02-05-2016, 03:19 PM
(02-05-2016, 08:01 AM)Todd Wrote: Tenderness by Stephen Dunn
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"in the high ignorance of love"
"Oh abstractions are just abstract / until they have an ache in them. "
Love poems about love are the most difficult of types to write well.
This one's better than that.
Thanks, Ray
(02-05-2016, 08:13 AM)Todd Wrote: It’s Like This By Stephen Dobyns
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"He greets his family, looking for himself in their eyes,
.....but instead he sees shorter or taller men, men with
.....different degrees of anger or love, the kind of men
.....that people who hardly know him often mistake
.....for him"
"When he returns home, he studies the eyes of his family to see
.....what person he should be that evening."
So truthful it scares me.
Ray
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