Romancing someone doesn’t always require grand gestures. Often, it’s the small, heartfelt expressions that make the biggest impact. One timeless way to show affection is by sharing short love poems with that special person in your life. These verses can convey deep emotions and tender thoughts, encapsulating feelings that sometimes are hard to verbalize on our own.
Whether you’re dating an English major who appreciates the nuances of language or someone who enjoys beautifully crafted words, these charming poems can work wonders. Even if writing isn’t your forte, finding and sharing a meaningful poem can still earn you points for thoughtfulness. Injecting a bit of poetry into your routine can add a touch of magic and deepen the bond with your loved one.
50 Short Love Poems For Her
1. You Are Someone Special
You are someone special
Who makes eternity
Feel
Too brief.
— a.l
2. Daisy Seeds for You
I’ll plant a line of daisy seeds,
Underneath each eye,
So they’ll remind you of your beauty,
Every time they bloom as you cry.
— Erin Hanson
3. My Love is Untouched by Skin
I will love you,
Not beginning with
Your skin or
Your organs or
Your bones:
My love will always start,
With your bare soul.
— Christopher Poindexter
4. If We Ever Disappear
If we ever vanish
And turn to mere dust,
I hope the breeze
Takes us to the place you cherish most.
— R.M. Broderick Poetry
5. Her Beauty Was More Than She Knew
She possessed the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen,
But it took just her laughter to see
That beauty was just the beginning of her.
— Atticus
6. Roses and Kisses
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Damn,
I want to kiss you.
— Unknown
7. Coffee vs. Your Kiss
Coffee is
Okay
And pleasant
But I would
Rather
Have your
Lips
Wake me
Every morning.
— kpk
8. Watching You
Because
Watching you for
A single
Minute
Reveals to me
Thousands of things
To love
About you.
— (cm)
9. True Courage
You love with everything
You have…
Not everyone has
This kind of brave heart.
— N.R. Hart
10. Unique Love
Nowhere else in the world
Is there a heart for me like yours.
Nowhere else in the world
Is there a love for you like mine.
— Maya Angelou
11. Forgetting Knees
To tell you honestly,
You don’t just make me
Weak at the knees,
You make my entire body
Forget it has knees
At all.
— Tyler Knott Gregson
12. Always With Me
You are always
Present within me
And I dream of you
More often
Than I don’t.
— Unknown
13. Busy Without You
I keep myself occupied
With everyday tasks,
But each time I pause,
My thoughts still return to you.
— Unknown
14. Jealous of the Morning Sun
I’m jealous of the morning sun,
That gets to see you first
Or the coffee cup
That kisses your sleepy lips awake.
— Unknown
15. My Only Ask
All I can
Ever ask of
You
Is
To stay.
Just stay.
— Unknown
17. What You Deserve
You deserve to be
Seen as
Too valuable to lose.
— Faraway
18. Talk With Me
Come lay with me.
Let’s talk about nothing with someone that means everything.
— Unknown
19. Simply Need You
I simply need
You
And
A few sunsets.
— Unknown
20. Loving Like the Moon
And if you are to love,
Love as the moon loves;
It doesn’t steal the night —
It just reveals the beauty
Within the dark.
— Isra Al-thibeh
21. Heartbeat Confessions
When I see you again,
I’ll stand closer,
So you can hear my heartbeat,
And finally understand,
What words could never express.
— Entela Gjetja
22. From “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
It’s enough for me to know that
You and I exist at this moment.
— Gabriel García Márquez
23. Love Encapsulates Life
Love is before life,
Beyond death,
The beginning of creation, and
The essence of breath.
— Emily Dickinson
24. First Love Story
When I first heard
A love story,
I began searching for you, unaware
Of how blind that was.
For lovers don’t truly meet,
They’ve been within each other all along.
— Rumi
25. Love is a Place
Love is a place,
And through this place of
Love move
(with brightness of peace)
All places.
Yes is a world,
And in this world of
Yes live
(deftly coiled)
All worlds.
— e.e. cummings
26. Loving in Unseen Ways
In ways
You’ve never been
Loved,
For reasons you’ve never been
Told,
Longer than you think you
Deserved,
And with more
Than you’ll ever know existed
Within me.
— Tyler Knott Gregson
27. Giving Love Away
Love that is hoarded rots at last
Until we realize someday
The only thing we truly have
Is what we give away.
— Louis Ginsberg
28. Time Passes
Your skin like dawn,
Mine like musk,
One paints the start of
A certain end.
The other, the end of a
Sure beginning.
— Maya Angelou
29. Close, No Matter the Distance
Lying next to you
Or three hundred miles away,
I am yours
Just the same.
— Aurora Raine
30. Adventuring with You
I want to
Travel the world
With you.
Make love
In new cities.
I want to be new
With you.
— Christopher Poindexter
31. My New Year’s Eve
Baby, you are my
New Year’s Eve,
The start and end
Of everything.
— Jessica Katoff
32. Let Love Stay
Let love
Kiss your palm.
Keep it in
Your back pocket
Or some other
Safe place.
Let it stay.
— Alison A. Malee
33. Your Scent
Your cologne
Smelled like
The rest of
My life.
— Ben Maxfield
35. Defining Love
You might not have been my first love
But you were the love that made
All other loves seem
Inconsequential.
— Rupi Kaur
36. Overcome by Love
The sky was illuminated
By the grandeur of the moon
So powerful
I was overwhelmed
Your love
Has given me certainty
I am prepared to relinquish
This worldly life
And surrender
To the magnificence
Of your Being.
— Rumi
37. Searching for Completeness
I do not know
If I
Will ever be
Complete,
But I know
Whatever I am,
You
Will always be
The remaining part of
Me.
— Tyler Knott Gregson
38. Staring at Her
A sky
Full
Of stars
And he
Was staring
At her.
— Atticus
39. Need Your Love
As nectar fills the flower,
Giving sustenance to the bee,
I need you every hour,
To bestow your love upon me.
— Anonymous
40. My Life’s Love
When I think of you,
I know you think of me too.
Our life feels like a dream.
A beautiful moonbeam.
Keep me in your heart.
So we will never part.
— Jennifer Betts
41. Soul’s Reunion
If our souls
Can continue finding each other
Time and again in this lifetime,
Surely they can do so
In the beyond.
— Aurora Raine
42. To the Edge of Our Days
I will follow you,
My love,
To the edge of all our days,
To our very last
Tomorrows.
— Atticus
43. The Ways I Love You
How do I love you?
Oh, in this way and that way.
Oh, joyfully. Perhaps
I could demonstrate by
Action? Like
This, and
That way and
No more words now.
— Mary Oliver
44. Dying into Love
This is how I would die
Into the love I have for you:
Like pieces of cloud
Evaporating in sunlight.
— Rumi
45. Thanks to You
Through rain, through growth,
Through change.
Thank you for loving me, still.
— Alison A. Malee
47. Sweet as Honeycomb
You must have a
Honeycomb
For a heart.
How else
Could a man
Be this sweet?
— Rupi Kaur
48. Love’s Essence
The note of life is brief,
But the song is long,—
To love and be loved;
Humans and gods have not surpassed it,
And how…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. You Are My Poem
You are the poem
I never knew how to write,
And this life is the story
I have always wanted to tell.
— Unknown
50. Soul’s Journey
My soul has traveled
Throughout time,
And found
Its home
In your heart.
— Anonymous