My love is as a fever, longing still
Christopher Bursk

It didn't take a Harvard Medical School degree
to detect you and I were not lovers destined to wed
but two viruses doing their best to infect each other,
two fevers that'd spread, different symptoms of the same
sickness. Past cure I am, now reason is past care.Did I really wish to die? The ( Read more... )

Lines Composed on the Body Politic: An Accounting
Rita Dove

Elizabeth, the Lodge at Woodstock, 1554Less than the charting of each dawn's resolutions ( Read more... )

Variations on some of Dante's Last Lines
Norma ColeAnd move and hold back ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I actually think this poem's depiction of the present state of poetry and gender studies is accurate, but Margaret Cavendish is cool, so I'm posting it anyway.

Sonnets Uncorseted
Maxine Kumin1 ( Read more... )

Pillow
Li-Young LeeThere's nothing I can't find under there ( Read more... )

This is from that book I have of poetry inspired by Shakespeare, and from which I post a few things every year for National Poetry Month, because it is a book full of awesome. Even if it has very little histories love (which is not to say none at all, of course).

The Exhaled
Katherine Swiggart

What is thy sentence then but speechless death ( Read more... )

Three Songs for King Leir
Ann Lauinger

Note: In Shakespeare's sources, the old king and his daughter survive.

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Continuing on the Shakespeare theme, because I feel like it.

Falstaff's Dream
Jackson WheelerWas I asleep? I think more about sleep ( Read more... )