Maximalist
When more is more and you want everything OTT, these poems will get you there.
15 poems
Admonitions to a Special Personby Anne Sexton, 1928 ~ 1974“To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned.”
How do I love theeby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“if God choose I shall but love thee better after death”
I know you knowby Michelangelo, 1475 ~ 1564“Let the wall between our hopes and desires be battered down.”
I love youby Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850 ~ 1919“I love your eyes when the lovelight lies lit with a passionate fire”
Love from NGC7318by Tanerelle, contemporary“You make me feel like each of the five galaxies swirling in Stephan's Quintet”
Love is like owning a dogby Taylor Mali, b. 1965“Love makes you meet people wherever you go”
Love Songby Henry Dumas, 1934 ~ 1968“On hands and knees the ocean begs up the beach, then falls at your feet.”
Obergefell v Hodgesby Anthony Kennedy, b. 1936“Since the dawn of history marriage has transformed strangers into relatives, binding families and societies together”
Oh, the places you will go!by Dr. Seuss, 1904 ~ 1991“Things can happen and frequently do, to people as brainy and footsy as you”
Salt Rose and Topazby Pablo Neruda, 1904 ~ 1973“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul”
Scientific Romanceby Tim Pratt, b. 1976“I’d still spend at least 10^21 processing cycles a month just sitting on a virtual couch with you, watching virtual TV, eating virtual fajitas”
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 Wedding Marchby Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 ~ 1889“I to him turn with tears, whose wonder-wedlock deals triumph and immortal years”
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.”