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By D'Vaughn McCrae — Written on Oct 08, 2021
Who doesn't like being romanced every now and again? It's the little things that count, and what better way to show a little love than by sending short love poems to that special person in your life?
Flirty poems are an especially great way to show your romantic side if you're dating, say, an English major. But honestly, the love poems below will take you far with anyone who enjoys the art of words and the lovely ways they can be woven together.
If you're not exactly the best at stringing said words together yourself, there's nothing wrong with finding poetry online, then sending your favorites off in cute texts!
Whether you're just in a moment of passion, feeling inspired to personify a modern Romeo and Juliet (without dying, of course), or you don't think your partner hears this stuff enough, short but sweet love poems are a simple way to inject some extra romance into your everyday life.
So don't be shy. In fact, let yourself get ooey-gooey! Try sending these short love poems to the person you love as a sweet surprise.
50 Short Love Poems For Her
1. You're the type of person
You're the type of person
that makes forever
seem
too short.
— a.l
2. I'll plant a row of daisy seeds
I'll plant a row of daisy seeds,
In the space below each eye,
So they'll remind you of your beauty,
When they bloom each time you cry.
— Erin Hanson
3. I will love you
I will love you,
Not starting with
Your skin or
Your organs or
Your bones:
I will love madly first,
Your naked soul.
4. If ever we shall perish
If ever we shall perish
and become but specks
of dust, I hope the wind
carries us away to that
place you've always loved.
5. She had the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen
She had the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen
And it took only her laugh to realize
that beauty was the least of her.
— Atticus
6. Roses are red
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Damn.
Let me kiss you.
— Unknown
7. coffee is
coffee is
all well
and good
but i would
rather
have your
lips
kiss me
awake
every morning
— kpk
8. because
because
i could watch you
for a single
minute
and find
a thousand things
that i love
about you
— (cm)
9. Courage
You love with everything
you have...
not everyone possesses
that kind of courage.
10. In all the world there is
In all the world there is
no heart for me like yours.
In all the world there is
no love for you like mine.
11. I would love to say
I would love to say
that you
make me
weak in the knees,
but
to be quite upfront,
and completely
truthful,
you
make my body forget
it has knees
at all.
12. You are always
You are always
ticking inside of me
and I dream of you
more often
than I don't.
— Unknown
13. I keep myself busy
I keep myself busy
with the things I do,
But every time I pause,
I still think of you.
— Unknown
14. I'm jealous of the morning sun
I'm jealous of the morning sun
That gets to be the first to see you
Or the coffee cup
Who gets to kiss your sleepy lips awake
— Unknown
15. All I can
All I can
ever ask of
you
is
to stay.
Just stay.
— Unknown
17. You deserve someone
You deserve someone
who sees you as
too important to lose.
— Faraway
18. Come lay with me
Come lay with me.
I wanna talk about nothing with someone that means something.
— Unknown
19. I just need
I just need
you
and
some
sunsets.
— Unknown
20. and if you are to love
and if you are to love,
love as the moon loves;
it does not steal the night —
it only unveils the beauty
of the dark.
21. When I see you again
When I see you again,
I'll stand closer,
So you can hear my heartbeat,
and understand,
What I could never say.
— Entela Gjetja
22. From "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
— Gabriel García Márquez
23. Love is anterior to life
Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
— Emily Dickinson
24. The minute I heard my first love story
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Rumi
25. "love is a place"
love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds
26. I love you, in ways you've never been loved
I love you,
in ways
you've never been
loved,
for reasons you've never been
told,
for longer than you think you
deserved
and with more
than you will ever know existed
inside
me.
― Tyler Knott Gregson
27. "Give Away"
Love that is hoarded moulds at last
Until we know some day
The only thing we ever have
Is what we give away.
— Louis Ginsberg
28. "Passing Time"
Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk
One paints the beginning
of a certain end.
The other, the end of a
sure beginning.
— Maya Angelou
29. Lying next to you
Lying next to you
or three hundred miles away,
I am yours
just the same.
30. I want to
I want to
travel the world
with you.
Make love
in new cities.
I want to be new
with you.
— Christopher Poindexter
31. new year's eve
baby, you are my
new year's eve,
the beginning and end
of everything.
32. let love
let love
kiss your palm.
tuck it into
your back pocket
or some other
safe place.
let it stay.
33. your cologne
your cologne
smelled like
the rest of
my life
35. first love
you might not have been my first love
but you were the love that made
all other loves seem
irrelevant
36. “Defeated by Love”
The sky was lit
by the splendor of the moon
So powerful
I fell to the ground
Your love
has made me sure
I am ready to forsake
this worldly life
and surrender
to the magnificence
of your Being
— Rumi
37. I do not know if I will ever be complete
I do not know
if I
will ever be
complete,
but I know
whatever I am,
You
will always be
the rest of
me.
― Tyler Knott Gregson
38. her
A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.
— Atticus
39. give your love to me
As nectar fills the flower,
giving sustenance to the bee,
I need you every hour,
to give your love to me.
— Anonymous
40. "Love of My Life"
When I think of you.
I know you think of me too.
Our life is like a dream.
A beautiful moon beam.
Keep me in your heart.
So that we will never part.
— Jennifer Betts
41. If our souls
If our souls
can keep finding one another
again and again in this lifetime
surely they can do so
in the next
— Aurora Raine
42. I will follow you
I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tomorrows.
— Atticus
43. "How Do I Love You?"
How do I love you?
Oh, this way and that way.
Oh, happily. Perhaps
I may elaborate by
demonstration? Like
this, and
like this and
no more words now
— Mary Oliver
44. This is how I would die
This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight.
— Rumi
45. thank you
thank you for loving me
through rain, through growth,
through change.
thank you for loving me, still.
— Alison A. Malee
47. honeycomb
you must have a
honeycomb
for a heart
how else
could a man
be this sweet
— Rupi Kaur
48. "Eros"
The sense of the world is short,
Long and various the report,—
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it,
And how oft soe'er they've turned it,
'Tis not to be improved.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. You are the poem
You
are the poem
I never knew
how to write
and this life
is the story
I have always
wanted
to tell.
― Tyler Knott Gregson
50. my soul has traveled
my soul
has traveled
long and far
to find
yours
— Ben Maxfield
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D'Vaughn McCrae is a writer and multimedia journalist.