Sad Steps by Philip Larkin
Groping back to bed after a piss
I part the thick curtains, and am startled by
The rapid clouds, the moon’s cleanliness.
Four o’clock: wedge-shaped gardens lie
Under a cavernous, a wind-pierced sky.
There’s something laughable about this,
The way the moon dashes through the clouds that blow
Loosely as cannon-smoke to stand apart
(Stone-coloured light sharpening the roofs below)
High and preposterous and separate–
Lozenge of love! Medallion of art!
O wolves of memory! Immensements! No,
One shivers slightly, looking up there.
The hardness and the brightness and the plain
far-reaching singleness of that wide stare
Is a reminder of the strength and pain
Of being young; that it can’t come again,
But is for others undiminished somewhere.
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- Love by Amanda Nicole Martinez
- Butterflies
- To The Sad Moon by Sir Philip Sidney
- To Romance by Lord Byron
- Life Is Fine by Langston Hughes
- My Sweetheart by Jonathan Townsend
- Unlicensed Love by Jim Sharman
- A Heart Of Stone
- Friends by Autymn Skillings
- The Sad Shepherd by William Butler Yeats
- Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte
- Anonym Friendship Poem
- The Miracle Of Friendship by Jean Kyler McManus
- War Some More by Sandra Osborne
- Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- I Asked God
- To You. by Walt Whitman
- For The Moment
- mommy poem
- Abby by Clinton Followell
- To Lady Jane by Vachel Lindsay
- Always And Forever Poem by Freida Martinez
- For The First Time by John Irvine
- A Poem by Helen Steiner Rice poem
- This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful. by Walt Whitman
- Love Defined Poem by Matt Dubois
- A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
- To This Moment a Rebel by John Wilmot
- All I See Is You by Elly Lobdell
- Native Moments. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
- Your Name by Jessica Blade
- For a Cute Girl
- Anonym Poem
- For You Are The One by Chris Messick
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- Angel Of My Life
- Dreams by Jessica Ann Trimble
- Wild Nights
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