Escapism
a far walk to where
I have nothing to do
out of body
words take no notice of me
I could be industrious
or in love
thought I go too far
to walk it all back
Poems on the topic: love
Poems on the topic “love” on Poets.by.
Of ice
cold people
work at the ice
even over love
our one well
In hac spe vivo
the wren gives me
small hopes
but I can hear the sea
a prophesy of love
some parts very good
others devilish
and me alone
with the world
What he said to his friend
in the style of the classical Tamil
Like a knot
of yellownecked caterpillars
on the underside of a witch hazel leaf
responding to the approach of danger
by arching their soft bodies
& freezing into a clump
of sudden thorns,
hoping to ward off the caress
of a wasp’s antennae:
that’s what happens
to me whenever
she smiles.
Theogony
I am whoever I am
I am however who
I should not be
(or so my management
which is one Word
tells me)
a candle that set
my wig aflame
love like a door
on a summer day
an almost kiss in the ear
seldom speaking
(I cannot believe
who I am)
Games
my wife and I play
with puppets
the more love begins
to grow stale
I take from her mouth the lark
that pretends to sing
Sabbath
come Sunday I have
more time to love
time to sin and make
a ceremony of it
like reading the Book
of Martyrs in bed
Twosome
one ache two aches
two great beauties
had the pox
had one another
going out
going all about
Consumer affairs
my love is thin
but full of variety
o divert us at the office
my eyes bad in bed
World enough and time
I am alone as the clock
or an orange in translation
mean as a little sun
blue at the difficulty of love
do I take this world to be my wife
today in her flower suit
a body in love is so much
well-oiled uncertainty
its secret motions calling up
a sea of my own
Beside myself
you carried me to the burial
of my still corpse
which I think one
of the best I ever saw
who loves as well
as the eyes
Minor romance
a catalogue of ash
for my trouble
a story of love
for a bad bad world
the hierarchy will shake
as we lie below
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