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Free Verse · Love

Two Cups

by The QuillOak Editors

1Marriage is two cups

2on one small shelf —

3not matching, never matching,

4but reached for every morning

5by the same four hands;

6and love is not the porcelain,

7love is the reaching.

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Poem
Two Cups
Poet
The QuillOak Editors
Length
7 lines
Form
Free Verse
Themes
Love

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QuillOak originalTwo Cups, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
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Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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