Tenderness Poems - Poems about Tenderness

Red roses in hand, A lad gives on his way— First flower blooms bright. ____________________________________________________ Author’s Note: This haiku captures the tender offering of a first flower—a quiet symbol of new beginnings and the unspoken bloom of feeling. In its simplicity lies a powerful gesture, marking the quiet start of something beautiful, hopeful, and unknown....

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You tried to lead me (surely) by the hand across the shallows but we were both too drunk and the stones too slick so we slid stumbling and laughing, falling toward each other all the way across and upriver (rocks bruising our feet) until we were concealed by the night. We held each other close in the dark noisy water that swirled lovingly over our skin like a mother’s...

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Your laughter rings, a sound so sweet, Like spring’s first bloom, my joy complete. ...

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I. Of Circuits and Litanies Somewhere between the limbic lobe and the ache of late-night Eucharist, you touched me— not in flesh but in the soft mutiny of neurons. They do not teach us that synapses pray in the tongue of longing, that oxytocin sings psalms in dim-lit corridors of the amygdala. Love is not a metaphor. It is a switch, a slow-burning heresy of selfhood dissolved in the damp...

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“Where the Suburbs Meet the Sea” I walked again where I began, past fences worn, where gum trees ran— but now the tide had kissed the land, and waves rolled in like time unplanned. The house was there, but changed in tone, a quiet shell, yet not alone. The breeze...

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"Even When You're Near" I saw you yesterday. You’re not far. Maybe five minutes, a handful of quiet streets. But I miss you. Not because you’re gone, you’re not. It’s just that the world feels softer when you’re in it, next to me, not just in thought. The couch feels bigger....

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roar of lioness placated with tenderness taming of the shrew AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on April 2, 2025...

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warm heart bestowing daily words of tenderness roots in fertile soil AP: 3rd place 2025 Posted on April 1, 2025...

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when we're together holding hands and in a world completely of our own the tenderness I feel for you outshines the moon and sun it's in the way you fill my heart with caring warmth and goodness i savour the virtue and integrity of a soul that's sweepingly atoned and that gentleness is all the sweeter AP: 1st place 2025 Posted on March 28, 2025...

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O’ my dearest love, I gather the world’s rarest petals for you— Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers in the marsh’s quiet air look, love, it fades then rises in the curve of my hands on the curve of your hips— like time like breath like us. But...

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I love you beyond the borders of language, where words stumble, faltering in the shadow of feeling. No map charts the expanse of this tenderness, no compass finds its edge. I love you as the ocean loves the shore, returning endlessly, even when it is sent away. I love you as the sky holds the stars, cradling light in an infinite embrace, never asking why...

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You fill my heart with love throughout the day Our life's journey is a bundle of joy and happiness in every possible way You mean more than anything you can foresee Loving me for who I am allows me to run free When I am not feeling myself you lift me off the ground I can feel your warmth and...

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Written 23 November 2023 Divorce Poetry Contest Sponsored by Matt Caliri ...

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lover of moon lover of stars lover of mirrorballs lover of early autumn mushrooms lover of bitter first frost lover of sequins lover of full moons lover of folk and true to the soul lyrics lover of the quiet and the absence of anyone lover of ribbon bows lover of corduroy and linen lover of mowed grass and the melancholy of family summer evenings of her youth lover of...

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Mother- Educator, mother- fortress, mother - odd, mother nurse, mother teacher, mother - loving, mother - regenerator, mother - eternal... salt of the earth, light in the world, infinity of tenderness God's representative source of love!...

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