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# Love in Other Worlds: A Sonnet
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/love-in-other-worlds-a-sonnet/
- Published: 2022-06-04T21:16:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:00.000Z
- Description: To write love poems when this world’s a mess is like, depending on your point of view, finding jasmine on the moon—an excess of joy where all is bleak—or dreams of blue sky at night, of food in famine...
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

To write love poems when this world’s a mess  
is like, depending on your point of view,  
finding jasmine on the moon—an excess  
of joy where all is bleak—or dreams of blue  
sky at night, of food in famine, oceans  
flooding Mars. How much that once was is gone  
forever? We lose faith...What devotion  
love requires! Dear, on this rock I’ve drawn  
a heart, now make it beat, give it sweet blood  
to pump and spill, though the stars are bitter  
and there’s nothing to eat but long-dry mud;  
don’t look down, for Earth’s still there, aglitter,  
and when you touch my chest as if to turn  
a rusty tap within, she drifts off, spurned.