SHARE DU’s MOST IMPACTFUL~MERITORIOUS LOVE POEMS(4anthology)
Between Hurricanes
There's nothing romantic
about dying together.
There are those minutes
where one goes first,
leaving the other to suffer
the agony of what they loved most
is gone.
Staring at the corpse
of love removed,
and then waiting their turn.
Morbid then; I'd want you
to die before me.
Your pain would cease first
and it would bleed into me,
as I held you tightly.
I'd then die doubly weighted,
with our goodbyes
and emotions turmoiled.
And that's okay.
I'd cross my arms
over my chest
and hold you inside myself.
So when I see you again,
the abundance would pour
back into you,
for our second life.
Like these times between visits.
This one, between hurricanes.
-It's okay, I promised you
God doesn't want me yet.
I saw you off, with a star,
the brightest one, on the left.
It's to show me
what I have to live for.
During this "another test",
I focus on what's to come.
But isn't every day a hurricane
when you're not with me?
Yes.
Two days of aftermath...
My neighborhood is a din
of saws and hammers.
Some locations have
no drinking water.
Some, flooded,
with bad water.
There was devastation, and deaths.
So we watch for our neighbors
to open their front doors.
Peeking out, as their sighing blends
with the last traces of wind.
Our flat smiles acknowledging
we made it yet again.
A neighbor and I
meet in the road,
taking turns surveying
the surrounding damage.
I guess we'll be busy a bit.
Yes, but right now
we're just catching our breath.
She asked about you
and I told her that you're safe;
Went home three days ago.
I didn't want to explain,
that I wasn't ready
to lose you to a hurricane.
So it was best to lose you
to the typical circumstance
of your faraway life,
for another while.
I gave you a star,
but it's for me
to focus on.
Like a light on the horizon.
It shines through everything.
As the sun here gets shy
and the moon gets scared,
as earth tears itself apart;
Unfortunate that
they don't have the strength
of my heart.
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Written by Styxian
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Dai
I’m not asking you to read every word I’ve ever written.
I’m not asking you to carry the weight of everything I am.
I just want you to know
When I say I love you,
it’s not just something sweet I learned to say.
It’s decades of fights with myself.
It’s every mistake I made when I thought surviving was enough.
It’s every sunrise I cursed because I was still here.
It’s every poem I carved out of the dark, hoping there might be something worth finding.
You don't have to love me back.
You don't have to promise anything.
You don't even have to understand it all.
(How could you? I barely understand myself most days.)
I just needed you to see:
The love I offer you was earned.
It wasn’t given lightly.
It wasn’t learned from songs or movies.
It’s the only real thing I have left after setting fire to everything that wasn’t.
You are not just someone I love.
You are the only thing that ever made all this chaos feel like it had a reason.
I’m not asking you to carry the weight of everything I am.
I just want you to know
When I say I love you,
it’s not just something sweet I learned to say.
It’s decades of fights with myself.
It’s every mistake I made when I thought surviving was enough.
It’s every sunrise I cursed because I was still here.
It’s every poem I carved out of the dark, hoping there might be something worth finding.
You don't have to love me back.
You don't have to promise anything.
You don't even have to understand it all.
(How could you? I barely understand myself most days.)
I just needed you to see:
The love I offer you was earned.
It wasn’t given lightly.
It wasn’t learned from songs or movies.
It’s the only real thing I have left after setting fire to everything that wasn’t.
You are not just someone I love.
You are the only thing that ever made all this chaos feel like it had a reason.
Written by beanbandit
(Unfate the death shaman)
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Wild Flowers
There are far fields of wild flowers
That speak whenever you are near
Like spring days after rain showers
A magic only I can hear
Unfold to me your petals, Love
Gentle sway as tho' kissed by breeze
Warm glowing as the sun above
You so soulfully move with ease
Moments timeless as country places
Sweet the buzzing of the air
Open softly your ribbons and laces
Til your heart of hearts lays bare
In your eyes rise hopes like mountains
And whisper a depth like seas
With laughter like golden fountains
Your fair magic enchanting me
That speak whenever you are near
Like spring days after rain showers
A magic only I can hear
Unfold to me your petals, Love
Gentle sway as tho' kissed by breeze
Warm glowing as the sun above
You so soulfully move with ease
Moments timeless as country places
Sweet the buzzing of the air
Open softly your ribbons and laces
Til your heart of hearts lays bare
In your eyes rise hopes like mountains
And whisper a depth like seas
With laughter like golden fountains
Your fair magic enchanting me
Written by AverageJoe
(Average Joe. AJ. Joe)
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Est-ce l'amour
Candlelight's flicker
My eyes light upon your own
And the air hums sweet music
Of a song you've never sung
You who's every move
Dance before my eyes
A scarlet flame
Startled by the wind
From unknown depth
In a sea too deep to swim
As you in stillness shimmer
Fraught with incense
Fragrant as petals
Bedewed
Unfolding in the dawning
And I
Dizzy in your gaze
Speak a foreign tongue
Barbaric to my ear
Your smile sweet poetry
Too ethereal for my soul
As I fall swirling
Lingering
Adrift within your eyes
A certain sunrise flame
The Seine
The Pont de l’Archevêché
So long dreamt
Where now my
Love lies bound
My eyes light upon your own
And the air hums sweet music
Of a song you've never sung
You who's every move
Dance before my eyes
A scarlet flame
Startled by the wind
From unknown depth
In a sea too deep to swim
As you in stillness shimmer
Fraught with incense
Fragrant as petals
Bedewed
Unfolding in the dawning
And I
Dizzy in your gaze
Speak a foreign tongue
Barbaric to my ear
Your smile sweet poetry
Too ethereal for my soul
As I fall swirling
Lingering
Adrift within your eyes
A certain sunrise flame
The Seine
The Pont de l’Archevêché
So long dreamt
Where now my
Love lies bound
Written by AverageJoe
(Average Joe. AJ. Joe)
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Without My Light
Blue was the morning
my grey mist among trees
rituals wrap tightly to arm and heart
as everyday dies without
There's a candle for You
burning in the empty
whimpering with plea
that will never give back
diamonds fall form to stream
such precious memories
trembling...
