p1I Love You, Love You AnyhowBy Cheryl ClarkeI could use a good ole R&B lyric right about now to face this hard absence. Only its terse verse can...LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & Loss
godBy K. IverAt my beloved’s burial,I can’t see his body.Only carnations. I hearyour name and my beloved’sin the ...LoveHeartache & LossSocial CommentariesGender & SexualityLivingSorrow & Grieving
p1M A S HBy Kush ThompsonYou will tell your babies, someday, of the little house behind the wall clock. They will love most the...LoveHeartache & LossLivingParenthoodSorrow & Grieving
ConfessionBy Countee CullenIf for a day joy masters me, Think not my wounds are healed; Far deeper than the scars you see, I keep...LoveHeartache & LossNatureFallSocial CommentariesRace & EthnicityLivingSorrow & GrievingFor All Ages + 2 more
Fragment Thirty-sixBy H.D.I know not what to do,my mind is reft:is song's gift best?is love's gift loveliest?I know not what to...LoveDesire & PassionHeartache & LossRealistic & ComplicatedRomantic LoveArts & SciencesPoetry & PoetsMythology & FolkloreGreek & Roman Mythology + 2 more
A Bird in BishopswoodBy John TickhillIn springtime, chief of all seasons, in May when new joys rise and flourish, the sun is lord and messenger...LoveHeartache & LossUnrequited LoveNatureSpringAnimalsLandscapes & PastoralsSocial CommentariesClassTown & Country LifeLivingGrowing OldLife ChoicesSorrow & GrievingActivitiesSports & Outdoor Activities + 9 more
p1ObituaryBy Salima RiveraDied: Our vows to love, honor, and cherish. Time: Left suddenly on a bright summer day Cause of Death...LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & Loss
Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez MejíasBy Federico García Lorca1. La cogida y la muerte A las cinco de la tarde. Eran las cinco en punto de la tarde. Un niño trajo...LoveHeartache & LossNatureAnimalsSocial CommentariesHistory & PoliticsLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsFriends & EnemiesVerse FormsBalladStanza FormsMixedQuatrainTechniquesRefrainTypes/ModesElegyGrief + 14 more
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez MejíasBy Federico García Lorca1 The Goring and the Death At five in the afternoon At the stroke of five The boy brought the white ...LoveHeartache & LossNatureAnimalsSocial CommentariesHistory & PoliticsLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsFriends & EnemiesStanza FormsMixedQuatrainMetersFree VerseTechniquesRefrainTypes/ModesElegyGrief + 14 more
p1TodayBy Victoria ChangJan.4.2022 A call is just a call. I pick it up. Jan.6.2022 I lift blankets looking for my father. Jan...LoveHeartache & LossNatureLivingDeathHealth & IllnessSorrow & GrievingTime & BrevityRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsFuneralsStanza FormsMixedMetersFree VerseTechniquesMetaphorTypes/ModesEkphrasisGriefMelancholy & Despair + 14 more
from “Lamentation”By Rachel Tzvia Back(1) In worded a world how broken from beginning: sunburst and blossoms all subterfuges of creation ruses...LoveHeartache & LossSocial CommentariesWar & ConflictHistory & Politics
Three Love ChantsBy Rachel Tzvia Back1 Dark cedars of dark lebanon. the ash, the oak. the elm. O, the eucalyptus. The apple (love) apple ...LoveHeartache & Loss
LaterBy Raymond LuczakYour voice translated me, a lucid memory. You videotaped my hands, words. Now that’s all gone to the...LoveHeartache & LossLivingSorrow & GrievingArts & SciencesLanguage & Linguistics
After LoveBy Sara TeasdaleThere is no magic any more, We meet as other people do, You work no miracle for me Nor I for you. You...LoveHeartache & Loss
Small MurdersBy Aimee NezhukumatathilWhen Cleopatra received Antony on her cedarwood ship, she made sure he would smell her in advance across...LoveDesire & PassionHeartache & LossRealistic & ComplicatedRelationshipsMen & Women
p1The Language of DustBy Assotto Saintwhere do you find strength to climb down the hill to your lover’s grave what do you bring but thirteen...LoveHeartache & LossRomantic LoveSocial CommentariesGender & SexualityLivingDeathHealth & IllnessSorrow & GrievingThe BodyRelationshipsLGBTQ+Stanza FormsMixedTypes/ModesElegyGriefPassion + 11 more
Every Cell in this Country Looks Like a Choice You Can Walk In and Out OfBy Justin Phillip ReedDoes a man with no intentions know he means you only harm? If lodged in the scar were a pearl of such...LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & LossRealistic & ComplicatedUnrequited Love
Portrait of a LadyBy T. S. EliotI Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon You have the scene arrange itself — as it will seem...LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & LossRealistic & ComplicatedLivingDeathGrowing OldTime & BrevityRelationshipsMen & WomenArts & SciencesPoetry & PoetsStanza FormsMixed + 7 more
Vietnam Ghost Story: Đà Lạt LoversBy Hoa NguyenA student at the military school 1956 and a literary teacher at the nearby high school fall in love ...LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & LossUnrequited LoveLivingSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsMen & Women
Life Centered AroundBy Moon Bo YoungI think with you at the center of my thoughts. Europa orbits Jupiter and centers Jupiter in its thoughts...LoveHeartache & LossRealistic & ComplicatedLivingLife ChoicesSeparation & DivorceThe Mind