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Category Archives: Poems

The First Straw | Jeffrey McDaniel

I used to think love was two people sucking
on the same straw to see whose thirst was stronger,
but then I whiffed the crushed walnuts of your nape,
traced jackals in the snow-covered tombstones of your teeth.
I used to think love was a non-stop saxophone solo
in the lungs, till I hung with you like a pair of […]

the crunch by Charles Bukowski

too much too little
too fat
too thin
or nobody.
laughter or
tears
haters
lovers
strangers with faces like
the backs of
thumb tacks
armies running through
streets of blood
waving winebottles
bayoneting and fucking
virgins.
an old guy in a cheap room
with a photograph of M. Monroe.
there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock
people so […]

‘All that is gold does not glitter’ (For Nicky)

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien

I’ve Learned by Omer B. Washington

I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you.All you can do is be someone who can be loved.The rest is up to them.I’ve learned that no matter how much I care,some people just don’t care back.I’ve learned that it takes years to build up trustand only seconds to destroy it.I’ve learned that it’s not […]

So Much Happiness By Naomi Shihab Nye

A beautiful poem my friend Doryann just shared.  On a day like today, it means so much.

It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.
With sadness there is something to rub against,
a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.
When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up,
something to […]