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Love and Relationships themes
What each theme means, in a few lines. Tap one for its quotes.
Romantic love →
Chat-up lines, first kisses, a corner shop after hours, a couple making up by a lake. And the ends: a smile that has died, a name that sounds like a funeral bell.
Parents and children →
A father behind a plough. A mother with a tape measure. A son walking away. Most of these poems are a child looking at a parent, or a parent watching a child go.
Loss →
Love ending by a grey pond. Parents who are dead and young again at a picnic. A father who will not go away.
Distance →
Letters between Yorkshire and a city. Thoughts like vines reaching for someone far off. Love across miles, and what it costs.
Control →
A man who strangles his lover to keep her. A farmer who hunts his bride like a hare. Love that owns.
Memory →
A photo of a mother before she was a mother. Dead parents young again at a picnic. A grey pond that never leaves. Love remembered is half of love.
Growing up →
Letting go. A half-fledged thing. A tape measure that runs out. A boy climbing his grandfather. Children leave; that is the point of them.
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