LOVE (A COLLECTION)
POEMS ABOUT LOVE. ALL POEMS UNDER THIS SUBJECT ARE ON THIS PAGE. NEW POEMS WILL BE ADDED TO THE TOP OF THIS PAGE AS THEY ARE WRITTEN. THESE POEMS WILL BE PART OF COLLECTION FOR A BOOK BY MICHELLE SHARKEY.
BRUSHED
I brushed my hand on your face
As you slept
When I touched you
I got chills from my love for you
I held you all night
I listened to your slight snore
A whisper
And was thankful for every breath
You shared with me
Your heartbeat
Though your shirt
Squeezing you tightly
So secure
So right
So in love with you
You brushed your hand
Across my body as you slept
Subconsciously touching me
And I felt the warmth
In your touch
And in my heart
You grabbed my hand
To hold tight in the night
I kissed your head
I put my head against yours
My mind raced through
All of the things you do for me
So sweet
So kind
Gentle and caring
Everyone sees it in your eyes
Your sweetness
And when we are together
We match in temperament
People see our spark
Our connection
Our genuineness
My heart has been brushed by yours
Painted by your light
And as you slumber
I can’t stop thinking
I love you
I love you
I love you
TWO SHOOTING STARS
I sat on the beach
And saw two shooting stars
I made two wishes
And they were both
to be with you
Just like the night
After your office party
Polynesian fire dancers
lighting the sky
We saw two shooting stars
As you showed me your church
And shared childhood memories
I wished for you then too
I wished to be in your arms
for you to take my heart
A wish for it to become love
A wish for love to be long
I wished on the stars as they fell from the sky
As if I could reach them and make them mine
Take them on their journey to the ground with just my hands
Gently set them at my feet
Step into them
Let them encompass me
With their magical light
And have my wishes
come true
KISSES
I kissed you in the rain
During the longest walk
Under my umbrella,
i held you so tightly
And in your arms,and me in yours
You kept me dry
And warm
and safe.
We walked in the rain
The shower
I wanted to last
And last
Another drink
In another bar
But the walk
in the rain
Went so far
As to take my heart
Out for you to see
By the sea
we walked
Drops from the sky
Together
you and I
And we kissed
PHOTO IN MY HAND
I hold a photo in my hand
Taken as the sky erupted
Midnight of the new year
Hopeful kisses
We toasted to 2025
As she grabbed my phone
To capture us forever in a photo
Lost in the moment
Our lips met
She kept snapping
As we looked at the fiery horizon
And back at each other
She took the photo
the one I hold
You glancing at me
As I watch the show in the sky
She captured your eyes
The way you look at me
With twinkling in your eyes
The glory of your gaze
Shows me everything
DAYDREAMS OF NIGHT SCENES
Working in an engine room
Smiling like it’s my birthday
All alone like a fool
Cuz of you
Spinning in my mind
Images of you from behind
My calloused hands on your chest
Your soft kisses on my breast
Distracted and working
Drilling a hole and cutting a tie
Burning like the yearning
I felt in our kiss goodbye
Daydreaming of Night Scenes
Passionate screams
Heartbeat in my ear
Your body near mine
Working worked up
Working out somehow seeing
Your face and kissing it
soon
Under the full moon
On my boat by the sea
You and me
But for now I’m still working
In the engine room
I WAS FINE
I was fine to be single
Maybe forever
I was fine
I had been hurt
So I was safe
Alone
No fighting or stress
No one threatening my peace
Just the simple release of solitude
In control of everything
By myself
No worries about losing myself
Nothing damaged
Nothing broken
My days were mine
Doing what I want
By myself
I was fine
But alone is lonely
And the nights are too long
The empty hole
In my heart
Existed
But I was fine
Until I met you
And I felt so free
And happy to be me
With you
And I realized that telling myself
I was fine
Was a lie
I longed for the closeness
You have given me
The protection you provide
I wanted to fill the hole
With the way you care for me
The softness you show me
The compassion you gift me
And the intimacy I feel in your bed
Loving your body
On mine
In Mine
Be mine
Because only now
I’m fine
THE SECRET
So many secrets I have shared with you
But one I keep
I can’t tell you how I really feel
It’s too vulnerable for me
I tell you about the traumas
Like an open book
But I’ve ripped out the last page
And I hide it
I can’t tell you that I love you
I play the potential moment
Over and over in my brain
And hope you tell me first
Or maybe you are keeping a secret from me
Maybe you aren’t ready either
Maybe you will never be
Maybe you don’t feel it
God I pray that’s not it
I feel it too strongly
Or maybe I feel it just right
It’s the secret I keep
That I won’t reveal
Unless you are holding a secret too
One that you tell me
That draws me to you
And dissolves our secrets
As two of us
Becomes we
IT’S STILL WORTH IT
If you break my heat into a thousand pieces
Loving you is worth it
If you wreck me into the ground
Loving you is worth it
If you can’t stomach
A long term love affair
Loving you is worth it
If you leave me to find yourself
Loving you is worth it
If we cease to be
Loving you is worth it
If you want what I can’t provide
Loving you is worth it
If you sail into the sea without me
Loving you is worth it
If the mountains call your name to be alone
Loving you is worth it
If your job makes you a bachelor for life
Loving you is worth it
If the memory of us fades into dust
Loving you is worth it
If we part ways
Crying through the nights and days
Crush my soul
Empty my heart of all I filled it with
Put all my poems on the shelf forever
Loving you is worth it
Just for this moment
Right now
FEELING A CERTAIN WAY
I want to change my status
So everyone knows
The way I feel
But My mouth is sealed
About the love for you that’s real
If I tell on myself
Will you break my heart?
Will you be silent?
Will you turn me away?
What have I done by falling in love?
Why have I let myself tumble into
Feeling this way?
I love you
But I won’t say it
Afraid you will stray from it
So I show you often
in kisses
Poems
Handwritten notes
Cooking this dish
I made it with the love I have for you
Thinking of ways to show you
The love I’m scared to tell you
Waiting for you to be the first one
Of us to say
I love you
And I’ll wait
I won’t say it
I’ll hide it
In a way you a way that shows you
Openly
But the world should know
That I love you