#i actually hate most love poems so much lol so fulfilling these requests is kind of... interesting

[wintryblight]

hello! do you have any poems about two people who are in love but they don't show it/or not together? thank you for running this blog. i just found this tumblr and this made my day <3

hi anon! thank you for your request and your kind words. it’s really funny because i just got 2 other requests in a row very similar to yours, so i’m kind of collating them all together because unsurprisingly these highly specific requests are very difficult to find poems for. here are some poems about either long-distance love or concealed love. enjoy reading!

Mary Oliver, “Little Crazy Love Song” | Softly my right hand fondles my left hand / as though it were you.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Witch-Wife” | But she was not made for any man, / And she never will be all mine.

Anne Sexton, “Small Wire” | Love and a cough / cannot be concealed. / Even a small cough. / Even a small love.

e. e. cummings, “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” | i carry your heart with me(i carry it in / my heart)i am never without it(anywhere / i go you go,my dear

Craig Santoz Perez, “Love in a Time of Climate Change” | I love you without knowing how or when this world / will end. I love you organically, without pesticides.

Rainer Maria Rilke, “[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape]” | again and again the two of us walk out together / under the ancient trees, lay ourselves down again and again / among the flowers, and look up into the sky.

Reginald Shepherd, “You, Therefore” | home is nowhere, therefore you, / a kind of dwell and welcome, song after all, / and free of any eden we can name

#poetry #web weaving #mary oliver #compilation #reading list #recommendation #love #heartache #i actually hate most love poems so much lol so fulfilling these requests is kind of... interesting #edna st. vincent millay #anne sexton #e. e. cummings #craig santoz perez #rainer maria rilke #reginald shepherd