“Bonfire of Broken Hearts by Stewart Stafford A shivering man craving warmth, Mustn't let the fire consume him, Despite temptation heat flares, In arousal-seared microseconds. Lured in with passion's promise, A stray spark or lick of flame is all Love ignites into walking fireball— Devotion's immolation sacrifice. On a cracked cardiac bonfire, Toughened muscles take time to burn, An atrophied, coarse chest slump, Once burned it is charcoal brittle. In the hall of mirrors' reflection, ICU, but do you see any of me? No salve - a scorched psyche set free. © 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.” LovePoetryHeartbreakPsychologicalSurrealismLove And LossContemporary PoetryDark PoetryAnti ValentineStewart Stafford Author:Stewart Stafford
“This Butterfly Stings by Stewart Stafford The gold of my eye dances on stage for me, Her wings wafting behind her in the chorus, Yet none glimpsed that girl's beauty as I did, This butterfly flew solo in my mind's eye. For two years hence, I concealed my interest, Yet I gazed at her endlessly, so close yet apart, Places of learning changed, but she did not, I foolishly let fly Cupid's token to my inamorata. Seeing my love in a looking glass reflected, Shadow feelings illuminated St Valentine's Eve, My butterfly became a sullen stinging bee, Crushing my tender rose in pieces at my feet. Nor would her wicked scorn end there, She told her friends who joined in my shaming, For years after, turning my last shreds of adoration, Into contemptuous hatred of her existence. Truly no one can take away our memories, Where my former crush still dances on occasion, O sweet butterfly of my youth, one last wish, Never fly away from these fond recollections. © Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.” LoveHeartbreakRejectionCrushUnrequited LoveLove PoemValentine S DayShapeshifterShamingCrushed Dreams Author:Stewart Stafford
“There's only one thing worse than never having found love, and that's finding it and having it taken away from you - then you truly know what you've lost.” LoveHeartbreakFinding LoveNo LoveLoss Of LoveLosing LoveLosing Someone You LoveHaving It AllGone ForeverLosing Someone Forever Author:Stewart Stafford
“The Romantic Charter by Stewart Stafford Eyes dazzled by romance's shine, Hostage suitor of Cupid and you, A willing disciple of St Valentine, With pierced heart of rosiest hue. Love is the next world's currency, All wealth we must leave behind, Call it the discarnate treasury, A repository of delicacies dined. Even if adoration sours on the lips, Or toxicity springs from intoxication, Nothing erases the first steps of bliss, Or can demolish memory's foundation. © Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.” LoveRomanceRomanticValentineLove PoemLove PoemsLove PoetryValentine S DaySt Valentine S DayValentine Poem Author:Stewart Stafford
“The One Who Moves Me by Stewart Stafford Her caress and laughter, Cast out the darkness, And lull the choppy waters, Her embrace, a flowering meadow. Her absence stills the earth, Cracked ice on a frozen lake, Asphyxiating silence descends, The Faustian poker of loneliness. Lexicons filled with her silences, Seismic shifts of stinging rage, She, in naked imperfection as I, Together, reuniting in shelter. © Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.” LoveRomanceRelationshipsRelationshipRomanticSoulmateLove PoemLove PoemsLove PoetryThe One Author:Stewart Stafford
“In Faceless Time by Stewart Stafford Her stare burned into me, In full view, a naked look, Hubbub quietened down, Inaudible to the two of us. Beckoning, a ripened vine, Ingénue cameo of her face, I, a happy gatecrasher to life, Tiptoed in the requited chase. Her looks carry with me now, Resplendent in aged raiment, Ages after my gaze fell on her, A souvenir sheltered radiant. © Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.” LoveRomanceMemoriesMemoryLustLooking BackLove At First SightValentineValentine S DaySt Valentine S Day Author:Stewart Stafford
“People will hunt obsessively for months or even years to find the right home to live in. When it comes to love though, they expect their future soulmate to appear out of thin air as they enter the next bar or club they go to.” LoveRomanceLove QuotesDatingPropertyDating QuotesReal EstateLove Quotes And SayingHomeownersHouse Hunting Author:Stewart Stafford
