The 25 best short love poems (by different authors)

Over time, people have found ingenious, eye-catching and very inspiring ways to show love towards their loved ones and this is perhaps the greatest feeling that moves the world, becoming a source of creation for artists, writers or poets who leave us their beliefs and experiences in their own way of the love.

Sometimes being a fairy tale romance, other times a bitter encounter or a song of melancholy, since love is never completely rosy, as a human feeling, it is full of happy and sad nuances.

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As it is such a complex feeling, it is not surprising that it has been, is and will be the main theme for thousands of stories around the world. terrestrial globe, but still it is still the feeling most longed for by everyone in the world, after all who does not want to be loved? Who doesn't want to find the love of his life?

Poems are the places where we will find most words dedicated to love and it does not hurt that we take a walk through the most romantic and melancholic verses in history to inspire us or find the motivation to express what we feel. Therefore, in this article we will show you the best short love poems that you should definitely read.

25 Most Read Short Love Poems of All Time

In this list you can find really short fragments, like simple verses but full of a lot of emotion.

1. If you love me, love me whole (Dulce María Loynaz)

If you love me, love me whole

not by areas of light or shadow ...

If you love me, love me black

and white, and gray, green, and blonde,

and brunette ...

Love me day,

love me night ...

And at dawn at the open window! ...

If you love me, don't cut me off:

Love me all... Or don't love me!

• A great love poem that reminds us of the importance of our partner accepting us as we are and helping us grow.

For a look, a world;

for a smile, a sky;

for a kiss... I don't know

what would I give you for a kiss!

• What would you give to have the kiss of the person you love? Sometimes you have to take risks to have that happy ending.

If your foot strays again

will be cut off.

If your hand leads you to another path,

it will fall rotten.

If you take me away from your life

you will die even if you live.

You will still be dead or shadow,

walking the earth without me.

• A romantic and hard poem that talks about emphasizing our presence in the life of the other person.

4. Do you want them to love you? (Edgar Allan Poe)

Do you want them to love you? So don't lose

the course of your heart.

Only what you are you have to be

and what you are not, no.

So in the world, your subtle way,

your grace, your beautiful being,

will be endlessly praised

and love... a simple duty.

• For someone else to love us, we must show ourselves as we really are, since our essence real is what manages to fall in love forever, instead of the superficial that enchants for a moment ephemeral.

5. Two bodies (Octavio Paz)

Two bodies face to face

they are sometimes two waves

and the night is ocean.

Two bodies face to face

they are sometimes two stones

and the desert night.

Two bodies face to face

they are sometimes roots

in the night linked.

Two bodies face to face

they are sometimes razors

and the lightning night.

Two bodies face to face

they are two stars that fall

In an empty sky

• A beautiful poem about the impact of being with your loved one and that intense and electrifying chemistry that abounds in both.

6. My slave (Pablo Neruda)

My slave, fear me. Love me. Slave of mine!

I am with you the vastest sunset in my sky,

and in it my soul stands out like a cold star.

When they move away from you, my steps return to me.

My own lash falls on my life.

You are what is inside me and is far away.

Fleeing like a chorus of pursued mists.

Next to me, but where? Far, which it is far.

And what is far under my feet walks.

The echo of the voice beyond the silence.

And what in my soul grows like moss in ruins.

• Pablo Neruda shows us in these verses the impact of a person within us, to the point that we can feel his absence or his pain for our actions.

7. Each song (Federico García Lorca)

Each song is a haven of love.

Each star, a haven of time. A knot of time.

And every sigh a haven cry.

• Can you feel the person you love in every place you go? In every shared memory? Well that is the statement of this poem.

8. Absent (César Vallejo)

Absent! The morning that I go

further afield, to the Mystery,

as following inevitable line,

your feet will slip into the graveyard.

Absent! The morning I go to the beach

from the sea of ​​shadow and the quiet empire,

like a gloomy bird I go,

the white pantheon will be your captivity.

It will have become night in your eyes;

and you will suffer, and then you will take

penitent lacerated whites.

