In the sun ‘tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.Īnd her ways to my ways resign But she was not made for any man, And she will never be all mine.
Vincent MillayĪnd she will never be all mine She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. Reach, rise, blow, Sálvame, mi dios, Trágame, mi tierra. You wrap your name tight around my ribs And keep me warm. You reach - then bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. You blow a breeze and brand Your breath into my mouth. You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky, The hottest blue. You taught me how to live without the rain. they feel like beginnings, like a chance to make things right again. “Untitled” by Pavanaĭon’t feel like wounds in your hands. It was the breath we took when we first met. What is this maze of light it leaves us in? What is this stance we take, To turn away and then turn back? What did we hear? What was that sound that came on in the dark? The words I love you could never be enough. I dream of your body even when you are sleeping in my arms. Whenever I am away from you, the distance between us,Ī burdensome thing, I always think of you in colors, the smell of coffee as you so proudly make it for me, the perfect sunlight spilling in through the window. “When You Come” by Maya Angelouīeckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. But the following love poems will make your heart skip a beat. There are even sexy poems if you’re looking for something decidedly more sultry.
There are funny poems and, on the other end, breakup poems. Of course, poetry exists to capture the full spectrum of the human experience. Alfred Prufrock”? By their very nature, love poems are timeless because they describe the most timeless of emotions. Have you read the picture Pablo Neruda paints of true love in “Sonnet XVII”? Or the young, ill-fated romance of Edgar Allen Poe’s “Annabel Lee”? What about the aching, unrealized love described so meticulously by T.S. Love poems, no matter how old, stir something inside of you. And perhaps the most universal experiences of all have been those of the heart - romance and heartbreak and longing. But as long as people have walked the earth, writers have been using artfully crafted words to describe life’s experiences. Granted, not always in the form we think of now, with rhyming words and iambic pentameter. Since the dawn of time, poetry has existed.
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