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You are like marble concealed by the universe,
sculpted by time with fingers of light.
Yet, beneath your silent splendor,
lies a pulse of beauty that leaves me speechless.
Your grace is more than mere appearance,
but a verse that has forgotten its letters.
Your eyes hold an ocean without shores,
your smile makes the seasons refuse to change.

#Poetry #Poem #PoetryCommunity #LovePoetry #WritingCommunity

She is the Star He Never Forgets:
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https://jpriyanshu347.substack.com/p/she-is-the-star-he-never-forgets?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=399p1t

#NowPlaying #PakistaniMusic #LovePoetry

#AliAftabSaeed - "Batti (Sab Nu)" (2018)

A glorious #ghazal for you this Sunday morning, courtesy of the paring knife-wielding Ali Aftab Saeed. @Theorem_Poem recently introduced me to this man's wonderful music. Though I'm relying on e-translations, the #Punjabi lyrics seem as equally beautiful as they are biting.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=iivFeh5pZhs

"...Let the saints keep their halos;
Let the eternal and ethereal angels
Guard the golden doors..."
Guilty of You by ᒪᑌᑕIᗩᑎ ᖇᕼOᗪE https://medium.com/lit-up/guilty-of-you-29748409122a
#poetry #lovepoetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity

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Love Speaks in Understanding—
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#substack #substackwriter #poetry #poetrycommunity #lovepoetry #lovestory #WritersLife #writing #writerscommunity

https://open.substack.com/pub/jpriyanshu347/p/love-speaks-in-understanding?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=399p1t

#poesiaitaliana #poeticantebob #amore #lovepoetry #sorrisi #love

Pure Souls Feel Rare in This World —
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#soul #love #life #poetry #poem #writers #writerscommunity #writing #lovepoetry #substackwriters

https://medium.com/the-gravity/pure-souls-feel-rare-in-this-world-df6464801d51?sk=9abfa935dc3cd75cbb9627dfc3d4b8ad

The sword cannot do to me what you have done,
Nor is meeting my enemy like meeting you.
Even if an enemy’s arrow stayed lodged in my chest all night,
It would not hurt me as much as your eyes have.

#Poetry #ArabicPoetry #LovePoetry #Heartbreak #DeepFeelings #RomanticLines #Emotional #ClassicPoetry #Words #Feelings

in me the moon rises
in me the sea swells
in me the surf breaks

my heart awakens
to the song of waves
my tides 
seek you out

i carry too much ocean within me
for a quiet life

all of me is drawn to you
again, again

with you i want to be the tide
with you i forget the shore
with you i am
open sea

#lovepoem
#lovepoems
#lovepoetry
#secondlife

Now the poem I just posted is also in rhyme :) :*

I send you five kisses,
the shortest still shakes.
For you, one is rain,
one sunrise awakes.

The fourth of the five
loses its haste,
the slowest one stays—
in night’s soft embrace.

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#lovepoem
#poetrylovers
#lovepoetry

A short poem, in English and French (« cinq baisers »):

I send you five kisses –
the shortest
still trembles

for you –
one in the rain,
one in the morning sun

of the five kisses –
the fourth
loses its haste

the slowest –
lingers
in the night

#poetry
#poetrylovers
#lovepoetry

je t’envoie cinq baisers –
le plus court
tremble encore

pour toi –
l’un pluie,
l’autre soleil du matin

des cinq baisers –
le quatrième
perd sa hâte

le plus lent –
reste
dans la nuit

#poesie
@alexbarthelemie

#A Birthday Letter to My Heart
#Another year older, another year learning to love and trust my own heart. 🎂❤️

#HappyBirthdayToMe #LetterToMyHeart #SelfLove #BirthdayReflection #PoetryFromHeart #InnerStrength #GratefulHeart #NewYearOfLife #SelfGrowth #AnjaliDk#HealingJourney#EmotionalPoetry #PureLove#BirthdayPoem #LovePoetry #BirthdayWish #HeartfeltWords #ForeverTogether #LoveAndCare

paint me
red, pink, violet —
whatever sky remains

dress me —
your hands
quieting the fabric
still carrying the weather

read me —
blank page —
come closer

#poetry
#lovepoetry
#poetrylovers
#PoetryOnMastodon

you paint the silence
between us —
until i can no longer tell
where i end and you begin

not the colours
but the spaces between
where your breath
lingers on my skin

eyes open
i unfold
the path leads
to the place where i miss you

as if you had
always been absent
in a life
i cannot recall

not just seeing
but deciphering, reading —
your paintings let me in
into your space

