It was hard to write about love in a positive way, because every time I tried, it came out cloying and sweet like processed syrup. I read a lot of break up poems for inspiration. I wanted my poems ...

No matter if you've been dating for years or a few weeks, breaking up can make you feel ... might get you through a breakup: poems. As long as there have been love poems, there have been breakup ...

She groups the poems into several categories, including falling in love, breaking up, marriage, work, death, and growing up and growing old. "I think those are times of transition in life ...

He’ll read some of those poems on February 10 at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, in a series they call “Lyric Hour.” Cocktails are involved. So we talked about his love life ...

Sometimes unrequited love hurts, but it also teaches you about the strength and beauty of loving without expecting anything in return. Let these 6 short poems ... My words break into a whisper ...

The Renaissance’s old love language — the naughty puns ... is a modern aubade that is also a break-up poem. The lovers, “waking from the sleep of each other,” seem to agree that they ...

break or harden ... There’s a Valentine’s gift to live up to. Wendy Cope’s The Orange almost unexpectedly turn into a love poem, as the poet describes the increasing “peace and contentment ...

But in carrying out my research on Renaissance literature and gender, I’ve been struck by how many of that period’s love poems were not ... I ended up in these living situations in part ...

In one of the most famous love poems of all time ... It isn’t just happy love that inspires poets, the intensity of breaking up does too. In Sounds of the Day, Norman MacCaig is plunged into ...