by Daniel Turner |
Categories:
crush, funny love, humorous, teacher,
As I look back, it all seems funny now
Recalling all those awkward teen age years
I pushed the limits farther than allowed
Supposedly when young, we had no fears
Infatuation caught me with the blues
My heart was swollen by love's gentle sting
It was a crush that only left a bruise
Left by the diamond in her wedding ring
The first day I laid eyes on her, I fell
The lightning bolt she was, that shook my world
And to this day I swear I'd know her smell
Could she have read my mind, she'd likely hurled
I hated school but never missed her class
She said she loved me 'cause I made her laugh
original poem by Daniel Turner
by John Hamilton |
Categories:
love, romantic, soulmate, together, true love,
A love built on trust
Our love flutters on calypso breezes,
cruising on the tropic of Capricorn
All of our anxieties it eases,
as mango sun wakes us this August morn
Passionate dew glistens on sun kissed skin
as we gaze at skies of peaches and cream
your essence incites desires within
We're enamored in this tropical dream
This is no cruise ship infatuation
We confess and reveal history's scars
tethered together in hearts migration
Promising love, under the moon and stars
Shooting stars ricochet through cosmic dust
Heavenly signs that our love's built on trust
John Derek Hamilton
July 13,2017
by Silent One |
Categories:
love,
Listen
to words that
cannot be spoken
Feel
rare rhythms
only your heart can feel
Taste
passionate nectar
your tongue has desired
Look
with infatuation
at unseen visions
Smell
unique aroma
that shall never fade
Touch
forbidden fruits
that fascinate hunger
Heal
pacify pain
rebuilding broken hearts
Sing
unspoken lyrics
create a new song
Love
without limits
never expressed before
Die
in peace
knowing you were loved
The Silent One
Simple musings
Written 22 April 2016
Posted 9 February 2018
by Line Gauthier |
Categories:
devotion, true love,
one look and i knew
the attraction was fatal
infatuation
would grow into devotion
and i’d never find a cure
AP: 3rd place 2022
Submitted on May 19, 2021 for contest TANKA sponsored by M.L. KISER - RANKED 2ND
and July 9, 2018 for contest TANKA IN 5 7 5 7 7 sponsored by THE POET DOCTOR
by Andrea Dietrich |
Categories:
Infatuation one cold winter fell
like flower blossoms white to frigid ground.
The secrets that I’d never dared to tell
lay buried like the earth beneath each mound.
An awful truth so haunted me I hid
it underneath the softness of new snow,
and when I’d come to think that I was rid
of it, your love for me began to grow.
That love, like sun, shone fully; soon I felt
your strong desire to understand my heart.
You saw, when you had made the first snow melt,
the ground laid bare. . . it tore us not apart!
From sunlight, passion’s snow, and naked earth
was white spring rose I write of given birth.
by Constance La France |
Categories:
lost love,
I gave you my heart
and my infatuation
to ever entwine . . .
I leave you my devotion
at your stone cold tomb, engraved.
________________________
July 9, 2018
Poetry/Tanka/Engraved
Copyright Protected, ID 18-100040-483-01
All Rights Reserved. Written Under Pseudonym.
Written for the contest, Tanka
sponsor, The Name Forsakes Me
Tenth Place
by Lu Loo |
Categories:
love, passion,
Sincere lingering
brought forth by proclivity
infatuation fondness
Flowers in mid-spring
brought forth by simplicity
you are my constant conquest
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Abrupt appetite
brought forth by fascination
devoted eagerness dwells
Sweet scent, penetrate
brought forth by aspiration
laying down while you compel
~Written By: Laura Loo~
~Date Written: March 12, 2016~
by Andrea Dietrich |
Categories:
love, metaphor,
Infatuation one cold winter fell
like flower blossoms white to frigid ground.
The secrets that I’d never dared to tell
lay buried like the earth beneath each mound.
An awful truth so haunted me I hid
it underneath the softness of new snow,
and when I’d come to think that I was rid
of it, your love for me began to grow.
