Michael Donaghy

Michael Donaghy

New York
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Michael Donaghy
New York
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Black Ice and Rain Comments

Rating: 4.9

Can I come in? I saw you slip away.
Hors d'oeuvres depress you, don't they? They do me.
And cocktails, jokes … such dutiful abandon.
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Kelley Ann Hornyak 08 September 2023

This is phenomenal. I stumbled in here and wasn't expecting to find a gem like this! I ate it up. Now it's time for me to read the rest of his work!

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jim hogg 08 November 2022

One of the 'best' poems I've read this year. All the classic unrequited love issues/cliches brought vividly to life/death by new angles and images.

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Smoky Hoss 08 November 2022

Agreed. The images 'burn', as does love missed...

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Latheef Moodadi 21 June 2022

Superb

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jc 20 February 2021

This was quite intense. I wish he'd ended up with the girl tho. But this ending fits, sort of.

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Tc 23 December 2020

Awful

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jc 20 February 2021

dont be an and denigrate a work somebody obviously put there heart and a good portion of their soul in.

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chris g 13 February 2020

OMGosh! Exquisite! Words fail me, so hard for the spots this poem touches to verbalize. Heart and soul stumble as they try to get the tongue to do justice. Thanks for sharing this here.

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Michael Donaghy

Michael Donaghy

New York
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