Poems

I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that […]

25-year-old artist Samantha Jayne has created an awesome series of  illustrated poems, more like children’s rhymes, that depict everyday quarter-life struggles in an extremely humorous way! Quarter Life Poetry captures the frustrations, expectations and self-doubt of an age that for the majority of people is chaotic – financially, romantically and career-wise. If you are at you mid-20-somethings you will

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow– You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone?

I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie