Hopeless Romantic Poems

There's an emptiness within me, 
a loneliness I can't appease,
the days grow longer as I long for you

I know it's out there somewhere,
a love that...

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Ugly to believe  
an ugly kiss;
Ugly smeared lipstick 
matches ugly swollen lips;

Ugly to pretend;
It’s ugly to be deceiving;
Ugly screams 
lead to such ugly crying;

Ugly...

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Preposterous Eros
by Michael R. Burch

“Preposterous Eros” – Patricia Falanga

Preposterous Eros shot me in
the buttocks, with a Devilish grin,
spent all my money in a rush
then left...

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I've always wanted to stay with you every single day.
I've always wanted to write a poem for you each day,
But I kept forgetting all of...

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I see her from afar
I don't need a name
I can daydream all the same

It's not easy
For romance comes to those who try
And it feels like...

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A piece of happiness,
A piece of dreams,
I'm scrabbling words,
That’s as sweet as a cream.

You put on the melody,
and I titled it our “remedy”.
The beginning tells...

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Rest awhile, 
the day is at its end and you feel broken,
and as tomorrow too seems hopeless,
I will open up my arms to hold you,
so...

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Loneliness has made me a hopeless romantic,
I don't have the youth or charm to offer you,
I don't have the great health or wealth to share...

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Beneath the stars and galaxies 
The moon, that’s split in half
I fall astray in the cosmos of you
Placing my heart once again
In everything that I...

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I want to be a strong and gentle lover,

Who grows insatiably lovesick in sweet parting from the sticky sadness of summer.

I want to be a...

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By definition I'm a hopeless romantic 
so no matter what kinda decisions I made 
in the women I chose I always took responsibility 
for how...

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Loving again 
for the millionth time 
has broken you into
a million pieces,
each
and every time....

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Loosing my sense of words over carefully chosen pictures that have been drawn from blood loss spilt.

The movement is causing my eyelids to flicker to...

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Loving you feels like trying to keep unattainable things locked up,
kisses on jars, 
touches saved on empty containers for later,
your laughter described in detail
on hundreds...

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uncertainty settles in
hesitation hath be fallen upon us
they say if something scares you
it’s meant to happen
the compass is twirling out of control
i have no sense...

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