Love Poems For Every Occasion

Love After Love

By Derrek Walcot

The time will come

when, with elation,

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror

and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread, Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

“Love After Love” was published in Derek Walcott Collected Poem 1948- 1984.

the Woman I Love

by Hafiz

Because the Woman I love lives

inside of you,

I lean as close to your body with my words

as I can –

And I think of you all the time, dear.

Because the One I love goes with you,

Wherever you go,

I will always be near.

I will always lean my heart

as close to your soul

as I can.

“The Woman I Love” was published in Hafiz Wisdom of Madness, Selected Poems translated by Rassouli

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

by e. e. cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

“I Carry Your Heart With Me (I Carry It In) was published in e.e. cummings Complete Poems 1904- 1962.

Love Poems For Every Occasion