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
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
To be like the deer as she runs toward the hunter’s call,
Like the bird that swallows hot coals for love of the moon…
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: imagery, Jane Hirshfield, love poetry, Meerabai, Shyam, translation