What is a love poem? Is it necessarily a poem about romantic love? About romance? Marriage and commitment? Or is a love poem something else entirely?
In a recent short story I wrote, a writer is told by a young critic that he doesn't understand love. "It's neither noble nor eternal, as you would have your audience believe," she says.
"Nobody understands love," the writer admits. "It seems to be Universal. Timeless. Yet, it's also very individual, filtered by our own lives and expectations. I don't understand love, and can't understand love, because it's a different thing for each of us."
These love poems are Universal. Timeless. And yet very much a different thing for each of us. We hope you enjoy them...
Let the countdown begin.
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#100Love Poems: Always, we look everywhere for the special one. But sometimes, we need not look quite so far.
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#99Love Poems: Rolling away from someone you love, doesn't necessarily mean you won't be back.
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#98Love Poems: We plan our lives just so. Then Life - and especially Love - pops up and hands us one more surprise.
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#97Love Poems - Erotic Poems: The past means nothing when questions find their answers, and women find their Love.
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#96Love Poems: Trust, like love, is not a conscious decision we make. It must be born, and grow, within the human heart.
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#95Love Poems - Love and Friendship Poems: As close friends get inside each other, become a part of each other, falling in love becomes an easy step to take. And, sometimes, a painful one.
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#94Love Poems - Love and Friendship Poems: Stick your hand on a hot stove, and you'll be amazed how quickly you remove it. But Love, which can hurt far worse, has a way of bringing us back again and again for more and more pain.
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#93Love Poems - Erotic Poems: Sometimes our loved ones put us on pedestals - and we simply can't or don't choose to live up to the picture they have in their minds.
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#92Love Poems: Love is not a single emotion, but a multitude of feelings. All of them quite wonderful.
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#91Love Poems: Never give up hope, Your Angel may be right around the corner.
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#90Love Poems: "Do you still love me?" A simple questions, asked so often by so many, yet few answer as beautifully as do these words.
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#89Love Poems - Cyber Romance Poems: The Internet is a global community - with little rooms set aside just for two.
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#88Love Poems - Love and Friendship Poems: What do you do when you fall in love with your best friend?
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#87Love Poems - Love and Friendship Poems: Love doesn't always come easily to a broken heart. But we still need friends…
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#86Love Poems - Erotic Poems: What's the world's greatest (and oldest) aphrodisiac?
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#85Love Poems - Erotic Poems: The mind is the most powerful aphrodisiac in the world…
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#84Love Poems: How tall is big? How wide is huge? And, of course, how deep is Love?
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#83Love Poems: The first touch of Love is often the most powerful force we'll ever feel.
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#82Love Poems: Love should be declared before it's too late. But even if late, still must it be said.
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#81Love Poems: There are many reasons to love. But, in the end, they all boil down to just one reason…
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#80Love Poems - Cyber Romance Poems: Regardless of the ending, that first meeting in Real Life is a special moment.
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#79Love Poems: Love can give direction to purpose to Life. And, perhaps, meaning as well.
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#78Love Poems - Erotic Poems: This lovely poem explores a very intimate, very beautiful moment between two people very much in love.
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#77Love Poems - Cyber Romance Poems: Sometimes souls touch before eyes see.
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#76Love Poems: Sometimes, dreams can keep two people together even when they're apart
