More Romantic Love Poems

A further selection of Paul Curtis's romantic poems, which focus on love as emotional roller coaster ride which can lead to feeling of exhilaration or nausea.

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A Distant Lover

A much less opaque narrative romantic poem in which the protagonist looks forward to the return of his absent lover.

A missing you narrative poem in which a man feels intensely the absence of his lover and dreams of her return and the opportunity to fall in love afresh.

Dreaming Of You

Walking alone on a bright summers day
I’m thinking of you though you’re far away
Wishing you were with me neath this sky of blue
In my lovers daydream I’m walking with you
I dream of you every step and every stride
Picturing you with me walking by my side
Soon I won’t have to dream to have you near me
And my phantom lover will have to flee
Your perfume will intoxicate me like wine
Then I will really feel your hand in mine
And then we can fall in love anew
Until then I must keep dreaming of you

Tables Turned

A possible contender for the sad love poetry category, I Thought My Heart was Broken is in fact an uplifting poem about things turning out better the second time around.

A poem which just avoided inclusion with the sad love poems because the overriding message, once we get over the pain of the separation, is overwhelmingly positive - you can be freed from an unsatisfactory relationship and find something (or someone) a great deal better.

I Thought My Heart Was Broken

I thought my heart was broken
On the day she said goodbye
I loved her so much
I loved her too much
All my friends said
“You’re better off without her”
“Plenty more fish in the sea”
But I wasn’t so sure

I thought my heart was broken
But in the end I was mistaken
Though I felt pain
I don’t want to feel again
My friends were right
I was better off without her
And there were more fish in the sea
Of that I was assured

I thought my heart was broken
On the day she said goodbye
But it was not you see
And if she had not left me
Then my friends, the matchmakers
Would not have trawled the seas
And found the perfect girl for me
My future is now secured

Romantic Fulfillment Awaits

A romantic poem about the fulfillment that love can bring to an otherwise empty life.

A poem about the redeeming and fulfilling nature of love which is romantically repetitious in a manner reminiscent of the Beatles.

Love, Love, Love

How great is the feeling
Of love, love, love
Brought on the wings
Of a snow white dove
Sent by the angels
Who dwell high above
A love so perfect
It fits me like a glove
My life was so empty
Of love, love, love
But to keep my life full
You are the solution thereof

Short and Sweet

Another sweet, some might think sickly sweet, romantic poem. If you’re browsing through the site while devouring a box of chocolates, you should now be about half way through the bottom layer. Beware the pentagonal chocolate wrapped in mauve foil; it’ll be either coconut or a violet cream.

A romantic love poem which is blessed with both simplicity and sentimentality; so much so that you could almost claim to have written it yourself.

In Sunshine Or In Shadow

In sunshine or in shadow
Your love sets me aglow
In perfect calm or raging storm
Your love keeps me warm
In times of drought or flood
Your passion warms my blood
In summer bright or winter dark
You are always in my heart

An Interrogative Poem

A poem which asks the eternal question ‘Are you the one?’ Is it You? contains some quite alarming sexual allusions ‘Or will you be another square peg, In my round hole?’, but perhaps I’m reading too much into it. (By this stage, you’ll have grasped that the person who writes the introduction to the poems isn’t always the same person who writes the poems AND is toying with eating the stray purple pentagonal chocolate. Don't, it's poisonous – Ed).

A series of qualified questions interrogate the reader as to whether they are the one to make the writers love life complete, or some huge disappointment like that hand knitted Christmas gift From a well meaning aunt.

Is It You?

Is it you?
Are you the one?
Are you my missing puzzle piece?
That will make me whole
And complete the unfinished picture
Or will you be another square peg
In my round hole

Is it you?
Are you the one?
The special other half of me
If we touch will we bond together?
Seamlessly, our borders undefined
Or will we repel like opposite poles
Never to be joined

Is it you?
Are you the one?
The shadow of my soul
Will we fit like hand in tailored glove?
Or will you be like
That hand knitted Christmas gift
From a well meaning aunt

Is it you?
Are you the one?
My long lost soul mate
Will we wear each other?
Like comfortable shoes
Or some fashionable pair
That pinch and rub

Is it you?
Are you the one?
The one that’s made for me
Or don’t you exist
When our fingers touch
Will electricity pass between us?
Or will it just be a static shock
That makes us flinch

Is it you?
Are you the one?
The one I have always sought
Or is it that you don’t exist
And I have set my sights to high
My heart won’t let me believe that
So take my hand and we will try
Can you feel that?

