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Poetry About Making Love

Making love is the physical conversation where words are unnecessary. It is the bridge between two souls built from skin and breath. These poems celebrate the intimacy, the passion, and the quiet afterglow of connection.

Beyond the act itself, these verses explore the deep vulnerability required to let another person in completely. It is a surrender, a celebration of the human form, and the closest we get to merging our separate existences.

Featured Poems

Maps

Exploring the landscape of a lover.

I trace the spine like a mountain range, fingertips reading the braille of vertebrae. The valley of the neck, the curve of the hip, I am an explorer in a land I never want to leave.
There are no borders here, only the soft geography of skin, warm and endless under the sheet's white sky.

- Atlas Body

The Silent Language

Communication without words.

We speak in sighs and the friction of skin. Your hands tell me stories of desire and need that your mouth could never shape.
In the dark, we are fluent. Every movement a sentence, every touch a paragraph, writing a love letter on the canvas of the night.

- Luna Touch

After

The quiet intimacy of the aftermath.

The storm has passed, leaving us tangled like driftwood on the shore of the bed. The room is quiet now, save for the synchronized rhythm of two hearts slowing down.
This is the sweetest part: the heavy limbs, the damp hair, the knowing that we have traveled somewhere far away and returned together, safely home.

- Post Meridium

Classic Voices

She Walks in Beauty

by Lord Byron (1814)

While not explicit, a classic ode to physical and spiritual beauty.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...

Wild Nights - Wild Nights!

by Emily Dickinson (1861)

Dickinson's passionate longing for union.

Wild Nights - Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury!

Micro Verses

Two bodies, one shadow. The math of love makes one plus one equal one.

- Mathematician

Your skin is the page, my kiss is the ink.

- Poet Lover

In the tangled sheets, we find the answers to questions we forgot to ask.

- Dreamer

Love makes a map of the body where X marks everywhere.

- Explorer

Deeper Explorations

Longing

The ache of absence.

The Empty Side

The bed is too big, the night is too cold. I reach out for you and hold only a fold.

- Solitaire

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