Friendship Poems

Friendship Poems by Lost Love

Funeral Blues
by W. H. Auden Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky... Continue reading Funeral Blues

For Jane
by Charles Bukowski 225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works? in this room the hours of love still make shadows. when you left... Continue reading For Jane

Excerpt from Paradise Lost (Book IV)
by John Milton Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that... Continue reading Excerpt from Paradise Lost (Book IV)