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flowerytale · 4 months
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Sharon Olds, from "Little Things"; Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
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havingapoemwithyou · 1 month
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true love by Sharon Olds
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firstfullmoon · 3 months
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Sharon Olds, “Late Poem to My Father”
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antigonick · 8 months
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If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, And she does not want to be seen.
—Sharon Olds, excerpt of "Known to be Left", in Stag's Leap
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llovelymoonn · 4 months
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patrick white the vivisector \\ sharon olds one secret thing: poems: "something is happening" (via @flowerytale)
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apoemaday · 27 days
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Sex Without Love
by Sharon Olds
How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other’s bodies, faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away. How do they come to the come to the come to the God come to the still waters, and not love the one who came there with them, light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin? These are the true religious, the purists, the pros, the ones who will not accept a false Messiah, love the priest instead of the God. They do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure, they are like great runners: they know they are alone with the road surface, the cold, the wind, the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio- vascular health — just factors, like the partner in the bed, and not the truth, which is the single body alone in the universe against its own best time.
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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I know where you are / with my eyes closed, we are bound to each other / with huge invisible threads,
Sharon Olds, Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002; from ‘True Love’
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thoughtkick · 10 months
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Once you lose someone, it is never exactly the same person who comes back.
Sharon Olds
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iphisesque · 9 months
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I Go Back to May 1937, Sharon Olds
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claudiadelionlac · 1 year
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Satan Says
BY SHARON OLDS
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sunsetquotes · 1 year
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Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back
Sharon Olds; Satan Says
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flowerytale · 8 months
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Sharon Olds, from "Something Is Happening", One Secret Thing: Poems
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sorrydetka · 1 year
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desire, love, godliness
fleabag 2.06 // hippolytus by euripides (trans. anne carson) // munich, winter 1973 (for y.s.) by james baldwin // the meeting in a dream by jorge luis borges // hannibal, ‘secondo’ 3.03 // epipsychidion by percy bysshe shelley // les misérables by victor hugo // know-nothing by sharon olds // eros, the bittersweet by anne carson
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firstfullmoon · 9 months
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Sharon Olds, “The Chute”
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antigonick · 6 months
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—my old love for him, like a songbird's rib cage picked clean.
—Sharon Olds, excerpt of "Years Later", in Stag's Leap
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lifeinpoetry · 1 year
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How sorely I wanted to be sane. What a life we are given! Sudden, and cold, with blood on it.
— Sharon Olds, from "Paper Doll Ballad, for Fats," Balladz
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