Love’s language is hyperbole, but whispered,
sibilant similes and promises sotto voce.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: love poetry, melancholy, repetend, Richard Hoffman, unsettling, villanelle
-
Free association
A.K. Ramanujam ageing childhood conversational culture dark humor death defiance E. E. Cummings Edna St. Vincent Millay family fantasy free verse gender history humorous poems identity imagery loneliness loss love poetry lyric poetry Margaret Atwood marriage mystic mythology nature Ogden Nash Pablo Neruda philosophy poems about poetry poignant politics religion repetend rhyme rhythm social commentary song lyrics sonnet suicide translation unsettling W. H. Auden war