Yesterday I found a photo
of you at seventeen,
holding a horse and smiling
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: ageing, family, identity, Owen Sheers, relationships
Yesterday I found a photo
of you at seventeen,
holding a horse and smiling
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: ageing, family, identity, Owen Sheers, relationships
This was once a love poem,
before its haunches thickened, its breath grew short
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: ageing, anthropomorphization, Jane Hirshfield, loneliness, love poetry, poems about poetry, poignant, unsettling
Then
self-pity dries up, a joy
untainted by guilt lifts her.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: ageing, Denise Levertov, gender, loneliness, relationships, solitude