“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth


Love & Romance

Lovely As You

Oh, a poem as lovely as you,
 No poet wrote for eyes to view.
Not Burns or Blake, not even Keats,
 Though pens have bled on countless sheets.
And though I've searched both high and low,
 No lyric shares your wondrous glow.
I think, perhaps, a lengthy prose
 May capture half your glowing rose.
And yet, I know it will not hold
 The salient beauty I behold.
But still, I search in case you go,
 So words may ease that day of woe.

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Behind the Verse

I wrote this poem for my wife. It centers on the idea that I have not been able to find written words that can truly capture the beauty I see in her and the pain I would feel if she were gone.


Poetic form: Couplet

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