“This Elixir Smites by Stewart Stafford How dull the rose's painted lustre, As bees gossip, all mistrust her, Window taps on stormy nights, Aphids swarm as suckling mites. Once buds entwined at Nature's hip, Now cleft in two and water-dipped, Glass-twisted strangest shape, Mauve-petalled mausoleum draped. Neglected drops in muted drought, The bloody thorns scratch about, A lush finger in withered point, Pruned stem of glum conjoint. Cataclysms from petty faults arise; Reflection pardoned in imperfect eyes. © Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.” LoveNatureForgivenessGardenAnimalsLove PoemLove PoemsLove PoetryRoses Author:Stewart Stafford
“A Ravaging Sentinel's Vow by Stewart Stafford State your love for me now — Agreed, a cracked heart pledge, Defying your many flaws, martyring me to betrayal's dredge. At your darkest dawn — My fealty oath holds true, when every back is turned, a redeeming ravager’s purview. A sentinel’s dust trail climbs high, hooves thunder; the sundial stops, A vow declared, enemies routed, disaster reined on teetering clifftops. © 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.” LovePoetryBetrayalLoyaltyRedemptionHeroismGothicDark PoetryVowsEpic Poetry Author:Stewart Stafford
“The Alchemy of Affection by Stewart Stafford The language of Aphrodite, Rendering words as liquid gold. To flood the heart's chambers, Setting them in gilded aurum bold. When this opulent heart beats, Minted blood in golden boughs flows, In possession of treasure most precious, Whose true worth none of us knows. Magnates and moguls may scheme to buy, The devotion that is never truly theirs, Count your kisses instead of fortunes, To bequeath to your loving, rightful heirs. © Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.” LoveGoldAffectionLove PoemLove PoemsLove PoetryAphroditeLanguage Of LoveMoney Can T Buy LoveAlchemy Of Love Author:Stewart Stafford
“Night's Pleasure Veil by Stewart Stafford A kiss, that beauteous wound, Struck by love's yielding blade, Feel the arrow's welcome strike, As we roam in life's ecstatic glade. Memories momentarily wiped, As the lover's lips become parted, Then at sea again in sensory squalls, Where passion's spark first started. A stranger interrupts adoration's swell, Desire's mask of reality swiftly donned, Vows to reunify in night's pleasure veil, Longing looks, and the flames are gone. © Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.” LoveLoversKissValentineLove PoemLove PoemsLove PoetryValentine S DayCupid S ArrowSt Valentine S Day Author:Stewart Stafford
“Shakespeare queried 'if music be the food of love, play on'; Well, I say laughter is life's champagne cocktail and humourlessness its bitterest rigour mortis vinegar. So sup well!” LovePhilosophyHumourLaughterMetaphorShakespeareJoy Of LifeSocial CommentaryRigor MortisStewart Stafford Author:Stewart Stafford
“The Burning Chorus by Stewart Stafford As clawed lightning, love strikes without warning to scorch the heart, And, as it is painful to be born, love, make love, and die, So we may surmise that life itself is pain in different guises, Some unwelcome interlopers but all necessary. More than passing sensations, We are shocked into living, And in that shock, the heart plots a different course, To beat for the first time or quicken with excitement or cease. Sometimes we stray into pleasure’s realms, Diverted there unknowing, And resolve to be passengers no more, But masters of when and where the burning chorus strikes. © Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.” LoveLifePainPoetryPoemPoemsLightningLove PoemPain And PleasureLife Is Pain Author:Stewart Stafford
“Unspoken Sonata by Stewart Stafford Love's lullaby's unheard duet, Kisses of life drown shallow opinions, Prejudged by logic, yet set apart, Our oasis bars the negative legions. Eternal tongues of a mother lode; Looks of love, a second-sight ploy, To visions beyond earthly interpretation; Dance down darkest paths to ecstatic joy. Spoiler seers nix romantic ideals; Abyssal agendas in jealousy's biome, A caterpillar doxxed for its butterfly shape, Real love's navigator guides us home. © 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.” LoveInspirationalRomancePoetryHopeRelationshipsMetaphorContemporaryValentine S DayModern Poetry Author:Stewart Stafford
“Life is a minefield and Love its coveted mine.” LoveLifeLonging For LoveCovetingLonging For SomeoneCovetMinefieldWanting To Be LovedPitfalls LifeCoveted Possession Author:Stewart Stafford
