6 Alluring Short Love Poems To Nourish Your Partner's Heart And Soul
Poetry is meant to feed the soul.
Elif Kaya, Syda Productions | Canva What to say, when the beauty of waking in your lover’s arms fills you with delirious joy or when your heart is shattered into a thousand pieces from a betrayal and you feel like drowning in sorrow without end? And what words can ignite your spark on a dreary, foggy day?
Poetry. Reading it can offer inspiration and solace, or you take a pen and write what you cannot express in the usual ways. It can be wonderfully surprising what emerges from within you, and often a self-written or read-out-loud poem, which captures what you feel, speaks far more to your friend or mate than expensive gifts. A good poem is like a feast on our table — it nourishes the soul and our relationships.
Since ancient times, poetry has been the language that surpasses the limitations of the mind, culture, and conditioning. It’s the language of the soul, one we have cast to the sidelines in our modern world. But, great poetry can catapult us into timeless truth, and it resonates with people of diverse backgrounds, heritage, and country equally. Poetry can reach us at the very core of our being, connecting us in a deeper way to love. I started writing early in life, living with a pen in my pocket and spilling ink on my hands. When I did not feel understood in the world, I wrote. When wracked with grief, my best poems showed up. And when I felt overtaken by love, I just couldn’t stop the flow, even while driving a car.
Sometimes, I open a book and let a poem inspire me for the day, or I find the answer I had been searching for and receive guidance and help. A poem may be simple, but its purity can open and touch what is beyond words, which feels like home, like a silent lake, filling you with peace in troubled times. And you can snuggle up with your partner, friend, or mate and read poems to each other on a stormy night with a crackling fire, or while camping under the starlit sky. Writing or reading one poem every day can certainly awaken in you the love and connection you have been searching for in life. Enjoy a taste of poetry right now.
Here are 6 best short love poems to nourish your heart and soul:
1. "You are okay, friend...just as you are...and where you are right now."
You are okay, friend,
Just as you are,
And where you are right now.
You may shake your worried head.
But anything else
Will only get you
In such painful trouble
That it will be
Hard to find
Your way home
Again.
2. "Let your hand reach out...to touch with simple kindness..."
Let your hand reach out
Straight from your heart,
And both of you will be fed
By this One Love.
3. "So let love carry you...into the greatest rest..."
So let Love carry you
Into the greatest rest.
Oh, in Love, dear one,
Come and make your nest.
For, sure, sweet one,
You have tasted by now
What unties all the knots in your soul.
4. "We are all marked...with wounds of this human life..."
We are all marked
With wounds of this human life.
Soften and open.
It is not so bad
To taste pain and joy.
Trust, Love heals
What cannot be made whole
By medicine of any other kind.
5. "Only one drop...of pure love...is the cure..."
Only one drop
Of pure Love
Is the cure
That ends
The pain
Of an entire lifetime!
6. "Me and you' has no meaning...in the place where we meet..."
"Me and you" has no meaning
In the place where we meet,
In such holy and natural
Union as this.
Your hair woven into mine
Eyes, and lips touch the deeper river.
You could call it: Us.
Nicola Amadora is a speaker, spiritual teacher, Hakomi therapist, leadership and relationship educator and consultant, women's coach, and author.