poetry anthology’s quotes

    Cards (8)

    • mother any distance ***

      “anchor. kite”
      ”unreeling years between us”
      ”fall or fly”
      ”mother, any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands“
    • when we two parted ***
      “silence and tears”
      ”a knell in my ear”
      ”half brokenhearted”
      ”the dew of the morning sunk chill on my brow”
      ”in silence i grieve“
    • before you were mine ***

      “mine”
      ”polka dot dress”
      ”marylin”
      ”high heeled red shoes, relics”
    • porphyria’s lover ***
      “mine, mine fair”
      ”burning kiss”
      ”porphyria worshipped me”
      ”give herself to me forever”
    • sonnet 29 ***
      “burst, shattered everywhere”
      ”my thoughts do twine and bud”
      ”i do not think of thee- i am too near there”
      ”set thy trunk all bare”
    • winter swans ***

      “mate for life”
      “silent and apart”
      ”swum the distance between us“
      ”like a pair of wings settling after a fight”
    • follower ***

      “expert”
      ”it is my father who keeps stumbling”
      ”broad shadow”
      ”i was a nuisance, tripping, falling, yapping”
      ”all i ever did was follow”
    • walking away ***

      “like a satellite wrenched from its orbit”
      ”love is proved in the letting go”
      ” i have had worse partings but none that so gnaws at my mind still”
      ”like a winged seed loosened from its parents stem”
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