Is there anything you want to say to a loved one but don’t know how? Do you want to express your love, commitment, and gratitude, but every time you try to do it, words just escape you?
Great poetry has the power to convey all those sentiments hidden deep inside you in a beautiful and seemingly effortless way. If you’re looking to put a smile on your partner’s face and show them how much you love them, you can make their day much better by sending them a poem via a text message.
In this article, you’ll find 15 short romantic poems to share with your loved one through text.
1. Variation on the Word Sleepby Margaret Atwood
“I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
and that necessary.”
2. In All the Worldby Maya Angelou
“In all the world, there is no
heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no
love for you like mine.”
3.The Day Skyby Hafiz
“Let us be like
Two falling stars in the day sky.
Let no one know of our sublime beauty
As we hold hands with God
And burn
Into a sacred existence that defies—
That surpasses
Every description of ecstasy
And love.”
4.Untitled #1 (from the Book of Love)by Nizar Qabbani
“My Lover asks me:
‘What is the difference between me and the sky?’
The difference, my Love,
Is that when you laugh,
I forget about the sky.”
5.Rain (Rapa Nui)by Pablo Neruda
“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”
6. The Subject Tonight Is Loveby Hafiz
“The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well,
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!”
7.Untitled (from Milk and Honey) by Rupi Kaur
“You might not have been my first love
but you were the love that made
all the other loves
irrelevant.”
8.To Love Is to Liveby Justin Wetch
“Love starts as a feeling,
But to continue is a choice;
And I find myself choosing you
More and more every day.”
9.Untitled #2 (from the Book of Love)by Nizar Qabbani
“You still ask me about the day of my birth
So write down what you don’t know
The day you declared your love
Is the day of my birth.”
10.I Do Not Write About Loveby Kamand Kojouri
“I do not write about love
as if I have invented it.
I write about love
because thoughts of you
inspire self-forgetfulness.
And because writing about you
gives birth to a star.
These stars sit inside me
where there was once
darkness.”
11. Not Until I Met Youby Suzy Kassem
“Not until I felt your sunshine,
Did I realize that I had been in the shade.
Not until I saw all your colors,
Did I realize that mine had faded.
Not until I heard your dreams,
Did I realize that I was still sleeping.
And not until I experienced my life with you,
Did I realize that I was barely
Breathing.”
12. What I Fell in Love Withby Justin Wetch
“I fell in love
With more than I could need
With a deep soul
And a face I couldn’t leave;
I fell in love—
If I may tell it true;
I fell in love
With every piece of you.”
13.My Love Wakes in a Puddle of Sunlightby Roman Payne
“My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.
I give her my troth, for our love is whole
I sing her beauty in my soul.”
14.I Waitby Jocelyn Soriano
“In my heart is a space
that is so sacred
and none can enter in
but you.And I shall wait for you
though it takes forever,
though my heart bleeds
and my all consumed.I wait because I love you
And love waits
for the only one
that it loves.”
15.Number 28 (from One Hundred Love Letters)by Nizar Qabbani
“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you
Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
Share the Gift of Poetry
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