Best Date Poems

Opening line from "Highway Five Love Poem" by Ruth L. Schwartz


This is a love poem for all the tomatoes
I squished to make our Date-Night spaghetti.
Our love, like the pasta, was shiny.  So the story goes.

We sit at our table, between us a rose
Red as...

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Death comes to all like a great shadow,
servant of reality when the truth of it sinks
in leaving the experience embedded on
one’s soul. Milt, given to remembrance
in his lifetime, moments flashing by, when 
the congregation gathered to celebrate his 
time on earth. But in the book...

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I once dated a pilot …
We both had our head in the clouds
Our relationship lead to a lot of turbulence - 
I guess it never really got off the ground!

I once dated a glazier…
He thought I would be putty in his hands
But I could see...

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My bestie blind dated big Humpty
His hairstyle resembled Don Trumpty
He was constantly rude
Foul mouthed and so crude
No wonder she soon ditched the numpty!

10/15/18


Your bestie's blind date was a weird one
An hour of boredom and she was done
When she said goodnight
He put up a fight
So she...

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He arrived wearing pink skinny jeans
They were scruffy and ripped at the seams
He looked like a wiener
I will not be meaner
But he’s sure not the man of my dreams

2/07/18

A square peg into a round slot
A dreamy man he sure is not
Gawd he's wearing pink
Give me...

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Dinner and dancing, perfect first date
Conversation flowing easily, it's going great
Breeze blowing her long auburn hair
Down towards the sea we disappear
Midnight stroll on the starlit beach 
The perfect girl finally within reach

Moonlight illuminates her pretty face
Elegance, beauty, full of grace 
Slowly, tenderly, our hands entwine
Hearts...

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When missives of love amber winds reveal
Strumming ardent music of romantic themes
As bashful moon delights blushing eventide, 
And doting hearts aspire to call of desires;
Meet me then, darling, as memories revive
Sparkling sweet smile of twinkle in your eyes.

By the river’s edge, where passions spree,
Hand in...

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"I loooove Taylor Swift. I'm a devoted Swiftie." 
"GAAA! Why didn't you tell me that on the first date?" 
"Excuse me?"
"Look, I'm a classic rock guy, you know, Bad Company, Queen, Zep." 
"ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT YOU DON'T LIKE TAY TAY?" 
"Hey c'mon babe,...

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we pressed our noses ‘gainst the restaurant glass
for we were just tossed out upon our ass
cuz we forgot our Covid vaccine pass
becoming citizens - now second class

a passerby informed us that our masks
were not up to their intended task
that we shouldn’t pass around our flask
within...

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my fourteenth summer. .  
the son of a preacher man
showing me heaven

His teasing ways and his boyish grin.
How easily I was taken in!

I felt like a woman in my cute short culottes and wearing pink frost lipstick
that he’d kissed off my mouth before the...

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The whole day, my mind was blossoming,
Keeping me busy with humming and chuckling.
Though the sky was raining, couldn’t upset my spirit,
I was struggling myself to ponder on what the professor was saying…
Where was the meaning of ‘Metaphysical love’ remaining?

He was lecturing on ‘John Donne’,
But I...

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Twas winter ninety-seven, all around the town
Houses lit up magically, parties all around.
Boyfriend says, come with me, to works Christmas dinner,
Dress up chic and sexy, looking like a winner.

Hair all done up, makeup on, gown that fits just right
We’ll impress his colleagues, I was such...

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the wind was roaring
an open road forever-
           trees a blur of green

My brother brought him home for supper one day,
I recall it was a beautiful warm day in the month of May.

I hung on the...

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Two bottles of wine
A loaf of sour dough bread
And thou...all now gone...

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I have a date;
with Destiny..
Feathered by fate;
and hipocracy...

Treading my fears...
Distancing my heart..
Screaming your name;
silenced from start...

Lost in the game...
Dead in my tracks..
Queried by love...
Stabbed in the back...

Taste of regret....
Following your lead...
Never to return...
Mentally freed.......

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