short poems about life and love

An evening breeze rustles linen curtains and stains me with waves of jasmine. Unable to sleep and drenched in sweat I plunge...

An abandoned beach reached by a gravel path across a low hill littered with boulders, thorny shrubs and sheep. Far from any...

an early morning fog obscures distant docks. beating against the tide sailors row out toward skeletal shapes towering up against a gray...

my driveway is half-shoveled. above me stars peek through gaps in the clouds. it’s late. while neighbors sleep i clear away snow...

each step along the boardwalk sends a flurry of seagulls skyward. to my right the angry gulf thunders against a rocky shore...

she asks me for patience but my heart races and pounds beneath my chest. to my recollection i have waited centuries —...

dark gray clouds thunder east and threaten to drench me in relentless waves of ice cold rain. it’s been four years since...

An empty bone-white beach glistens under a pale December sun. Midwestern snowbirds crowd my favorite diner overlooking the bay. Through an open...