When did you last read a piece of romantic poetry outside of school?
Perhaps never. I dare say this because the precious works of poets hardly sell. It feels like reading love poems would be only the eccentricity of arts students. Or those who do not watch TV or read gossip.
However, a verse can express so much. I admit, it reflects the writer’s mental and spiritual state sometimes obviously, other times deeply hidden among the rows. Still, the emotions are universal. Not only you, dear reader, feel pain, joy, love, rejection, fear, and more.
This bears good news, though. Even if you don’t count among the number of masters of the pen, you still can surprise your lover with a meaningful work of art this way. All you need to do is purchase a piece of the written arts, read and perhaps learn your favorite poem so you can recite it by heart to your love. This good act will probably come as unexpected from you. Women like surprises, and men like compliments, no matter what others may say.
Even though you may not have an awfully good way with words, still, I encourage you to take your time and write a love poem for your darling. Writing from the heart needn’t remain the privilege of William Blake, Charles Baudelaire or Emily Dickinson after all. Unleash your imagination and create something from the depths of your heart. Who knows? You may find the poet inside yourself, and you will recite all you have to tell in the poem from now on. (It also makes good practice for your wedding vows.)
With your poem in your heart (or for those who have a less-remarkable memory – in your hand), you just need an unexpected moment. A pleasant moment in a park or on the way back home, or on the bus, whenever you feel right. Dare the dramatic and perform for your darling. If you would rather avoid sensationalism, post it. Slide it under the table or in a nice envelope, whatever your style. Just make sure it arrives!
And please, for this single moment: Forget email, tweeting, facebook and the rest.
They simply have less romance to them. You stand on your heart’s stage of presenting your love, so do it in a stylish way! Stand apart from the others! Put your maximum effort into it! Your loved one deserves your best.
In the long run, that’s what you wish to get back from them as well, right?
A little inspiration for you by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love’s Language
How does Love speak?
In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek,
And in the pallor that succeeds it; by
The quivering lid of an averted eye–
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh
Thus doth Love speak.
How does Love speak?
By the uneven heart-throbs, and the freak
Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache,
While new emotions, like strange barges, make
Along vein-channels their disturbing course;
Still as the dawn, and with the dawn’s swift force–
Thus doth Love speak.
How does Love speak?
In the avoidance of that which we seek–
The sudden silence and reserve when near–
The eye that glistens with an unshed tear–
The joy that seems the counterpart of fear,
As the alarmed heart leaps in the breast,
And knows, and names, and greets its godlike guest–
Thus doth Love speak.
How does Love speak?
In the proud spirit suddenly grown meek–
The haughty heart grown humble; in the tender
And unnamed light that floods the world with splendor;
In the resemblance which the fond eyes trace
In all fair things to one beloved face;
In the shy touch of hands that thrill and tremble;
In looks and lips that can no more dissemble–
Thus doth Love speak.
How does Love speak?
In the wild words that uttered seem so weak
They shrink ashamed in silence; in the fire
Glance strikes with glance, swift flashing high and higher,
Like lightnings that precede the mighty storm;
In the deep, soulful stillness; in the warm,
Impassioned tide that sweeps through throbbing veins,
Between the shores of keen delights and pains;
In the embrace where madness melts in bliss,
And in the convulsive rapture of a kiss–
Thus doth Love speak.
This bears good news, though. Even if you don’t count among the number of masters of the pen, you still can surprise your lover with a meaningful work of art this way. All you need to do is purchase a piece of the written arts, read and perhaps learn your favorite poem so you can recite it by heart to your love. This good act will probably come as unexpected from you. Women like surprises, and men like compliments, no matter what others may say.
