Friday Poetry Round up
Favourite poems about love
Hello my dears,
How was your week?
I’m not really a Valentines kinda gal but how could I not resist asking for your (current) favourite poems about love. Because I might not enjoy the Captialist spend-fest but love, well that’s a whole different thing.
I say current because I always think asking about someones all time favourite is too hard. It’s a bit like choosing your favourite child, it depends on the day (I’m joking of course, I definitely don’t have favourites, ha).
Here are a few that I’ve enjoyed recently. Including one of my own favourite poems I’ve written about the love found in friendship (I write about friendship a lot. I am yet to write the poem I know/hope I will one day write about friendship but I do like this one. It is also the best selling print in my poetry print shop, which is nice).
Ok, over to you.
Have you seen any poems this week on the theme of love (or any theme for that matter) that have made you go ooooh?
Or do you have a poem about love that you come back to time and again?
And of course, do share any writing you’ve done this week. You know the drill on that front,
Nelly x
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One I've written--this is a less conventional love poem, but it's one that means a lot to me: https://open.substack.com/pub/margaretannsilver/p/capolavoro?r=2ghube&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Love (III) by George Herbert: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44367/love-iii
Also,
"Thought" by Henry Dumas
Love came to me and said:
What do you want of me?
Save me I said, Save me.
Love knelt down beside me
and love said:
If you knew the price
of coming to you,
you would ask nothing
but would give.
I'm new here and I just love all this Friday morning poem sharing! What a great way to wrap up the work week. I've posted two love poems to my newsletter, last Friday and today. Sort of Valentine's Day bookends. The first was a poem to my son: https://connort.substack.com/p/friend-to-dragons ; today's I wrote for my daughter: https://connort.substack.com/p/love-mom
And I'll share with you the poem I sent to my husband on Valentine's Day. He's out of town this week and we're not really into the holiday. But John Kenney's Love Poems for Married People has become a bit of a Valentine tradition for us. I knew this would give him a good laugh:
Why are you in the shower with me?
Did the bathtub shrink?
I ask because here we are,
naked,
showering together,
like we once did all the time.
Remember? At the beginning?
We would stand and talk,
seals slipping by one another,
a playful ease letting the other into the stream.
Now?
I'm not sure what you're doing in here.
I'm freezing.
There's shampoo in my eyes.
You just stepped on my foot.
For the love of Christ who flushed the toilet?
Because I'm being scalded alive.
Get out.
Now.
It was a nice idea though, honey.
Could you close the door?