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