Sleep on while I am talking
I am just arranging the curtains
over your naked breasts.
Love doesn't look too closely...
love looks very closely
the shock of beauty you gave me
the third rail that runs through our hospitality...
from The Ecstasy by Phillip Lopate
More contemporary love poems:
| My Heart by Kim Addonizio That Mississippi chicken shack... |
| To Dorothy by Marvin Bell You are not beautiful, exactly... |
| The Love-Hat Relationship by Aaron Belz I have been thinking about the love-hat relationship... |
| Hey You by Adrian Blevins Back when my head like an egg in a nest... |
| The Embrace by Mark Doty You weren't well or really ill yet either... |
| The Kiss by Stephen Dunn How many years I must have yearned... |
| Rime Riche by Monica Ferrell You need me like ice needs the mountain... |
| It Was Raining In Delft by Peter Gizzi A cornerstone. Marble pilings. Curbstones and brick... |
| Long Distance II by Tony Harrison Though my mother was already two years dead... |
| When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman When she says margarita she means daiquiri... |
| Footprint on Your Heart by Gary Lenhart Someone will walk into your life... |
| The Ecstasy by Phillip Lopate You are not me, and I am never you... |
| Fons by Pura López-Colomé Reanimated, spirit restored... |
| syntax by Maureen N. McLane and if / I were to say // I love you and... |
| The Ear is an Organ Made for Love by E. Ethelbert Miller It was the language that left us first... |
| San Antonio by Naomi Shihab Nye Tonight I lingered over your name... |
| corydon & alexis, redux by D. A. Powell and yet we think that song outlasts us all: wrecked devotion... |
| Epithalamium by Matthew Rohrer In the middle garden is the secret wedding... |
| The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem by Amy Uyematsu A mere eyelid's distance between you and me... |