Love Poems

  The River & The Sea She’s silver down a mountain side Moonlight or sunlight, she’s the bride. A River,...

  Isle of Romance O Isle of Romance, what a fanciful thought, _Most surely a sensual place--- Capri, Catalina, Tahiti...

  A Midsummer Night's Dream Whose dream are they, these four Athenian lovers whose mad misunderstandings mock each other? Moonstruck...

  Reviewed Poetry Book: Love Found, Yearned For, and Lost by James A. Tweedie by Theresa Werba I have had...

  Star Festival The legend of the love of a heavenly weaver girl and an earthly cowherd was recorded in...

  Song of the Frog Princess —a fairytale love song Whisk me away to an old fashioned dance where old...

  I This mystic draw, these pangs I feel for you--- Are they mere sparks, the scent of pheromones, Complex...

Reviewed Poetry Book: Canzoniere by Petrarch, Translated by A.M. Juster, Liveright (Norton) Publishing, 2026 by Margaret Coats A.M. Juster, longtime...

  What Folly Dares What folly dares inflict its spectral pow’r To grieve my love and I who burn to...

  The Diamond When Earth was young and life was new An alien forest clothed a land Where dreadful monsters...

  Poem 5 by Catullus (circa 84-54 BC) translated from Latin by Mary Jane Myers Ah, Lesbia, lust’s our sweet...

  Amore If looks could kill I’d be a dead man walking. Your drop-dead beauty has me in its spell....

  À la Carte A crouton on a flaccid salad, Your dinner date adds texture to An otherwise anemic toss,...

  Waiting for the Perfect Man A woman waiting for the perfect man, though she was far from perfect, had...

  Where the Ground Gives Way Once I took your face into my hand, and sunlight showed the tears within...

  Canzone of Parting   I There are secluded places in the wild Where the breeze settles, like a weary...

  The Lip Surely before I have felt as though heaven _were pressed to my lips such as this, Yet...

    A Wedding Song (Away the Winter) In May shall be her wedding day, When hawthorn blooms do scent...

  The Willow Guard Beneath a willow weeps a girl, All hidden by green fronds that furl And stretch and...

  To Thine Own Text Be True For My Autocorrect on Valentine’s Day You turn my hope to mope, my...

Listen, Wishin' Star Listen, you cotton pickin’ Wishin’ Star, I know how far up in the sky you are. I...

  Hallmark Holiday Some chocolates in a crimson, heart-shaped box— if ever there’s a thing that says I love you...

  The Mystery That Is You The gasping hulks of rusted wrecks that share with eyeless scavengers the mysteries of...

  Canzone Sung from the Mountains   I Above the source of the refreshing fountain, The sloping forest of the...

  Why Did I Kiss You? _I kissed you with no warning. _You softly asked me why. _I said that...

  Shards How unexpected did that moment come; How swift and sudden did that moment pass. A fleeting touch that...

  Two Sonnets by Nino Martoglio (1870-1921) translated from Sicilian by Joseph S. Salemi   I. Young lady, you who...

  Sunrise The world is blue at its beginning. Birth is what we wait for, at the edge of earth....

  Canzone at Evening by Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) translated from Italian by Margaret Coats At the hour when heaven rapidly...

  Encounters It seemed in dreams, as shadows we convene, two drifting souls that meet yet never stay; was it...

  Practicing Brahms ---Piano Solo, Intermezzo, Op 118 No. 2 (1893) My Steinway's gelid lacquered keys turn gauzy. The notes...

  A Solace   I. High hills we climb Till my coat is worn, “To the end of time, We’ll...

. A Century's Divinity Another time, another place, A waft of smoke, a peaceful space, Atop the club---a Deke at...

. Come Away with Me ___I ___Come away with me, ___Birds will never sing ___In the place where we ___View...

. Lyrics by Philodemus of Gadara (circa 1st century BC) translated from Greek by Joseph S. Salemi . V.13 Charito...

. Sally in Our Alley ---written by Henry Carey (born Aug. 26) in 1725 Of all the girls that are...

. Ten Floors I stepped into our building’s entranceway.It was aglow from bright sunshine that day.With friends she walked inside...

. This poetry challenge comes from poet Roy E. Peterson: Provide a poem about your inspiring Muse. If you name...

. There Was a Time I Tried to Love the Sun There was a time I tried to love the...

. Advice to a Young Man in Love If her name is Sally, then _Tattoo it on your arm With...