Love poems

are their any tips anyone has on how to write a good love poem?

Yes, Michaela, don't write clichès...use metaphors...

(I use metaphors, if you want to you can check out "On the Meadow of Silence or The Dawn of truth, both being love-poems with a twist)

Let It Come From The Heart xoxo-Nikki-xoxo

you have to write from the heart put your pen down and clear your mind and dig deep and find what makes you unable to live with out them and thats when you will be able to let it flow its like music when it flows it flows you just have to find the truth in your inspiration

heh... you have to write from your heart, like they said, but also.. i've written a few love poems by inspiration, like if i know someone very close to me that has fallen in love I have them express themselves to me and give me a point of view of how they feel, and then i write it down in words as if it were me, or just watch a good love story movie, that sometimes inspires me though i rarely write love poems, I'd advise you to watch "the notebook" if you already haven't or just ask someone, or just wait until you feel that way about someone and then write it down.

Love poems come from the heart. Whatever you feel for your girl, express it in words. But this is difficult, for as Gibran said: "Words are too poor and too scant to express the inmost feelings of the human heart." Just try to put your emotions in words.

I usually use words that you don't use everyday or more specific (though I don't really use any english word cause I live in Mexico).
I think that the only thing you need to do to write a good love poem, is to write everything you feel truthfully.

Don't watch "The Notebook". Read it. The book is brilliant. The movie, just another "chick flic".

How to Write Love/Romantic Poetry!!!

Writing a great love poem starts with your theme (subject), the concept, idea, feeling or material (physical), object that your poem shall center around. If you’re wring about a person (or anything for that matter), asks yourself what do I want to express about this person (thing). If you’re writing to a person, asks yourself what I want to say, ex press, to this person. Asks yourself, as well, also, how can I best do as such, best bring my message across and make it expressive of my true sentiments.

The key is, after you have your subject is building upon it, around it. You have to build or built up your poem, layer it with the sentiment, expressiveness, authenticity, of what you’re trying to get across. What you want to do is use words, imagery, metaphors, that modify your subject, theme, such as descriptive phrases, adjectives, adverbs, nouns and alike. You must write not only to say but to express. You want to express that love, express that adoration, admiration, affinity. You want to express that of which has you so captivated, captured. You want to capture that emotion, feeling, and if it’s the beauty of your muse that has you captured so, then, your poem needs to expressive of that beauty. In your poem, no matter what it is you’re trying to impart, you want a congruence of expression, symmetry in and of what you’re trying to voice, affirm.

Everything in your poem must work together. Every word, phrase, line, of you poem needs to express, be expressive of that beauty, that love, adoration, admiration, infatuation, affinity that holds you. It’s not the emotion that makes a great love poem great but the expressiveness of it. The better one cab express the sentiment in and of a poem, the better that poem will be. Don’t just say, “She is beautiful” or “I love her”, rather expound of that, example: “she is as beautiful as the sun setting, with orange glow, over the most picturesque landscape of beautiful garden foliage, yet, still, this does not capture nor compare to the beauty of my love.” Now, we have a picture in our minds of just how beautiful she is, and can somewhat come to understand the opulent splendor of her beauty, or instead of just simply, “I love her” say “I love her, as the flower love the being kissed, by the sunlight and showered, by the rain, soaking in their life giving essence, and as the flowers get life, from those things, so does she give life to me. See, the key in trying to write a great love poem is expression, the expression of whatever it is that’s you're trying to resonate through and within your poem (being the emotion, feeling, sentiment and such). It is not the sentiment in and of a romantic love poem that separates a 'great' one from the others but how well that sentiment, feeling, emotion is expressed!!! All great love poems in some facet or form are well expressed. Stating something can attest someone to it, but expressing it, allows them to feel it.

It's not what you express, but how (or how well) you express it!!!

I read a great article on methods to writing love poems once, but I can't for the life of me remember where. I do remember some of the ideas it gave, though.

Try the theme of (s)he isn't perfect, but I love them anyway. Look up Shakespeare's sonnet number 130 for what I think is the best example of this.

Or you could try taking a singular event and describing it in detail and its importance. This might be a little harder, though, when I've tried this one my results haven't really been up to my own standards.

Pretty much though, I'd say it's all in the details. That's what makes your love unique to you. Poems are anchored in the concrete, not the abstract, as many beginners or sub-par poets seem to believe. Try to involve all the senses, but really focus on the visual element, use words that we can actually see.

Personally, I wouldn't try to get too sappy, either. That's another pitfall a lot of people fall into. My eyes tend to glaze over when things are over-glamourized. Keep it real. Yeah, they're beautiful and gorgeous and all those other pretty adjectives but in the end they're human too (I hope).

Those are just my suggestions, and the type of poetry I like to read and write could very well be extremely different from the preferences of anyone else. Hope I can help someone out, but if you disagree, by all means disregard everything I said.

i think the best way to beable to write a good love poem is to be in love lol ^^ spend time with that person and you will know what to write xxx good luck xxxx