Love Poems for Valentine's Day (with Audio!)

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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.

~Pablo Neruda

No different, really —

a summer moth’s
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.

I’ll pursue solitary pathways
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

Love Poems for Valentine's Day

“Even when a river of tears courses 

through this body, the flame of love 

cannot be quenched.” 

~ Izumi Shikibu

You Better Start Kissing Me 

Throw away
Your begging bowls at God's door
For I have heard the Beloved
Prefers sweet threatening shouts,
Something on the order of:
Hey, Beloved,
My heart is a raging volcano
of love for you!
You better start kissing me -
Or else!"

by Hafiz

Buoyancy

Love has taken away my practices

and filled me with poetry.

I tried to keep quietly repeating,
No strength but yours,
but I couldn’t.

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself.
That’s how I hold your voice.

I am scrap wood thrown in your fire,
and quickly reduced to smoke.

I saw you and became empty.

This emptiness, more beautiful than existence,

~Rumi

Wild Nights – Wild Nights!

    Were I with thee
    Wild Nights should be
    Our luxury!

    Futile – the Winds –
    To a Heart in port –
    Done with the Compass –
    Done with the Chart!

    Rowing in Eden –
    Ah, the Sea!
    Might I but moor – Tonight –
    In Thee!

~Emily Dickinson

Much Joy!
Happy Valentine's Day!
~Alyssa
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