almost love index

Almost Love with Selected Long & Short Poems

Welcome to my collection of poems.

Here you will find poetry written on a variety of subjects, including love, nature, family, growing up, and even food.
Some are light. Some are serious. Some are both. I do write some social issue poems, but I consider that genre to be extremely difficult to do well. Polemics seldom make good poetry, at least to my way of thinking.
These poems were written over a period of time spanning about 12 years, and they include some of my published work, as well as a feature article about me that accompanied the publication of Pan Am 103 which won the Syracuse NewTimes Haiku award in 1997. I sincerely hope you enjoy your time here.

Darle Wright Doran
Winner of the 1997 Syracuse New Times Haiku Contest
and author of Almost Love

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NEW ADDITIONS! The Complete Psyche: A Retelling, Watching from the Window, Walk with me, Death

The Complete Psyche is the completed version of Psyche: A Retelling. I've also written an introduction to the myth for those unfamiliar with the myth. Proceed to the index and click.

Index to Poems: The Long and the Short of it

Almost Love:
Selected Short Love Poems

Artemis / Goddess
October, divine harlot

The Complete Psyche

Consider The Brevity

Couplets:
Poems on Uncoupling

Forgive Me for Saying

Foundling

Herons
Haikus,
and short forms

Hot Bread

In Tantra

Is Rage the Woman who Sleeps with You
A Blade Borne Unconcealed