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  1. Upon the Absent Beloved

    I bless the hour, though it wounded me,
    when first my eyes were taught to look and grieve,
    and every joy I thought my heart could weave
    was turned to golden thread of misery.

    For Beauty came, and with her majesty
    made captive all I had believed was free;
    yet in that chain my soul learned how to see
    the heaven hidden in captivity.

    O gentle light, too distant to be mine,
    you burn within me like a sacred flame;
    I flee from you, yet follow all the same.

    Thus love makes bitter water into wine:
    I die of longing, yet I live by this—
    the wound itself has taught my heart its bliss.

    Author’s Note: My attempts at a poem in the style of Petrarch

    #burningHeart #celestialLight #classicalImagery #devotionalArt #inkIllustration #laurelWreath #longing #lovePoem #parchmentAesthetic #Petrarch #Petrarchan #Poetry #renaissanceInspiration #Romanticism #sacredHeart #starSymbolism #symbolicArt #symbolicIllustration #unrequitedLove #woundedHeart
  2. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay

  3. There were never strawberries
    like the ones we had
    that sultry afternoon
    sitting on the step
    of the open french window
    facing each other
    your knees held in mine…

    —Edwin Morgan, “Strawberries”🍓
    published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

    carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #Valentine #lovepoem #lovepoetry #EdwinMorgan #20thcentury

  4. Like the Idalian queene,
    Her haire about her eyne,
    With necke and brests ripe apples to be seene,
    At first glance of the morne
    In Cyprus gardens gathering those faire flowrs
    Which of her bloud were borne…

    —William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), “Like the Idalian queene”

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #17thcentury #earlymodern #poem #poetry #lovepoem #lovepoetry

  5. Here is a letter
    come across the ocean
    over the back of a world
    curved like a whale…

    —Hugh McMillan, “Letter”
    published in THE OTHER CREATURES IN THE WOOD (Mariscat, 2014)

    scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/p

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #poem #poetry #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Valentine

  6. O dastram, dastram,
    Dastram Mòrag!
    Rìbhinn bhuidh’, bhasdalach,
    Leac-ruiteach ròsach…

    —Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, bho “Moladh Mòrag”
    published in DASTRAM/DELIRIUM: Selected Poems of Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Versions by Taylor Strickland (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

    brokensleepbooks.com/product-p

    #Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #ValentinesDay #poem #poetry #18thcentury #love #lovepoem #lovepoetry

  7. When you go,
    if you go,
    and I should want to die,
    there’s nothing I’d be saved by
    more than the time
    you fell asleep in my arms…

    —Edwin Morgan, “When You Go”
    published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

    carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #poem #poetry #Valentine #lovepoem #lovepoetry #EdwinMorgan

  8. Not a red rose or a satin heart.

    I give you an onion.
    It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
    It promises light
    like the careful undressing of love…

    —Carol Ann Duffy, “Valentine”
    published in A Red Rose or a Satin Heart: An Anthology of Scottish Love Poems, @canongatebooks 2010
    💝

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #poem #poetry #womenwriters #lovepoem #CarolAnnDuffy

  9. A handful of flowers, bound with silent prayer,
    Each tender petal dreams that you are there.
    As springtime trembles at love’s very first sigh,
    So does my heart when your soft name drifts by. 🌷✨
    #Poetry #LovePoem #ShakespeareVibes #RomanticLines #FlowerPoetry #SoftLove #HeartWhispers #love #nature #naturephotography #love

  10. Cosmic Seduction
    by Crissy Bliss Addams

    I am the Sun.
    When I want, I flare—
    violent, naked, solar.
    I ache like a star
    on the edge of collapse,
    my gravity begging
    to pull you in.

    I am not soft.
    I am slick with hunger,
    primed to consume.
    I want your orbit wrecked,
    your breath stolen,
    your body trembling
    in my heat.

    I don’t crave—I consume.
    I want to taste you
    until gravity breaks.
    Let me orbit your pulse,
    tongue tracing constellations
    only I can name.
    Let me hear you collapse
    into pleasure—
    a supernova
    on my lips.

    I don’t crave—I devour.
    I want to make the constellations
    forget their names
    As they observe me take you.

    Let me eclipse your reason,
    split you open
    like light through a prism.
    Let me swallow you whole
    and spit you out
    reborn in my fire.

    #poetry #lovepoem #EroticAstrophysics

  11. Devour You Whole
    by Crissy Bliss Addams

    I am the Sun.
    When I crave, I combust.
    My skin sings for your touch—
    spicy, salty, sacred.
    I don’t just want you.
    I want to burn you
    into every galaxy
    I ever create.

