Best Lethe Poems

The playwright was most effective
As the dramatic illuminator
Of his own tristful destiny
As well as those of his kinfolk.
And of the two plays that treat
Of the tragic Tyrones
One features James,
His wistful pheere Mary,
And his two troubled offspring
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Longing grips me-—
a familiar fire in contact
with parched debris—
spreading...

Your eyes glaze over 
and you turn away.

Within moments,
the last of my spirits 
have gone to Hades.

Ashamed, I turn over 
while tears trickle
into my pillow.

This new fire consumes me—
—it is a thought: I want you—
But surely I...

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Trailing his hand in the river of time
Fishing for memories like tickling trout,
He tries to grasp the slippery glimpses
Of loves he has known, Spring and Summer,
In his youth when life was plausibly sweet.

If he could but cross time and realise 
Again the triumphs and disasters,...

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As armies march on
Kingdoms fall and widows weep,
We always forget....

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Who walks now 
out of someone else’s memory
as if she owned this, my space?
Her face keeps changing
it forms then falls apart like melting snow,
now she is this other person
that recalls me.

Who am I to gather up her reality 
to piece together her history,
to deny her...

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