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.
Here is few random poems just for you!
- Friends by Autymn Skillings
- Café Comedy by Robert William Service
- To Mother
- Chris Engle Poem
- Colour Of A Butterfly
- The Miracle Of Friendship by Jean Kyler McManus
- This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful. by Walt Whitman
- My Love by Tasha Shores
- Native Moments. by Walt Whitman
- A Song Of The Sandbags by Robert William Service
- The Favor Of The Moment
- Love in the Home
- Angel Of My Life
- A White Rose by John Boyle O’Reilly
- Wild Nights
- Your Eyes By Helea
- Mother and child
- Love Is A Mother’s Gift
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- To the True Romance by Rudyard Kipling
- War is…
- Love by Amanda Nicole Martinez
- The Night Before Christmas for Moms
- A Sad State Of Freedom by Nazim Hikmet
- I Will Love You Forever Amanda Nicole Martinez
- Unlicensed Love by Jim Sharman
- To This Moment a Rebel by John Wilmot
- A Love For All Time by Dawn Choike
- my Momma
- Julio Patino
- A Sad Child by Margaret Atwood
- All Of You by David Norman Meece
- To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje
- There is another sky by Emily Dickinson
- For A Sad Lady by Dorothy Parker
- Happy mothers days
- For The First Time by John Irvine
- A Friend’s Greeting by Edgar A Guest
- Momus by Carl Sandburg
- The Meaning by Kellie Spehn
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