“Three-Ring Circus by Stewart Stafford First love's doubtless light, Blinded with scorching might, What little a cloudy eye allows, Passion's seal on supple brows. Resplendent in our united phase. Love's incandesence in full blaze, No one else existed, gazes locked, Past emptiness, amnesia-blocked. Now we pass on a muted, wintry street, Joyless crime, sounds of splashing feet, Pained awareness, eyes to the ground, Mourners part bereft of sorrow's sound. © 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.” LoveRelationshipsFirst LoveBreaking UpBreak UpsSplitting UpUrban PoetryDark RomanticismMetaphysical PoetryModern Noir Author:Stewart Stafford
“Love is a journey and a destination - long and excruciating on the way, unexpected and ecstatic if found.” LoveLove QuotesLove Quotes And SayingsLove HurtsFinding LoveLooking For LoveFinding JoyDestination In LifeUnlucky In LoveLove S Journey Author:Stewart Stafford
“They say the truth sets you free, But love liberated me, It hit reset, And said 'don't forget, Thy new version of thee.' © Stewart Stafford, 2020. All rights reserved.” LoveLove QuotesLiberationResetTruth And LoveNew YouThe Truth Will Set You FreeThe Truth About Being HumanThe Truth Shall Make You FreeThe Truth Will Make You Free Author:Stewart Stafford
“Ladybird Heart by Stewart Stafford O darling o' my heart, If 'tis true that is what thou art, Then recognise and see me. Didst I not win thy heart so bold, And giveth thee rings of gold? Anon, honour our precious union. But to interfering teams, Thy loyalty now it seems, Thee grants these canker blossoms o'er me. Recall how they hath tried, To jilt me from mine own bride, And keepest thou lonesome and melancholy. So, returneth, my dove, To this, thy bed of love, And sleep soundly beneath thy lovebird's wing. © Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.” LoveLoyaltyLove PoemLove PoetryPower Of LoveShakespeareanMarital ProblemsIambic PentameterOutside InfluenceIambic Poetry Author:Stewart Stafford
“The Ludicrous Pragmatic by Stewart Stafford Love is anaesthesia, Of the human condition, Honeyed, layman's nostrum, healing body and mind. An auction won unbidden, Self-created, human-sustained, Unlike energy, destructible, morphing into vicious hatred. Convalescing in a void, baby steps towards others, a sentient river to the sea, Until love's exhumed again. © Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.” LoveFalling In LoveLove PoemLove PoemsLove PoetryLove And HateBreaking UpBreak UpsNew LoveRekindle The Flame Author:Stewart Stafford
“Love's Great Adventure by Stewart Stafford Look out for the wandering eye, And the fervour that follows it, A jewel clasped is the first part, Guarding against theft is trickier. Surreptitious teases acted out then, The Rubicon crossed and drained, Love, blind to impediment boundaries, Prized contagion spread as lightning. Rival houses intrude to spoil it, To still the fluttering of butterflies, And the bosom of Eros heaving, Unstoppable to every homo sapien. Here, I'll act as Cupid's emissary, Whisper lovers' spells in my ear, I'll parrot them to her to the letter, So lured, she'll have me over you. Groggy from humid moon nectar, On summertime clouded visions, A second an hour, as a day a year, Arousal of fire in swelled chests. Stallions of the Venus chariot, Borne freely to the new Arcadia, Feet skimming over terra firma, The youthful mask smothers all. © Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.” LoveLoversValentineLove PoemLove PoemsLove PoetryValentine S DayRomeo And JulietSt Valentine S DayFebruary 14th Author:Stewart Stafford
“The day for words of love becomes the night of amorous actions that say far more! The world shifts back on its axis at dawn on February 15th.” LoveLoversLove Quotes And SayingsValentine S DayActions Speak Louder Than WordsValentines DayValentines QuotesValentine S Day QuotesValentine S Day CardRomance And Sex Author:Stewart Stafford
“My Angel Sleeps by Stewart Stafford My angel sleeps, do not disturb, Painless and gorgeous in repose, In resting flight, I still see her, Her embryonic features now froze. Many times, she called me father, And hastened me to her side, Entwined as one, no one to part us, Now, the earth's youthful bride. Let me cast more soil upon you, To soften your final resting place, My heart's core I leave with you, To claim back when face to face. © Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.” LoveLossSleepGriefAngelMourningGrief And LossAngelsLove PoemLove Poems Author:Stewart Stafford