Love Poems

Sometimes I start to become overwhelmingly aware of when I am "stressed out" from managing my home, raising my kids, and being a "hostess" to family when they come to visit by sensing feelings of tension, irritability, and agitation. I love to read poetry to help calm my nerves--a little brake and romantic escape from the daily annoyances that accumulate, and sometimes when unchecked make me a little nasty:

Here's a poem by Elizabeth Emery-

Slipping away when the moon is full

the sky a rosy blue

when everybody's still dancing

down to the lake

the moon reflecting in its deep green water

we run across the bridge

push the boat out

float to the middle without any oars

we lie in the boat on our backs

count the stars

we talk about fish and fuzzy towels

about pasta and shakespears' sonnets

you kiss me

I kiss you back

we make love as the boat floats across the lake

the sky blacker than a panther

Burning Love by Alan Frame:

Your love is like a storm of fire

Surrounding me whenever you appear

Sensations-from the heat of your caress-

Burn quickly (through my skin) to scorch my heart.

Your kisses kindle major fires

That flare with great intensity;

And when we kiss, the passion that transpires

Ignites flames of great immensity.

The flames consume me, but the flames are sweet.

They burn and burn-but I enjoy the heat.

The Cello by R. Earl:

The two of us, musically inclined

Took off our clothes and played together

On a stand-up bass

We strummed forever.

Speak To Me by M.L. Moeller

Speak to me not only with lip and words

but spell the words against my skin

so that I may not misunderstand.

Speak to me with music that fills my soul and not my head.

Speak to me not with words

but with the languange of the heart.

Trace your memories, your essence, etch these into my skin,

then when I'm not with you

I can feel you making love to me.

Love Is by Donna McGuire Tanner

Love is the candle of the soul,

Reason for tormorrow,

Comfort in sorrow.

Love is the breath of being,

Seed of maturinty,

Blanket of security.

Love is the echo of two hearts,

Mirror of emotion,

Commitment of devotion.

An emotion embraced by two

Love is you.