Sampson Starkweather’s “What if We Call This Tenderness” is a poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world. The ardent and persistent calls of a collection agency ...

I am enclosing a poem that gave me much comfort ... “We’ll shelter her with tenderness, we’ll love her while we may, “And for the happiness we’ve known forever grateful stay; “But ...

which he chronicles with deep tenderness. The mother’s breasts rising and falling as she breathes. Lines like this satisfy completely. Poems so content with life are rare, yet these seem to be ...

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the ...

Read the poem like a prayer, not like a piece of journalism ... anything to stamp out or ease the reality that life throws at us. These may dull the pain but they won’t help you process it.

The poem starts in a matter-of-fact fashion with ... Tonight, I am alone in my tenderness. There is nothing in my hand except a certain grasping. In my mind’s eye, I am stroking your hair ...

He writes love poems. No autobiographical stuff, nothing about the acute polio that left him severely disabled, and nothing about coping with pain and lousy luck. “My poetry is for the heart ...

Thomas Dooley’s debut collection of poems, “Trespass,” published in September, deals with the duality of vulnerability and forgiveness. “I think that sometimes going into a very vulnerable ...

Underneath the gravity of the poem’s speech, there is someone ready to burst with laughter. Underneath the laughter is a strange seriousness. Beside the wildness, there is tenderness.

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated International Women's Day by reciting a Soviet-era poem and thanking women for their "beauty and tenderness." "All this is for ...