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A Love Letter to My Dog During Bad Times
A Love Letter to My Dog During Bad Times I don’t think you understand bad days. You don’t read the news. You don’t check your phone every five minutes. You don’t lie awake at night thinking about things you can’t control.
By Imran Ali Shahabout 4 hours ago in Poets
Elegy for a Country Once at Peace
There was a morning, once, when we rose unafraid, when dawn came like a friend who knocks at the door, certain of its welcome. We opened our eyes to a country still whole, to the people who had learned, by long and faithful labor, how to live beside each other in the ordinary grace of the uneventful day. Oh, what were we then, who did not know how rare a thing it is to dread so little? The newspaper passed beneath the elm in autumn, and its news was only news, only the slow procession of the known and mild. We received it calmly, the way a still pond receives the rain and settles back to calm.
By Tim Carmichaelabout 5 hours ago in Poets
When Romantic Love Poetry Feels More Real Than Words
There comes a point in life when simple words are not enough. You try to explain what you feel, but everything sounds incomplete. That’s when I started understanding the real value of romantic love poetry.
By Abbasi Publisherabout 7 hours ago in Poets
