These are poems of despair/pain/suffering/suicide….
* from Scraps of Faith: 54 Poems of Lucius Furius:
Bobby [my brother’s suicide]
Herr Generalfeldmarschall Rommel Takes Cyanide
Oh, Dad [a dialog with my children]
Letter to Sophie [Russian immigrant longing for homeland, lost love]
*from A Poetry-Lover’s Guide to the World-Wide Web:
from Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5 (“Tomorrow, and tomorrow,…)
“Richard Cory” (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
“The Dark That Was Is Here” (Eli Siegel)
“Daddy” (Sylvia Plath)