What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...

This past year I designed an undergraduate course that I called ‘The Poetry of Love’. One of the challenges of the course was how to define “love”. The English language bundles many ...

Poem 2 Every dawn, I search for your lost gaze, but only find shadows of a love that never was. Poem 3 My heart, wounded and ...

The teenage love affair with ghazals was to last for long: Bakshi set about acquiring a proper knowledge of Urdu, which was not her mother tongue, and began writing Urdu poetry of her own.

Her poem Variations on the Word Love discusses many forms of love, but ultimately, for me, it is a reminder of the awesome power of that emotion. She speaks of how the word "love" - only four ...

That was the moment I fell in love with poetry. I begged my parents to buy the children’s book for me so I could read and re-read my favorites, and decades later, the tattered hardcover (the ...