Valentines Day Poems

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Valentine’s Day poems communicate feelings, romance and imagery through verse whether it is metered or free. Poetry is referred to as the language of love and for generations, poets used their mastery of the language to celebrate the beauty of love and romance from Voltaire to Shakespeare from King David and his psalms to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert Browning.

Romantic prose populates Valentine's Day poems.

Perfect Valentine’s Day Poems

The perfect Valentine’s poems are romantic, clever, funny, witty, rude or just plain charming. When you compose your own poetry, you express your feelings through literary references, metaphors, allegories or just plain verse. Among the more popular forms of poetry are:

Sonnets
Jintishi
Sestina
Villanelle
Rondeau
Pantoum
Tanka
Haiku
Ode

Sonnets grew to enormous popularity under the pen of William Shakespeare. Jintishi is a form of Chinese poetry. Haiku is Japanese, the Rondeau French while the Ode dates back to Greek and Latin forms of poetry. All cultures across the world embrace the use of poetry in their story telling and romantic literature. Is it any wonder that Valentine’s Day brings out the poet in the average man or woman?

Does this mean you should compose your own sonnet or Haiku? Chances are, you’re going to be a greater fan of free verse, but it can’t hurt to check out some romantic sonnets or odes for inspiration.

Poetry Writing Tips

Poetry should always come directly from the heart. You can use colors, weather, flowers and the environment as metaphors for your feelings and relationship, but beware the connotation that some people apply to different metaphors. For example, you may find a spring rain to be refreshing and renewing but the one you are expressing it to may find that to be dreary and depressing, so know your audience. If you want to write your own Valentine’s Day poem to give to the one you love, write a response to the following:

If this had not happened, we would never have met.
The air smelled of this on the day we met.
I knew you were the one when this happened.
This frightened me when I found myself falling in love.
I missed you when this happened.
You taught me this.

Answering each of these may reveal the following:

If the bus wasn’t late, we would never have met.
The air smelled of fresh baked pretzels on the day we met.
I knew you were the one when you drove to fifteen different stores to find a single book.
Losing you frightened me when I found myself falling in love.
I missed you when your career took you all over the country.
You taught me to be a better person for you and for others.

Each of these lines can begin a poem about your beloved.

Be Creative

Poetry can inspire creativity. Write the name of your significant other in the center of the paper. Now write down all the adjectives that you think of when you think of them. Then write down the reasons why you think those things. For example:

Scott Joseph

Sexy – Strong shoulders, warm eyes
Insightful – Gift giver, makes times
Caring – Gets up early on request, goes the extra mile for the right coffee
Funny – Makes jokes, intentional and otherwise, self-deprecating

Develop the list and before you know it, you’ll have a free form poem that can easily be framed or folded into an envelope and given as a thoughtful reminder that you care about the sum of all their parts.

Valentine's Day poems are a great excuse to pamper your love with emotional declarations (no matter how sappy they might seem on other days) so take advantage of it.

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