101 Romantic Love Poems For You And Your Partner

“I want you to bite my lip until I can no longer speak And then suck my ex-girlfriend’s name out of my mouth just to make sure she never comes up in our conversations.”

— Rudy Francisco, genius.com

“I want to be your tongue most days.”

— Orooj-e-Zafar, mockinroojay.bandcamp.com

“Your entire body shakes when you laugh, As if your sense of humour was built on a fault line And the coast of your heart falls into the ocean of yourself And I’m left looking for this Atlantis.”

— Shane Koyczan, blog.ted.com

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although…”

— William Shakespeare, poetryfoundation.org

“You are the mirror of the night, the violent flash of lightning, the dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my shelter.”

— Frida Kahlo, elephantjournal.com

“So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense... spring.”

— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, thebakerypoetry.com

“Here is the rest of my life stretched six-feet over my bedsheets and his laugh sounds like angels fucking on a cloud and he smells like sunlight after a long, night’s sleep and when we kiss IT IS THE SKY ON FIRE.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com

“Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.”

— Margaret Atwood, words-and-coffee.tumblr.com

“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.”

— Pablo Neruda, theromantic.com

“i’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home i’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand i’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you i’m not afraid of your dark.”

— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com

“Whatever you choose to claim of me is always yours; nothing is truly mine except my name.”

— Stanley Kunitz, amazon.com

“Have you ever noticed how wanting burns you up from the inside out? Like one moment I am whole, but then I hear your voice on the phone and I swear to god three blocks away from here they can smell smoke.”

— Trista Mateer, amazon.com

“i will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.”

— Charles Bukowski, hellopoetry.com

“I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d g…”

— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradics.tumblr.com

“We loved like we were trying to make up for lost time. Every touch an apology, an 'I'm sorry I haven't been with you every day since elementary school.'”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

“You were the first word that I ever wanted to write.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

“We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.”

— Maya Angelou, amazon.com

“We know God is dead, they’ve told us, but listening to you I wasn’t so sure.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“I know this sounds strange but every now and then I pray that God somehow turns you back in to one of my ribs... Just so that I would never have to spend an entire day without you.”

— Rudy Francisco, genius.com

“Even at your worst you are fucking incredible.”

— Buddy Wakefield, genius.com

“Love, as I watch you sleep, knowing the iron in the blood that keeps you alive was born from a hard star-death somewhere in the past that is also the future, and what I mean to say is that I am so lucky to be living with you in this brief moment of light before everything goes dark.”

— Dean Rader, narrativemagazine.com

“Gently, we howl at the stars together. Gently, we swallow each other whole.”

— Emily Palermo, sleepwalking.nu

“You were the one that I wanted to feel the earth rotate with.”

— Shinji Moon, quotemadness.com

“His body is a mosque, my God, his strong shoulders, his soft chest, his handsome hands, I hear the call of prayer every time I lay my head close to his heart.”

— Royla Asghar, poems-of-madness.tumblr.com

“I could watch a million sunrises and still never see one quite as beautiful as your eyes slowly opening in the morning.”

— Michael Faudet, twitter.com

“I’ve been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day but if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.”

— Shane Koyczan, sharingpoetry.tumblr.com

“Come morning, I felt like honeydew milked clean in its sleep.”

— Orooj-e-Zafar, instagram.com

“O Love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson, love.best-poems.net

“Nothing compares to your hands... My body is filled with you for days and days.”

— Frida Kahlo, elephantjournal.com

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)”

— E. E Cummings, poetryfoundation.org