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Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Oklahoma. He earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for poetry, and...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Love
Answer to a Child's Question
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epithalamium
by Matthew Rohrer
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I Love You
by Sara Teasdale
It Was Raining In Delft
by Peter Gizzi
It's all I have to bring today (26)
by Emily Dickinson
Lullaby
by W. H. Auden
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
by William Shakespeare
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings
Song to Celia
by Ben Jonson
Sonnets on Love XIII
by Jean de Sponde
True Love
by Robert Penn Warren
Two Loves
by Lord Alfred Douglas
When You are Old
by W. B. Yeats
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)
by Emily Dickinson
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Credo  
by Matthew Rohrer

I believe there is something else

entirely going on but no single
person can ever know it,
so we fall in love.

It could also be true that what we use
everyday to open cans was something
much nobler, that we'll never recognize.

I believe the woman sleeping beside me
doesn't care about what's going on
outside, and her body is warm
with trust
which is a great beginning.




Copyright © 2001 by Matthew Rohrer. From Satellite. Reprinted with permission of Verse Press.
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