    I am the Sun.
    When I want, I scorch.
    Your absence is agony.
    My skin howls for your heat.
    I don’t crave softly.
    I burn.
    I blaze.
    I beg the stars to watch
    as I devour you whole.

    I am the Sun.
    When I ache, I unravel.
    My thighs ache for your grip.
    My mouth dreams of your sweat.
    I don’t miss you—
    I combust.
    Come home.
    Let me ruin you
    with pleasure.

    #LeoInferno #lovepoem #ThirstTrapPoem

  12. Hot Chocolate Hope #lovepoem

    Lived a few lifetimes in one.
    Been married. Divorced. Healed.
    Met someone new. Didn’t work out.
    Been heartbroken. Healing. ❤️‍🩹

    I’ve felt your warmth in quiet moments,
    like the hush of snowfall or the first sip of cocoa on a cold day. You feel like peace. Like presence. Like home.

    Before you, I learned to hold myself. I stitched together the pieces of a heart once overlooked, and in doing so, I became whole. I stopped waiting for someone to choose me and chose myself. Then you found me!

    I’m not looking for a saviour. Am looking for a mirror: someone who’s met their own shadows and still chooses light. Someone who knows that love isn’t a hiding place, but a garden where truth can bloom. 🌸

    We won’t always get it right. But we’ll be honest. We’ll be soft where it matters and strong where it counts. We’ll build a love that feels like a favourite mug: worn, warm, always within reach.

    Together we are: living, healing, laughing, sipping something sweet. Remaining spicy, always.

  13. For Cheyenne

    Roaming across Wyoming, you meet many folks,
    But the Cheyenne, they say, are as strong as oak.
    They bend and stretch through the plains as they roam,
    And the company they keep is the richest, deepest loam.
    For never have I met a people so fine—
    And I hope, through the hold, I might find their glen in time.

    #poetry #romanticwriting #lovepoem #originalwriting #greatplains

  14. Two girls hide their love for each other;
    Wait and see what love will uncover.
    Wait and see if something will happen —
    Wait, waiting for love to kidnap them.
    Two girls melt under the starlight;
    Two girls find the hidden path before them;
    Two girls find their burden is cumbersome;
    Two girls think the grass is greener on the other side.
    Wait, love, and hide —
    medium.com/prismnpen/two-girls

    #LGBTQ #Poetry #SapphicPoetry #LovePoem

  15. Oh Mother,
    what wrong did I do to this earth
    or to the futile gods that sit up above?

    What deed did I ever do so wrong
    to learn from their mouths
    that my beloved is gone?...
    medium.com/prismnpen/the-body-

    #LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #LovePoem

  16. There were never strawberries
    like the ones we had
    that sultry afternoon
    sitting on the step
    of the open french window…

    —Edwin Morgan, “Strawberries”
    published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

    Hot poetry for a hot day 🍓🍓🍓

    carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #summer #love #lovepoem #LGBTQ

  17. Under a full moon where two fates did mix,
    Veiled promises unspoken that were betwixt.
    And in that single pause between the beats,
    Silent gazes complicate what once was neat...
    medium.com/prismnpen/under-a-d

    #LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #LovePoem

  18. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us:
    blind in the present, eyes open to the furore…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    A poem for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #love #lovepoem #Pride #PrideMonth #JackieKay

  19. Love rules. Love laughs. Love marches. Love is the wolf that guards the gate.
    Love is the food of music, art, poetry. It fills us and fuels us and fires us to create.
    Love is terror. Love is sweat. Love is bashed pillow, crumpled sheet, unenviable fate…

    —Edwin Morgan, “Love”
    A poem for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
    published in A BOOK OF LIVES (Carcanet, 2011)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857549188/a

    #Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #love #lovepoem #loveislove #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2025

  20. It’s living with ships
    makes a rough springtime
    and who is safe
    when they sing and blow
    their music …

    —Edwin Morgan, “Floating Off to Timor”
    published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/c

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Spring #Glasgow #lovepoem #LGBT #LGBTQ

  21. Like a light blue butterfly
    Flying on the snowdrops
    Of any garden existing,
    My thoughts flies
    Around the world
    And then they come back
    In order to understand
    What my heart could ever love
    More than your breath.
    Inside me
    Your name is written,
    Your eyes living in me.
    There is the fire
    But also the rain,
    Anonymous drops falling
    From my cheeks
    Down on my hands.
    I'm hopeless and,
    At the same time,
    Your only hope.

