirst.

Come into this perfume of home where I'm insomniac

by nature,

I've left the door ajar in my sleep

so that you arrive with your music and your hand

touch my blue entrails.

6. Lilian Flores Guerra

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Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1974, this journalist, writer and editor won the Poesía en Viaje prize (2020, Parque del Recuerdo), with the poem "29 de marzo", as well as the Municipal Literature Prize Santiago 2017, Juvenile Literature genre, with her novel "Las Aventuras de Amanda y el Gato del Pirata II - El Tesoro del Collasuyo" (2016). She has also obtained four Fondos del Libro delMinistry of Culture, Arts and Heritage.

His career includes the saga "The Adventures of Amanda and the Pirate's Cat"; part I "The Seventh Emerald" (2013) and part II "The Treasure of Collasuyo" (2016), the historical novel "Capello" (2018), the children's story "The Bronze Button" (2019, illustrations by Carolina García), the book of short stories "Sueño Lejano" (2020), and the book of poetry "In the Penumbra of Dusk" (2020). The latter,Lilian Flores is responsible for Ediciones del Gato, where she is in charge of the publication, promotion and distribution of works by independent authors.

Excerpts from "In the Penumbra of Dusk".

XXIII.

Give me peace

to die in every reflection of stars

to vibrate with the wind's fiery sounds

playing with my hair

to go mad with fever and delirium

with the touch of your hands.

Give me the urgency of a kiss

to extinguish my millenary thirst

with the warmth of your neck

I'm gonna provoke you relentlessly

with tenderness and delight.

Give me a reason

to believe in your embrace

and defy distance

between your body and mine.

XXIV.

How to extend my hands

in a timeless caress

whose limits are based on

with the colors of the sunset.

How to let it out of my mouth

the calm ecstasy.

Change the path

at the top of the abyss

wings change

beings without lust.

My soul begins again

to beat

away from dust

lover of the penumbra.

Give me your dreams

to elevate them

on the magic basin of my body.

XXV.

His embrace shelters me

its scent calms me.

Cover with a mantle

I'm a comfort to my back

and says

come with me

I love you.

It's so clear the way

that takes me back

so diaphanous

that sometimes I wonder

how I've been on the road

that tore at my spirit

I missed my free flight

and I cried and I cursed

to love in silence.

XXVI.

Your name escapes from my mouth

with the pleasure that runs

under the pond of my dreams.

A whisper contained, a prayer in flight.

Your name brings down fears

ashes and false prophets.

The voice of the trees

suggests closing your eyes

and abandon myself to the breeze.

From my mouth escapes mirages

and wailing

wounds that their exile seeks

imagining

a thousand shields to protect

my body and its delirium.

7. Eva Débia Oyarzún

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A native of La Serena and born in 1978, Eva is a journalist and Master in communication and education at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has published four books: "Poemario capital" (2014, republished in 2018), "Retazos" (2016), "Tránsitos urbanos" (2018) and "Insolentes" (2019).

Débia won third place in the South Seas International Poetry Competition (Australia, 2018) and honourable mention in the International Short Story Competition in Honour of Juan Carlos García Vera (Canada, 2019). Her first two books are poetry, in which several poems are dedicated to love.

"How I love you"

I want you from you, love.

Of life, of sun, of sky.

I love you with my soul,

of hope, of star.

I love you from everyone,

because you are of the whole world.

Not from me or from another: only from you I love you.

I want you happy, radiant.

I want you smiling, lively, unique,

in passion and calmness in the cold,

of you, by you and for you...

So much of everything, I love you!

I want you smiling inside

and laughing at God.

I want you full of seas, of tides,

of storms and backwaters.

I love you with an unconditional

unconfessable, unthinkable,

almost unbearable... Unbearable.

Possessions, love, are barriers

discordant with this iron will

forged at the point of silences

between your soul and mine.

How else to love you,

but as I love you?

"The other poetry".

A hot tea.

A nice iced tea.

An ice cream; a tea.

Stretch out your arm without looking,

to take each other's hand in the middle of the street.

To embrace; to smile. Because yes, because no.

Awakening.

To wish good morning.

Breakfast in bed...

The bed: to make it; to unmake it.

Pet a cat (or two);

giving massages, receiving massages.

Because yes, because no.

Speaking in the plural,

listen in the singular.

To kiss. To make love.

Series marathons in front of the computer.

Walking, going to the movies, napping.

The reading aloud of a book...

Cook something.

Because yes, because no.

To admire. to respect.

Containment, care.

Quit smoking.

Diversity and hair dryer.

To contemplate, to dimension, to value.

Understand why yes...

Miss it because it doesn't.

If you like love poetry, let yourself be seduced and surprised by the work of these seven contemporary authors, and even if you are looking for inspiration for your wedding stationery or a fragment to quote in your wedding vows, perhaps among these verses you will find just what you are looking for.