A couple of years ago, I wrote a poem about poetry and the importance it has in our world, and in that poem, I expressed the idea that poetry is a language in itself. Admittedly, that’s not a terribly unique idea; however, it’s one I strongly believe in. Poetry is the language of so many different facets of the human experience, from hope and healing to death and grief, and from resistance and revolution to self-love and romantic love. As some of you may or may not know, I love love. So much so, in fact, that I wrote a collection of poetry titled DROPKICKromance which focuses on two of the most significant relationships in my life, the second of the two being my relationship with my wife and fellow poet, Amanda Lovelace.
In DROPKICKromance, I build on that idea of poetry being a language in a poem titled “you are living, breathing poetry.” In it, I write “no, turning the good / into poetry / is much more difficult, // because these moments / are already poetic, /and putting them into words // is like translating / from one language / to another / and something always / gets lost in translation.” All of this is to say that writing about love is difficult for me because I never feel as if I’ve truly captured the feeling with words. However, there are many poets who do it so much better than I could, so here’s some of my personal favorite contemporary love poems!
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i love them
The Shoulder Shoulder poem or short story......Priceless!