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Contemporary Love Poems

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...


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