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Category Archives: Love Poems

Long Distance Sigh – A Poem by JP

If wine is mouth and love is eye
and William Yeat’s was made to sigh,
than I have loved your sight till blind
and drank myself out of my mind,
but I find no ease, love, or drink

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJanuary 2, 2022April 12, 2022Posted inLove PoemsTags:drinking song, poem, poet, poetry, unrequited loveLeave a comment on Long Distance Sigh – A Poem by JP

If All the Stars Should Go

I will predict that all could end.
That time should slip
and suns should burn

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 12, 2021August 23, 2021Posted inLove PoemsTags:free verse, Love poem, poems, poetry, poetry learning2 Comments on If All the Stars Should Go

Symbols of Love

There is a language dead
that grips the heart
from deep within its crypt.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 9, 2021August 9, 2021Posted inLove PoemsTags:free verse, poetry, poetry on love, symbolismLeave a comment on Symbols of Love

Five Miles

She says she is always there,
and I am always here,
so how is it
that five miles can feel
an oceans worth of divide.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 2, 2021August 2, 2021Posted inLove PoemsTags:Freeverse, Love poem, poem, poetry3 Comments on Five Miles

Easter Eggs

I want you to carry my eggs;
I trust you and the care that you take,
yet I know that you are afraid,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 31, 2021Posted inLove Poems, Poems about life, Short PoemsTags:poem, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on Easter Eggs

The Net

I wished that love
was not far-flung
as foreign coasts

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 21, 2021Posted inLove PoemsTags:love, poem, poems, poetry, poetry on loveLeave a comment on The Net

The Playground of Life

There is a gypsy in her hair;
a place where I slip off to breath,
a paradise of spring and new born things,
a playground made of laughter’s glee.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 17, 2021July 18, 2021Posted inLove PoemsTags:Love poem, poem, poems, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on The Playground of Life

Do not Fall For a Man Like Me

Do not fall for a man like me
I am not blind; I do not see.
I am the reason storms have names

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 16, 2021July 16, 2021Posted inLove PoemsTags:Love poem, Metaphor, poem, poems, poetry, Poetry about life, poetry on loveLeave a comment on Do not Fall For a Man Like Me

To My little Spoon

and tell the head that it is truly mad,
mixed up and made for something closer to art

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJune 23, 2021July 16, 2021Posted inLove PoemsLeave a comment on To My little Spoon

Her Autumn – Poem

When among the trees will autumn come?
What multitude of words will I have lost
among the soft-dying of sweet summer poppies

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 21, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inLove Poems, Nature Poems, Poems About DeathTags:bereavement, poem, poetry, Poetry on loss, poetry on love, verseLeave a comment on Her Autumn – Poem

The Nature of the Heart

A rolling field with a heart shaped tree is poetry

The heart is a hunter searching
before the dead of winter has melted;

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 20, 2020July 29, 2021Posted inLove Poems, Nature Poems, Short PoemsTags:mother poetry, poem, poetry, poetry about the heart, poetry mom, poetry on love3 Comments on The Nature of the Heart

The Fool

Should my heart suddenly explode
and cease it’s earthly needs,
and being stubborn leave for me

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 14, 2020July 19, 2020Posted inLove Poems, Uncategorized PoetryTags:on heartbreak, poem, poems, Uncategorized Poetry, verseLeave a comment on The Fool

On Loss

I wished to see your smile,
but got only pain the while—

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 9, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inLove Poems, UncategorizedTags:loss, love, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on On Loss

Blue Birds of Love

If I)
May make my heart

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 9, 2020July 15, 2020Posted inLove PoemsTags:love, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on Blue Birds of Love

I didn’t say

Sometimes love is cliché.
Damn the cost of being so young,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 8, 2020July 16, 2020Posted inLove PoemsTags:love, poemLeave a comment on I didn’t say

The Plunge

Around her I was Icarus
with wings alight and burnt to nubs,
now glowing as embers and garnets
as I slowly descend into the adjust
of knowing there is no longer an us
and longing to submit to the plunge.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 7, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inLove Poems, Short PoemsTags:break up, divorce, on break ups, poem, Uncategorized Poetry, verseLeave a comment on The Plunge

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