please GOD HELP ME. do you have any love poetry either single poems or book reccs im going THROUGH IT orz (<me curling up on the floor)
i’m picking you up off the floor and pressing this list of assorted love poems into your hand like a folded note. i hope you like them! 💌
to you and morning by frank o’hara
poem for my love by june jordan... honestly all of haruko/love poems (1994) is very good!
love (iii) by george herbert
on the reproduction of images by miriam alex
december by michael miller
o small sad ecstasy of love by anne carson
serenade by dilruba ahmed
amores (II) by ee cummings (the entire amores series, I through XI, are all so worth reading but this is my favorite of the bunch!)
my house by nikki giovanni
little crazy love song by mary oliver
romance by claude mckay
to revolt is to insist on joy by nur turkmani
there is only one of everything by margaret atwood (located on page 15 of this compilation!)
asking about you by eloise klein healy
love song by william carlos williams
poems for blok, 1 and where does such tenderness come from? / whence cometh such tender rapture? (< these are two different translations of the same poem and they are both striking lovely in their own way) by marina tsvetaeva
encounter in april by may sarton
we have not long to love by tennessee williams
laura, i want you pulling your hair back by natalie dunn
adore by li-young lee
you by carol ann duffy
after touching you, i think of narcissus drowning by leila chatti
summer was forever by chen chen
untitled by izzy wellwaterhysteria
and here is the new penguin book of love poetry (2003), borrowable via the internet archive!
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