How would you like to give someone you love our Sweethearts Romance package? The package includes a steam for two, aromatic body polishes, side-by-side massages, and a warm, deliciously scented bath for two (normally $280). Submit a love poem in the comments section of this post by February 7. We’ll choose our favorites and post them on our FB page for a reader’s choice award. Contest winner will be announced on February 14. Here are the rules:
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To my husband: You consume my heart and my every thought, the sound of your breath on my neck, the warmth of your lips on my cheek, the touch of your fingers on my skin, and the feel of your heart beating as I lay my head on your chest, knowng that I could never find that feeling with anyone other than you. Because you are my everything. I love you my beef cakes!!!
Dedicated to my better half, Michael Houghton.
If I couldn’t see, would you show me the way?
If I was going to die in a day, would you pray?
If I had no tears, would you cry for me?
Through emotion can you feel what’s inside of me?
If I didn’t have a voice, would you speak my words?
Speak laughter to my soul, with you my days are never dull.
If I didn’t rob you for your love, would you steal my heart?
I need you in my life, I pray to God we never part.
Hearts beating, souls meeting
Eyes that have met in another time
Feeling your presence without a touch
Longing for your kiss so sublime
Butterflies flutter, finding one another
Finally feeling my heart is complete
The missing piece you provide
Makes me whole whenever we meet
A life together, married forever
Always waking in your arms
My heart is happy, my soul is dancing
I am safe with you and free from harm
Stars shine bright, planets aligned
Blessed our we in love
A family, a lifetime, a happy home
Was sent to us from above
To my wonderful hubby 😉 Love you with all my heart!!
To my fiance:
You are my better half and my patience
You are loving and strong in ways I am not
You and our son are my world
Of which without I would be so lost
I thank God daily for our blessings
You work so hard everyday to provide
Our son and I are spoiled by your love
With you by our side we want for nothing
As we continue on this journey
About to be wed
I thank God that I have you by my side
My better half, my love
Soft lips explore my skin
My thoughts effervescent
Return to the spring
Running wild together
Entangled in loving each other
My breath stolen
The words won’t come
For the power of my love will not reduce to words
It is like a lion
Fierce
Brave
Unwavering
My love, there is no other
For without you I would surely perish.
Written to my husband Kirby
To Marti:
Through hot summer nights
And cold winter days,
Under soft autumn lights,
Above spring’s sweet bouquets
Of stargazer lilies, roses & ‘mums,
Forget-me-nots, iris & delphiniums,
I think of you fondly-
My place by your side
As I dote on your smile
Of friendship & pride.
So close we can cry,
Vent, or laugh our butts off-
Between game nights with family
And “ahem” moments *cough cough*-
We’ve had our fair share
Of good times & not,
And I wouldn’t trade any
For the best gal I’ve got!
Love you, sweetie!
For Aaren:
I want to write our memories,
Each one as a poem on my wrist,
Only to be washed away with the falling
Time drops.
The quietest moments of my arms and your fingers.
Of my chin and your left ankle.
Sharing coffee.
Your teacup clanking my saucer.
Staying up late listening.
Our dreams becoming silent signs
That carry us towards our tomorrow’s.
My time is sunbathing in the rich
Coconut smell of your thoughts.
There is no meaning
Without your fullness.
My husband.
My person.
We will shine together as if we have been buried
For a thousand years…
For Dan
Forever isn’t long enough to have you by my side.
Your love, your warmth, your kindness are things I cannot live without.
So many memories, moments of laughter and tears.
Love taken for granted; whispers of promises broken.
Yet somehow we are, stronger than ever.
Nothing can tear us apart. Dreams are still seen.
Years will pass by, and you will still be by my side.
Thirteen years! Phew, that’s a long time.
We’ve made it past diapers and booger slime..(well, diapers anyway).
It’s really hard to find time for romance.
When we’re washing Hot Topic tee shirts and pants.
Pre-teens can be moody, but you keep your cool.
While working full time and going to school.
We run marathons and the occasional 5k.
That’s the only alone time we get some days.
But those girls of ours are beautiful souls.
Each independent, making our lives whole.
I wouldn’t change a second of our chaotic lives.
Because I see a little bit of both of us when I look in their eyes.
I forgot to say that the above poem was for my main squeeze and husband, Ken.
For my loving boyfriend:
Can I be your everything?
The reason you smile,
The reason you wake,
The reason you laugh through the day when reflecting?
My love I will be your everything so long as you let me.
Just hold my hand; be there to chase the demons away, hold me when the darkness comes, this is all I ask of you.
Love me as I am flaws, dents, dings and all and I shall love you as you are,
So please tell me, my love, I can be your everything?
As for me you are my smile, my light, my reason to wake, my soulmate, lover, bestfriend, my everything.
Early in the spring all the little birds come one day,
Mingling in Nature’s way,
When the trees come anew,
And no longer frozen is the dew,
They run about gathering what they find,
And building houses from the instinct of their minds,
In it all the new,
As if they knew the old was through.
The air full of twittering happy cries,
Warding off anyone who spies,
Their homes all new,
Where only branches grew,
Until little new ones join their cry.
How like the birds you and I.
For Jennifer
To my fiancé my love sent to me from God above. From the moment of our greet we thought each other meet. You have my heart. my soul, my wings. And the moment you producers those rings, oh my! you are my guy. To have and to hold until we grow old. Baby you make me shine, will you be my valentine
For my love.
