Pauli Murray’s love poetry
Murray’s poems on history and politics are passionate and sweeping. But her love poems are more quiet, although still sensual and earthy. Here are six of Pauli Murray’s love poems…
Murray’s poems on history and politics are passionate and sweeping. But her love poems are more quiet, although still sensual and earthy. Here are six of Pauli Murray’s love poems…
The English Patient (1996): “Cathedral paintings” One of the most romantic scenes in cinema. Hana (Juliette Binoche), a vibrant and capable nurse who takes care of the titular patient played by Ralph Fiennes. One day, when she is playing the piano in the bombed out shell of a building, Kip (Naveen Andrews), a lieutenant and bomb defuser in the British army, runs to her and tells her to stop playing. There might be a bomb in the piano, he warns her, and sure enough, there is one just inches away from being detonated. “I’ll probably marry him,” she later tells her patient. “Really? That’s sudden,” he quips. She answers, “My mother always told me I would summon my husband by playing the piano.” Not long after came this scene, full of kindness and lightness, as Kip gives this gift to Hana of a little grace and beauty during wartime. Before Sunrise (1995): “The space in between” Thoughts about love and relationships, dilemmas about ambition and family. Celine (Julie Delpy) feeling torn about …