Hear Martin Galvin read this poem (in RealAudio). (For help, see a note about the audio.) Like totally kept my kiss list going? Weird. Martin Galvin is a poet who lives in Maryland. His poems have ...

She also has a playful sense of humor, which really helps. There’s longing, loss, lust, and quite a bit of kissing. In her poem “Get an Afterlife” she writes: “She wants him like she used ...

Perhaps Mir’s most devastating critique would be of Lucknawi poet Jurat’s ghazals which he called ‘not poetry, but descriptions of kissing and licking’ (chumachati). This particularly ...

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves him ...