#poetry
#lovepoetry
#eroticpoetry

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)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jackie-kay/bantam/9781509887927

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

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)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967

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

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”

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/jacobean-parnassus/

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

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)

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/letter/

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

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)

https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/taylor-strickland-dastram-delirium

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

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)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967

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

i refrain•
i'm difficult•
i can't▪︎

None or one•
One or none•
None or none•
One or one▪︎

i’m both
Somewhat happy
And mostly sad▪︎

Jazalyn
3-4-3
Refrain [N(one) 01100011]

#poetry #art #sciencefiction #scifi #historicalfiction #history #poem #love #romance #matrix #supernatural #paranormal #mathematicalpoetry #mathematicalpoem #lovepoetry #spaceopera #lovepoem #romanticsuspense #mystery #suspense #literature #symmetry #metaphysics #metaphysicalpoetry #metaphysicalpoem

https://medium.com/@jazalyn/refrain-n-one-01100011-631eb6657c37

Love is all you need: Remembering The Kingis Quair

Alan Riach discusses The Kingis Quair – a poem attributed to King James I of Scots (1394–1437), & described by C.S. Lewis as “the first modern book of love”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17372009.love-is-all-you-need-remembering-the-kings-quair/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #lovepoetry #medieval #Scots #Scotslanguage #15thcentury #Scotstober

Rejected In Paris

I got told off by The Paris Review today. Maybe it wasn’t necessarily directed at me, but as they say in the, now old, new lingo, I felt attacked.  You see, recently, drawing on the well of inspiration that is history I succeeded in writing a poem, but not just any poem. I wrote a ghazal. 

Those who know me for any amount of time are made aware of my taste for writing poetry. It’s usually pretty bad but I persist, cause why not. The OG is long gone anyway. The ghazal is an especially ambitious type of poetry to be taken up my someone with my modest talents. To make matters worse, as I learned today, the ghazal is really well suited for the Urdu. For all practical matters, I know only English. 

For anyone with any little interest in love and romance, being born in South Asia is a special kind of blessing. We are lucky to have had Urdu poetry reach its peak here. Urdu is perhaps the perfect medium to transmit mischief, passion, pain, longing, and the myriad other emotions which are handmaidens to big Love. Not any kind of expert, but all my life I’ve consumed shayari, sher, ghazals, whether in mainstream Bollywood or in sparkling corners of the internet. 

Armed with the internet, full of inspiration, my trusty editor, Mir ChatGPT, in the other tab. I decided it was time to go all in. The Ghazal was to be written. It was, it follows all the rules, I even make a self reference in the last couplet as is the tradition, but it lacks oomph. A good sher, a good ghazal, should pierce you and make you blush for it’s andaaz, mischief and audacity. 

Mine… well, you can read it here yourself, don’t forget to play the tiny desk concert, it is lovely. 

Definitely read The Paris Review article for it’s a great take of view from a writer who transfers the styles of poetry in one language to another.

#bollywoodPoetry #creativeWriting #crossCulturalWriting #expatWriting #ghazal #languageAndTranslation #literaryCulture #literaryHumor #literaryMagazines #lovePoetry #parisReview #personalEssay #poemWriting #Poetry #poetryCommunity #poetrySubmission #shayari #urduPoetry #writerSLife #writingProcess #writingRejection

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕: "𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝑯𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅: 𝑶𝒅𝒆 1.11" -

Can an ancient Roman poet offer insight into carpe diem? Perhaps, but then again . . . Along the way, expect some Epicurean imagery, bad Latin translating, and pig sorting.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/not-horacing-around-ode-1-11/

#podcast #horace #rome #poetry #carpediem #seizetheday #epicureanism #lovepoetry #seduction #andrewmarvell #tohiscoymistress

When Winter cedes to Spring at last,
She leaves a wreck behind:
A disarray, a muddled hash,
The two of them entwined.
She fights for Spring to let her stay;
She doesn’t want to go away…
https://buff.ly/OzjDMXP

#LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #LovePoetry #Seasons #wlw

Pre-Order FACING the WAVES: Transforming Political Chaos With Art

Now comes the most highly anticipated arts collaboration of 2025: FACING the WAVES. 

