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LIFE IS NEW
Life is new. Life is new. You have no idea how much this is true. Do you know how much is forgotten and old? Which laughed and burned, but today is cold? You don’t believe how old the old is, do you?...
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THE SLAVERY OF LOVE
If she knows you are trying to manipulate her To restrict her freedom, She won’t take this lightly. A self help video Told me a great secret to know: Add the phrase, “you are free to choose” To...
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THIS LIFE APPEALS TO THE POET IN ME
This life appeals to the poet in me. Maybe I made it this way unconsciously. Did I make sure, after many years, There’s nothing left of the greatest relationship, but tears? And this city by the sea,...
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I WANT A MAN WITH NO DESIRES
I want a man with no desires. This might be difficult to explain. In my valley, there are fires, And fires along my plain, Fires are burning in my breast, Fires are trembling in my brain. If a man has...
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WHAT DO I SAY TO YOU NOW?
What do I say to you now? There is too much to say. Everything says too much. So I’ll put this poem away. What happened to us Was a misunderstanding, then. But now—should there be— A misunderstanding...
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THE BROKEN HEART
You don’t understand. A broken heart Is not a metaphor. The person With a broken heart Cannot love anymore. A broken heart lies hidden away. Love’s invisible. Love cannot be seen By a doctor’s chart....
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MARCH MADNESS 2018 —SENTIMENTAL AND WORTHY
This year’s Scarriet 2018 March Madness Tournament is a contest between great sentimental poems. We use Sentimental Poems because sentimentality in the United States has long been seen as a great...
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BEFORE BILLIE HOLIDAY THERE WAS NO SADNESS
Misery is not the same thing as sadness. Misery Belongs to the history of the world; even the mineral world Invokes misery: stone in the dark, buried deep under stone. I worry about going into the...
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A TRUTH IS NEVER A CHOICE
A truth is never a choice Because a choice is never true. You could easily have made the other choice, Couldn’t you? The difficult decisions are simple Because you are simple. You don’t understand...
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LOVE INCAPABLE OF LOVE
Socrates shocked the crowd: Love was not pretty, but obnoxious and loud, Love wants love. The paradox is this: Love is cunning, not ready for a kiss. Love incapable of love. Does that seem dumb? Well...
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ROUND ONE MARCH MADNESS 2018 ACTION
Sentimental Poems are fighting it out for the 2018 MARCH MADNESS POETRY crown, but don’t let “sentimental” fool you. Nothing fights harder than sentimental, for sentimental reasons. Think of a mother...
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HOW DID I GET PUSHED INTO LOVE?
How did I get pushed into love? Pushed and pulled into love? I didn’t want to go. I wanted to take it slow. I wanted to examine what it would mean. Who pushed me? Who gave me a shove? Who pushed me...
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SHE GIVES YOU JUST WHAT YOU DESERVE
The poet loves the symmetry and the resemblances, Melodies which sing inside of melodies, Intricate, but almost the same. This is why the poet loves the love, The infant face, the rhythms inside the...
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WITHOUT INTRODUCTION OR PREFACE
Without introduction or preface, I offered my line Right there on the Internet, So you didn’t know the poem was mine. All human error looks like this: In love, you either did not kiss, Or did not...
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IS A POET A SMOKER WHO DOESN’T SMOKE?
Is a poet a smoker who doesn’t smoke? Who looks at a tree, as if the tree in the winter silence spoke, Who knows the tree will never speak, As every word of the poem burns to ash, As the nicotine...
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EMBARRASSING THOUGHT
Embarrassment is thought. The embarrassing situation Of no money makes us do Embarrassing things for money. No money, no food. But starvation Is a physical fact beyond thought. Embarrassment is...
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MARCH MADNESS—SENTIMENTAL WRESTLE BETWEEN LORD BYRON AND SIR JOHN SUCKLING
In the Blake Bracket—a contest between Sir John Suckling and Lord Byron—“Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?” and “When We Two Parted.” Both poems are about love, and sticking to it—or not. Why are there...
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INDIAN POETS IN ENGLISH—MARCH 2018
The seven poets under review this month—the March poets from Linda Ashok’s The Poetry Mail—“read seven Indian poets a month”—comprise our second installment of a brief critical look at contemporary...
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HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU’RE HOME?
How do you know you’re home? The sight of your station when you leave the train. When you first got on, something seemed wrong, Things outside the window looked unfamiliar, But it was only the rain,...
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SHELLEY VS. LEAR IN THE TENNSYON BRACKET
Admit it. You love good sentimental poetry. “The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear is sentimental and lovely. But what of Lear’s opponent in the first round? Shelley’s political poem, “England...
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