Love Poems

Love poems. Is it possible to call oneself a poet and not write love poems? Follow me on my poetic ramble through my take on the many forms and distillations, circumstances and surprises of love . . . mostly the surprises . . .

• A Scattering of Birds
  The need to hold a love, overpowered by the requirement to let it free, if anything is to be gained.
• Close Around
  A tailor's metaphor of shape and fit, seamlessness and warmth.
• Concept
  The abstract idea of love, given shape and form by anything but reality . . . cool, huh?
• Corner of My Mind
  A reverent look at the memory of love and our unwillingness to let it go . . . after all, why should we?
• Don't Take it Personally
  Ah, but how else to take it? Coming apart has as many facets as a diamond.
• Experimental Conversation
  Who hasn't run that last meeting over and over in their minds and given it different, better, more rewarding words?
• Extravagance
  Ah well, investing everything we have in another is always a gamble . . . something not-to-be-repeated that we generally repeat.
• Fairy Tale
  One of my favorite poems about love and every aspect of it is true and if you don't believe that, you don't believe in fairies . . .
• Friends and Lovers
  Ended love does occasionally turn to friendship and what a lovely, warm thing that is.
• From Here
  Love doesn't need a lifetime commitment to be forever and if that sounds impossible, think about it.
• Heat Lightning
  Serendippity seems to be the key to it all.
• Immortality
  What would be your choice of remembrance by the loves you leave behind?
• It's Just the Wind
  Sure it is . . . tell me another about those tears in your eyes.
• Just Moments
  All our other loves come to the party as well . . . it's their nature.
• Ladders
  I just plain love this short little poem.
• Let's Pretend
  The desperate lunge to get it all back, to turn the pages in reverse and somehow find ourselves again.
• Lingering to Fall Away
  In love with the place we loved.
• Locks Without Keys
  Skin hunger in all its luxurious textures.
• Loving You
  Despite the obvious title, it's a pretty good poem.
• Mirrored
  That old buggaboo of finding your worth in someone else's eyes.
• Mostly in Mornings
  That little hiccup of self-doubt.
• Quiet Breath
  Oh man, this is a great poem for all those lost loves.
• Rest Stop
  If lovers come along like rest stops, maybe that's okay and maybe it's not so good.
• Sometimes
  Sometimes life beyond knowing is waiting there to know . . .
• The Song Might Play
  The love of two is never up to one . . . keep that thought.
• Standing
  Oh yeah . . . just glimpses of memory.
• There Should be Rules
  Another coming-apart poem, but then coming apart is as common as coming together.
• Thinking Me
  The best for last, my absolute favorite love poem.