I once looked into her face, it was her, the one. She is now gone, I am alone & slip sliding away. I have to close my eyes and there she is, I feel the way now that I felt then, what a blessing to feel that, the most wonderful part of our lifes. LOVE….. Now and Forever!

yuck. the cheese factor is a bit much, i do love my wife and 1/2 this poem just sucks. plus if you are atheist the whole god things ruins it…

shawn

I agree with Shawn. It’s just too cheesy. In my opinion, one of the best short poems for a ldr is Merwin’s Separation:

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

Agree with kate&shawn , too cheesy and full of worn-out valentine´s day slogans.
kate´s one hit more closer to home concerning the type of poetry i like.

I agree that the poem is cheesy and obvious. My favorite:

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you,
I could walk forever in my garden.
Claudia Ghandi

Cheesy or not, I like it! It’s good to read something simple and brought to the point! Besides, everybody’s taste is different!

Wow, you guys know some nice poetry. I like the short ones, but I have to admit I like the one in the article too!
Is there really something like “too cheesy” where love is concerned? Sometimes your feelings just flow sweet and overwhelming like honey so that the next day you even ask yourself if that was too much. But in the right moment it’s never too much!! And sometimes you need more than two lines to express your feelings…

Carter, Kate and Will,

very nice poetry, indeed. Thank you for posting it!

The poem in the article is from Rumi, a 13th Century brilliant Persian mystic who is now one of the most widely read poets in America.

Your friend,

Eddie

Well I am hopeless romantic and just fell in love with poem. Now that’s poetry. I’d have to agree with Amar, we all do have our own unique taste!!

I would like to send this poem to someone who I love and still haven’t start a relationship with me yet. I have this feeling for her.

Just for poetry sake…this is absolutely breathtaking. It is so full of emotion, you can just imagine that is behind it. So much feeling and love. Just to be able to give that to someone you love….says a whole lot about your feelings for them!
Beautiful.

The author has a way with words, indeed. The poem evokes a certain emotion that makes me cry for a lost true love. I like the poem.

If you love this poem, then I think that you will love the CD/album of the same title. You can listen to it at http://www.thesenses.net

Peace and love.

Rumi Dave

Amen & Kudos to Eddie and the 13th Century!!!!
Opinions are All a matter of Human Perspective!!!! What IS, is Now in the Moment, be OK with it!!!!

Fantavulas, simply saying – i am out of words. so long i am looking for such a site & also for such a poem. THANKS

thank you for that i can feel my bf now

Beautiful poem!

True love, real love – love – is cheesier than the cheesiest of all cheesies; those who truly love understand this, and will not use the words ‘love’ and ‘cheesy’ in one sentence. When it comes to love, too much is never enough.

I get it, Eddie, thank you for sharing this great love poem!

Best regards,

ilovelove

There is a poem that has touched me much like this one- It is from the movie “Somewhere in time” It is called….
Is it you?
“The man of my dreams has almost faded now.
The one I have created in my mind.
The sort of man each woman dreams of in the deepest
and most secret reaches of her heart.
I can almost see him now before me.
What would I say to him, if he were really here?
Forgive me, I have never known this feeling . . .
I’ve lived without it all my life.
Is it any wonder, then, that I failed to
recognize you?
You . . . who brought it to me for the first time.
Is there any way I can tell you how my life has changed?
Any way at all to let you know what sweetness you have given me?
There is so much to say . . . I cannot find the words.
Except for these. . .
I love you.
Such would I say to him,
. . . if he were really here.”

SONNET XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
Or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
In secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in
Itself the light of hidden flowers;
Thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
Risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
So I love you because I know no other way than this

Where “I” does not exist, nor “you”,
So close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
So close that when you close your eyes I fall asleep.

Pablo Neruda

this poem made me cry so much

this poem was not the best but it was good. it had its meaning to it.
so i give u like 8 1/2
keep up the good work.

And sometimes we lose. Here is my poem for my love. Any of you who understand it, please enjoy it.

You Never Knew
When we met, I knew you
but you did not know
why I (of all) should be
so moved; you made me
catch my breath as though
my heart were lanced
I was an enigma coming
when for you fleeing was
the only thing to do -
as facing all the pain just
could not be; so much to
flee! and resolution far away
More flight, and yet love
still eludes you, as smoke
you run to catch the wind
never stopping long enough
to see your face reflected in
the dew of God’s tears
One day you may
with time and tide
become what you really
are inside. That “you”
I saw and can no more
forget than stop my heart
C= 2008

very beautifull,and thx for god that i found this site and i read this poem,i say for my gf,and after some day will be marriage:>:>:>:>llol!but not only from the pome will be maried and she love me too

my favorite poem.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to earth, “you owe me”.
Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

Poetry can be cheesy or boring or Amazing in anyone’s eyes but every poet and person who writes poems write for a reason. and every line has an explanation. cheesy is a formality that people use because they’ve heard it to much. but life isnt forever and words cant just dissapear nore be created differently. the heart is a dellicate and ruthless essence in my eyes. if treated and used right life can become complete but if handle wrong you get a scar of pain but with that scar you learn and should move on with the fact that you are granted with life. although i am young i’ve learned a great deal of love and realized many things. this poem and any poem with a persons true feelings in it will always get me.

