“...love / is turning out the lights when others do, a curfew we / would take / for sails.”
― Jorie Graham
#poetry #poet

Nobody gets what they want/Never again are you the same/The longing is to be pure/What you get is to be changed J Graham
#poetry #poet

@florelanes volume 1 was better

“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
― Walt Whitman
#poetry #poem

“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would not be.”
― Langston Hughes #poetry #poem

Let the rain kiss you/Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops/Let the rain sing you a lullaby ~ L Hughes #poetry #poem

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes #poetry #poem

it is not bad to have the body/To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less Jorie Graham #poetry #poem

Wonderful new #poetry ~ 'The Heartlands' by John Denny via @john_denny #poet http://t.co/aP5qk9OA

Suddenly, the rain came down in tears,/in arrears of grief ~ John Denny #poetry #poem #theheartlands

there is nothing more poetic/than to love people ~ John Denny from The Heartlands #poetry #poem

and the words open out with emigrant grief the way the streets/of a small town open out in/memory ~ Eavan Boland #poetry #poem #distances

I call the dead as often as I can....I am the girl in whose/ eyes the name is written/I feel as if veiled ~ Waldrop #poetry #poem

I just bought the wonderful - 'Englandcollapsed' by John Denny via @amazon #poetry #poet http://t.co/PepWMBCo

'Peter are you interesred in history?' (Mate, I ain't even interested in the present) from Soiree by Peter Reading #poetry #poem #poetquote

Beautiful poetry trailer ~ The Heartlands by John Denny http://t.co/nW05roeZ via @youtube #poetry #poem #poemfilm

out of myth into history I move to be/part of that ordeal/whose darkness is/only now reaching me from those fields ~ E Boland #poetry #poem

On the water you are alone/The dark hull of society keeps on going ~ Transtromer #poetry #poe, #poetquote

Then, the selfish autobiographical sleep/in a marital bed, the tarnished spoon of your body/stirring betrayal ~Carol Ann Duffy #poetry #poem

A girl arose that had red mournful lips /And seemed the greatness of the world in tears ~ WB Yeats #poetry #poem