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Lost Love

The winter wind whispers through the twisted blackened pine like a long lost love buried by denial and pain. My sapphire eyes brim with the fresh tears that were bottled by a sea of shame. I feel the ache inside awaken…
Writing About Love Without Saying "Love"

For a year or so, I attended an arts school for poetry. Our instructor was a celebrated Vietnam War veteran who spent most of his down time writing poetry about the war and commemorated fellow soldiers who died in actio…
Why Husbands Stop Loving Wives

A couple weeks ago I was sitting on a newly discovered cafe patio in Greenpoint, sipping iced coffee and leisurely reading from a book of breakup poetry that I got for free from a publishing internship. It was there, si…
Safety and Escape through Sex

Excerpt from Tony Hoagland's poem Adam & Eve: Does the woman see the man as a house Where she might live in safety, And does the man see the woman as a door Through which he might escape the hated prison of hims…
Five LOVE Haiku

Love! It makes us ravenous and dizzy. Sometimes so dizzy we can only manage a few syllables. At such times, only a haiku will do. when life winks at me i want to rush out the door and wink it to you taking a sh…
Seven Breakup Haiku... For You!

... For when you've only got time for seventeen syllables! Feel free to use these breakup haiku to tell your lover IT'S OVER for any of the following reasons: NOT MY JOB Hand-holding is nice But I don’t want to…
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, and Your Poem Sucks

"He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven"? Nah, he's got 'em. It's fairly safe to say that a good number of people express their love, lust, or unspecified amorous hankerings through poetry. It gives people a chance to say a…
"Dear Ana, It's Over": A Poem by a Person With Anorexia

Hey guys, so I realize that this is a really sensitive subject. I realize that the anorexics of the world might get offended, or tell me that this isn't at all representative of how they feel. Please understand: I'm not…
Newsflash, Bro: You're No Shakespeare.

Whether you're meeting at a bar, in a library, or at the freaking circus, there seems to always be an opportunity for a guy to use a cheesy line to try to pick up a girl. Although they are usually literally asking for…
A Verse Or Two: She's Got A Smelly One

Hot and heavy, here we go It's time to travel down below Unzip her zipper, pants come down I'm about to go to town But wait a second, what's that smell Ahhh, what the fuck? It's foul as hell I'm on the verge of passing…