Category: Love Poems
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Betrayal Burns Like A Bonfire – A Poem of Love
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Betrayal Burns Like A Bonfire – A Poem of Love My heart is burning in the flames of betrayal – Scorching like a fiery furnace stripping away metal, Bubbling like a boiling brew over a kettle; Anguish stirs within. Oh, this wretched weakness, this bitter sin That I allow my anger to smolder. Steam sneaks…
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Umbrella – A Poem
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Umbrella – A Poem The world’s troubles pour all around me, But I am perfectly safe and dry Shielded underneath the armor of your umbrella – Rain sliding down its sides like shingles Nailed upon an angled roof. Droplets of pain drip down From the edges of your cover, But I am without a tear…
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Until I Met You – A Love Poem
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Until I Met You – A Love Poem The world stands still when I gazeInto your eyes of blue.Beloved, love was nothing more thanA foolish errand until the day that I met you.’Twas like an emerging butterflyThe way you transformed my soul.Once inched along the ground,Now fly since you’ve restored me whole.The hands of time…
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Love’s Wings – A Poem
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Love’s Wings – A Poem Imagine my surprise waking to findMy arms covered in feathers – now fully supported wings.My voice like the sweetness of a sparrow,Bellowed from a passionate heart that sings.I flew through the sky with a lightnessMy mind and body ever knew.For love, my burden was liftedThe day that I met you.The…
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Storms – A Love Poem
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Storms – A Love Poem I am blown by your gale, Caught up in a tempest My heart is unable to resist. Never has it known a love like this Whose storms of passion Leave me defenseless. Your rains hail me from afar, And the eyes of your storm summon me. My soul is a…
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Love’s Admittance – A Love Poem
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Love’s Admittance – A Love Poem A line in the sand was drawn – Some invisible wall designed To keep out the pangs of love. But here you stand Unscathed by my defenses, moving freely Around the interior of my heart. A thief I would gladly capture and exile, But your garb is whiter than…
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Something, Somehow, Somewhere, Somehow – A Love Poem
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Something, Somehow, Somewhere, Somehow – A Love Poem Something about you soothes me Like a long gulp of cool water Down my parched throat. Something about me moves you, Some miraculous ability to keep your eyes Blind to my mountains of misfortune. Somehow you capture me, Lasso my heart and rope me in With the…
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Love’s Reprise – A Love Poem
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Love’s Reprise – A Love Poem There was a time when the stars never shined And beauty withered and decayed, But now her love is mine – goddess surely divine, Beauty’s finest role ever played. Heart of gold, soul as old As yonder oak in forest green. Another story told, a new chapter unfolds About…
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Free – A Love Poem About Being Yourself
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Free – A Love Poem Just when I thought I’d seen it all, You burst onto the scene And shattered my expectations within An hour of your spirit’s introduction. Since my first glance there has been no reduction, No doubt that left me questioning my desire for you. My passion is a steady rising –…
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The Streets of Love – A Poem
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The Streets of Love – A Poem Somewhere in the depths of solitude There’s a searching, a seeking, An endless pursuit for meaning Among the daily rendezvous with silence And the lonely morning hangovers From drinking too many shots of unrequited love The night before. There’s Tylenol for a headache, but what do I give…
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My Love is an Ocean – A Love Poem
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My Love is an Ocean – A Love Poem My love is an ocean – An endless reservoir of new hope That collects new deposits from tributaries daily. My heart ebbs and flows With tides of passion And you, love, are the moon – The great gravitational force that wields control. My waters run deep,…
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Love’s Sacred Rite – A Love Poem
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Love’s Sacred Rite – A Love Poem Lie down beneath the moonlight. Celebrate with me in love’s mystery tonight. Shake the dust of past experience from your clothes And lay on me, my dear, your lonely woes. For I want you and all of you – Not just the pretty parts past loves knew. I…
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Reunion – A Love Poem
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Reunion – A Love Poem From the moment your voiceFirst left your lips I knew you.I recognized you from my soul’s masquerade,Dancing across love’s ballroom in dream.I remembered you from my subconscious longings,Some pattern painted across my mindTo give me ample warning when you walked through my door.You have finally arrived,And I want you by…
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A Lover’s Journey – A Love Poem
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A Lover’s Journey – A Love Poem If you offer me your hand, I will follow you Forever across fields of heather, Through the pastures of clover, And down the valley filled with bramble and thorn. Adorn your brow with freshly picked flowers, love And let us frolic beneath the sun, Entwined like creeping vines…
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A Plea To Love – A Poem
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A Plea To Love – A Poem Oh, this wanting, this waiting, This endless pursuing A feeling that waxes and wanes Like the cycles of the moon. Her eyes dangle like glistening diamonds, But close and pass out of sight much too soon. I squander the hours away, Smoking the days up like cigarettes in…
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The Great Unifier – A Poem About Love
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The Great Unifier – A Poem About Love It is love that spands the cosmos Unaltered by time, Unmoved by distance, years, wrinkles, Or finite desire. It stands tall like a lighthouse at sea, Promising to keep a lantern lit, A light radiating regardless of how hard the wind whips And how thunderous the sea’s…
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Will You? – A Love Poem
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Will You? – A Love Poem Will you dance with me for a moment, Take my hand and let me waltz you away? Will you whisper to me your dreams And tell me tales of yesterdays? Will you open your heart for just a minute, Just long enough for me to plant a seed? Will…
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Beauty – A Love Poem
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Beauty – A Love Poem There are no words fine enough, No metaphors fair enough, No lines long enough, To describe your beauty. Your move me with your mystifying glances That dance like fireflies Flickering in the summer breeze, Shooting sparks through the dark. My heart jumps with certainty Knowing that you are a rare…
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