Explore Poems: Break-ups & Vexed Love

 I was dragged to by my feet,
 memories misled me
with their leavings, an engkanto
 made my native …

Rama, I gave my heart to you alone.
When love takes root, do you just cut it down,
 or, darling, do…

 kung saan ako dinala ng aking mga paa,
 latak ng alaalang nililigaw ako
na parang engkanto,
 na parang…

Ay, goldo, goldito, goldo
with those sunbathed baby cheeks,
I want to gobble you up in kisses.

Please go…

Ay, goldo, goldito, goldo
con esos cachetitos asoleados,
te quiero engullir a besos.

Anda sigue, coquet…

In love again, I welcome the familiar
high, the dizzying state of detecting
signs around me that the world…

i . sorrow is the curved ribcage of a beautiful death,

that makes the city look like revelation
because I love you. Just wanted to check in
and see how you…

My phone memory is full
of canvases I have cried in front of—
circles, holes—
Shadows on water.

___…

Hammock dumping
you onto bruised
grasses, frayed
thoughts droop
sideways, hammering
morning. Slipper-
footed…

I’m in Shartlesville
Eating air-chilled wings in the sleeper cab
I took the contract because the devil…

Today everything
in this smoky love
seems false to me
from the two glazed pools of your eyes
      where…

I think that I shall never know
Why I am thus, and I am so.
Around me, other girls inspire
In men the rush…

If love be staunch, call mountains brittle
Love is a thing will live
So long, my dear,––oh, just the little
While water stays in a sieve.

Yea, love is deathless as the day
Whose death the stars reveal;
And love is loyal all the way,
If treachery...

A man by the name of Skinner becomes famous
for keeping caged
        pigeons, whom his clock feeds or starves
        at random. Their tiny twitching heads exaggerate until...

Ready to fly, my heart has been unbuckling
for a long time, waiting. When you finally

arrive, we are…

Pulling the foreign body off me—   out of the dress up over my arms through the neckhole—
he says, You…

There are so many things I’m not allowed to tell you.
      I touch myself, I dream.
Wearing your clothes…

Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind,
child of Zeus, who twists lures, I beg you
do not break with…