Theme: Love Poetry

The next theme in our wonderful series of poetry, is love. Yes, love, that passion-filled, heartbreaking, overwhelming thing we feel when finding a significant other or an object that you had wanted all your life...like a red scooter! People can love anything from animals to their new shiny pencil, but today we are going to focus on human relationships. We will focus on poems that range from eternal love to overwhelming heartbreak. We will start with one of my very own poems (as usual).









Weaning Heart
By: Ashley Drye

Does someone dwell inside your soul,
now that you chose to vacate mine?
I am captured in another realm,
screaming in my head again and again,
"I am the landlord of misery!"
Pricked by Love's needle and doomed to lay alone,
At night I shiver, for my love to my cloth
Our love was like a blossoming flower,
seeds of emotion grew to a flower of passion.
Yet when the leaves turned, so did his heart.
O' strike me from this cold Earth
if I am to lay here without beauty.
Bring my love to my bedside once more, to hold me.
The world is dying around me--
Aphrodite, be kind

As you can probably tell, this is one of the heartbreak poems that I was referring to before. I wrote this after my first love broke up with me! We were together for about a year and I didn't expect it. I hope no one has to go through that sort of pain. What I like about this poem, other than I wrote it, is that it helps express the intense feeling of rejection that is felt when your partner leaves you. The next poem, is by the king of love poetry, well, what we like to call sonnets. William Shakespeare has a unique way of showing just how he feels, and seems to fall in love with almost any woman he had ever met!

How Shall I Compare Thee?
By: William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often in his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course, untrimm'd:

But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;

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