“Naming The Heartbeats” by Aimee Nezhukumatathilĥ8. “When I Say That Loving Me Is Kind of Like Being a Chicago Bulls Fan” By Hanif Abdurraqib “Will You Still Love Me?” by Arielle Wilburnĥ7. “How to Love Your Introvert” by Kevin Yangĥ5. “Camomile Tea” by Katherine MansfieldĪnd, alas! for the little almond flowers,Īnd sipping a cup of camomile tea. “Love Is a Fire that Burns Unseen” by Luís Vaz de Camões, translated by Richard ZenithĪ pain that rages without hurting, 52. “How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog” by Taylor Maliĥ1. “For Him” by Rupi KaurĪ post shared by Sean Bates “Married Love” by Kuan Tao-sheng, translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling ChungĪnd a figure of me. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. “A Love Song for Lucinda” by Langston Hughes “To An Army Wife in Sardis” from S appho translated by Mary Barnard Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly 27. To my hurt heart, while yet the wound is clean. Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen.Only your word will heal the injury Their beauty shakes me who was once serene Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly “Untitled” by Amanda LovelaceĪ post shared by Tyler Knott Gregson “Rondel of Merciless Beauty” by Geoffrey Chaucer Sometimes as bruised with shadows as the afternoon. Sometimes she is the colour of lions, of sand in the fire of noon, Like light through an oriel window in a room of yellow wood Sometimes she is like sherry, like the sun through a vessel of glass, Through which he saw her head, connecting with That will solve a murder case unsolved for yearsīecause the murderer left it in the snow beside a window I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut “When Love Arrives” by Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye “Queen Anne’s Lace” by William Carlos Williamsĭoes not raise above it. “I Wanted to Make Myself like the Ravine” by Hannah Gamble Some love poems were posted on social media this year. These love poems I’ve collected vary widely. Since the days of epic poetry, poets have used sonnets, free verse, villanelles, slam poetry, short poems, and even instagram poetry to describe love. Whether it’s the love of friendship described between Gilgamesh and Enkidu or the romantic love Homer describes between Penelope and Odysseus or Paris and…himself, poets have been writing about love for a long time. Since there’s been poetry, there’s been love poems. And there are so many experts to choose from. Roses are red, Violets are…I guess I should leave the love poems to the experts. She loves writing about books on the Internet, listening to audiobooks on the subway, and reading anything with a twisty plot or a happily ever after. She has an MFA from The New School in writing for children and teenagers. Alison Doherty is a writing teacher and part time assistant professor living in Brooklyn, New York.
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