Need a poem or two to read, recite and cry to during the holiday of love? Whether it’s falling slowly in love with a friend or escaping the toxicity of a previous relationship, here are two poems about the ups and downs of love on Valentine’s Day.
“The Season of Pot Roast“
By: Bobbi Coffee
You offered me pot roast at 9 in
the morning and all I offered was silence.
Befuddled, brows wrinkled,
shortly after the day we sat cradled by
your worn wooden balcony. Gabbing over
nicotine
The Strokes
Smackdown…
When the world is busy immortalizing
martyrs or Lupercalia with a dozen roses.
When promise rings are
bludgeoned and beaten into existence.
When the toll to celebrate costs
a love letter
a night out
Ghirardelli,
You offered pot roast and WWE.
And at 9 in the morning, I thought about
all the sweet and simple ways you
said “I love you” and I didn’t know it.
“Yearning”
By: Julie Mishchuk
The space between us is a raging wildfire
and as lonely as the cafe we sat in
The cruel laughter of yearning echoes
in my head, punishing me for my desire
I taste my name on your lips,
dancing with blackberry wine
But sitting across the room
like strangers would,
I bargain with the universe again
“Go to hell,” I would say,
and he would listen
But hungry, incessant yearning
holds me hostage, possessing me
like a dark, malevolent spirit
Filling my lungs and suffocating me,
consuming me alive with thoughts of him
And lingering around the city
like the misery that plagues it,
it pulls me into places you might be