A Life Transformed

A uplifting romantic poem in which a man describes how his life has been transmogrified by the experience of falling in love.

And now in colour! Warm and uplifting, No More Monochrome holds an inspirational message about the ability of love to transform lives.

No More Monochrome

Colour lives where once was only monochrome
A symphony resounding instead of monotone
Tranquility resides where once the tempest raged
A life both rich and warm like a fine wine aged
A light illuminating what was darkly shrouded
Blue skies prevail when once they were clouded
A world with no more madness as I return to sanity
A life with no more uncertainty only simple clarity
Abiding warmth replacing the chill winters cold
Dormant senses come alive when your hand I hold
Happiness has banished anguish pain and sorrow
Happiness with you yesterday today and tomorrow

As Broad As It's Long

I appear to have misplaced the original version of Love’s Metaphor, but the revisited version is a romantic poem overflowing with the an abundance of metaphors which should win it a place in the hearts of all over-enthusiastic but under-achieving English teachers.

A romantic love poem which could alternatively be titled The Mystery of the Missing Metaphor. It should delight romantics and educators (awful Americanism for teachers, lecturers and other educationalists) in equal measure.

Love’s Metaphor Revisited

Not even the angels above
Could make a better match
So please be with me
And I will make you happy
Such is the depth and breadth
Of my lasting love
Intense and profound
Broader than the horizon
And the measure of an ocean deep
Enduring till that watery abyss
Dries to sun baked desert
And its powdery form runs
Through your fingers
And loves metaphor is blown away
Like smoke on the wind

EBB Sonnet 43.1

A poetic homage to Elizabeth Barret Browning's iconic poem, How Do I Love Thee?

A poetic tribute to the iconic poem How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) written by English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Thank You Elizabeth

How do I love thee?
Was Ms Browning’s question
Let me count the ways.
Was her suggestion
But how to begin
That list of criteria
Or to select one phrase
To serve as a Panacea
Her answer was perfection
The perfection such as I desire
I love you as deep and wide
And as high as my soul can aspire

A Poem About Togetherness

A long, languid love poem in which the protagonist reveals himself a true romantic at heart.

A poem which is first and foremost about togetherness - the strong romantic bond that comes from being in a lasting relationship.

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You Must Know I Love You

You must know I love you
I hope I show you that I do
For the sweetest moments in my life
Are the ones I spend with you

You are my first thought
When I awake to the new day
And the last thing on my mind
At night when I drift away

I wish I could tell you
Of the love that’s in my heart
I want you to feel the depth of love
I’ve felt for you from the start

I would use sweet phrases
And sugary words of love
The sweetest ever known
Speaking of columbine and dove

No the words that I must choose
Are the simplest that I can use
What I'm feeling deep inside
Is the deepest love for you

A Cloak of Invisibility

Much as you may be hoping for a poem about cardiac transplantation as little light relief, So I Will Give You My Heart is another romantic confection. Time for another chocolate, perhaps.

Is is better to be overlooked than spurned? A putative lover finds that he is adorned with a cloak of invisibility as far as the object of his affections is concerned, but this only makes him more ardent in his pursuit.

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So I Will Give You My Heart

You are a vision in my eye
A veritable goddess, exquisite
Perfection, that’s what I see
When I look at you
But when you look my way
You don’t really see me
It’s as if I am invisible
You look right through me
You don’t even see my beating heart
So full of love for you
More with every passing day
But I cannot make you see me
So I will give you my heart,
I can give nothing more
Being invisible and insubstantial
Here it is, take my heart
Guard it and keep it secure
Until that moment when
You feel the same as I
And the heart I gave to you
Becomes more precious than a gem
That instant when your heart
Takes you unawares
And I am no longer invisible
That moment you crave to be with me
And will be content
To be my only love

Sieze the Day

And another.

Carpe diem would seem an appropriate alternative title for this poem about grasping romantic opportunities whenever or wherever you encounter them.

