Scientists haven’t studied the isotopes of heartache
Poetry
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Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time
Like little sunsets, like a song
of ascents, I wish to remember my father.
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The 2025 Foley poetry contest: Lyric questions about grief
These are poems that grip your heart, stretch your mind and startle your soul awake.
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Matins
the wily accuser
tempted him in just the way to confuse a savior:
All this I will give you.
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Lines Composed a Few Miles Above the Air Force Academy Chapel
Daydreams and memory are saving some
Down there from shame
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Pomegranate
And suddenly, without warning
this long year of suffering
comes back in fragments,
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The Emily Dickinson poem about love that you should read
By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.
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Bat
for I too take my bearings
in a manner unfamiliar
to solid daylit creatures