    -Debora Radice

    🥀

    @poetry

    #poetry #lovepoem #love #lovelines #wordsoflove

  22. Like the Idalian queene,
    Her haire about her eyne,
    With necke and brests ripe apples to be seene,
    At first glance of the morne
    In Cyprus gardens gathering those faire flowrs
    Which of her bloud were borne…

    —William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), “Like the Idalian queene”
    published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS (ASL, 2022)

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #love #lovepoem #ValentinesDay #earlymodern #Jacobean #17thcentury

  23. Like the Idalian queene,
    Her haire about her eyne,
    With necke and brests ripe apples to be seene,
    At first glance of the morne
    In Cyprus gardens gathering those faire flowrs
    Which of her bloud were borne…

    —William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), “Like the Idalian queene”
    published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS (ASL, 2022)

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #love #lovepoem #ValentinesDay #earlymodern #Jacobean #17thcentury

  24. Like the Idalian queene,
    Her haire about her eyne,
    With necke and brests ripe apples to be seene,
    At first glance of the morne
    In Cyprus gardens gathering those faire flowrs
    Which of her bloud were borne…

    —William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), “Like the Idalian queene”
    published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS (ASL, 2022)

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #love #lovepoem #ValentinesDay #earlymodern #Jacobean #17thcentury

  25. Like the Idalian queene,
    Her haire about her eyne,
    With necke and brests ripe apples to be seene,
    At first glance of the morne
    In Cyprus gardens gathering those faire flowrs
    Which of her bloud were borne…

    —William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), “Like the Idalian queene”
    published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS (ASL, 2022)

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #love #lovepoem #ValentinesDay #earlymodern #Jacobean #17thcentury

  26. Like the Idalian queene,
    Her haire about her eyne,
    With necke and brests ripe apples to be seene,
    At first glance of the morne
    In Cyprus gardens gathering those faire flowrs
    Which of her bloud were borne…

    —William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), “Like the Idalian queene”
    published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS (ASL, 2022)

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #love #lovepoem #ValentinesDay #earlymodern #Jacobean #17thcentury

  27. O, love, love, love!
    Love is like a dizziness;
    It winna let a poor body
    Gang about his biziness!

    James Hogg (1770–1835), “Love is like a dizziness”

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #JamesHogg #Scots #Scotslanguage #ValentinesDay #love #lovepoem #humour

  28. A great cover of "Love Poem"
    by Boo Seung-kwan (부승관) from Seventeen (세븐틴) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    Original song by IU (아이유)

    Great singing also! ❤️

    youtube.com/watch?v=cmX5Oyag2U

    #IU #아이유 #LovePoem #Music #Seventeen #세븐틴 #SeungKwan #승관 #부승관 #AsianMastodon #Kpop

  29. A great cover of "Love Poem"
    by Boo Seung-kwan (부승관) from Seventeen (세븐틴) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    Original song by IU (아이유)

    Great singing also! ❤️

    youtube.com/watch?v=cmX5Oyag2U

    #IU #아이유 #LovePoem #Music #Seventeen #세븐틴 #SeungKwan #승관 #부승관 #AsianMastodon #Kpop

  30. A great cover of "Love Poem"
    by Boo Seung-kwan (부승관) from Seventeen (세븐틴) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    Original song by IU (아이유)

    Great singing also! ❤️

    youtube.com/watch?v=cmX5Oyag2U

    #IU #아이유 #LovePoem #Music #Seventeen #세븐틴 #SeungKwan #승관 #부승관 #AsianMastodon #Kpop

  31. A great cover of "Love Poem"
    by Boo Seung-kwan (부승관) from Seventeen (세븐틴) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    Original song by IU (아이유)

    Great singing also! ❤️

    youtube.com/watch?v=cmX5Oyag2U

    #IU #아이유 #LovePoem #Music #Seventeen #세븐틴 #SeungKwan #승관 #부승관 #AsianMastodon #Kpop

  32. A great cover of "Love Poem"
    by Boo Seung-kwan (부승관) from Seventeen (세븐틴) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    Original song by IU (아이유)

    Great singing also! ❤️

    youtube.com/watch?v=cmX5Oyag2U

    #IU #아이유 #LovePoem #Music #Seventeen #세븐틴 #SeungKwan #승관 #부승관 #AsianMastodon #Kpop

  33. CW: mushy poem, origin unknown

    safe and hidden away
    nestled in his bed
    hanging onto each other
    as if he'd disappear
    if i let him slip out
    of my embrace
    trying to commit
    every trace of his shape
    to my memory
    just so it'll stay
    with me forever

    #inlove #truelove
    #loveislove #lovequote
    #poetryislife #poetrylovers
    #versethrusday #lovepoem