Absent! And in your own sufferings

has to cross between a crying of bronzes

a pack of regrets!

• The remorse of a breakup can linger in people's hearts for a long time, when the person's absence is felt once. loved.

9. You have me in your hands (Jaime Sabines)

You have me in your hands

and you read me the same as a book.

You know what I do not know

and you tell me the things that I don't tell myself.

I learn from you more than me.

You are like a miracle of all hours,

like a pain without a place.

If you were not a woman to be my friend.

Sometimes I want to talk to you about women

that next to you I chase.

You are like forgiveness

and I am like your son.

What good eyes you have when you're with me?

How distant you make yourself and how absent

when I sacrifice you to loneliness!

Sweet like your name, like a fig

you wait for me in your love until I arrive.

You are like my home

you are like my death, my love.

• A poem that leaves us with the raw impact of what a person can become for us when we share with them.

10. With you (Luis Cernuda)

My land?

You are my land.

My people?

My people are you.

Exile and death

for me they are where

don't be you.

And my life?

Tell me "my life,

What is it, if it's not you?

• That one person becomes the absolute world of another is not entirely wrong. Since when we love someone, we just want to take refuge in. her.

11. Your name (Jaime Sabines)

I try to write your name in the dark.

I try to write that I love you.

I try to say all this in the dark.

I don't want anyone to find out

nobody look at me at three in the morning

walking from one side of the room to the other,

crazy, full of you, in love.

Enlightened, blind, full of you, pouring you out.

I say your name with all the silence of the night,

my gagged heart shouts it.

I repeat your name, I say it again,

I say it tirelessly

and I'm sure there will be dawn.

• This poem fills us with the intense emotions that come from being in love, from the uncertainty to the joy of having real hope.

12. Love (Salvador Novo)

Loving is this shy silence

close to you, without your knowing it,

and remember your voice when you leave

and feel the warmth of your greeting.

To love is to wait for you

as if you were part of the sunset,

neither before nor after, so that we are alone

between games and stories

on the dry land.

To love is to perceive, when you are absent,

your perfume in the air that I breathe,

and contemplate the star in which you walk away

When I close the door at night

• Loving is not just being with a person all the time, but appreciating and longing for their absence, as well as the meaning it has in our lives.

13. Water Woman (Juan Ramón Jiménez)

What did you copy me in you,

that when it is missing in me

the image of the top,

I run to look at you?

Short but very intense, which shows that loved ones take a large part of us with them to belong to them now.

14. That kiss (Claribel Alegría)

That kiss yesterday

opened the door for me

and all the memories

that I believed ghosts

they got up stubborn

to bite me.

• An interesting poem that tells us about falling in love again and exposing ourselves again to all those feelings that we think we will never experience again.

15. And our bread (Juan Carlos Onetti)

I only know about you

the gioconda smile

with parted lips

the mistery

my stubborn obsession

to unveil it

and go stubborn

and surprised

feeling your past

I only know

the sweet milk of your teeth

the placid and mocking milk

that separates me

and forever

of the imagined paradise

of the impossible tomorrow

of peace and silent bliss

coat and shared bread

of some everyday object

that I could call

our.

• That intense feeling of wanting to undress the person we love in every way, not only to know her person but also her soul.

16. Who shines (Alejandra Pizarnik)

When you look at me

my eyes are keys,

the wall has secrets,

my fear words, poems.

Only you make my memory

a fascinated traveler,

an incessant fire.

• This beautiful poem shows us that, although we may have a breastplate in front of others, there will always be someone who will tear down our walls.

My tactic is

look at you

learn how you are

love you as you are

my tactic is

talk to you

and listen to you

build with words

an indestructible bridge

my tactic is

stay in your memory

I do not know how

i don't even know

with what pretext

but stay in you

my tactic is

be frank

and know that you are frank

and that we do not sell ourselves

drills

so that between the two

there is no curtain

nor abysses

my strategy is

instead

deeper and simpler

my strategy is

that any other day

I do not know how

i don't even know

with what pretext

finally

you need me

• The best strategy we can have to win someone's heart is to become entangled in their being, through understanding, collaboration, and support. unconditional.

