Free Verse · Love
Two Cups
Marriage is two cups
on one small shelf —
not matching, never matching,
but reached for every morning
by the same four hands;
and love is not the porcelain,
love is the reaching.
Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.
“Two Cups” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/two-cups
Keep reading
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
William Shakespeare · 1609
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
14 lines · sonnet
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
William Shakespeare · 1609
Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,
14 lines · sonnet
Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
William Shakespeare · 1609
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
14 lines · sonnet