Book of Love Poems
The poems below are part of the collected work by Dr Wayne Visser: Icarus: Favourite Love Poems.
Icarus: Favourite Love Poems
This creative collection, now in its 2nd edition, brings together love poems by Wayne Visser. The anthology traces love’s agony (“Broken Dreams”) and ecstasy (“Galaxies Cart-Wheeling”), from first blush (“Almost Strangers”) to full bloom (“Say ‘I Do!’”), as we fly to love. You’ve given me the gift of golden wings / The endless sphere of blue imaginings / The chance to rise above the silver clouds / The will to cast off untold ghostly shrouds / Don’t fly too high / Don’t rise too fast / Don’t tease the sky / Don’t taunt the past / You’ve given me the hope of warmer days / The blessed kiss of the sun’s fiery rays. Buy the paper book / Buy the e-book.
Poems
Better With You – My life’s been full of ups and downs …
Moon Whisper – Each year, I scratch and fumble to make my mark …
I Miss You – It’s not that I am lost or lonely, or have no ways to fill my days …
Against the Odds – We met upon the battlefield, and you, a warrior for the cause …
Icarus – You’ve given me the gift of golden wings …
Sky Dream – A moon beam to brush your cheek, a star burst to lift your eyes …
Enchanted – By the dream, I’m enchanted, by the fantasy, enticed …
Fly to Love – To fly you must be free, to be free, you must let go …
Almost Strangers – The first time that we met, we were almost strangers – yet …
Valentine – Don’t give me hearts or scarlet blooms, no Hallmark cards or lovers’ tunes …
Perfume – You awaken me with the light that shines in your eyes …
The Web – As yet another strand is cut, I wonder if it’s time …
Florentine Nights – What sweet surprise, what strange delight to find myself this Florence night …
Autumn Kisses – autumn puckers, planting kisses on nose and neck, ears and cheeks …
Love Floats – babbling brook of nervous flirtation, swirling swoon of giddy infatuation …
Ivy Love – As seasons turn we all must learn from past love that is dead …
The Dream of You – … in echoed rhymes, the voice of you between the lines …
Perfect Day – Walking slowly, hand in hand, beside the gentle river Cam …
Chocolate Seduction – Mouth-wateringly tempting … when I peel back the wrap …
A Love That Could Last – How quickly belief turns to doubt …
Galaxies Cart-Wheeling – We make the skies dance and the trees sing …
I Hear You – … in the silence when all the world’s asleep, I hear you tap the window …
Turkish Coffee Kisses – Cups of Turkish coffee kisses, sticky treats of pure delight …
Flibbawookie – I’m loofed upon my slumpfry chair and snugful phrapped without a care …
Broken Dreams – Every time you stir up the embers, I’m left with the burnt-out ash …
Love-Shapes – love comes in all shapes and sizes …
Just Imagine – … a life without each other, without the smiles and laughter …
Island Dreams – You share such beautiful island wishes that my eyes blink with tears …
Listen As She Hums – All the world’s in harmony, a thousand beating drums …
Caterpillar Kisses – We took a walk in London’s park that balmy summer’s day …
My Secret – So you want to know my secret? …
Happy to See You – I am hoping to see you, happy to be hoping …
Scattered Leaves – When shadows drift across the moon …
Rainbow Mists – I leave today for distant skies …
Talk to Me! – Talk to me! The words that bring a wall of silence …
The Web of Love – We gather on the beach of life, with surf and sand and sun …
Gifts – There are gifts (so many musely gifts) that you gave to me …
Dance Me – Dance me to an echo’s beat, a pulse of tests and time …
Gentle On My Mind – You’re gentle on my motley mind, unexpectedly so …
Dressing Gown – My dressing gown hangs over yours, content in their fluffy embrace …
Desert Love – My lover’s face is nothing like the desert plain’s wide open space …
Subway Angel – Across the tracks, she glances up and smiles …
Unspoken Words – I’m searching for ways to say what I mean …
Wild Love – For some, love is tame, it is cute and cuddly like an adorable pet …
Kismet – I see you in your night of anguish, I see you in your cave of tears …
I Lie Awake – I lie awake and hear your velvet sigh …
The Joining of Hands – Marriage is like the joining of hands, each enfolding the other …
Moment of Truth – There comes a moment, an empty, aching moment …
Resonance – The One who resonates in time and in tune …
Ambivalence – We think we know; in fact, we’re sure …
Villanelle for Justice – She rages against the fading of light …
Hard to Say – It’s hard to say ‘I love you’ when words have turned to dust …
Through It All – Worlds may collide – the sky turn to black …
Shooting Star – Your shooting star lights up my sky …
Step into my Parlour – … make yourself at home, tell me all the dreams you dream …
Footprints – Laughing, smiling, making jokes, dreams, desires, fleeting hopes …
Dove on the Wind – If you were a dove, I’d be the wind …
Reach Out and Touch – … someone in need, broken lives, hearts that bleed …
Only Love – It’s all that matters, all that binds, all that fulfils, all that finds …
Mystery – There is a mystery which is you, a mystery which is me …
I Love You Mom – Though I have tried, in song, word and rhyme …
Dad, We Love You – You hear the news, the dice is cast …
Kindred Spirits – The sands of time have trickled by …
Hunny-Bear – You are my little hunny-bear, the one I love, my only care …
Christmas Wish – My Christmas wish came true last night when she appeared …
Jealousy – It starts, like bad indigestion, churning knots inside my gut …
Cradled by Love – As you lie by my side, with your head on my chest …
Facets – To bind the mind and tame the flame, to yearn and burn …
Wild, Beautiful and Free – Wildness is a place in the heart …
Truth or Dare – … I hear you say, with impish smile and raised eyebrow …
Genie Out the Bottle – The genie’s out the bottle, I can never put it back …
Restless Nights – When I wake from restless nights, weary from nocturnal fights …
Letting Go – A meeting, not of hands but of minds, not of ground but of finds …
Princess – You don’t need to wear a crown, or sip a crystal chalice …
She’ll Never Know – … that I sighed when she left today …
All I Ever Wanted – … was just to make you smile, how was I to know …
Here – Tired, but here, relaxing in the thought of you …
If You Love Her – … let her know it, there are countless ways to show it …
Battle-Days – in the battle-days ahead, i need strength i don’t feel …
Finally Over – What do you do when it’s finally over? …
Two Weeks – … is all it takes, to go from to ignorant bliss to knowing pain …
Sad and Blue – I’m mad at you, boiling, bubbling, spitting, seething …
Hope – I hope that we can somehow still be friends …
Comet Sonnet – Ever since meeting, we’ve taken to flight …
Adultery – When I’m gone across the sea and parted ways amicably …
Love Letter – When I think of our love, I think of feathers and butterflies …
Don’t Tell Me That You Love Me – … but hold my hand, see me smiling …
Lingerie Lament – Suspenders drive you mad with hooks …
Afterglow – The flash of your smile still glints …
Je T’adore – The deepest ocean floor of you, the darkest secret door of you …
Say “I Do!” – Say we’ll climb to the summit together, say we’ll cherish the view …
Love Is … – … making mistakes and fixing them together …
With This Ring – … I set you free, free to love and free to be …
My Letters – I see you found my letters, my bottle on the seas …
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