my breath never again the same
Our heads held together saw sunlight
nightime yarns spun side by side
as conversation sparred equally
Your focused eyes locked in contact, full with loves attention
Home is so cold without Your warmth
the sound of nothing leaves me raw
shadows move in corners of my eyes
and now its only memory when we touch
Every drop of energy given to me
helped heal
a fish in newspaper flopping without breath
Your cpr and koala care held me tight
I am in pain my dearest friend
my chest ever heavy, gut wrenched
and everything I do now...
is without You
my grey mist among trees
rituals wrap tightly to arm and heart
as everyday dies without
There's a candle for You
burning in the empty
whimpering with plea
that will never give back
diamonds fall form to stream
such precious memories
trembling...
my breath never again the same
Our heads held together saw sunlight
nightime yarns spun side by side
as conversation sparred equally
Your focused eyes locked in contact, full with loves attention
Home is so cold without Your warmth
the sound of nothing leaves me raw
shadows move in corners of my eyes
and now its only memory when we touch
Every drop of energy given to me
helped heal
a fish in newspaper flopping without breath
Your cpr and koala care held me tight
I am in pain my dearest friend
my chest ever heavy, gut wrenched
and everything I do now...
is without You
Written by souladareatease
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Endless Night
May i
Touch you
To know
You are real
Feel your
Ever racing pulse
feel the thunder
Of your heart
Cover you
With my skin
As goosebumps
Tingles spread
Holding you
As if a delicate rose
Awakening
In the morning dew
Kiss your soul
As lips impart
Their soft
Palpable connection
May i be lover
In the physical sense
For spiritual
Is not enough
The flame
Burning ache
Raging
Inside of me
Wants more
Than a thought
Needs more
Than a dream
Your flawed beauty
Is like a breath
I require
To exist
If i were
To die
Without regret
Hold me
Love me
One time
Like i was the light
That filled your darkness
Touch you
To know
You are real
Feel your
Ever racing pulse
feel the thunder
Of your heart
Cover you
With my skin
As goosebumps
Tingles spread
Holding you
As if a delicate rose
Awakening
In the morning dew
Kiss your soul
As lips impart
Their soft
Palpable connection
May i be lover
In the physical sense
For spiritual
Is not enough
The flame
Burning ache
Raging
Inside of me
Wants more
Than a thought
Needs more
Than a dream
Your flawed beauty
Is like a breath
I require
To exist
If i were
To die
Without regret
Hold me
Love me
One time
Like i was the light
That filled your darkness
Written by AspergerPoet56
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Unwritten Letter
The ink from my quill dry, nothing flows
the alabaster unsullied parchment pure and pristine
spread under my fingers waiting to be denuded
by memories which have yet to incur
My thoughts disconnected and disengaged collide
obliterating a weave of methodically well written script
of a seductive dance with every step perfected in my mind
sliding into unknown future unto this unwritten letter
The laughter of our unborn children with your eyes
and my smile, filling uninhabited spaces of a lake house
taunting echoes which are merely a minuscule breath
of ink suspended, eternally frozen in mid-air
Half full wine glasses strewn on a blanket in luscious
vineyards of Pinot Meunier, warm sun-kissed grapes;
a paradigm of promises sealed with patina
coated memories inside an hour glass of sand
Whispers trapped inside threads of sheets
as white as my unsent unwritten letter, emblazoned
with scents of morning dew and you, stretching
fibers of my four chambers sheltering the unspoken truth.
Revised.
Written by Vee
(Rina)
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