poetry-magazineThe Story I TellBy Aaron ShurinThe gates, the gardens, the windows, the sky, the ledge of bricks, the fallen leaves, the porch where… Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossRelationshipsHome LifeGriefMelancholy & Despair
poetry-magazineDepartureBy Zhang XianTranslated By Shangyang Fangto the tune “mu lan hua: magnolia” After tonight, what’s left of you is youmoving into my dream. Outside… Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingGrief
poetry-magazine⽊兰花·和孙公素别安陆By Zhang Xian相离徒有相逢梦。门外马蹄尘已动。怨歌留待醉时听,远⽬不堪空际送。今宵风⽉知谁共。声咽琵琶槽上凤。⼈⽣⽆物⽐多情,江⽔不深⼭不重。 Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingGrief
poetry-magazineOrfeoBy Dan Beachy-QuickI created more loss where I meant to make less.Created more debt where I meant to make depth.Created… Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingArts & SciencesMusicMythology & FolkloreGreek & Roman MythologyGrief + 3 more
poetry-magazineEnding SongBy Paisley RekdalYou’d never call the branchesarms, though in certainlights don’t pine and manlook like handsconjoined…LoveHeartache & LossRomantic LoveLivingDeathThe BodyGrief
poetry-magazineTruckingBy Sasha PearlI’m in ShartlesvilleEating air-chilled wings in the sleeper cabI took the contract because the devil… Related Audio LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & LossSocial CommentariesGender & SexualityRelationshipsActivitiesTravels & Journeys
ArcsBy Magda PortalTranslated By Kathleen WeaverToday everythingin this smoky loveseems false to mefrom the two glazed pools of your eyes where…LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & Loss
If Love Be StaunchBy Countee CullenIf love be staunch, call mountains brittleLove is a thing will liveSo long, my dear,––oh, just the littleWhile water stays in a sieve.Yea, love is deathless as the dayWhose death the stars reveal;And love is loyal all the way,If treachery...LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & Loss
poetry-magazineThe Time Traveler Finally Falls in LoveBy T.S. Leonardand it ends, of course, in fabulous heartbreak, like anything—it’s not an if, but when—so the trick … Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossRomantic Love
Dirty ValentineBy Richard SikenThere are so many things I’m not allowed to tell you. I touch myself, I dream.Wearing your clothes…LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & Loss
poetry-magazineLay It BareBy Anders Carlson-WeeI know you’re hungry for it. More money. More news. Desperate for any laurel that parades you as happier… Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossSocial CommentariesClassMoney & EconomicsMelancholy & Despair
poetry-magazinePentimentoBy Mag Gabbert The effect—for those three hundred years, while the cupid remained hidden—was a kind of silence. Like… Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossUnrequited LoveThe MindTypes/ModesEkphrasis
1 ["Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind"]By SapphoTranslated By Anne CarsonDeathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind,child of Zeus, who twists lures, I beg youdo not break with…LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & LossUnrequited LoveMythology & FolkloreGreek & Roman Mythology
poetry-magazineCase StudyBy Christian J. CollierWe were ravaged by our loss, our child. In the shower, slightly past midnight,after I’d covered the … Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossLivingParenthoodGrief
poetry-magazineMy Love You Died in My Dream Last NightBy Heather Christle I did not know it was possible (your constancy being among your chief characteristics) and I, bereft… Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossLivingDeath
Calling Things What They AreBy Ada LimónI pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the party and the seed on the ground the afterparty.) I am getting so good at watching that...LoveHeartache & LossRomantic LoveNatureAnimalsLivingComing of AgeMidlifeThe MindMemory & NostalgiaTime & BrevityRelationshipsMen & WomenMetersFree VerseTechniquesConfessionalImageryMetaphorSimileTypes/ModesProse PoemJoy & Contentment + 16 more
poetry-magazineI Love You, Love You AnyhowBy Cheryl ClarkeI could use a good ole R&B lyricright about now to face this hard absence.Only its terse verse can approximatethe testament.Or the big arms of “these arms”circling my wide waistto close the spaceafter all the years ...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 & SexualityReligionChristianityLivingSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsLGBTQ+Stanza FormsCoupletAngerGrief + 7 more
poetry-magazineM A S HBy Kush ThompsonYou will tell your babies, someday,of the little house behind the wall clock.They will love most the part about the windowsloped inside a six’s hollow, silhouettesof Sundays, shadows having dinner.How they walk along the edges of handsat night, skipping pebbles... Related Audio 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 the roots concealed.They shall bear blossoms with the fall;I have their word for this,Who tend my roots with rains of gall,And...LoveHeartache & LossNatureFallSocial CommentariesRace & EthnicityLivingSorrow & GrievingFor All Ages + 2 more