Electric Literature

Poetry – spoken word, literature code, less is more

[POEM] To the Willow Tree by Robert Herrick
From The Birmingham Age Herald, May 24, 1914. Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distrest And left of love are crown’d. When once the lover’s rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn, The willow garlands ‘bout the head Bedew’d with tears are worn. […]
[POEM] 'The Orange' by Wendy Cope
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[POEM] More poems like Joy Harjo’s Perhaps the World Ends Here
So i have come to the realisation that there’s something immensely pretty about these poems that are like “the world will end at ~insert a small mundane act/thing~” It’s like a the world will at kissing your lover OR kissing your lover could be a good place for the world to end at, ya feel […]