Scheduled for release this April, the project includes a deluxe limited edition hardcover, a 14-track album featuring original music and spoken word, and a signed limited art print of the cover illustration by renowned Scandinavian surrealist painter Katarina Anderssen.

https://igorgoldkind.com/2024/12/18/discover-modern-poetry-facing-the-waves-by-igor-goldkind-pre-orders-available-now/

PRE-ORDER NOW BEFORE TRUMP IMPOSES A TARIFF ON ART ! ! !

All music composed and performed by Gilad Atzmon

Words Composed by Igor Goldkind

All work is Copyright 2025, Igor Goldkind, Katarian Andersson and Gilad Atzmon

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#anarchyDigitalInsurgencyPoetry #art #BeatPoetry #Depression #GiladAtzmon #IgorGoldkind #Jazz #LovePoetry #madness #Meaning #Mysticism #NewPoetry #philosophy #PoetryTherapy #Racism #SpokenWord #Truth #Zen

@stevencudahy

#MastoPrompt #Beg #Poetry #Writing #LovePoetry #SmallPoem

“Iseabail has become known in niche circles as a writer of erotic poetry during the Middle Ages… The poem about the priest is remarkably lewd for its day”

The National Library of Scotland unearths poetry by the 16th-century Gaelic noblewoman Iseabail Ní Mheic Cailéin

#Scottish #literature #history #Gaelic #renaissance #16thcentury #lovepoetry #erotic

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/the-scottish-gaelic-noblewoman-and-erotic-poet-who-wrote-about-her-local-hot-priest-more-than-500-years-ago-4717479

No smoke without you, my fire.
After you left,
your cigarette glowed on in my ashtray
and sent up a long thread of such quiet grey
I smiled to wonder who would believe its signal
of so much love…

—Edwin Morgan, “One Cigarette” 🚬
5/5

#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #lovepoetry #lovepoem #LGBTQ

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
in a trust so gentle
I let the darkening room
drink up the evening…

—Edwin Morgan, “When You Go” 🫂
4/5

#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #lovepoetry #lovepoem #LGBTQ

Tap me with your finger,
rub me with your sleeve,
hold me, sniff me,
peel me curling round
and round till I burst out white and cold
from my tight red coat…

—Edwin Morgan, “The Apple’s Song” 🍎
3/5

#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #lovepoetry #lovepoem #LGBTQ

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” 🍓
2/5

#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #lovepoetry #lovepoem #LGBTQ

Edwin Morgan is one of Scotland’s foremost love poets. Here’s a short selection for #ValentinesDay ❤️ & #LGBTHistoryMonth 🏳️‍🌈

VALENTINE WEATHER
Edwin Morgan

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
come on, let us sway together,
under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #lovepoetry #lovepoem #LGBTQ

1/5

#lovepoetry #poetryofmastodon

How does the little cradle
improve his shining tail,
and pow the waters of the nile
on every golden scale?

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
how neatly spread his claws,
and welcomes little fishes in,
with gently smiling jaws

#LovePoetry, #RomanceVerse, #HeartfeltWords, #SunshineLove, #SweetSmiles, #BeautifulSoul, #LoveAtFirstSight, #HeartfeltEmotions, #FallingInLove, #SwoonWorthy, #RomanticFeels, #IncredibleYou, #CaptivatingBeauty, #LoveStruck, #Adoration, #EnamoredHeart, #PoeticLove, #CharmingMoments, #TenderAffection, #LoveVerse

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I’ve had writers block the last few months. Actually I’ve had pretty much everything block. This is the first long form poem I’ve written in a while. It’s the first one I’ve put on my blog in over a year. Please give it a read. Please share it around. Please tell me what you think. I’m so tired of yelling into the void.

https://nonas-poetry-corner.blogspot.com/2024/01/love-in-10-words.html?m=0

#poetry #poem #PoetryCommunity #PoetryByNona #PoetryCafe #writing #writer #WritingCommunity #WritersBlock #Love #LoveInTenWords #LovePoem #LovePoetry #AbsentLove

A poem to share, titled 'Deal with the Devil'

#poetry #poem #poems #poetrycommunity #love #lovepoetry #poetryisnotdead #poetrylovers #writer #writingcommunity #writinginspiration #amwriting #musings #poetrysociety #devil #micropoetry #poetryporn