Poetry
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Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
Does the sun promise to shine?No, but it will—even behind the darkest clouds,and no promisewill make it shine longer or brighterfor that is its fate,to burn until it can burn no more.To love you is not my promisebut my fate—to… Read More »
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Eileen Rafter
The sun danced on the snowwith a glittering smile, As two lovers sat quietly,alone for a while. Then he turned and said, witha casual air, (Though he blushed from histoes to the tips of his hair) “I think I’d quite… Read More »
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Jane Wells
‘Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. Believe the best rather than the worst. People have a way of living up… Read More »
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Rachel Bright
Together, you are the bubbles in one another’s champagneThe morning sun through a windowThe breaking of a smile. Together, you are the one doughnut in the bag with more jam than all the others.That photo where everybody looks great.The know-all-the-words,… Read More »
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Tony Kushner
Conjunction, assemblage, congress, union:Life isn’t meant to be lived alone.A life apart is a desperate fiction.Life is an intermediate business:a field of light bordered by lovea sea of desire stretched between shores. Marriage is the strength of union.Marriage is the… Read More »
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Rowena Edlin-White
Now comes the knitting, the tying, entwining into one.Mysterious involvement of two, whole, separate peopleInto something altogether strange and changing; new and lovely. Nothing can be, we will never be, the same again.Not merged into each other irrevocably, but ratherFrom… Read More »
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Watch carefully, the magic that occurs, when you give a person, enough comfort, to just be themselves. I want to be with someone who dreams of doing everything in life and nothing on rainy Sunday afternoons. I aspire to be… Read More »
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Lang Leav
I don’t know how it is you are so familiar to me or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings… Read More »
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.I love thee to the level of… Read More »
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Whitney Hanson
They say that sometimeslove starts with a spark. And that might be true,but if I were to wish you a love,I wouldn’t wish fire for you. You see, fire is powerful.It burns bright and then it’s gone.It’s beautiful and warm,but… Read More »
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Mark Twain
I cannot promise you a life of sunshine; I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold; I cannot promise you an easy pathway That leads away from change or growing old. But I can promise all my heart’s devotion; A smile… Read More »
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Mary Oliver
Wild Geese | Mary OliverYou do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about… Read More »