History Romantic Love Poems

Oh La Malinche
A woman of two lands 
In your hands laid the destiny of two lands
The choice was yours to make
To choose which land it...

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In her absence, her reflection is my poetry.
Quill could ink a million verses about her perfection.
Her heart's a gem not found in any rare jewellery.

Legacy...

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The aroma of the coffee
as I take a sip,
reminds me of how we met
There, in the counter
as the barista called my name,
which happened to be...

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With eyes soft, gentle as kindness, his mystery
Breathless kisses that will surely go down in history
~~~
With tender hints of happiness, elation glistening
Through the spirit, into...

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Like Romeo and Juliet
By Michelle Morris
21/11/2021

Like Romeo and Juliet,
we were warned;
Our love was like a fire
and we'd get burned.

Completely forbidden
by our feuding families;
Sometimes in life
love...

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Beside the river flowing over smooth
Stones, dark and shadowy waters,
Healing me with hues of summertime truths…
Echoing past the whimsical blue, streaming
Alive like the music playing...

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When I was young
  eighty-plus was way ahead
When I was young
  the future was left unsaid
When I was young
  the 19th century...

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When I met you, I felt the sun shine
Brighter than ever, like the heart of heaven
Pouring out its blessings, like a sign
Signaling my feelings, there...

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What could I do? 

What to do
when your biological,
and even formerly sober ecological,
relationships suddenly veer insanely romantic?

Or worse,
mistrustful
and yet
not always distrustful,
or not,
maybe deeper sadness
and occasional...

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Amidst the calmness of a starlit night,
Two lovers begin a journey in their boat,
Their bond grows stronger with each gentle stroke,
As they sail through the...

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Valentine’s Day here you come again, 
February 14th lord have mercy on me amen,
You just have to rock up every year without fail, 
To remind...

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Safe from the storm
I reel in your love
gray clouds part
peeks of sunshine
rule my daytime solace.
We share a history of plenty,
Bonafide benevolence befits
our complete contemplation.
We return...

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Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn
the paradise sunsets lie in Tahiti
sunrise, the folly of Easter
islands, sanitoriums, deluded, denuded
limbos and purgatories, the never evermore
Polynesian metaphors transmigrate my mind
O to...

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“Lost Pantheons” 

Alexandrine tragedies
Racine diamond-edged
come and go 
French letters 
blown like leaves
straight up 
into the rarefied air
scattered like lovers
against a body 
of purple vain poetry...

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Gold is your time…
In your eyes, it stretches into your past! 
…so long and deep it reaches. 
It crests and transcends. 
To mark the age...

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