Swoon-Worthy Love Poems For Valentine’s Day

When you think about poems love poems in particular which one comes to the forefront of your mind? Is the sonnet How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning engrained in your memory? How do I Love Thee is one of the most popular love poems ever written.

       How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

       I love thee to the depth and breadth and                    height

       My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

       For the ends of being and ideal grace.

       I love thee to the level of every day’s

       Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

       I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

       I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

       I love with a passion put to use

       In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s                faith.

       I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

       With my lost saints,—I love thee with the                  breath,

       Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God                    choose,

For Valentine’s Day, I would like to introduce you to some not so famous passionate poems about love.

Stardust

If you came to me with a face I haven’t seen, with a voice, I have never heard, I would still know you. Even if centuries separated us, I would still feel you. Somewhere between the sand and the stardust, through every collapse and creation, there is a pulse that recognizes you and I.

When we leave this world, we give up all of our possessions and our memories. Love is the only thing we take with us. It is all we can carry from one life to the next.

-Lang Leav Memories

Not Anyone Who Says

       Not anyone who says, “I’m going to be

careful and smart in matters of love,”

who says, “I’m going to choose slowly,”

but only those lovers who didn’t choose at all

but were, as it were, chosen

by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable

and beautiful and possibly even

unsuitable —

only those know what I’m talking about

in this talking about love.

-Mary Oliver

       The universe is a brilliant writer,

it wrote your name
in my stars

before any of us existed

so when the time comes

they’ll light up your path

and lead you straight to me.”

― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

What is this stance we take,

  To turn away and then turn back?

What did we hear?

It was the breath we took when we first met.

Listen it is here.

-Harold Pinter

Idle Dreams

       In idle dreams of long ago,

        I imagined my true love;
A perfect match, a soulmate,
An angel from above.
Now you’re here, and now I know
Our love will stay and thrive and grow.

-Joanna Fuchs

   You gave light to my soul
You helped me to be whole
I have felt love for you before
And it will be more and more,

      You are mine, my dear
You are the angel from above
Who taught me how to love.

      Please, forever keep me near.
—

   In all the world there is
no heart for me like yours.
In all the world there is
no love for you like mine.

-Maya Angelou

When I see you again

       When I see you again,

 I’ll stand closer,

So you can hear my heartbeat,

and understand,

What I could never say.

— Entela Gjetja

Juke Box Love Song

       I could take the Harlem night

and wrap around you,

Take the neon lights and make a crown,

Take the Lenox Avenue busses,

Taxis, subways,

And for your love song tone their rumble down.

Take Harlem’s heartbeat,

Make a drumbeat,

Put it on a record, let it whirl,

And while we listen to it play,

Dance with you till day–

Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.

-Langston Hughes

How do you tell your sweetheart you love them on Valentine’s Day? Do you prefer to select a quote, phrase, or greeting card sentiment for your special friend? Would you feel comfortable attempting to create a love poem of your own?