A night of thunder and rain
I am crying with pain
My mind starts hurting
After my heart is done flirting
I walk outside
With death on my side
As I look up at the raging crying sky
Wanting to fry
My heart is in two
I don’t know what’s true
I add to the earth my own rain
Without any strain
I look back
Right on track
Then I look now
I ask how?
I said to one side of my heart
I don’t want to depart
But it was to late
There goes our fate.
But then the other side
Comes in with pride
Beautiful by fate
Wonderful by trait
It starts taking over
I was lucky as a clover
Happy by sunrise
Sad by moons rise
I wish life could be easier
But that couldn’t be cheesier
Defending myself against suicide
I hold it with pride
One day life will be better
As I write this letter
Take me for who I am
And ill take you for a ham

a poem i wrote when my gf broke up with me

@Carter – Isn’t it rather vain to see someone and decide that it’s love solely based on appearance? That’s lust. I love. It’s more than just seeing a pretty person. You have to know someone. You can be attracted, and grow to love them more as you know them better. It’s not instant, and it’s just not about looks. It’s so much bigger than that.

EVERY THING IS VERY GOOD THANKS

hay thank u so much for sharing that wounderful heart worming poem to ever one hope ever one els injoed the amazing poem, to me it wos so meaningful i wish there were more people who care of sharing there thorts the way u did thank u love katina

it is not easy to breaking up to your love because it hurts so much. letting him/her go is not easy to do. in that memories that you have in your whole life with him. please help me to find Mr. Right.

I am a dancer in a company and this year we are doing a dance to this poem. There are 5 couples and most of the choreography is done on the floor. (It is very intimate) It is just a man reciting the poem with light music in the backround. It’s lovely.

There are no words to espress my feelings of love for my man…all words only penetrate the surface of how I truly love him.Its my belief that true love cannot be expressed in words.
But you can definately see it in my eyes and smile

@Matt -

that is a beautiful poem

How do I love thee?
I cannot count the ways.
As your beauty is much more
Than mere words could ever say.

@juli –
Thank you!

You should listen to it in Persian. That’s where its real beauty lies.

@Peter – Hey Peter its Amber i would like 2 talk 2 u bout this poem u wrote im leaving u my e-mail address so we can talk. (ahargrove07@yahoo.com)

@Alexander –
Favourite too <3

for my love I cannot even express the love that I feel for him…my writings only touch the surface of my heart that he now owns.
Writing him a poem is nearly impossible because this love cannot be expressed with words.
But you can feel it.
A wonderful phenominal out of this world feeling.
And as I said….one that cannot be explained.

This poem isn’t necessarily talking about love for a person. It is much more beautiful than just that.

The Rumi poem is much more than love of a person he is putting into words LOVE of SELF….. only when one has a direct experience of Self can they see this kind of love reflected in another human being…it is Love in the Absolute and it is beyon physical and romantic it is unconditional acceptance… BEAUTIFUL and INSPIRING.

this is a poem that I wrote to my love who is also my flight instructor…wo is also a lot older then I…but our love can conquer any obstacle.
He told me that I needed to find someone my own age and this was my response….
the same man twice

My love my one true love
Who gracefully flew down from above
The one who captured me at first sight
The one who made my life worth the fight

My love my one true love
We fit together like hand in glove
Nothing of difference my dear comes to mind
Our love bound in truth so perfect so refined

My love my one true love
In my life you are now a part of
melodies of love linger through the air
The world most beautiful at the love we share

My love my one true love
Our love so wonderful is what I speak of
As we wonder through in this brief eternity
Our love brought together through lifes destiny

My love my one true love
Why is it that push comes to shove
To destroy loves harmony that we share
to hear those words I cannot bear

To leave me now after the love we shared
I dont understand love I thought you cared
True I may lose you when death throws fates dice
I dont want to lose the same man twice

@Raecheal –

Rumi was a spiritual mystic, so his poems can be interpreted many ways that are spiritual and not necessarily religious. In the poem “Looking for your Face,” he is describing the “face” of his lover, his own face, and the face of “God,” or a higher power which is inside everyone and experienced through the act of loving.

Rumi’s poetry was written in the 13th century within the spiritual realm of Sufism, which is fairly esoteric to most Westerners. Rumi is for lovers. It can be difficult to relate to the passion and divine love of which he speaks unless one has known this kind of love. Hence, the “cheese” factor.

@Alexander – I do very much like that, too. It’s … beautiful.

wow it really help me open 2 my man thanks

Oh sleepless night
casting a shadow on my existence
silence drumming like thunder
memories racing
page upon page turning
I laugh in spite of myself
even in the darkness
I see everything
suddenly awaken
though never sleeping
rain plays a melody
tapping on the rooftop
mind dances in rhythm
laying in darkness
melancholy state
the obscured stillness
rhythmical patters of breathing
hearing my own breaths
sympathetic heart
breaking from the absence
persistent desires
luring me into lunacy
sweet sweet senseless insanity
all and only for you
beloved you
lights flicker on the horizon
agitating my eyes
reality returns
I sleep

Guys,guys….That poem would make every girl feel like she’s the most special girl in the world(as the one you recite it to,should be)…

LOVE…
is a stream never ending
it flows from the heart and binds the soul
its clear,sparkly with delite as your essence shines upon me.
LOVE…
the giver of trust
emphaty and
everlasting grace
to the ones that beholds the truth of the lives