She was a girl
no one ever chose
for teams or clubs
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: loneliness, music, poignant, Robert Phillips
She was a girl
no one ever chose
for teams or clubs
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: loneliness, music, poignant, Robert Phillips
Then
self-pity dries up, a joy
untainted by guilt lifts her.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: ageing, Denise Levertov, gender, loneliness, relationships, solitude
The modern biographers worry
“how far it went,” their tender friendship.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: imagery, Lisel Mueller, loneliness, love poetry, music, poems about art