You ask how I could love a broken man, I love every broken piece. You’ve walked through fire and are here to run toward me.
You’re by my side, I forget fear and see a kind gentle soul, I hunger to be better.
Your laugh, your smile, your stupid ways that make me shy. You know what I like, what I love and what I hate.
You’re presence is all I know, your body is all I’ve felt. In the fragile glimspes caught between us, deep unabiding love.
You’ve been wounded and hurt, beyond full repair, still you trust and take my hand.
You ask how I could love a broken man, I love every broken piece.
For my soulmate:
Sara you have been my love and rock. The love you have inhaled to a tired and broken man when we came together as one.
My heart cherishes our life and the love we have for each other. I love how just a look or few words let me know what you want.
The love we have for each other is forever embedded in our hearts. When I am old and feeble I will always know our love was strong and lasted for eternity. As the song says belief makes things feel real, I will wear your love on my chest and heart for eternity. You have arrested my mind and Sara Rachel you will carry my mind, soul & heart for the rest of my days on earth.
For my wife Linda:
Dear One,
Moments, Memories, What lies before us
The Impossibility of trips without you, momentarily
separated, yet eternally joined
Internal strength, clear knowing, yet giving
and receiving to and for one another
Woman Scents, hints of Cachet blending to visions
of mountain meadows, wildflowers, Intimate
Memories
The Seed within, undefined beauty, wondrous
Anticipations
Textures in my hands, seven pain, joyous
Agony portending
A coming together from infinite closeness
One with you
Nort
To My Husband
My Heart to you is given
Will you give yours too me?
We will lock them up together
And forever will we be.
Will lock them up and throw away the key.
To my husband, Ken
A love story/valentine in darkness and in light.
At first our love was born of friendship over many years. Extending to our beloved spouses, amid the child-rearing years, the finding our way in the world years and through the great loss of our spouses, through the darkness. Eventually in the darkness we found light. Light and laughter in each other, and love in each others arms. We survive whatever the darkness brings. Whatever the circumstances.Together our strenght is multiplied. Together we choose the light, we choose love.
Be mine for all time, valentine! Always, Joy
My husband wears a badge. He’s a great man, but tonight, I sit.
Duty has called for his time to protect lives, so until he walks through the door, I will sit.
The most beautiful words to the wife of an officer are, “I’m on my way!” but now, I sit. I wait for our dogs to alert me he’s home. I listen, knowing he’s filtered stories to protect me.
I married a man who’ll give his life for yours.
I will continue to remind him I appreciate his sacrifice. And as I pray for his return home, I sit.
For my partner, lover, best friend, and my husband, Ken Landfair:
“My husband wears a badge. He’s a great man, but tonight, I sit.
Duty has called for his time to protect lives, so until he walks through the door, I will sit.
The most beautiful words to the wife of an officer are, “I’m on my way!” but now, I sit. I wait for our dogs to alert me he’s home. I listen, knowing he’s filtered stories to protect me.
I married a man who’ll give his life for yours.
I will continue to remind him I appreciate his sacrifice. And as I pray for his return home, I sit.”
Fingers burning, to touch…
The feeling of you,
Skin tingling, to touch…
The healing of you,
Heart yearning, to touch…
This endless need for you,
Loneliness; All I’ve ever had,
Forgive me darling, until there was you,
To touch, simply to touch, your hand my love,
Is what I ask of you.
(For the man who gave me his hand)
Kyle,
Our life together has been short and sweet,
But our love is strong and deep
Our passion like the ocean
And love like a waterfall
I fall deeper and deeper in love with you
And do it all with love and grace
Your smile, your beard, your heart that is so dear
Makes me want to be your girl
To the end that is nowhere near.
I love you.
For my partner, Teddy:
The bricks were lain long ago
Of our path that began in adolescence
Late summer nights running in the streets
Stolen kisses on the basketball court
Hearts broken along the way
Our paths divided, only to be joined again
An emptiness and longing that I felt
Could only be filled by you
The piece of my heart you stole, when I was a girl
Given back, by your love of me now, as a woman
As the season of our life changes with the birth of our baby girl
Our love is deep and full
Blossoming and endless.
Rob… My best friend:
We started out as neighbors,
We were really just good friends.
But something changed along the way,
No longer we could pretend.
Should we chance our friendship,
to see where this might go?
Or shut that door forever,
And never would we know.
So we met up on this mountain top,
it had really quite the view.
Then he reached over and kissed me,
that door was just ripped in two.
There was really so much passion,
in that very first kiss.
If we hadn’t taken the chance,
this is what we would miss.
I will always remember the day on the mountain top,
that’s when the greatest love began,
he is much more than a man I met,
this man is my best friend.
Love your square bear,
Tracy
Dear my cal,
There are 7 billion people in this world,
for our souls to find each other in every lifetime,
is a story that our hearts will only hold.
From the moment I heard your name,
and my heart skipped a beat,
I looked up and it was you- that person I knew I was destined to re-meet.
our hearts know each other so deep- I’ve loved you for thousands of years,
we found each other when we were so lost,
but the universe knew our time was again near.
Your eyes speak to me in ways that your words cant,
your touch loves me in ways that love cant be sought.
For my soul to connect with yours over and over again,
can be nothing but a gift from heaven,
for making it through every difficult part of life that we werent partnered in.
Love your Amanda