Writing Love Poetry
69Writing Love Poetry
Another Idea for Writing Love Poetry.
Original poem included - Opposites in Love: Night and Day
People are often puzzled as how to go about writing love poetry without sounding like a greeting card or resorting to the child rhyme of "Roses are red, Violets are blue" cuteness - though that can be a fun and campy take-off for the humor inspired.
For centuries lovers have expressed themselves in countless ways, much of it quite wonderful to read generations later. As I was pondering how to go about my own idea of a love poem without resorting to sensual, erotic or too sentimental I was reminded of how "opposites attract." This couple has been married a long time and also became best friends while they were falling in love. To this day they can talk for hours. Take a look at a part of their life and smile.
Opposites in Love: Night and Day
Description: A woman who is a night owl marries her opposite. How do they reconcile living together? She likes to stay up all night. He goes to bed early to greet the sunrise!
She loves the deep of night
He loves the new early morn
She greets the moon sky traveler
He greets the sun horizon surprising
She is early to bed, happily awake in the night
He is early to bed, quickly sound to sleep
She meditates; cat naps, and prays, waits to rise
He dozes, resting deep in melodious kind repose
She awaits the clock to three in the soft night
He ignores the clock until sleep is well done
She rises to cold October stars,
sheltering secret regard
He sleeps on, oh, so warm, unaware yet sublime
She breathes freely the frosty night air
Eavesdropping to nature's hushed breezes
Her cats, nocturnal two, merge softly purring
She gives a careful ear to his breathing still low
Noiseless, closing the open door to night's chill
The silent trio walks out, farther,
grass yielding as
The ancient moon climbs higher to greet old friends
Showering pale intense light, full moon aglow
Stars glistening, flash messages for her alone
Two hours she listens, advice streams from the sky
Serenity, the calm of night wraps tightly until dawn
Reluctant she sees the night is fading,
returns to bed
Is it time to get up?
Sleepily, eyes opening, he inquires
She lovingly smiles and says,
the dawn comes to greet you
He returns her smile in slow agreement,
turning off the alarm
Steaming mugs of coffee she gifts to warm their hands
She returns outside, by his side, He begins his day
She wistfully bids goodbye to the beauty moon and
He smiles and quietly shouts great joy within,
Together they drink in the moon retiring, dissolving away
It is the time of the sun walking in to reign over their new day.
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Photo Credits
Please take a look at the moon and sunrise photos for this piece as they are from some fabulous photographers over at flickr who freely make their photos available to illustrate online content and are just delightful people!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luchilu/2811724705/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elbfoto/2513217764/
Hope you enjoyed! For another grin, take a look at some of my own photos of my best critics who help edit those 1st and 2nd drafts as they are quite discriminating!
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- My Gift to You
Another way to write about love is the gift of friendship. Note: Apologies if the last link didn't work as CJBeige was in the process of taking this poem off of one site to place here on HubPages. Thanks for your patience.
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Denny,
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. You know it is difficult to find and read all of the great stuff that is published here when at the same time we are trying so hard to fulfill our own agendas. I had to bookmark this page for later, midnight madness, when I have time to seek and search through so many links. Note, I have marked this mind fodder for my moonlight research hour.
Hi Denny,
Great idea of writing a love poem! Thanks for sharing it here.
Hi, francia, thanks for visiting!
Hey this was really good advice for writing love poetry. Next time I try to write a love poem about a girl I will use your advice. Thanks !
Kodus, to you, Jenny. While we are concentrating on a more commercial topic, there you are, penetrating our thoughts with an overwhelming feeling of imagination about your poems. I make my poems into songs, even though I try hiding it from public. It's my 'great escape' from the adversities of our society.
Hi, The Communicator, CS Alexis, DJ, sorry to overlook a response to your comment, could have sworn I left comments for everyone months ago, maybe the internet ate it... :) Thanks for visiting!
Hi, travel man, thanks for visiting! Always glad to hear from a musical poet. Go ahead and share your poems. What's the worst thing that can happen? They don't read them or like them? Keep writing. Sometimes, you write only to benefit an audience of one person and it will enrich their life. I consider that "audience of only one" a treasure to be cherished...
...this must be the Citizen Kane of poetry hubs - and the big difference between that film and your poetic enlightenment - is the black and white has been changed over to your glorious 'color' - and your ability to step outside the 'box' .......
very nice poem ....mugs of coffee ......very nice line keep writing dear
Well written and organized poem which i enjoyed a lot.
Thank you for allocation such a wonderful views upon this remarkable post i really be thankful for your ideas which you have discussed here.I hope you will publish more articles like this one.Thank you very much.
Really good advice for writing love poetry, very nice poem, and photo's
Weird I just published a hub about writing poems not to long ago I put in it a poem I recently wrote and am currently trying to configure into a song haha I wrote my poem about 3 months ago I put it down and when I joined hub I figured it was the perfect time to use my love for drawing singing writing reading sign language and painting :) I can finally put them to good use haha I enjoyed your poem it was awesome :) you should check out mine
The Communicator 3 years ago
Hi, Denny,
Thanks for sharing this, you know, and thanks for logging on to my profile. - I must admit I still feel a bit funny on these pages here, I joined a few days ago. I wish I understood a bit more about everything here... - Well, I guess, it'll come with time, right?
Best wishes,
The Communicator
P.S.: Did you actually read my hub on how to write a poem? If you did, what did you think of it? You seem like someone who knows quite a bit about writing and poetry etc. - Okay, I guess I'll see you round... :-)