the truth about love

Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It’s the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other

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Say I forgot by Lorraine Mariner

Say I forgot how to love you, the way

when I was eight I forgot how to swim?

Could you steel yourself as my mother did

when she enrolled me in lessons for the holiday,

sat up in the stalls with a four-year-old

every morning for a month and afternoons

took me swimming herself in a learner pool

let me grip her hands willing

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Don’t Miss Out! Book Right Now for the Journey of a Lifetime!

Written by Imtiaz Dharker

We plan a holiday, a mini-break, a long weekend, a stolen week.
We trawl the options, seek out the perfect combination of hotel
and flight, the distant beach, the extra night, consider packing

suitcases, examine the travel clothes and lotions, get as far as
tying on

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