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Quotes tagged “Love Poem”

“I don’t want to know what your favorite color is
but I do want to know what color you bleed
when you’re with me.”
— Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being
Tagged: Love Poem, Colors
“You were the first word that I ever wanted to write.”
— Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being
Tagged: Love Poem
“I look at you and see all the ways
a soul can bruise, and I wish
I could sink my hands into your flesh
and light lanterns along your spine
so you know that there’s nothing
but light
when I see you.”
— Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being
Tagged: Love Poem, Light
“You were the one that I wanted to feel the earth rotate with.”
— Shinji Moon, via Tumblr
Tagged: Love Poem
“You know, they say that there is a part
of the human chest that if you strike it hard enough
the person’s heart explodes. This sounds like such a lie
that I have to believe it’s the truth. If I were sci­ence,
I’d never tell any­one where this place is. If I were sci­ence,
I’d have named this place after you.”
— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Not As Smart As I Think I Am
Tagged: Love Poem
“The round sky goes on minding its business.
Your absence is inconspicuous;
Nobody can tell what I lack.”
— Sylvia Plath, PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS
Tagged: I Miss You, Love Poem
“Kissing you,
Is a bundle of kittens,
Colliding with my face,
At point five miles an hour.”
— Neil Hilborn, Static Electricity
Tagged: Kissing, Love Poem
“you
are the one, you that I loved all my life long,
you I still love so in my dying mind
I grasp me loving you when we are gone.”
— A.F. Moritz, You That I Loved
Tagged: Love Poem
“Glory be to God for sexy things—
For cries of coupled lovers as they bind and bow;
For moles that on her hip’ll make his dolphin swim,
Fresh and fired up; nutty balls; G-strings;
Lovescapes pulsing and flesh-shoaled—furrow and plow;
And all shapes, their leer and freckle and whim.”
— Dabney Stuart, Pied Booty
Tagged: Love Poem
“Science—

beyond pheromones, hormones, aesthetics of bone,
every time I make love for love’s sake alone,

I betray you.”
— Katherine Larson, Love at Thirty-Two Degrees
Tagged: Love Poem
“he pressed against me, cock on cock and tongue against tongue
saw his reflection in my marshy eyes and did not flinch such weakness

held, sustained by this capable stroke, boatswain of my crossing

I take the death I’m moored to.”
— D.A. Powell, Crossing into Canaan by D. A. Powell
Tagged: Love Poem
“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?”
— John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne(Modern Library Classics)
Tagged: Love Poem
“Whatever you choose to claim
of me is always yours;
nothing is truly mine
except my name.”
— Stanley Kunitz, Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
Tagged: Love Poem, In love
“I had been secretly hoping this would turn into a love
poem. Disconsolate. Illiterate. Reader,
I have cleared this space for you, for you, for you.”
— Olena Kalytiak Davis, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities
Tagged: Love Poem
“It is good to be weary from that brilliant work
It is being God to feel your breathing under me

A waterglass on the bureau fills with morning . . .
Don’t let anyone in to wake us.”
— Kenneth Patchen, Collected Poems
Tagged: Love Poem
“Your body is a map I know every inch of
and if anyone else
were to kiss me, all they would taste
is your name.”
— Clementine Von Radics, via Tumblr
Tagged: Love Poem
“I know you and I are not about poems or other sentimental bullshit but I have to tell you even the way you drink your coffee knocks me the fuck out.”
— Clementine Von Radics, Ten Love Letters
Tagged: Love Poem, Dayum
“I’m gonna bite the bullet. I mean,
the apple. I mean,
I know what you want to do to me
and I am not afraid of snakes.”
— Clementine Von Radics, Untitled
Tagged: Love Poem, Risk Taking, Finding Love Again
“but I don’t care
about looks.
Set the dumpster

on fire. Break
the windows.
Don’t kiss me

like they do
in the movies.
Kiss me

like they do
on the emergency
broadcast news.”
— Daphne Gottlieb, Sexy Balaclava
Tagged: Love Poem, Kissing
“My kiss
Tastes like a shotgun
To the lips,
You’ll like it.
It’ll make you feel brave.”
— Sabrina Benaim, First Date
Tagged: Spoken Word, Love Poem, kiss

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