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Love & Romance Haiku Poems

Haiku about affection, desire, partnership, and intimate distances.

205 published haiku
Blessings of lightness
the heavy heart lies like lead
water flows downhill
Denise Dumars Read poem →
My fluttering heart
That thrill of something so new
It terrifies me
Emily Rojas Read poem →
azaleas flourish
passionate hues returning
spring's loving embrace
Rj Tungsten Read poem →
Spun silk and satin
My grandmother's wedding dress
Buried in cedar
Chris Wood Read poem →
For Love, Happiness
Clear Endless Montana Skies
My Eternal Greed
Derek Brown Read poem →
Adrift, weeping sea
violet sky, zeal & lust
but a dolent kiss
Manny Turner Read poem →
blinking fireflies
hiding and seeking lovers
playing mating games
Douglas Lanzo Read poem →
Sequins meet black tie
stained with pink cotton candy
funky summer love
Lorraine Rose Read poem →
ribbon of silver
sky tangles high-rise dreams whirl
balloon hearts take flight
Darren Black Read poem →
Huddled together
Distancing/Discovering
what we cannot stand
Chad Cooper Read poem →
The whole two hour walk
going over and over
our five second kiss.
Jon Petruschke Read poem →
the lake is glass calm
shimmering in the moment
I am at peace, love
Teresa Stankiewicz Read poem →
caught yourself stumbling
I saw your shadow dance, love
with wild angel wings
Tim Mueller Read poem →
Skin soft, lines set deep,
I watch you wither with age.
Together, we dim.
Ls. Quigley Read poem →
From way up high, where
people are like ants, I see
the depth of God's Love
Daymond Roman Read poem →
Unsent love letters,
stowed in vacant flowerbeds
slowly decompose.
Gracie Phillips Read poem →
I dream while night sleeps
stars come and drink from my hand
love simple abounds
Tim Mueller Read poem →
your love is cool rain
falling on the arid scene
quenching desert thirst
Chris Cross Read poem →
Fireflies dancing
The stars play a melody
Only lovers know
Jessica Degamo Read poem →
Our desire- to be
needed, useful and just loved.
It's universal.
Alvin Johnson Read poem →
Loneliness visits
Featureless, absent figure
Needing your embrace
Hannah-rose Tristram Read poem →
Gaze intense, sparks fly,
hands touching, lightning flashes.
New love storm brewing.
Wesley Sims Read poem →
tiny white orbs swirl
eventide sparkles in flight
angel lights, love sent
Regina Elliott Read poem →
Nightly, forced love yous
created autopilots
rather than lovers
Adam Sprague Read poem →
Crystal snowflakes dance,
tossed in windswept flurries, cold,
my heart is frozen.
Marcy Mcnally Read poem →
From her sad mouth curled
songs of love lived, lost, longed for.
Linking mud and stars.
Hannah-rose Tristram Read poem →
your soul's breath comes near
locked now in my heart's temple
distance means nothing
Tim Mueller Read poem →
Sent my heart away
Carried on whispering winds
To a lonesome land
Shirley Smothers Read poem →
Those raindrops falling
slowly watermarking love
by pluvial skies
Megha Sood Read poem →
My light in the dark
You are illuminating
Full of life and love
Ginger Miller Read poem →
walking hand in hand
yellow road beneath our feet
soon we say goodbye
Steve Denehan Read poem →
Sitting in a tree
blowing dandelion seeds
spreading puffs of heart
Rene Mullen Read poem →
Instant love, quick sex,
breakups faster than the wind,
feeling for a while.
Norbert Gora Read poem →
Love is not fragile
or tender. Love hoists boulders,
bursts dams, uproots trees
Jody Larson Read poem →
tiger eye sunrise
little emerald sailboat
meeting together
Jessica Dawson Read poem →
rejoice in her love
of moonbeams and church steeples
learning what you know
Kennard Balme Read poem →