MetaFilter posts tagged with Poetry and love

Pinsky sings songs of love

blahblahblah — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:04:59 -0800

For each of the last three years, Robert Pinsky has collected a small set of Valentine's Day poems (and insightful analysis) around a particular theme - poems about love, poems against love, and poems about lust.

matteo — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:17:41 -0800

Other loves
still breathe deep inside me.
This one's too short of breath even to sigh.
"First Love", by Wislawa Szymborska. (via the Daily Poems of poems.com)

Just because I'm your uncle doesn't mean I cannot love you the right way

Robot Johnny — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:39:07 -0800

Happy Valentine's Day
to my favourite virgin.
I'd show you how much I love you,
but I don't feel like getting married.
The 8th Annual Pamie.com Valentine's Day Poems (previously on MetaFilter...)

Seamus Heaney and the Soul of Antigone

matteo — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:09:59 -0800

Love that can't be withstood,
Love that scatters fortunes,
Love like a green fern shading
The cheek of a sleeping girl.
Seamus Heaney's search for the soul of Antigone.
(more inside, with Christopher Logue)

Poems and more poems

blahblahblah — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:54:06 -0800

The time for more public poetry is at hand with the soon-to-arrive National Poetry Month. Perhaps you favor love poems? Poets and Writers listed the 25 best (among those online: #1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 13, 15, 19). Or perhaps ballads with a beat? This was once considered the best example, but this offensive poem is even more famous. Of course, nonsense is good, as is alliteration. Eager to take your own turn? Try some complex forms. Double sestina, anyone?

dude. look, i love you, ok?

Robot Johnny — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:13:43 -0800

the other night
after eating chili
i ripped a pretty good one.
i lifted the blanket
to trap your head
and remembered
you weren't there.
i miss you.
Valentine's Poetry from Pamie .com

I am bleached white, my truant love

kenko — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:45:32 -0800

When I look at you with my eyes,
be the coolness of my eye.
Solace, a textbook of romantic psychology.