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“i need someone
who knows struggle
as well as I do
someone
willing to hold my feet in their lap
on days it is too difficult to stand
the type of person who gives
exactly what I need
before I even know I need it
the type of lover who hears me
even when I do not speak...”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Love, Lover, Preferred Partner, Love & Connection, Love & Relationships, poem, Poetry
“I once had a thousand desires,
but in my one desire to know you,
all else melted away.”
— Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved
Tagged: Love, romance, liking someone, Loving Someone, Yearning, admiration, poem, Poetry
“Why do I love what fades?”
— Mark Strand, Collected Poems
Tagged: Love, pain in love, pain in loving, suffering in love, Heartbreak, poem, Poetry
“...as brightness, pouring itself out of you,
as if you were
burning inside.

Under your skin the moon is alive.”
— Pablo Neruda, Ode To A Naked Beauty
Tagged: Nudity, nakedness, naked being, admiration, poem, Poetry
“You teach me again what it is
To be human...”
— Paul Eluard, Ring of Peace
Tagged: Love, romance, Fall in love, Learning To Love, Loving, Loving Again, Human Experience, poem, Poetry
“Making love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea.”
— Kenneth Rexroth, The Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
Tagged: Love, romance, make love, Making Love, Sex, poem, Poetry
“...I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her voide. Her bright body. Her inifinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.”
— Pablo Neruda, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, pain in love, breakup, Missing Someone, suffering for love, poem, Poetry
“She lends her pen
to thoughts of him
that flow from it
in her solitary.

For she is his poet
and he is her poetry.”
— Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
Tagged: Love, Lovers, Poetry, poem, love & relationship
“...I will be your poet,
I will be more to you than to any of the rest.”
— Walt Whitman, The Poems of Walt Whitman
Tagged: Love, romance, Courtship, expressing of feelings, expressing of love, poem, Poetry
“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
— Pablo Neruda, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Tagged: Love, romance, Sex, Lust, Desire, Yearning, Missing Someone, Loving, loving somebody, poem, Poetry
“I still search for you in crowds,
in empty fields and soaring clouds.
In city lights and passing cars,
on winding roads and wishing stars.”
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, breakup, Finding Someone, Soul Mate, Right Person, Love & Relationships, poem, Poetry
“What no one ever talks about is how
dangerous hope can be.
Call it forgiveness
with teeth.”
— Clementine Von Radics, Home
Tagged: Hope, forgiveness, danger in hope, hope is dangerous, Life, poem, Poetry
“You're like the ocean...
Pretty enough on the surface,

but dive down into your depths,
you'll find beauty most

people never see. Lucky me,
I fell in, headfirst.”
— Ellen Hopkins, Burned, Volume 1
Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, affection, Feelings of Love, Confession of Love, Fall in love, Fell In Love, poem, Poetry
“I need a good woman. I need a good woman
more than I need this typewriter, more than
I need my automobile, more than I need
Mozart; I need a good woman so badly that I
can taste her in the air, I can feel her
at my fingertips, I can see sidewalks built
for her feet to walk upon,
I can see pillows for her head,
I can feel my waiting laughter,
I can see her petting a cat,
I can see her sleeping,
I can see her slippers on the floor.

I know that she exists
but where is she upon this earth
as the whores keep finding me?”
— Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
Tagged: Good Woman, Love, Lover, Right Person, romance, poem, Poetry
“When he offers his lips,
go for his throat.”
— Clementine Von Radics, Home
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, breakup, pain in love, poem, Poetry
“I would kiss you in the middle of a lightning storm. I would kiss you knowing it would kill me, cause I'd rather be left for dead than left to wonder what thunder sounds like.”
— Andrea Gibson, Wasabi
Tagged: Love, romance, Slam Poetry, poem, Poetry
“It’s your flaws
I want to taste.
Your crooked mouth.
The way you smell after
being out all day.
The lump in your throat.
Your shaky hands.
Your morning breath.
Your prickly legs.
Your pimpled politeness.
Your tangled hair.

I don’t want to be able to
run my fingers through you
easily. It’s no fun writing
about perfections.

I want to talk about you-
flawed,
crooked,
endless
you.”
— Lora Mathis, Black Coffee
Tagged: Love, romance, Loving Someone, loving a person, Attraction, smitten, affection, Infatuation, poem, Poetry
“Your name is
the strongest
positive and negative
connotation in any language
it either lights me up or
leaves me aching for days.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Love, romance, Loving Someone, Attraction, Lover, pain in love, happiness in love, struggles in love, Love & Relationships, love & struggles, poem, Poetry
“I could build a future between your thighs
then look into your eyes trying to find
my own private history channel
with a life long documentary
on whether or not this was meant to be
and I don’t want to turn any of this into poetry
but
you’re so beautiful
flowers turn their heads to smell you.

And when I’m all alone
I’m riffling through the pockets
of my mind trying to find spare excuses
so I can call you on the phone
and it’s strange
the way I need a reason
just to call you up and say
that I thought about you today.”
— Shane Koyczan, Visiting Hours
Tagged: Love, romance, loving passionately, Passionate Love, Loving Deeply, Loving Someone, Special Person, poem, Poetry
“oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much”
— Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Tagged: Love, Loving Someone, good life, Living A Good Life, Life, ideal life, poem, Poetry

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