A collection of words for those who love deeply, feel everything, and find beauty in the darker corners.
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 147
“My love is as a fever, longing still.”
Sylvia Plath
Elm
“I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me.”
Maya Angelou
Still I Rise
“But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
Rupi Kaur
the sun and her flowers
“wilt
fall
root
rise”
Emily Dickinson
I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Christina Rossetti
Remember
“Remember me when I am gone away.”
Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
“Wild nights – Wild nights!
Were I with thee.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
“The rain
Is full of ghosts tonight.”
Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty
“All that’s best of dark and bright.”
Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream Within a Dream
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
Where the Words Come Alive
At the bottom of this collection, I included a video created by poet Helena Rose.
I have recently started attending her Boise Hot Poets Open Mic Nights, and within that room of honest voices, vulnerable stories, and people unafraid to feel deeply, I finally found somewhere I can be completely myself.
These nights have reminded me that poetry is not only something we quietly read on a page. It is something we speak, share, survive, and sometimes find pieces of ourselves within.
Video created by Helena Rose.