"Love Rejected," by Lucille Clifton

"the harder you try," by Charles Bukowski

"Midnight Raffle," by Langston Hughes

Love Poem Put Together Before Reading Guidelines for Assembly

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Love Poem Put Together Before Reading Guidelines for Assembly


I love you very mulch. I mean much. I like
the way your berries ripen on your vines, baby,
and I don't mean literally.

I like your skin. Suddenly that doesn't
sound like a compliment.

Hey, the connection between laughter
and sexual attraction is something
I've often wanted to discuss with
strangers I'm standing in line with--
your thoughts?  Words can possibly

express how I feel about for you,
I mean feel about you. That's
what words do--they feel about
and then they express. Like:

I love you! Look how easy that was.
I vow to you that I will bake you an apple pie
as diligently as I would bake it for anybody
else.  But to me, you're not anybody else,

okay?  I wrap this poem up for you now.
Please take it. I don't want it back.  I'm
so fond of you I'd like to fondle you
right away.  In other words, totally
in love with you: me.


Copyright 2011 Hans Ostrom

"November Sun," by Elizabeth Daryush

"Venice, Carnivale," by Hans Ostrom

"Venice, Carnivale," by Hans Ostrom

"The Albatross," by Charles Baudelaire

Political Sign

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Political Sign

Visible only for a while longer:
a white, blue, red candidate's
sign (name now inscrutable),
lodged under a green, brown,
yellow mass of blackberry vines,
brush, and ferns.





Copyright 2011 Hans Ostrom

"Abandon," by Li Po

"Spectrum," by Mari Evans

"trashcan lives," by Charles Bukowski

"Autumn Chant," by Edna St. Vincent Millay