18. As if every kiss (Fernando Pessoa)

As if every kiss

Off farewell,

Chloe mine, let's kiss, loving.

Maybe it will touch us

On the shoulder the hand that calls

To the boat that comes only empty;

And that in the same beam

Tie what we were mutually

And the alien universal sum of life.

• An interesting metaphor about loving without restrictions and without doubts, since life is short and only moves forward, we can never go back.

19. Give me your hand (Gabriela Mistral)

Give me your hand and we will dance;

give me your hand and you will love me.

As a single flower we will be,

like a flower, and nothing else ...

The same verse we will sing,

at the same step you will dance.

We will undulate like a spike,

like a spike, and nothing else.

Your name is Rosa and I am Esperanza;

but your name you will forget,

because we will be a dance.

• When two people come together, although they maintain their individuality, it is impossible not to connect in a deeper sense, creating a unity full of love.

20. Mine (Rubén Darío)

Mine: that's your name.

What more harmony?

Mine: daylight;

mine: roses, flames.

What a scent you spill

in my soul

if I know that you love me!

Oh my! Oh my!

Your sex melted

with my strong sex,

melting two bronzes.

I sad, you sad ...

Must you not be then

mine to death?

• Romantic verses that speak of the sense of belonging that is inevitable to create being in a couple, because both share different experiences together.

21. Sleepless (Gabriela Mistral)

As I am a queen and I was a beggar,

now I live in pure tremor that you leave me,

and I ask you, pale, every hour:

Are you still with me? Oh, don't go away! "

I would like to do the marches smiling

and trusting now that you have come;

but even in sleep I'm afraid

and I ask between dreams: "Haven't you gone?"

• Not everything in love is pink, because there are those desperate and unstable loves that can make us feel insecure, even being in the arms of. that person.

22. Farewell (Jorge Luis Borges)

Between me and my love they have to get up

three hundred nights like three hundred walls

and the sea will be a magic between us.

There will be only memories.

Oh worthwhile afternoons

hopeful nights of looking at you,

fields of my way, firmament

that I am seeing and losing ...

Definitive like a marble

your absence will sadden other afternoons.

• Here we can appreciate the melancholy of a separation, that everything around is distorted and only the absence of that loved one remains.

23. Diamond (Giovanni Quessep)

If I could give you

The light that is not seen

In a deep blue

Of fishes. If I could

Give you an apple

Without the lost Eden,

A sunflower without petals

No compass of light

to rise, drunk,

to the evening sky;

and this blank page

that you could read

how to read the clearest

hieroglyph. Yes

I could give you, like

it is sung in beautiful verses,

wings without a bird,

always a flight without wings,

my writing would be,

maybe like the diamond,

stone of flameless light,

perpetual paradise.

• When we are with someone we want to give them everything, the possible and the impossible if we could. Because that person is worth everything and we want them to know it.

24. Absence of love (Juan Gelman)

How will it be I wonder

What will it be like to touch you by my side.

I'm crazy through the air

that I walk that I do not walk.

What will it be like to lie down

in your country of breasts so far away.

I walk as a poor Christ to your memory

nailed, reclaimed.

It will be as it is.

Maybe everything will explode in my body

what i have waited for

Then you will eat me sweetly piece by piece.

I will be what I should.

Your foot. Your hand.

• A melancholic and romantic poem that shows us the illusions that we sometimes have with someone, wanting to know what it will be like to be with them.

25. Without a key (Angela Figuera Aymerich)

You have me and I am yours. So close to each other

like the meat of the bones.

So close to each other

and often so far ...

You tell me sometimes that you find me closed

like hard stone, like wrapped in secrets,

impassive, remote... And you would like yours

the key to the mystery ...

If nobody has it... There is no key. Not myself,

I don't even have it myself!

• A poem that talks about the importance of letting ourselves be loved, letting ourselves be known, because it is okay to show our vulnerabilities from time to time to someone. ore.