only the poets

[undoubtedly-broken]

Something I like to do while writing is to follow up a really sad poem with a new one once I start to feel a little better. I hope you guys enjoy this duo.

PS please click on the first one to read the whole thing

[weltenwellen]

Donika Kelly, from “Love Poem: centaur”, Bestiary

[deviika]

Sylvia Plath // Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[weltenwellen]

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

[soracities]

Maram al-Massri, from A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor (trans. Khaled Mattawa) [ID'd]

[flowerytale]

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

[flowerytale]

Louise Glück, from “Quince Tree”, The Seven Ages

[flowerytale]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot

[metamorphesque]

"Why do flowers die so soon?", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[petaltexturedskies]

D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

[petaltexturedskies]

Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips

[mournfulroses]

Adonis, from a poem titled “Unintended Worship,” featured in If Only the Sea Could Sleep

[poemwav]

from The Poetry of May Sarton

[petaltexturedskies]

Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Gretel After Hansel," (edited)

[poetryforall]