Love’s language is hyperbole, but whispered,
sibilant similes and promises sotto voce.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: love poetry, melancholy, repetend, Richard Hoffman, unsettling, villanelle
Love’s language is hyperbole, but whispered,
sibilant similes and promises sotto voce.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: love poetry, melancholy, repetend, Richard Hoffman, unsettling, villanelle
The art of living isn’t hard to muster:
Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Marilyn Hacker, philosophy, poems referencing poems, villanelle
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Elizabeth Bishop, loss, unsettling, villanelle