You Don't Have To Be A Genius To Write A Love Poem

Love poems are a wonderfully romantic gesture and can often express your thoughts far more eloquently than verbal communication.

If you have some talent with words, why not take a few moments and try your hand at writing a poem for your lover? Just sit down and list all the reasons why you think they're special. Then put them into some kind of free verse format: a wide column of lines, roughly the same length, which may rhyme but don't need to.

Even if your poem won't win any literary prizes, the person you present it to will most likely treasure it as if it were composed by one of the great Romantic poets. People tend to value a personalized gift far more than one that's purchased. What they're really appreciating is the time and effort invested on their behalf.

I'd like to share a story of the first time I received a love poem.
When I was twelve years old I had a crush on Robert, the new boy in my class at school, and he had very generously decided that I was "cute". One afternoon we were waiting with some classmates at the bus stop when he announced that he didn't like me anymore. He was now in love with my best friend, Julie.

I was so incensed by this betrayal that I lunged at him and chased him down the street. He swerved into the gutter and I bolted after him just as the bus pulled in. It hit me from behind and I went down. The bus then ran over my right foot.

A short time later, the ambulance arrived and the paramedic driver examined me. He decided that I didn't need hospitalization so he drove me home with instructions to spend the next six weeks in bed. Meanwhile, a distraught Robert was blaming himself for the accident. He asked the other children at the bus stop where I lived, and walked the two miles to my house. Then he sat across the street on the pavement, wondering if my father would strangle him if he knocked at the front door.

A couple of hours later he worked up the courage to confront my father, which turned out to be something of an anti-climax because my father had no idea about Robert's part in the drama. When Robert tiptoed into my room he handed me a sheet of paper; he had written a poem for me as he sat across the street from my house. I remember how thrilled I was that someone would do such a thing. It was like something out of a novel or a movie.

I kept that poem, which ran to one and a half legal pages, for a number of years, until it disappeared when we moved house a decade later. But I still remember the first four lines:
Her name is Marguerite I very much like that girl She means much more to me Than any gem or pearl
That was a lifetime ago and yet those words remain in my memory.

As for the boy himself, by the time I got back to school Robert had moved on to greener pastures (he now liked my best friend's new best friend). But that hardly mattered as I was now a minor celebrity because I got hit by a bus while chasing a boy. The nuns had a field day praying for my soul, which was not the last time they'd engage in that futile exercise.
My right foot is still a little flatter than my left but it was worth it for the notoriety. And hey, Robert, wherever you are, thanks for the memory.

Using Other People's Love Poems
If you don't have Robert's literary talent, there is another option. Find an existing poem that best expresses how you feel and present it to your lover inside a greeting card or gift.
There are a number of sites online that offer love poems. You can find a list on our web site or do a keyword search.


About The Author
© Marguerite Bonneville
Marguerite Bonneville is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) whose passion is publishing information online. She is a contributing writer for http://www.romantic-gift-ideas-online.com, a resource site dedicated to helping visitors find the perfect romantic gift.

Poem of the Sky

The sky is blue and the clouds are pure
I ask God
Release my soul
Let me seek not other's approval nor acceptance
But to experience your sweetness and grace in the beauty of your presence

May I drink the holiness of your splendor
And taste the freshness of your breathe Release and relieve my passion
Truly I witness the beauty and art
Of silence and solitude within once again

Your love touched my feet and washed me clean
My soul renourishes itself in your awesome unfathomable depth of love
Burn my impurities in my heart away with the intense heat of the sun
Let me see the glory and beauty of all other beings around me

Teach me patience teach me love
Teach me that failures are inevitable in life yet a must to success
Give me courage Give me joy
That I may continue to dwell in your Highness
That I will continue pursue myself to greater depth
To unlock the gift within the gifts
That innate truth power within me "

About the Author
Kathryn Lim is a life coach, business image consultant and author of Wealth From Within who can be reached at kathryn@kathrynlim.com, or visited on the web

Baby Shower Poetry by Julia Sullivan

Poetry is such vibrant means of communicating. It is one's creative way of expressing emotion, intellect and aspirations. It is filled with sentiment and mirrors the individual's true inner being. Such channel of expression is befitting an equally elating occasion: the anticipated arrival of a newborn. Here are ways of incorporating poems into the momentous event, the baby shower.