That love, like sun, shone fully; soon I felt
your strong desire to understand my heart.
You saw, when you had made the first snow melt,
the ground laid bare. . . it tore us not apart!
From sunlight, passion’s snow, and naked earth
was white spring rose I write of given birth.
by John Watt |
Categories:
green, love, passion, romantic love, youth,
Wild grasses of my springtime heart unmown,
unruly, unrestrained, in silence grew.
Youth’s fierce infatuation madly blew
its untamed gales where tall, green blades had grown.
Fair birds of transient love have long since flown –
that tale’s dark thread unraveled. Segue to
the stunning, breathless moment I met you
and found the ageless love I’d never known.
As autumn yields to winter, hair recedes
brown-gray, and once-hard muscles dormant lie;
our fathomless love-light remains undimmed.
Spring’s passions redirected, naught impedes
love’s resolute commitment. You and I
adore our beautiful lawn, neatly trimmed.
by Paul Callus |
Categories:
first love, heartbreak,
Blinded by the first morning beam
Intense infatuation of adolescent love
Triggered emotions. His beguiling charm
Tightened its hold. But a flaw in the scenario
Entangled the script, and the seducer, less his veneer
Retreated into oblivion, leaving a broken heart in disarray.
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by L Milton Hankins |
Categories:
endurance, love,
Fancy the reasons why love is so elusive
Could be we don’t know what we look for,
Feelings that with love are not conducive
Strange so many do not know the score
Looking for love “in all the wrong places,”
Confusing true love with an infatuation,
Equating it with beautiful or perfect faces
Often can lead to the nastiest situations.
Generally, love requires time to mature
Knowing yourself and your expectations,
Commitment in love is not for the unsure
I say, always beware of those hesitations.
Work toward a relationship that is secure,
I'm convinced that true love will endure.
Written August 20, 2022
by Connie Marcum Wong |
Categories:
hope, lost love, love,
With devotion lost
You stepped through a low portal.
Infatuation
Took control of my desire.
You captured my broken heart.
7-10-18
Bite Size Poem no.37 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
'TANKA in 5 7 5 7 7 ' Contest ~N/A~
Sponsor The Poet Doctor
by Ashley Daly |
Categories:
devotion, love, passion,
I tasted of temptation
With a pinch of infatuation
A touch of captivation
And a dash of imagination
With heaps of fascination
And a sense of excitation
With this newfound jubilation
You’re my favorite fixation
by Hilda Greenhough |
Categories:
love,
Alternating red and blue, police car siren blaring.
My heart is thumping wildly. I wave and blow him a kiss,
But he doesn't notice. He is on the job, not caring.
And since I'm driving slowly, a chance meeting I'm going to miss.
Had he wings, he would be the Heavenly Angel Michael.
But he is an honest cop who watches for speeders on the road.
His manner is courteous; his aura is physical,
Yet, his peaceful brow is smooth, tending not to furrow hold.
Today, I see him at the curb writing a citation.
I wave, I wink, and blow a kiss as I drive on by.
Though my heart is bursting with daily infatuation,
It is those California girls who always catch his eye.
by Jess Johnson |
Categories:
love,
I adore you. The devotion of my emotions are overwhelming. The fond delight of
lusting for you hits that tender spot. I am mad for the passion sent through my
weak body at the sight of your intensity. I respect your friendship more and more,
but that wild sensation makes me hot. I have an inclination that this involvement
is not infatuation, rather, its LOVE.
Je t'aime.
by Steve Watson |
Categories:
longing, love,
How to endure
This infatuation
When the touch of your hand
Is crucifixion
And every glance
Enflames my soul
Yet better this than a
Conflagration
And all hope’s embers
Growing cold.
