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Handholding Poems - Poems about Handholding

Christmas With Seventeen Cousins

...We have chili and oyster stew and the kids sneak desserts.
There is a plethora of storytelling going on.
Lots of laughter; Uncle Bill says things that are not for children.
He gets dressed down an...

Categories: handholding, christmas,
Form: Narrative

I Love You

...My circle is of
    fruitflies, houseflies, mosquitos
    squirrels, chipmunks, possums
    spiders, crickets, ants
    parakeets, seagulls, geese

This dance is absent without you
    hair, g...

Categories: handholding, appreciation,
Form: List

Last Sigh

...and still she remembers that first sigh -
exhaling after breathing him in, the 
intoxicating him beside her, arms touching,
dust dancing in the air from his skin to hers. The 
streets they walked...

Categories: handholding, romantic love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Fourth Floor of Nowhere

...“Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive,
you have to watch out for.”   Grace Metalious, Peyton Place

THE FOURTH FLOOR OF NOWHERE

The back room on the 4th floor of nowhere...

Categories: handholding, death, lost love, lust,
Form: Rhyme

Handiworks

...Woven together like fine mesh
A perfect fit of flesh with flesh
Handshaking

Mutual between romancers
Affirmations flow like dancers
Handwritten 

Pearl earrings, dress of lace
Roses, baby's...

Categories: handholding, beautiful, happy, love, marriage,
Form: Verse

Christmas Recipe

...Happy Holidays everyone at Poetry Soup!



A cozy warm fire

2 cups hugs plus one cup love

and a Christmas tree



Gifts favored with care

3 cups grins 2 cups kisses

and snuggly bl...

Categories: handholding, christmas,
Form: Light Verse

Love Is a Puzzle To Her

...Love is a puzzle to her, armed to perplex.
She does not understand it, 
Is confounded,
Although surrounded
By others who seem to all be in love.
She walks quickly past,
Trying to ignore the 
H...

Categories: handholding, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse

Love Letter To Laurie

...When you closed your hand about my hand,
A shivering bud that hid within my heart
Began to open,

‘MEN do not have FLOWERS in their hearts!’
  I cried, in my mind,
‘CERTAINLY
MEN have LIONS!’
...

Categories: handholding, allegory, heart, hello, love,
Form: Free verse