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kaaatie
09-22-2008, 04:33 PM
I've just broken up with my boyfriend and want to find some poems fitting my mood, poems about heart break or losing someone. Can you recommend any good works?

Currently I'm loving One Art, Elizabeth Bishop's villanelle on the subject:

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.


--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.


I would appreciate being pointed in the direction of good poems of any genre or period with a similar theme. Thanks everyone!