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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist, nor you,

so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.


Sonnet XVII, by Pablo Neruda






No one's fated or doomed to love anyone.
The accident's happen, we're not heroines,
they happen in our lives like car crashes,
books that change us, neighborhoods
we move into and come to love.
Tristan und Isolde is scarcely the story,
women at least should know the difference
between love and death. No poison cup,
no penance. Merely a notion that the tape-recorder
should have caught some ghost of us: that tape-recorder
not merely played but should have listened to us,
and could instruct those after us:
this we were, this is how we tried to love,
and these are the forces they had ranged against us,
and these are the forces we had ranged within us,
within us and against us, against us and within us.

from Twenty-One Love Poems by Adrienne Rich






links I use a lot and would recommend...

http://allpoetry.com/juliemonster (my woman)


http://allpoetry.com/poets/pastiche
http://allpoetry.com/poets/oneluckygirl (My Ap Wife)
http://allpoetry.com/poets/Manicmuze
http://allpoetry.com/poets/Runawaytrain
http://allpoetry.com/poets/secretwalk
http://allpoetry.com/poets/Poetryality
http://allpoetry.com/poets/Yusefeligirl
http://allpoetry.com/poets/horus8
http://allpoetry.com/poets/almostme
http://allpoetry.com/poets/Pataliyah
http://allpoetry.com/Tecolote
http://allpoetry.com/poets/cvillelisa
http://allpoetry.com/poets/dp%20robertson
http://allpoetry.com/poets/Nicole%20Manisco
http://allpoetry.com/poets/mushika
http://allpoetry.com/poets/Lyndon
http://allpoetry.com/poets/galfalfa
http://allpoetry.com/poets/Nando%20Tater
http://allpoetry.com/Auburn%20Sunrise
http://allpoetry.com/AutumnGypsy
http://allpoetry.com/Night%20Hope
http://allpoetry.com/tara%20wilson