Carli Jeen

101 Romantic Love Poems For You And Your Partner

Screw poetry, it's you I want.
Sade Andria Zabala
February 8, 2017
“I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d given up on asking love to come. I think that has to be part of its miracle. This is how we heal. 

I will kiss you like forgiveness. You will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms will bandage and we will press promises between us like flowers in a book. I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat on your skin. I will write novels to the scar of your nose. I will write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe the way it feels to have finally, finally found you. And I will not be afraid of your scars. 

I know sometimes it’s still hard to let me see you in all your cracked perfection, but please know: whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun or the nights you collapse into my lap, your body broken into a thousand questions, you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
— Clementine Von Radics, A Mouthful of Forevers
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense... spring.”
— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the Same as Doing Something Right
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Spring, Sex, Relationships, Intimacy, Passion, Dating, Spilled Ink
“I want to be your tongue most days.”
— Orooj-e-Zafar, Chronic Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Tagged: Love, Lust, Dating, Relationships, Spoken Word
“I love to hear your beautiful voice,
And I love to look on your handsome shape. 
All of your good qualities move me
On first sight they make me want swear that I love you. ”
— Titania, A Midnight Summer Nights Dream
Tagged: Love, Romantic Lines, Romantic Poetry
“Gently, we howl at the stars together.
Gently, we swallow each other whole.”
— Emily Palermo, Quote:  Emily Palermo, Love in the Time of Monsters (via mythaelogy)
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Relationships, romance
“His body is
a mosque,
my God,
his strong shoulders,
his soft chest,
his handsome hands,
I hear the call of prayer
every time I lay
my head
close to his heart.”
— Royla Asghar, The Prayer I Pray
Tagged: Love, Devotion, Poetry, romance, Dating
“Your entire body shakes when you laugh,
As if your sense of humour was built on a fault line
And the coast of your heart falls into the ocean of yourself
And I’m left looking for this Atlantis.”
— Shane Koyczan, Atlantis
Tagged: Poetry, Love, humor, Dating
“i want to paint a love poem
all over the sheets and you”
— Trudi Paraha, "Whaia i te Po," in Intimate Kisses: Poetry Of Sexual Pleasure
Tagged: Love Poetry, Love, Poetry, Intimacy, Sex, Making Love
“We crawl
through each other
and back again
guided by our blood-
electric finger tips.
I swim in you,
you in me until we
drift down, slowly”
— Roger Pfingston, "Occasion," in Intimate Kisses: Poetry Of Sexual Pleasure
Tagged: Love Poetry, Love, Poetry, Intimacy, Sex, Making Love
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart)
I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)”
— E. E Cummings, 100 Selected Poems
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Romantic Poetry
“I loved you
like a man loves a woman he never touches, only
writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
— Charles Bukowski, An Almost Made Up Poem, from "Love Is A Mad Dog From Hell"
Tagged: Poetry, Lovers, Passion, Desire, True Love Waits
“I'm going
to kiss
you,
and you're going
to
forget
your 
legs;
know this
and
prepare yourself
for 
falling.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Typewriter Series, Internet Poetry, Kiss You
“We find ourselves home
in these far away places,
these familiar arms.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Internet Poetry, Daily Haiku
“I know it doesn’t sound like it,
but this is a love poem, this is a love poem,
this is a love poem
until it isn’t anymore.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Love Poem, Poetry, Love
“The first time
I heard my name
in your mouth,
the ground felt like
a language I haven’t
spoken in years.
I forgot everything
I knew about gravity.”
— Rudy Francisco, No Gravity
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“Love, as I watch you sleep,
knowing the iron in the blood that keeps you alive

was born from a hard star-death somewhere in the past
that is also the future, and what I mean to say

is that I am so lucky to be living with you
in this brief moment of light

before everything goes dark.”
— Dean Rader, Still Life with Gratitude
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Darkness, Time, On Time, About Time, Movement, Love, Love & Relationships, Moving Forward, Cosmos, End Of Life, My Favorites
“I want to spend a decade just on your hands,
until I can tell yours apart from someone else's
just by brushing past them.

I want to spend a century on your mouth,
until I can taste you just by breathing near you.”
— Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“We loved like we were trying to make up for lost time.
Every touch an apology, an
'I'm sorry I haven't been with you every day since elementary school.'”
— Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“One day, it will be better. 
I will put the pen down 
and forget how to remember the nights I tried
to write you out of my system like an addiction.
It will be remarkable and I'll still want to call you.”
— Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“Here is the rest of my life stretched six-feet over my bedsheets
and his laugh sounds like angels fucking on a cloud
and he smells like sunlight after a long, night’s sleep
and when we kiss IT IS THE SKY ON FIRE.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, Atheist Finds Religion
Tagged: Love Poem, Love, Marriage, Poetry
“I want you to bite my lip until I can no longer speak
And then suck my ex-girlfriend’s name out of my mouth just to make sure she never comes up in our conversations.”
— Rudy Francisco, Love Poem Medley
Tagged: Forever FAVE, Poetry, Love Poem
“See I’m going to be honest, I’m not a love poet
But if I was to wake up tomorrow morning and decide that I really wanted to write about love I swear that my first poem…
It would be about you.”
— Rudy Francisco, Love Poem Medley
Tagged: Love Poem
“I know this sounds strange but every now and then I pray that God somehow turns you back in to one of my ribs...
Just so that I would never have to spend an entire day without you.”
— Rudy Francisco, Love Poem Medley
Tagged: Love Poem
“Of all the presents,
there’s one I want to unwrap:
You, and always you.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Daily Haiku On Love
Tagged: haiku, Love Poem
“Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, then I was dead.”
— Sylvia Plath, Love Letter
Tagged: Love Poem
“O Love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul thro'
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson, Fatima
Tagged: Love Poem
“Nothing is comparable to your hands and nothing is equal to the green-gold of your eyes. My body fills itself with you for days and days. You are the mirror of night. The violent light of lightning.”
— Carole Maso, Beauty Is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo
Tagged: Love Poem
“How was I to know
it would begin this way: every cell of my body
burning with a dangerous beauty, the air around me
a nimbus of light that would carry me
through the days.”
— Dorianne Laux, What We Carry(American Poets Continuum)
Tagged: Love Poem
“Have you ever noticed how wanting
burns you up
from the inside out?

Like one moment I am whole,

but then I hear
your voice on the phone

and I swear to god
three blocks away from here
they can smell smoke.”
— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed
Tagged: Love Poem
“I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered
if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
— Annelyse Gelman, The Pillowcase
Tagged: Love Poem, Abortion