Bohemian
Warm, inviting and sensual… and maybe just a little bit decadent. These poems offer velvet to the senses, and joy to the heart.
17 poems
Admonitions to a Special Personby Anne Sexton, 1928 ~ 1974“To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned.”
For a new beginningby John O'Donohue, 1956 ~ 2008“The delight when your courage kindled and out you stepped onto new ground”
How do I love theeby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“if God choose I shall but love thee better after death”
How long we were fool'dby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“We have voided all but our own freedom, all but our own joy”
Ideas of right and wrongby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“Let the beauty we love be what we do”
Love Songby Henry Dumas, 1934 ~ 1968“On hands and knees the ocean begs up the beach, then falls at your feet.”- Love, mere loveby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“Let temple burn, or flax and an equal light leaps in the flames from cedar plank or weed. And love is fire.”
Mysteries, yesby Mary Oliver, 1935 ~ 2019“Let me keep company, always, with those who say 'look' and laugh in astonishment and bow their heads.”
Nowby Robert Browning, 1812 ~ 1889“When ecstasies uptmost we clutch at the core”
On Loveby Kahlil Gibran, 1883 ~ 1931“Let love be a moving sea between the shores of your souls”- On marriageby Kahlil Gibran, 1883 ~ 1931“Be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night”
- Song of the Open Roadby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“I give you myself before preaching or law”
Song of Wandering Aengusby W.B. Yeats, 1865 ~ 1939“We will pluck til times and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun”
Sonnet 116by William Shakespeare, 1564 ~ 1616“If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved”- The Beauty we loveby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“The moment I heard my first love story I went looking for you”
Touched by an angelby Maya Angelou, 1928 ~ 2014“Love costs all we are and will ever be, but it is only love that will set us free.”
We are youngby J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892 ~ 1973“We have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth”