 What is a love poem? Is it necessarily a poem about romantic love? About romance? Marriage and commitment? Or is a love poem something else entirely? In a recent short story I wrote, a writer is told by a young critic that he doesn't understand love. "It's neither noble nor eternal, as you would have your audience believe," she says. "Nobody understands love," the writer admits. "It seems to be Universal. Timeless. Yet, it's also very individual, filtered by our own lives and expectations. I don't understand love, and can't understand love, because it's a different thing for each of us." These love poems are Universal. Timeless. And yet very much a different thing for each of us. We hope you enjoy them...
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| Love Poems continued | Author |
| A Shoulder To Cry On | Malcolm Coleman |
| "Did I do something wrong?" How many times have each of asked, or wanted to ask, that bewildered question? How many times has our only answer been terrible silence? | |
| Missing Sunshine | Maria Byrne |
| Change is almost always difficult, and sometimes even when we seek it -- still we fear it. | |
| The Dream Of Paradise | Malcolm Coleman |
| When two people are separated by vast distances, sometimes the only thing they have left are their dreams. | |
| The Reason | Malcolm Coleman |
| Why? is a question frequently asked by little children and young lovers. | |
| Time Heals All | Wendy Croft |
| Sometimes the very structure of a poem can be its real message… | |
| Trust | Malcolm Coleman |
| Asking to be trusted is as fruitless as asking to be loved. What do you do when the one you love doesn't trust? | |
| Unexpected No | Wendy Croft |
| In Love, as in all things, timing is paramount. This is a story about bad timing… | |
| Ancient Memories | Lex |
| In which we "sing" (quite literally) of memories of love. | |
| Your Love | Lex |
| The road to Love is curved, bumpy, and filled with unexpected barriers. This song of Love speaks of a few… | |
| Music From Within | Agnes Nogal |
| The right love carries with it many surprises… | |
| Passionate Encounter | Mrs. Poetry |
| Take a trip into a person's heart, where sincere words struggle to emerge. | |
| Soulmates | Agnes Nogal |
| There are many kinds of love. But there is only one kind of forever. | |
| I Found Love | LaTiefa Alston |
| This is a touching poem of a romance that could not survive the "forever" of fairy tales, but nonetheless refuses to die. | |
| Perfect Love | Mia |
| What would the Perfect Love be like? | |
| Thirty-Six Years Now | Rosemary J. Gwaltney |
| Too few people write of the tender beginnings of a long love affair. Is it because not many begun in childhood, last? Well, here's one that did! | |
| True Love | Jeremy Redinger |
| When words otherwise fail us, sometimes the simplest thing to do is say, "I love you." | |
| In the Fir-Laced Study | Rosemary J. Gwaltney |
| To marry someone with whom you share a common passion, must be one of life's greatest treasures. I was blessed with such a gift. | |
| Forever Yours | Brier |
| There are some people we love and can never forget. Even if, perhaps, we should… | |
Phases Of The Moon |
Michael Anderson |
| This isn't really a love poem. Or is it? Love, after all, can mean different things to different, uh, people… | |
| I'll Love You |
Angel Towe |
| A Love Poem doesn't always need to be somber and serious. Sometimes, cute and serious work just as well. | |
| You Are My Treasure | Angel Towe |
| Love is all about giving, and this poem expresses that in a very simple, compelling way. | |
| Time Will Tell | Michael Anderson |
| A young adolescent approaches a girl he barely knows. And the words he finds, to express hidden feelings, brings sweet rewards. | |
| A Blue World | Jessica |
| Can a color really describe, so beautifully, how someone feels when they are with the one they love? You be the judge. | |
| Seasons | Maria Byrne |
| Does Love flow and follow the seasons, ever-changing, ever unpredictable and new? How could it not? | |
| The Thought | Michael Hopkins |
| If absence makes the heart grow fonder, it can also play very strange tricks on the mind. | |
| A Bed of Roses | The Unknown Poet |
| When you love someone dearly, you want to be with them. Sometimes, you can't. | |
| The Fallacy | Michael Anderson |
| This is one of those rare poems that crosses boundaries. It's a love poem, about love, with some deep insights into love. But it's also a sad poem, because as too often happens, those insights came too late. | |
| Confused | Jennifer Wooters |
| A confused love is the worst of all loves. | |
| Only You | Jeremy Redinger |
| Falling in love, especially when you're young and shy, can bring unexpected fears. | |
| The Rose | Stanley Naber |
| Is love like a red, red rose (as some famous poets contend)? Maybe. Maybe not… | |
| I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found | Dane Ryan |
| This poem talks about my wife and how we met. | |
| Prisoner Of Love | Wanda Holloway |
| Is this poem a fantasy? Or is it, instead, an evil desire each of us harbors from time to time? | |
| No Promises | Ron Carnell |
| I've rarely been described as a 'man of few words,' but sometimes I think less can indeed be more. | |
| Sharing |
Ron Carnell |
| Science has shown us there are Natural Laws upon which our Universe is based. This poem is about one you won't find in any Physics book, though. | |
| Friends | missmorenaj |
| A poem entitled 'Friends' in the section on Love? Could this be a mistake? Or is it, perhaps, simply the revealing of a very gentle, almost universal Truth? | |
| Touching A Dream |
Michael Anderson |
| Sometimes love comes and goes so fast you have to ask yourself if it was real. It certainly felt real to me. | |
| Sleeping Beauty |
Michael Anderson |
| They say, "Only a fool wishes for what he can't have." --- I guess only an idiot walks away from what he can. | |
| Unforgotten Words |
Maria Byrne |
| Sometimes the most beautiful poems of love come out of a First Love - as it's ending. | |
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