Great Regulars: Yes, poetry can help!

Poetry can help you convince your girlfriend to return to the more traditional relationship, but poetry can also help you accept this arrangement--it depends on what you're looking for. I found some poems by the 15th-century Indian poet Kabir in The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir translated by Robert Bly that could argue for both sides. I'll begin with a poem that you can use to argue for reverting to the more traditional relationship:

from Kristen Hoggatt: The Smart Set: Ask a Poet: Yes, We're Open

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