Do you like love poems?

Question

Chrysostom

By C.S. Scotkin

I called you Chrysostom

from the first time we spoke;

I confess to you now.

Chrysostom, Golden Mouth,

no word or kiss has come

to ever cause me pain.

Strange, these kisses, these words

coming at the twilight.

tasting of new pressed wine.

Answer 1

Normally, not a fan of love poems, though I do tend to write more of them than I deem healthy. Then again, I am not a fan of my own work. However, this is beyond exquisite. Not only did the words tug on my heartstrings, but they also painted a picture for me. New pressed wine, honeysuckle wine, I imagine, with its tart, astringent taste coating the tongue, a kiss from someone you are not sure of, who professes love with a golden mouth, and a silver tongue...but do you trust. Is the lack of a pain causing kiss more of a warning than a liberation. Much to ponder from nine intriguing lines. Thank you and blessed be in golden kisses and new pressed wine.

Answer 2

well said! that is nice...really nice. and I like love poems. It is something very interesting you know? Numbering the character of love poems right from 15 th century English-Scottish Ballads to this one, Chrysostom, of our 21 st century. The way the attitude of poets changes is interesting. The shift of phrases, the loosening of constraints, and some times the strangeness...as we find in John Donne. And coming then to Andrew Marvell saying 'At the back of my mind I hear, Time's winged chariot hurrying near'....a shift in attitude is there when we come to John Dryden...in his plays like 'All for Love', the words, the songs...they step a different manner reminding us of Shakespeare. Then Robert Burns, with Robert Burns there is a total change. Love poems become very simple when compared to the metaphysical love poems of John Donne, Henry Vaughan and Marvell. Burns is a pure romantist, a simple poet of the fields and countrysides, singing songs from his heart and not mind. Then the best generation of Shelley, Keats and Byron, developing Burns to a more sensuous side. Tennyson we have then with Robert Browning. When Browning thought of love, Tennyson sang of love...and sonnets from Portuguese of Elizabeth Barett Browning. But again the metaphysics comes with poets like W B Yeats and T S Eliot singing the love songs of Alfred Prufrock. Oh!! I am going far away I think. When you spoke of love poems, I just wished to say this much. Love Poems form a great saga in English literature, different from any other language. This much variety you could find nowhere. I had a short research on the characteristics of love poems in Italian, English and Arabic

Answer 3

to look beyond age and faults only to see beauty is the heart only a romantic can have... I don't only like them... I have a drawer full tucked away... I usually only show them when asked, I also do apathy well.

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-please don't admonish the style I was younger then-

---I am only sharing a poem on vinyl---not cd quality---

"Breath"

Express love; how do I ?

I cannot count it,

I cannot measure it,

I cannot explain it;

to express

my feelings

will take more

than mere words.

My only comparison

can be found

within my

own breath,



for with

each breath

I draw

my life continues,

in each breath

I take

our love

grows.

Without you

to love

I would be

empty and void,



a shell

beyond repair,

you are my breath

and nothing less

.

Answer 4

"Coming at the twilight" ??

Perhaps they are now coming out, at the twilight, eh?

This Love thing you ask about....I've heard of it.

If it exists for two

For me and you

Then for two

It may well do

To see us through

To the new

That I knew

When I knew you

WHEW....Thank you

Answer 5

Wall of sound, clapping from the heavens.

Answer 6

The last stanza is superb. You will have a Golden Dome.

Answer 7

Thought provoking, educational, and well written!

Answer 8

As the poets of my day used to say,"You have 'arrived'."

Welcome, good poetess!!!

Answer 9

like this one.

Of my first 750 poems, fully 90% were love poems.  To lovers, from lovers, about lovers.  Example:

Sea of Life

Two lovers sit upon the shore,

Of this vast sea of life.

As they sit hand in hand and look,

They contemplate their strife.

No matter if the times get hard,

Their love will see them through.

It bonds them close and warms their hearts,

And turns their gray skies blue.

The daily trials of this life,

Will try to tear their love.

But it is held firm and intact,

By faith in Him above.

A bond between two earthly souls,

No man may tear apart.

For each of them will hold a space,

Within the other's heart.

The men will come and try to take,

This woman from his grasp.

She's flattered but before she goes,

His firm hand she will clasp.

She'll feel his love all warm and soft,

She'll tell the stranger, no.

She'll wrap her love around her man,

She'll stay and not let go.

The same will happen to her mate,

When temptress comes his way.

He'll shut his eyes and see the face,

Of her who makes him stay.

Two lovers sit upon the shore,

Of this vast sea of life.

And marvel at the joy they feel,

Because they're man and wife.

Then each will say a little prayer,

To thank God for each other.

And ask for help from Him above,

For her to be a mother.

The pain and tears of giving birth,

Gives way to happy joy.

The child they have has lots of love,

No matter, girl or boy.

As to an adult, this child grows,

They'll teach it right from wrong.

And every time the child is good,

Their hearts will sing a song.

Until at last their child is grown,

And picks a lifelong mate.

And starts a family of their own,

It is predestined fate.

Two lovers sit upon the shore,

Two lovers, man and wife.

And marvel how they made it through,

This great vast sea of life.

Answer 10

Lovely, This kind of love has no need to say, I'm sorry.

Answer 11

Normally, my like for love is similar to my burning desire to go to the dentist. You have cured me of such pain, soothing the root and scraping away the plaque...

Answer 12

this is really sweet and lovely

Answer 13

wow

Answer 14

this is really great writing, i love it because it's really hard to "get" and understand i like the writing that has so mcuh detail you have to really read it to know what its about..