You Only Love Me When I'm Suffering: Poems

by Jon Lupin

Overview

This collection of verse shares the thoughts, musings, and wisdom that more than 100,000 Instagram followers enjoy from The Poetry Bandit.

You Only Love Me When I’m Suffering is a naked and powerful poetic portrait of love, heartbreak, and restoration. In this book of 200 poems from noteworthy Instagram poet Jon Lupin—better known as The Poetry Bandit—you’ll find a poetic trellis with heartfelt words and raw emotion coiling in and around its frame. Immerse yourself in the thoughts, musings, and wisdom that more than 100,000 Instagram followers have already found with The Poetry Bandit’s You Only Love Me When I’m Suffering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250207036
Publisher:	Castle Point Books
Publication date:	05/01/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	187
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

JON LUPIN is a writer, poet, and father, living in the suburbs of Vancouver, British Columbia, with his three kids and a dog. He is the author of the poetry collections You Only Love Me When I'm Suffering and Encyclopedia of a Broken Heart.

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CHAPTER 1

stillness

Stillness
dirge

You Only Love Me When I'm Suffering

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Table of Contents

Title Page,
Copyright Notice,
stillness,
Stillness,
Wonder,
Broad Canvas,
Breed,
Eulogy,
Innocence,
No Man's Land,
Misconception,
Window Shopping,
Trap Doors,
Followers,
Anthem,
Controller,
Crowns,
Angel's Work,
Playmate,
Chasm,
Rembrandt,
Hero,
Live-Model Canvas,
Time to Die,
You Will Never Know,
History,
Birdies,
Hike for Life,
Sojourner,
A Nice Flat Stone,
The Other Side,
Let it Be,
Bedtime,
Morning After,
Natural,
Rush Hour,
Finality,
Quest,
dirge,
You Only Love Me When I'm Suffering,
Spring,
Sadness Condensed Upon a Bathroom Mirror,
Traveler,
Black Dresses,
Warning Label,
Out of Nothing,
Furnaces,
Caesar Salad,
Drama King,
Hades,
Dancing,
Second Hand,
Humpty Dumpty,
Code Breaker,
Thaw,
Gossip,
Bandaged,
Tongues,
Lord's Day,
Catacomb Lovers,
White Cedars,
Christmas,
Bleached,
After the Fire,
Christmas in July,
Vagabondage,
Car Crash,
Empires,
Making,
Hologram,
Love Talks,
Ambulatory Care,
Hangman,
All of the Things,
Survival,
Cherubim,
Papercut,
Raynaud's Syndrome,
Enabler,
Artist in the Making,
It's Lit,
Carrion,
Trauma,
WMDs,
Taste Test,
151 Proof,
Hansel,
A Tiny Piece of Wood,
Clinical,
Eve,
Days of Yore,
Flogged,
Cemetery Love,
Catch-22,
Dirge,
emptiness,
Empty, Like a Church in Montreal,
Chaff,
The Show,
In the Ring,
Road Trip,
Pied Piper,
Rumpelstiltskin,
Honest Cup of Coffee,
Fool,
Cruelty,
Worry,
Squeeze,
Cold Java,
Alcoholic,
Three-Word Stories,
Born Again,
Silent Repeater,
Lonely Insomniac,
Apologies,
Princess,
Scotch and Ease,
Tissues,
Lost,
Hypochondriac,
The Sum,
Dungeon Dweller,
Side Effects,
Crowd Surfing,
Color Wheel,
Frozen Shoulders,
The Good Kind,
Circles,
flicker,
Flicker,
Growth,
Clear,
Hospitable,
Maelstrom,
Kaleidoscope,
Three Little Birds,
Mad,
Theme Song,
Chapter 11,
Victory,
The B-Side,
Excited,
Vapor,
Forester,
Dreamers,
Today,
China Doll,
Fairy Tales,
Speechless,
Singularity,
Tremble,
Dead Shakespeare,
Simple,
Blood Alley,
Blessings,
Unwanted Guests,
Need vs. Want,
Pep Talk,
Spectre,
Baptism,
Dew,
Urgent Love,
Mirage,
Lip-Sync Love,
Intentional Confessional,
Jigsaw Puzzles,
Damnation,
Lessons,
Speed of Light,
Homecoming,
Closer,
Safe House,
Clean a Dirty Mirror,
Dilation,
Bitter,
Floating,
Little Dragons,
Forest Fires,
Runaway Blake,
Remote Control,
Knifey Spoony,
Pauper Prince,
Pine,
Gold Rush,
Something's Different about You,
About the Poet,
Copyright,