Invitation Poems

Poetry about babies can give the baby shower invitation added charm. Think of what it feels like to have a baby, the hope of anticipation and the fulfillment of birth. Include in the poem how you'd like those wonderful feelings to be shared with the guest being invited. Finally, to give the invitation a customized appeal, include the invitation details in the poem, carefully spreading the details, all throughout the verse, if possible.

Thank You Poems

Thank you poems are creative ways of expressing love and happiness for the future newborn. With the upcoming occasion, there are many things to thank for: having God's blessing in such a feeble form or having the support of family and friends while playing the waiting game. Mom-to-be can deliver the thank you poem. If it is a co-ed baby shower, the Dad-to-be can do the honors.

Another way of saying thank you is through the baby shower thank you card. This is sent to all guests who gave gifts for the occasion. Include a short rhyme on how blessed the baby is for having guardians as loving as the guest who sent the gift. Then end by thanking them for it.

Poems for Baby Shower Activities

It is unusual to have a baby shower and poetry reading in one, but it is an idea that can work among a very strong lyrical society. Most poets are very comfortable in expressing and conversing in verses, and if the future parents are poets themselves, then a poetry reading baby shower is not a bad idea. Who knows... they maybe anticipating a future rhymester!

However, if you are like the rest of the world, incorporating poems is not impossible in the conventional baby shower. It actually adds an enriching dimension to the event that everyone can gain knowledge from. Use rhymes to open and close the event, or when praising the Mom-to-be or future newborn. Riddles are also poems so use them in a game of treasure hunt or guessing game.

Cake Poetic Inscriptions

Since Verses and Rhymes is a good theme for a baby shower, why not include a line on the cake? Express how your future newborn is as sweet as the cake, or how much everyone is lovingly waiting for the baby. Mom-to-be does the honor of articulating the cake inscription before cutting it.

Baby Shower Favors

A fundamental part of any baby shower is the party favors, both as prizes and memorabilia. This is a wonderful opportunity to incorporate poems!
For winning games, contests or solving riddles, prizes can be awarded together with a poem about how remarkable the win was. The poetic party host can pronounce, in verses, how amazing the game was played and how miraculous winner won. Lastly, prize recipients can give their own "thank you" verse or two.

As the guests leave, give them an inexpensive memento of the occasion, and as in the whole baby shower theme, include a poem about how it was made special because of the guest's presence.

Poems indeed, add more life to such a warmhearted occasion about giving life: the baby shower.

About the Author
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Tips To Write Love Poems by Jeff Young

When you are in love and want to express your feelings to your partner, we believe that the best way is through love poems. When the reason is love then every person is a poet. Just review your thoughts in your mind, each and every moment that you spent with your partner and the places you been together, will play a magic in your mind. When you put these thoughts on a peace of paper, it turns to a powerful love poem.
Love poems reflect the mental and the heart felt emotions that's comes out from the core of the heart. Love poems are really touching because it tells about the person's feelings; it can be any thing like- the first feeling of infatuation or it can say about the steady relation or even the sadness. Love poems are something which you can't force yourself to write, it comes on its own, only you have to put your thoughts in a proper format.
Sometimes when a person expresses his/her feelings in a love poem it can be very flattering but then again it can also be exaggerated too. But if a person has lost his or her love or unhappy with the love life, then his thoughts will lead him towards negative feeling, which in turn will result in a sad love poems depicting frustration agony etc.
If you have ever truly loved some one then you must have written a love poem. Love poems are not always written to share with your partner. When you express your feelings on a peace of paper giving it a life, it makes you feel good from the core of your heart. All the feelings are not shared with your friends or your loved ones; something is always there that you need to keep it with yourself. The feeling that you can love someone so much can never be expressed.
If you are into writing love poems then you should know that there are variety of books available in the market which will help you out to understand how thoughts are structured to express the inner feelings. There are many other ways to explore the world of poetry like- Internet is a great source from where you can get lots of information by browsing the poetry websites. Really, if you have ever been in love with someone then you will be able to write great love poems. Remember, poems are all about your inner feelings.

About the Author
Jeff Young is a freelance writer, who writes about relationship, love, friendship and other subjects revolving about what it means to be human. Visit to know more about the Love Poems greeting cards.