Nostalgia Romantic Love Poems

You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. - Maggie Stiefvater,...

Read More

I sing my thoughts a lullaby
And beg them to be still
Unruly children full of play
They go against my will

Another game of hide and seek
Each one...

Read More

This perfect setting from the past
An era gone though filmed to last,
Strangely set a wistful thought
As memories and dreams were caught.

How love had lured me...

Read More

When you look back, remembering us,
The way we were – in faded photographs,
Yesterday’s dreams like pieces of a puzzle
Pressed into the heart and soul, erasing
Melancholy...

Read More

Would I be disappointed though
If this didn’t lead to more?
Four years of waiting
And all we have is idle conversation.
Two people who changed so much
That they’re...

Read More

You were so beautiful yesterday,
When the air smelled of wildfires,
When a nostalgic fog painted the city with sepia
When I got a flat tire.

You were so...

Read More

We stayed out late at night: back then;
In the warmer months of the season
We would go down to the lake for fun.

If it hadn't been...

Read More

you could hear the little jingle
from the assorted silver charms
hanging from the heavy bracelets
that she wore loosely on her arms

a pleasant little noise keeping
to the...

Read More

Magic silver key,
fits into my silver shoes.
I was now set free,
I now owned many sidewalks.
My new skates were a big thrill.

 

Date Written: 8/4/2022

2 Place

Childhood...

Read More

It is June again.
It is a June after our June when my mind is not preoccupied by bigger concerns:
friends, college, which show should I binge?
It...

Read More

They came in a flurry
Was it desperation?
Or
Was she really in a hurry?
Wanting to connect to someone
She loved so dearly...
The man 
Now recalling those moments
Tries hard...

Read More

I fall apart
Frozen in awe
Seeing the beauty as it hits
My arms parted to feel the whole of my being.
I am washed of pain and heartbreak
That...

Read More

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...

Read More

O! Summer Love there you stand at the lake
Aqua waters flow between your feet
All such gentle movements you make
As a gazelle a deer
Dancing ever still
So...

Read More

when we first met
it was love at first sight
so my husband always says
I have no reason to doubt him
through the years
our love has only grown

the...

Read More