Poetry Stretch Results - Love Poems

The challenge this week was to write a love poem without any terms of endearment or adoration. Lots of folks chose to play! Here are the results.

Jane Yolen shares a poem on her Facebook page entitled "Anniversary of Your Death."

Noah the Great from Let's lie and call it love shares the poem Acting.

Sherry Rogers from Splatt a way of life left this poem for Romeo and Juliet in the comments.

On this day a promise died.
It was a promise that couldn’t be kept, you ask why?

Well on this day he lost his love.
A tragedy not sent from above.

He lost his love in a terrible way.
He will never forget the memory of that day.

The day was so calmed, so beautiful.
The memory was so sad, so terrible.

She broke the promise because of pain.
She couldn’t stand to live another day.

So on this day, Valentines.
Two loves were destroyed because of suicide.

Jacqueline, who's been leaving her poems in the comments the last few weeks, has started a blog called Praise, Poetry and Parenting. This week she shares a poem entitled Love.

The very clever Douglas Florian from the Florian Cafe left this poem in the comments.

Love's a lark
Love's a thrill.
The opposite of LOVE?
Evol

Julie Larios from The Drift Record shares A Valentine of Sorts to My Husband.

Laura Purdie Salas left this poem in the comments.

Before and After

marble cliffs
encased me
crystalline, solid

but you shattered the rock, and we
fell together into the
wild, translucent ocean

sailing days on
blue velvet waves
of conversation and starfish constellations

dancing through nights
to the rhythm of tides
to the music,
the rush,
the surge
of the sea

circling back to allow
today to soften the shell
of yesterday

building fragile
sand castles of the
shores of tomorrow

Linda from Write Time shares a poem entitled Thinking About Her Life.

Schelle from Brand New Ending has written a poem for her husband.

cloudscome at a wrung sponge shares her poem entitled Love Poem.

Sara Lewis Holmes at Read*Write*Believe shares a poem entitled I cannot.

Jone at Deo Writer shares a poem entitled For My Husband.

My poem this week is about my son. It's called Weekday Routine.

It's not too late if you still want to play. Leave me a comment about your poem and I'll add it to the list.