A request

[bemkah.livejournal.com]

I'm looking for any poems you guys might have on dealing with heartbreak, moving on, etc, but that aren't cheesy or overly dramatic. Thanks heaps.

Comments

[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

Someone posted "One Art" (Elizabeth Bishop) in this community recently (http://community.livejournal.com/greatpoets/2463915.html), which is I think the most lovely understated heartbreak poem I know.

Another Millay for you:

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.
Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.
If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly,
And no such summer as the one before.
Should I outlive this anguish — and men do —
I shall have only good to say of you.