by Romantic Poems | | Short
Short poems to make her melt work by stripping away excess until language glows with intention. Sappho’s ancient fragments and Bashō’s concise haiku show how brevity pierces the heart, and modern writers distill that same power into texts, paper...
by Romantic Poems | | Love Poems, Short
Short love poems concentrate centuries of passion, longing, ecstasy, and heartbreak into forms few in line or word, but rich in feeling and ingenuity. In Sappho’s surviving fragments, a single verb or image breathes the full thrill of desire, while the symmetry...
