Category: love poetry
Singular Passion
Shall we walk upon the sand
Telling tales while holding hands
Shall we kiss like lovers do
Making promises sweet and true
Shall we dance in the moonlit room
Holding each other’s hearts in our own …
Shall we lay in each other’s arms
Living for the moment’s pleasurable charms
Believing that we can hold on
with all our might
To keep the passion
of the night
Past Love
The stars spill out
Over the black canvas
Of the magnifecent open sky
So ancient and timeless
My thoughts turn to you
and the love we once shared
decades ago
My heart warms
I wonder if you are looking too
At the same stars in the sky
And if your thoughts ever
turn towards me
So special were the moments
We shared between us two
Never surpassed or equaled
by any other lover
If I had known then
that you were the best of men
and that the connection we had
was precious and rare
I would never have walked away
In search of better love
When the best of love
Was already in my hands
ANNIE
Why do People Click More “Likes” on Love Related Poems than on Other Poems?
I was reading someone’s poetry blog tonight and they wondered why more people clicked “like” on the love related poetry, compared to their other poetry. To be sure, I enjoyed all of this poet’s work, but I also found myself reading the love poems.
As I thought about why more people clicked on the love poems, I realized that many different types of people who visit poetry blogs, must select different types of poems based on their personalities. But in addition to their other favorites, they each liked the love poems.
This speaks to the fact that all different kinds of personalities, people from different cultures and socioeconomic groups all were choosing the love poems, in addition to their other favorite themes.
The common link between the readers was that they could all relate to the love poems from personal experiences. The poems may not speak of exact situations you have been in, but they speak of conditions of your humanity.
Being in love creates vulnerability. Vulnerability is a human condition that everyone has experienced in one way or another.
People gravitate toward reading things that they find themselves in. People like reading about themselves and trying to understand themselves better. People also like to feel that they are not alone in their feelings.
The feelings of love may vary from person to person, but the situation of having had to deal with romantic love in some way, is pretty much across the board.
People all relate to vulnerability, and also what it feels like to trust your vulnerability to someone.
People also relate to issues surrounding love and vulnerability such as trust, compassion, deception and betrayal. They know what is feels like to need to trust another person, whose actions we cannot dictate. We can relate to having been at the mercy of another.
It is part of the human condition to have to trust someone, at some point, for our lives, our stability, our emotional / mental health or for something that is critical to our personal well being.
Everyone can see themselves in writings that have to do with the need, the fear and the blessings that can happen when we have to trust another person. Good or bad, we have to trust others sometimes and it can be scary.
The other theme that is eventually related to love, is death. We all know that we cannot physically hold onto another person forever. Spiritual views vary, but sooner or later we have to be physically separated by death, unless something separates us first.
People can see their own personal struggles with the feelings surrounding love, mutual love, unrequited love and lost love. These are all conditions of humanity that people have in common.
The beauty, pain and vulnerability of love, is a timeless theme. This is why poets, lyricists and philosophers have talked of love for so many, many generations and in very culture.
Love is beautiful. Love is painful. Love is vulnerable which makes us human.
Love Well,
Annie
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