Greasy Spoon Saloon: Double Entendre

It’s the year of the cock and I woke up
early to sit next to the pussy willow drinking a
cocktail
under the warm afternoon sun
stroking my pussycat as she lays their tired
and lazy like a
cockatoo

By Michelle Rydberg

Last words of a dying man

Sadness, grief and sorrow are emotions we all experience. Poets and writers have long realized how expressing your emotions with words can help in dealing with the pain. To give words to your deepest feelings, to shape your most painful emotions into verse, to release the pain locked in your heart; this is the true power of the poem.Some of the most famous poets lived sad, dark, depressed lives filled with pain, loneliness, depression and even suicide. These poets were artists who used words to express their painful and sad feelings and share them with the world. These words joined together became poetry, sad poetry filled with their yearnings for relief from their pain. Their unbearable sadness was the catalyst for some of the best poems ever written.