Poetry
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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 »
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,Or… Read More »
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William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,or bends with the remover to remove:Oh, no! It is an ever-fixed mark. That looks on tempests and is never… Read More »
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Jane Powell
Too late now to forget your smileThe way we cling when we’ve danced awhileToo late now to forget and go on to someone new Too late now to forget your voiceThe way one word makes my heart rejoiceToo late now… Read More »