Poetry Webs

[familiarquotation]

And everything will take care of itself, it got along without us before.

Frank O’Hara, Poem

[that-spider-chick]

[poems-and-word]

“Life can be a real son of a b*tch sometimes, bringing things back around long after you’ve said good-bye.” - David Arnold, Mosquitoland

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orpheus this, eurydice that. what about ME

[satyriconmp3]

signed, narcissus

[beguines]

Yes, there is a place / where someone loves you both before / and after they learn what you are.

Neil Hilborn, "Lake", The Future

[neckkiss]

[apoemaday]

I Cannot

by Anna Świrszczyńska

I envy you. Every moment You can leave me.

I cannot leave myself.

[cruellheaven]

“I was standing / at the edge of the field– / I was hurrying / through my own soul, / opening its dark doors– / I was leaning out; / I was listening.”

— Mary Oliver, from New & Selected Poems; “White Pine; Mockingbirds” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[luthienne]

Henry Dumas, Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas; “Image”

[ID: The universe shrank when you went away. Everytime I thought your name, stars fell upon me.]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

James Elroy Flecker, from “To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence,” written c. October 1910

[weltenwellen]

Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World

[poemswords]

[poemswords]

[depressedbarbie]

[poems-and-word]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Shuntarō Tanikawa, from “Sonnet 62,” featured in “The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse,”

[water-aesthetics]