love poems
Love poems for hopeless romantics; I'm the poet and you're my muse.
The Practice of Maintaining
Between two people, a gentle, understated connection is truly wonderful. I am increasingly convinced that a lasting relationship is not built on passionate, dramatic love, nor on one person constantly burning themselves out to give their all. Instead, it relies on minimal aggression, minimal confrontation, and minimal coercion. It thrives on abundant acceptance, permission, and simply treating the other person as a human being.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharingabout 5 hours ago in Poets
The Poem She Wrote
How 47 Words From a Stranger Rewrote My Story THE NAPKIN AT TABLE SEVEN ✍️ I was waitressing at a diner in Brooklyn, twenty-three years old, three months behind on rent, recently dumped via text message by a boyfriend who described me as "too much" which is a phrase that sounds specific but actually means nothing except that the speaker has decided you are not worth the effort of genuine feedback, and I was carrying plates of eggs and toast to table seven where a woman approximately seventy years old sat alone reading a poetry collection with her coffee and I envied her stillness, the way she occupied space without apology as though she had earned the right to sit quietly in a noisy diner and read poems without justifying her existence through productivity or performance, a right I had not yet discovered I also possessed ☕
By The Curious Writerabout 11 hours ago in Poets
