Emotions and Feelings
John Berryman
Mountainous, woman not breaks and will bend: sways God nearby: anguish comes to an end. Blossomed Sarah, and I blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl.
John Berryman
Mountainous, woman not breaks and will bend: sways God nearby: anguish comes to an end. Blossomed Sarah, and I blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl.
Karl Shapiro
One day beside some flowers near his nose He will be thinking, When will I look at it? And pain, still in the middle distance, will reply At what? and he will know it’s gone, O where! and begin to tremble and cry. He will begin to cry as a child cries Whose puppy is mangled under a screaming wheel.
Kenneth Patchen
Let us have madness openly, O men Of my generation. Let us follow The footsteps of this slaughtered age.
Czesław Miłosz
May the gentle mountains and the bells of the flocks Remind us of everything we have lost, For we have seen on our way and fallen in love With the world that will pass in a twinkling.
Elizabeth Bishop
I’d have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands like frogs’ eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.
Elizabeth Bishop
How had I come to be here like them, and overhear a cry of pain that could have got loud and worse but hadn’t?
Elizabeth Bishop
Cold dark deep and absolutely clear, element bearable to no mortal, to fish and to seals…
Theodore Roethke
Lord, hear me out, and hear me out this day: From me to Thee’s a long and terrible way.
Theodore Roethke
Brooding on God, I may become a man. Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire; What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.