Love Poems

Book of Love Poems

The poems below are part of the collected work by Dr Wayne Visser: Icarus: Favourite Love Poems.

Icarus: Favourite Love Poems

This creative collection, now in its 2nd edition, brings together love poems by Wayne Visser. The anthology traces love’s agony (“Broken Dreams”) and ecstasy (“Galaxies Cart-Wheeling”), from first blush (“Almost Strangers”) to full bloom (“Say ‘I Do!’”), as we fly to love. You’ve given me the gift of golden wings / The endless sphere of blue imaginings / The chance to rise above the silver clouds / The will to cast off untold ghostly shrouds / Don’t fly too high / Don’t rise too fast / Don’t tease the sky / Don’t taunt the past / You’ve given me the hope of warmer days / The blessed kiss of the sun’s fiery rays. Buy the paper book / Buy the e-book.

Poems

Better With You – My life’s been full of ups and downs …

Moon Whisper – Each year, I scratch and fumble to make my mark …

I Miss You – It’s not that I am lost or lonely, or have no ways to fill my days …

Against the Odds – We met upon the battlefield, and you, a warrior for the cause …

Icarus – You’ve given me the gift of golden wings …

Sky Dream – A moon beam to brush your cheek, a star burst to lift your eyes …

Enchanted – By the dream, I’m enchanted, by the fantasy, enticed …

Fly to Love – To fly you must be free, to be free, you must let go …

Almost Strangers – The first time that we met, we were almost strangers – yet …

Valentine – Don’t give me hearts or scarlet blooms, no Hallmark cards or lovers’ tunes …

Perfume – You awaken me with the light that shines in your eyes …

The Web – As yet another strand is cut, I wonder if it’s time …

Florentine Nights – What sweet surprise, what strange delight to find myself this Florence night …

Autumn Kisses – autumn puckers, planting kisses on nose and neck, ears and cheeks …

Love Floats – babbling brook of nervous flirtation, swirling swoon of giddy infatuation …

Ivy Love – As seasons turn we all must learn from past love that is dead …

The Dream of You – … in echoed rhymes, the voice of you between the lines …

Perfect Day – Walking slowly, hand in hand, beside the gentle river Cam …

Chocolate Seduction – Mouth-wateringly tempting … when I peel back the wrap …

A Love That Could Last – How quickly belief turns to doubt …

Galaxies Cart-Wheeling – We make the skies dance and the trees sing …

I Hear You –  … in the silence when all the world’s asleep, I hear you tap the window …

Turkish Coffee Kisses – Cups of Turkish coffee kisses, sticky treats of pure delight …

Flibbawookie – I’m loofed upon my slumpfry chair and snugful phrapped without a care …

Broken Dreams – Every time you stir up the embers, I’m left with the burnt-out ash …

Love-Shapes – love comes in all shapes and sizes …

Just Imagine –  … a life without each other, without the smiles and laughter …

Island Dreams – You share such beautiful island wishes that my eyes blink with tears …

Listen As She Hums – All the world’s in harmony, a thousand beating drums …

Caterpillar Kisses – We took a walk in London’s park that balmy summer’s day …

My Secret – So you want to know my secret? …

Happy to See You – I am hoping to see you, happy to be hoping …

Scattered Leaves – When shadows drift across the moon …

Rainbow Mists – I leave today for distant skies …

Talk to Me! – Talk to me! The words that bring a wall of silence …

The Web of Love – We gather on the beach of life, with surf and sand and sun …

Gifts – There are gifts (so many musely gifts) that you gave to me …

Dance Me – Dance me to an echo’s beat, a pulse of tests and time …

Gentle On My Mind – You’re gentle on my motley mind, unexpectedly so …

Dressing Gown – My dressing gown hangs over yours, content in their fluffy embrace …

Desert Love – My lover’s face is nothing like the desert plain’s wide open space …

Subway Angel – Across the tracks, she glances up and smiles …

Unspoken Words – I’m searching for ways to say what I mean …

Wild Love – For some, love is tame, it is cute and cuddly like an adorable pet …

Kismet – I see you in your night of anguish, I see you in your cave of tears …

I Lie Awake – I lie awake and hear your velvet sigh …

The Joining of Hands – Marriage is like the joining of hands, each enfolding the other …

Moment of Truth – There comes a moment, an empty, aching moment …

Resonance – The One who resonates in time and in tune …

Ambivalence – We think we know; in fact, we’re sure …

Villanelle for Justice – She rages against the fading of light …

Hard to Say – It’s hard to say ‘I love you’ when words have turned to dust …

Through It All – Worlds may collide – the sky turn to black …

Shooting Star – Your shooting star lights up my sky …

Step into my Parlour – … make yourself at home, tell me all the dreams you dream …

Footprints – Laughing, smiling, making jokes, dreams, desires, fleeting hopes …

Dove on the Wind – If you were a dove, I’d be the wind …

Reach Out and Touch – … someone in need, broken lives, hearts that bleed …

Only Love – It’s all that matters, all that binds, all that fulfils, all that finds …

Mystery – There is a mystery which is you, a mystery which is me …

I Love You Mom – Though I have tried, in song, word and rhyme …

Dad, We Love You – You hear the news, the dice is cast …

Kindred Spirits – The sands of time have trickled by …

Hunny-Bear – You are my little hunny-bear, the one I love, my only care …

Christmas Wish – My Christmas wish came true last night when she appeared …

Jealousy – It starts, like bad indigestion, churning knots inside my gut …

Cradled by Love – As you lie by my side, with your head on my chest …

Facets – To bind the mind and tame the flame, to yearn and burn …

Wild, Beautiful and Free – Wildness is a place in the heart …

Truth or Dare – … I hear you say, with impish smile and raised eyebrow …

Genie Out the Bottle – The genie’s out the bottle, I can never put it back …

Restless Nights – When I wake from restless nights, weary from nocturnal fights …

Letting Go – A meeting, not of hands but of minds, not of ground but of finds …

Princess – You don’t need to wear a crown, or sip a crystal chalice …

She’ll Never Know – … that I sighed when she left today …

All I Ever Wanted – … was just to make you smile, how was I to know …

Here – Tired, but here, relaxing in the thought of you …

If You Love Her – … let her know it, there are countless ways to show it …

Battle-Days – in the battle-days ahead, i need strength i don’t feel …

Finally Over – What do you do when it’s finally over? …

Two Weeks – … is all it takes, to go from to ignorant bliss to knowing pain …

Sad and Blue – I’m mad at you, boiling, bubbling, spitting, seething …

Hope – I hope that we can somehow still be friends …

Comet Sonnet – Ever since meeting, we’ve taken to flight …

Adultery – When I’m gone across the sea and parted ways amicably …

Love Letter – When I think of our love, I think of feathers and butterflies …

Don’t Tell Me That You Love Me – … but hold my hand, see me smiling …

Lingerie Lament – Suspenders drive you mad with hooks …

Afterglow – The flash of your smile still glints …

Je T’adore – The deepest ocean floor of you, the darkest secret door of you …

Say “I Do!” – Say we’ll climb to the summit together, say we’ll cherish the view …

Love Is … – … making mistakes and fixing them together …

With This Ring – … I set you free, free to love and free to be …

My Letters – I see you found my letters, my bottle on the seas …

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