Love Letters

[Epmd607]

This is all about love letters. I have written some of the best love poetry and love letters in times without love at all. In my world, I make it all up, as if I were in love this is what I would write.

If you have a letter or have written a letter, sharing would be sweet.

I've found it's much easier writing love poems and love letters to anonymous. Everything I've written for my wife seems a tad trivial, sappy, put on.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I've found it's much easier writing love poems and love letters to anonymous. Everything I've written for my wife seems a tad trivial, sappy, put on.

write me one I double dare you!

 

[Epmd607]

write me one I double dare you!

But you're not really anon to me, are you? If I know your poems I probably know some secrets about you, right?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

But you're not really anon to me, are you? If I know your poems I probably know some secrets about you, right?

Oh heck now wondering what I've written that tells you my secrets but you can't back out of a double dare you know!

 

[champagne1982]

This is all about love letters. I have written some of the best love poetry and love letters in times without love at all. In my world, I make it all up, as if I were in love this is what I would write.

If you have a letter or have written a letter, sharing would be sweet.

For My Love, (on his birthday)
by champagne1982©



Let me celebrate my knowing
all those small delights,
that bring a smile
up from the depths
and let a laugh bubble
over my heart,
when I hear it from your lips.

We have made a journey
few are blessed to take,
without a map to point
the way or even crumbs
upon the path, but darling
we have blazed a trail and set
markers where we should stop again.

See the road as it wends
through the dappled glen,
mysteries await around
each corner and I am eager to see.
Let's travel through another year,
breathless and willing
to find our joys together.

It is overwhelming
to have this in my soul
to love each waking moment
that I can call you mine.
I want to make a gift
of my very essence
that you can carry with you.

It is a light, lit to show you
the way to my heart,
a song, sung on days when music
becomes a prayer;
a verse of love and gratitude,
a poem, from my heart,
a love to wrap around you.

I give you this and more.

Always.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

he's lucky to have you

 

[champagne1982]

he's lucky to have you

I am lucky to have him, too.

I often wondered how to get a job writing for Hallmark. I think I could give them some whoppers... but they seem to want Americans and for you to live in the city they publish out of..(at least last time I checked, admittedly a while ago).. still even then the Internet was here to stay and now digi-commuting is the way a lot of businesses work. Maybe I should check it out again.

 

[champagne1982]

he's lucky to have you

I am lucky to have him, too.

 

[champagne1982]

he's lucky to have you

I have tried to post a quick reply 3 times.. maybe something's screwy or you're all going to see a list of posts that basically going to say the same thing.. hmmph..

I said, "I'm lucky to have him, too. "

 

[The_Fool]

Love letters.

Sometimes I think it is better left unsaid. Having loved deeply and profoundly and been loved in return, I'm not sure I can capture more that a fleeting glance of what that means to me. Holding passion as closely and tightly and often as she will let me or can. So I can only offer a crude outline and hope that the life experience of the reader can offer color, can offer detail.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I love this. I have a knock you down love letter coming soon.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I have tried to post a quick reply 3 times.. maybe something's screwy or you're all going to see a list of posts that basically going to say the same thing.. hmmph..

I said, "I'm lucky to have him, too. "

I replied 4 times on another thread trying to get the damn thing to post even once!

 

[amysmith2310]

Immature But Thats What Love Is

Hello i dont know who wrote this letter to you but i believe its kind of immature but i think thats how love is its innocent...needless to say if a person truly loved you he/she wont choose the perfect words to write a reply to you...There would be innocence some litreary mistakes...but the beauty and the expression would be hidden in those mistakes...
absolutely amazing

 

[greenmountaineer]

A beautiful poem. I particularly liked:

For My Love, (on his birthday)
by champagne1982©



We have made a journey
few are blessed to take,
without a map to point
the way or even crumbs
upon the path........


a song, sung on days when music
becomes a prayer......

 

[champagne1982]

A beautiful poem. I particularly liked:

thanks gm.. i feel those lines deeply too. They have a resonance that makes me feel that strung out emotional giddiness i thought was infatuation years ago. Guess it's not that but something more ...

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Dear Muse,

I have loved you with my legs, with my hands, with my words, and with my shining eyes. I have loved you when I woke, when I washed my floor, when I bathed and ate and dreamt. I loved you every day.

Then you shat on my head and ate my eyeballs.

I love you still, in filth and blindness even though you are a bastard.

D.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

glad you're still around shitty head and all

 

[UnderYourSpell]

We were close, very close
but that was never enough
for one who wanted to devour
your very breath,
For your soul to be my soul,
one being,
we were meant to be one ego.
I held your heart but only for awhile,
so now I hold it in my hands
feel its warmth,
see it pump once, twice,
a tremor then gone.
You have left me one last time
forever.

 

[ishtat]

This is a love poem but one from a father to his two children:

Take your brother Jack by the hand Lily
to Aylesbeare church and there beside the door
Show him the name cut there in stone Lily
the name of your Dad who went to war.

And when he is old enough to understand Lily
find a pew down on the south side in the sun
Please read to him the letter that I wrote Lily
the last one that I sent when I was gone.

Be a good girl for your dad if you can Lily
and if you always can't, think of your mum
For she's a lady, best of all I ever knowed Lily
so when in doubt be just like her if you can.

Nor I won't be coming back again with you Jack
no more fishing no more football no more fun
my girls are in your keeping so be done with any weeping
stand up straight and be my man, my John.

About ten years ago my wife wrote a biography of her great grandmother

All except some two and a half lines of this poem were written by her husband to his children. He was a train engine driver who although he had no schooling beyond the age of 12 made a habit of sending post cards to his children when he was away from home at work. When my wife wrote her book we found hundreds of these postcards and I excavated these lines from those postcards though I suspect the last two he got from somewhere else.

As you can tell the story took an ominous turn in 1914 when he joined the army to fight in France. The Post cards ceased in 1915 when he was killed at the battle of Loos en Gohelle. I added punctuation and changed spellings here and there but I hope their fathers 'voice' remains.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I Love You

*He wrote this for me and I will write something later as a reply.

You bring me peace
bring me freedom
bring me love

I'm a better man
better friend
better son
and better brother

covered with the blood of
The universe
I'm staring
At the same star
same sky
same time

It vibrates through me
The light warms my face
and runs around me

Like a child.

There is no resolution
Just steps in a direction, forever.

 

[corndog_]

Love letters

It is hard to imagine a more appropriate poem than this by the incomparable Alicia Stallings in last month's The Atlantic:

Olives

Is love
so evil?
Is Eve? Lo,
love vies,
evolves. I
lose selves,
sylphs of
loose Levi’s,
sieve oil of
vile sloe.
Love sighs,
slives. O
veils of
voile, so
sly, so suave.
O lives,
soil sleeves,
I love so
I solve.

 

[butters]

i have never read this - oh, to be able to write that way *sighs*

 

[corndog_]

Isn't she remarkable? Her poetry is often quite formal, which leaves me even more awed. Palinurus was one of my first encounters with her.

 

[butters]

Isn't she remarkable? Her poetry is often quite formal, which leaves me even more awed. Palinurus was one of my first encounters with her.

oh wow! i must look up more from her. it's very cool to be introduced to new poets of such calibre

 

[corndog_]

who are some of your favorite contemporaries?