Steve W, 2019
by Valsa George |
Categories:
best friend, betrayal, lost love,
"An infatuation can grow into a steady affair through love and marriage, but if weakened through silence and indifference, love which is magical can prove critical too" ~ By Poet
An emotion born through chance
A spark lit through glance
Fanned through appearance
Grown through acquaintance
Confirmed through countenance
Blazed through romance
Interrupted through absence
Steadied through alliance
Tested through penance
Decreased through silence
Weakened through defiance
Exhausted through indifference
Worn out through intolerance
Snubbed out through violence
And ended up in divorce!
by Eric Ashford |
Categories:
poetry,
When Lydia and I
resolved to climb that apple tree together
it was over -
not all at once, I still had a child’s love
for shiny distractions,
but when her long bare legs
arched over my eyes to gain the highest branch
it was over,
it was over next Spring, next-door girl,
next school term, next crush,
next hopeless infatuation.
O Lydia.
I hope you can find that naiveté again,
and that your apple tree has not died,
then perhaps in your mind's eye
you will climb it once more.
by Serenity D'Nae Montgomery |
Categories:
lost love
Why did you cheat on me?
At the time was she better?
Was her kiss a door
that opened to forever?
Did she feel you with love?
Or was that just infatuation?
Did she get a thrill
out of my humiliation?
If you weren't in love with her,
then why'd you do it?
Did you not really like me
and use her to prove it?
Why did you cheat on me?
I did not deserve it.
It hurts so bad,
you don't even know it.
by Anne-Lise Andresen |
Categories:
crush, feelings, love,
Dreams with sweet kisses
searching for the devotion
Not just a feeling
Love is more ... love's ecstasy
sparkling infatuation
09.07.2018
Sun :) A-L Andresen :)
howmanysyllables.com 5-7-5-7-7
For : TANKA Poetry Contest
9th place in the contest
by Jack Ellison |
Categories:
love, , sweet love,
Infatuation is what it's sometimes called
You can give it any name you'd like
I call it love, pure love sweet love
It's as easy as falling off a bike
No need for any special instructions
But your heart must be willing to share
All or even just a part of your heart
Almost everyone has love to spare
Nothing's really more important in life
It's the engine that turns our wheel
Can't think of anything that even comes close
For passion, for intensity, for zeal
Take it from me, an extremely sensitive male
Who loves life and the joys it brings
Once you discover the true meaning of life
You find all year round is spring
© Jack Ellison 2013
by Klio Tsitsikroni |
Categories:
life,
Youthful naivety
Blame it on Puberty
Mistaking infatuation with love
by Okologo Uche Ken |
Categories:
fantasy,
WILD AND FOOLISH LOVE
Knowing that you exist in my heart
Even when you always decked on your hat
To lure the one that has giving you tough
Times as you often attempt to ride on the rough
Edges of her frigid and rigid mind,
One is not amazed that blind
Love can easily turn someone wild
Although the individuals with mild
Hearts sometimes falls into wrong
Hands and it takes quite a long
Time to realize that infatuation
Breeds unwarranted tension and depression
Caused by emotional hurts and heartbreak,
That is usually the end story of a fake.
A poem written by Uche ken Okologo. 4/30/2013
by Iris E. Sankey- Lewis |
Categories:
adventure, feelings, longing, love, nature, nostalgia, seasons,
Gulf breeze chime my chimes
What I say here pass it on
Spring fling beckoning.
Infatuation -
A cat chases its own tail
Love begins at home.
Elusive wind blows
Bliss is like falling in love
I claim nostalgia.
Wrapped kisses with rose
A lonely hunter shivers
Love last a life time.
*
by Gretchen Cruz |
Categories:
allusion, crazy, desire, feelings, heartbroken, imagination, relationship,
INFATUATION, DECEPTION
INFATUATION, SELF DECEPTION
WORLD OF LIES CROWDING MY SOUL
THINKING IT WAS REAL
THINKING IT WAS TRUE
BUT IT WAS JUST A
SELF DEPRECIATION A
MAD INFATUATION
I THOUGH IT WAS LOVE
FOUND OUT THE TRUTH
YET ANOTHER INFATUATION
HITS HARD JUST LIKE
AN ADDICTION
UNHEALTHY FOR MY HEART
WEAK TO MY SOUL
CLINGING ON IN MY MIND
UNSAFE AND UNKIND
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