Status Updates From Love Poems

"And if your stresses are sustained and daily,
get yourself to an empty room - be it hotel,
hoestel or hovel - find a lamp
and empty your paradise onto a desk:"

- Roger Robinson

"If this room has a ghost
It will be your laughter in the frank dark"

-Brendan Kennelly

"(...). but no stars blazed across the sky when he was bron
no wise men found his hovel. (...)"

- Edward Kamau Brathwaite

"Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,"

- William Shakespeare

"or that I would write you this letter
to tell you
that when it's cold in a hot country,
I think of you."

- Manuel Forcano

"We plant roses in the illuminated paths
and cultivate kisses on the trains arriving
from the happy cities;"

- Fatma Krouma

"The moon has set,
And the Pleiades. It is
Midnight. Time passes.
I sleep alone."

- Sappho

"Love's time's beggar, but even a single hour,
bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich."

- Carol Ann Duffy

"And the stars we see on moonless nights
are long extinguished. And, of course,

this very moment, as you read this line,
is literally gone before you know it."

- Michael Donaghy

"Come soon and often, the feeling that I love.
Come back and hold me through the night
when lips and flesh remember"

- Constantine Cavafy

"As our bloods seperate the clock resumes,
I hear the wind again as our hearts quieten.

[...]

The wind enters through the broken eyes
Of houses and through their wide mouths
And scatters the ashes from the hearth."

- David Constantine

"For the first time, I listen to a lost
and secret recording of us
making love near-on ten years ago.

I recognise your voice, your sounds,"

- Roddy Lumsden

"It was not s*x, but I could feel
The whole strength of your body set,
Or braced, to mine
And lokcing me to you"

- Thom Gunn

"these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips."

- Lucille Clifton