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On Life’s Great Journey

On life’s great journey
When sweet love crosses your path
Seize it with great urgency
Capture it and keep it safe
Do not let it loose from your grasp
Lest it slip through your fingers, and be gone
Hold it tightly
Cherish it, nurture it, and watch it grow
Until it wraps itself about you
Like a great loving cloak
Protecting you from the world
Making you invincible
And you will know true happiness
But when on your life long expedition
And sweet love crosses your path
Ignore it at your peril
For who can say
When it might pass your way again

An Unhappy Union

A poem about love's chains that bind a couple in an ill matched relationship, but there are opportunities to escape and find solace in the arms of another.

If the title conjures up the aural assault that was the Soft Cell song of the early 1980s, be assured that Paul's conjoin twin is gentler, but similarly impenetrable.

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Tainted Love

Cursed our souls
When cupids arrow
Missed its aim
And speared our hearts
Hearts not free to love
Hearts otherwise wedded
In blessed union

But cupid’s strike
Left us fettered
Bound together
With loves chains
Enslaving us
Bonding us with love

Conjugated by fate
Entangled marionettes
Puppets of love
Reluctantly performing
To another’s will

Held in love's grip
By fates curse
That bittersweet gift
Of deceitful ardour
Duplicitous romance
Forbidden passion
That gift of love
With the curse of betrayal

Knowing loves intimacy
The joy of closeness
The warmth of tenderness
Passion made manifest
Emboldened the psyche
Elevated the soul
Flames of passion
Burning deeply
Cleansing all
But the guilt

Enchanted by Eros
Beguiled by Amor
Spellbound by adoration
But gripped by fear
Fear of being together
Fear of discovery
But the overriding fear
Of separation

An Encounter on a Country Walk

A tenderly romantic poem about an encounter at a stile which marks the first steps of a young couple on the path of true love.

A chance encounter at a country stile proves a live changing, or at least path altering, event.

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The Rustic Stile At Lanes End

Cursed our souls
When cupids arrow
Missed its aim
And speared our hearts
Hearts not free to love
Hearts otherwise wedded
In blessed union

But cupid’s strike
Left us fettered
Bound together
With loves chains
Enslaving us
Bonding us with love

Conjugated by fate
Entangled marionettes
Puppets of love
Reluctantly performing
To another’s will

Held in love's grip
By fates curse
That bittersweet gift
Of deceitful ardour
Duplicitous romance
Forbidden passion
That gift of love
With the curse of betrayal

Knowing loves intimacy
The joy of closeness
The warmth of tenderness
Passion made manifest
Emboldened the psyche
Elevated the soul
Flames of passion
Burning deeply
Cleansing all
But the guilt

An Unbreakable Bond

An affirmative poem about the strength, and frailty, of romantic love.

A love poem which will get the simile hunters salivating in the best pavlovian tradition.

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Our Love Is Tough

Our love is tough
Our love is strong
Made in England Apropos

As strong as tungsten steel
It’s as hard as granite rock
It won’t melt away like the April snow

It’s made of sterner stuff
The only thing that will break it
Is if we let it go

An Incendiary Poem

Let our love forever burn is the concluding line and overwhelming message of Paul's romantic poem. And I'd secretly hoped for a cerebral poem about urethritis.

A poem of love and anguish in which the speaker pleads to be neither hurt nor thrown over.

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Burning Love

Emblazoned on my heart
Seared into my soul
The fire of love burns within
Please don’t extinguish
This fire in my soul
Don’t add another scar
To my tortured heart
Scar upon vivid scar
Keep the embers aglow
Let our love forever burn

The Solitude of the Seaside

A romantic poem about the solitude and romance of the seaside. Romantic, that is, provided you escape the sweaty hordes.

A poem of romantic contentment and lazy days spent at the seaside with a loved one (and a wet shaggy dog, which is perhaps less enticing).

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Days Down By the Sea

Days down by the sea 
Far away from amusement arcades
Away from the pier
And noisy shopping parades
Just wide empty beaches
The salt sea breeze in my hair
What ever the weather
I really don’t care
Long languid days
Spent down by sea 
Just a wet shaggy dog
My lady and me

Nocturnal Reveries

Undoubtedly from the tender and sentimental basket, a romantic poem about the power of dreams.

A dreamy quality pervades this poem in which a lover daydreams about his dreams of his significant other. If this introduction has a certain circuosity, so be it.

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Dreams

When I have dreams
Those dreams are of you
I tingle at the thought of them
Those dreams so blue
Each searing moment
Is burnt in my memory
I hope when I sleep tonight
I dream again of you and me

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