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“I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.”
~ Rumi
Love Sonnet: XI
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
~Pablo Neruda
No different, really —
a summer moth’s
visible burning
and this body,
transformed by love.
visible burning
and this body,
transformed by love.
~ Izumi Shikibu
Pathways
Understand, I’ll slip
quietly
away from the noisy crowd
when I see the pale
stars rising, blooming, over the oaks.
away from the noisy crowd
when I see the pale
stars rising, blooming, over the oaks.
I’ll pursue solitary
pathways
through the pale twilit meadows,
with only this one dream:
You come too.
through the pale twilit meadows,
with only this one dream:
You come too.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Check out these past editions for love poems you may also like:
Love Poems for Valentine's day 2014
Love poems for Valentine's day 2013
And two delicious chocolate recipes for you and your sweetie:
The Ultimate Hot Chocolate
Simple Pleasures: Chocolate Toast
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
~ Alyssa
