Stories tagged love

Fairy Tale: Second Love Poem

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wrong princes see gold

Back in the Woods: Second Song of Despair

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I wonder what would have become of me, had I remained informed by news

Third Love Poem and Third Song of Despair

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I feel suddenly naked, as though I have never lived before

Future Children As Rocks

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I feel like I should tell you things about strength.

Fourth Love Poem and Fourth Song of Despair

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From Thirteen Love Poems and Twelve Songs of Despair, poems from a feminist in love with a man in a forbiddingly patriarchal world. Also part of my 2018 poetry collection Xanthippe and Her Friends

my love for you

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my love for you/ is like the falling snow

Fifth Love Poem and Fifth Song of Despair

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how beautiful it could have been

Seventh Love Poem and Seventh Song of Despair

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loving yourself, though highly recommended, never seems adequate

Nathaniel

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sometimes i have to be in the other room just so i can breathe easy away from you.

Eighth Love Poem and Eighth Song of Despair

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a shawl of comfort: how you do love me, just not like that

Ninth Love Poem and Ninth Song of Despair

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My name is Love and I want to go home.

Schadenfreude

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It's 50/50 that you'll ever pad your knee enough to ever kneel on it. Your back hurts, the Orthapedist labels it arthritis. I think that means we're getting old, so I crawl up the tower of your body as I'm a little younger, more sprightly. You're a

she's everything's possible

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she's balanceshe's no regretshe's be yourselfshe's promises madeshe's dreams never endshe's a rainbowshe's last night on earthshe's head over heelsshe's oh yeahshe's purple rosesshe's sweet surrendershe's ever after blissshe's all the riches she's behind the wheelshe's…

in caring

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familiar people passing closely faces we recognize but cannot place

Tenth Love Poem and Tenth Song of Despair

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In the west the sun is sinking. Thank you