"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
~David Grayson

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."
~ Mother Teresa

"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away."
~ Elbert Hubbard

"A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous."
~ Ingrid Bergmen

This love quote explains the influence of love on us all, “You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.”  Love is a powerful and mysterious sentiment that no one can truly grasp in thought, never the less in words.  Love sonnets, Limericks, and other stylistic poetic diction try to grip what love is.  Many Romantic poems are used in rhetoric, drama, song, and in comedies.  Love poems are found in many classics in such epic poems like the Odyssey and sad love poems come from romantic works with symbolism and irony in the romantic poetry, underlining with love poetry as its foundation.

Filtering emotions into words to create love poems truly is an art.  Romantic poems from the heart can reveal the mysteries that lie within and express the best love around.  Love has served as a foundation for poems for centuries. 

Love Poetry has left a profound mark on literary history with many great works.  Shakespearian love sonnets can pierce the heart and radiates the feelings of love in the air.  From the sad love story of Hadrian and Antinous to the romance drama that is scattered throughout the epic poem, The Odyssey, love poetry has been a major part of great works.

The great part of love poems are a contrivance to express one’s love for another freely without any barriers to one’s artistic writing and can be much more personable that a simple “I love you.”  Let the emotions flow through your pen and create the romantic poems to unravel your love and to make a beautifully displayed piece of art.

Love poems and romantic poems are by far the most popular category of poetry submitted to the our Free Poetry Contest. And don't forget to visit our Valentines Day Poems page.

What better medium is there to write about love then poetry?
The very essence of poetry is expressing with a few words, colossal emotions. Love is such an overwhelming and confusing emotion. The whole world seems to revolve around love. Everyone is searching for love. Yet how many can say they found love and kept it? Love is so beautiful when untainted. Yet, it can cause so much pain and suffering when mistreated. We have many sad love poems for you to read as well.

Turbulent Emotions
Poetry about love and romance display some of the often overwhelming and confusing feelings that are unavoidable when you open yourself up to the vulnerability of love. Vast emotions are compressed into a few short lines of poetry.

Write Love Poetry!
We invite you to enter your love poetry in our free poetry contest. Take on the challenge of choosing the right words, the imaginative juggling of syntax, the feel for style, which combine to let your readers feel the raging emotions that you have now formed into a work of art; poetry.