In A Promise and Clothes of Time: I still miss the bone
s of
your hands, those lips that rocked my ribs, those gaze that skinned the
metamorphosis of my flesh. These are lines from my work. This is one example of
a contemporary love poem.
Love poems usually convey emotions and subjectivity. Some
are sung and go under the classification of the Lyric. According to Paul Landis
and Entwistle (The Study of Poetry, 1929 Tomas Nelson and Sons), lyric poems
can be a poetic cry from the heart. They express a single emotion, could be
short, musical metrically or verbally, or both.
Master poets in lyric and love are Shakespeare, Milton,
Neruda, Lorca, Auden, Pushkin, Rilke, Plath, Maya Angelou, Dylan, Frost, Hass,
Yeats, Eliot, Donne and more.
From Wikipedia could be found more courtly poems about
knights and nobility.
Hence, its wistful and haunting loveliness eludes all tests!
Professor Albert Casuga said "Those who can write love
poems could be better poets."
Online, check Rumi, Poem Hunter, and Poems About for
examples.
Love poems must let the mind see the lines in action.
Moments of absence and separation, invitations, activities, conversations on
life, ardent reflections, or triumphs or loss of a lover are expressed vividly
in words with characters in peaks of emotion or drama.
In my poems, I could hardly imagine how I did it. In first
drafts, they were written spontaneously, as if I did not want to stop.
Revisions could be made after the draft, though most of the time I submitted
them sooner without revisions. They are still open to re-working.
Check "Memphis
Ferry." This is a sample of John Foster "On Translating Hieroglyphic
Love Songs." I got this sample because of my fondness of water phenomenon.
The Memphis Ferry happens in twilight, in a mystical communion with the triad
of gods who watch over. One character is Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love.
She functions in the Lyric as the Greek Aphrodite.
Lines say"...blossoms newborn in the blue lotus. Twilight
is heavy with gods
Finally, the inspiration (muse) in a love poem is
tremendous. Perhaps, it is by the gods or deep from the heart that no logic or
intellect can ever elucidate.