Love is strong, and love is silly,
Love is passionate and tender too,
Love is equal, kind, and free,
It’s when 1+1= 1, not 2.
Love is full of surprises. It comes unexpectedly and often makes you do crazy things you never thought you would. But that’s the beauty of love… You don’t just fall in love with a person; you fall in love with love! And when you’re in love, it can often be hard to express your feelings. Because you may know you love your spouse-to-be, but the right words are hard to come by. So if you’re struggling to put feelings into words and could use a little help, check out these romantic poems that will melt your heart.
Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII, Cien Sonetos de Amor
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I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.”
Louise Cuddon, I’ll Be There For You
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When your mind’s in a mess and your head’s in a spin
When your plane’s been delayed, and you’ve missed the last train…
When you break a rule, when you act the fool
When you’ve got the flu when you’re in a stew
When you’re last in the queue, don’t feel blue ’cause
I’m telling you, I’ll be there.
Rupi Kaur, our souls are mirrors
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god must have kneaded you and i
from the same dough
rolled us out as one on the baking sheet
must have suddenly realized
how unfair it was
to put that much magic in one person
and sadly split that dough in two
how else is it that
when i look in the mirror
i am looking at you
when you breathe
my own lungs fill with air
that we just met but we
have known each other our whole lives
if we were not made as one to begin with
What’s Mickey Without Minnie? – Author Unknown
What’s Mickey without Minnie,
Or piglet without pooh,
What’s Donald without Daisy?
That’s me without you.
When Ariel Doesn’t sing,
and Pooh hates honey,
when Tigger stops bouncing,
and Goofy isn’t funny.
When Peter Pan can’t fly,
and Simba never roars,
when Alice no longer fits
through small doors.
When Dumbo’s ears are small,
and happily ever after isn’t true,
Even then, I won’t stop loving you.
E.E Cummings, I Carry Your Heart With Me
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my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
Rainer Maria Rilke, Understand, I’ll Slip Quietly… from First Poems
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Understand, I’ll slip quietly
Away from the noisy crowd
When I see the pale
Stars rising, blooming over the oaks.
I’ll pursue solitary pathways
Through the pale twilit meadows,
With only this one dream:
You come too.
Whether you use these brilliant pieces of literature as inspiration to pen down your own thoughts or borrow the resonating lines to add to your vows, you are guaranteed to not only convey your heart’s message but also bring everyone present to shed a happy tear or two.
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