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All poems: copyright by
Nicholas Gordon

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• Do Not Love Me Yet

Falling in Love

• A Teenage Girl's First Crush
• I Do Not Know You Well, But What I Know
• I Don't Expect You Soon to Love Me
• It's Amazing How I Feel When I'm Around You
• Let's Go Out and Have Some Fun
• My Mood Is like a Cloudy Noon
• Please Don't Spaz if I Should Ask You Out
• The Roll Books of the Stars
• Your Eyes Won't Let My Thoughts Go Back to Sleep

Declaring Love

• Be Gentle: What You're Holding Is My Heart
• Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Face
• Chrysanthemums Are Clear in Morning Air
• How Can I Tell You What I Feel for You
• I Do Not Want This Poem to Go Too Deep
• I Don't Know Why My Feelings Are So Strong
• I Have a Monster Crush on You
• I Know I Hardly Know You
• I Know Well I Have No Right to Love You
• I Used to Be Completely Cruel and Heartless
• I Want to Make Your Heart Beat Just for Me
• I Write to Let You Know I Think About You
• I'm Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You
• I've Dreamed of Loving You for Many Years
• Just Wanted You to Know: I Love You
• Perhaps It's Far Too Early to Reveal
• Saying What I'm Now About to Say
• Some People Think that Friends Should Just Be Friends
• Sometimes People Grow Together Slowly
• This Is the First Time I Have Ever Loved
• When You Said, "I Love You"

Love

• All I Ever Wanted Is in You
• As My Debt Grows, So My Love Does, Too
• Before Love, That Jolting Lilt
• Before You, I Was Just Hanging Out
• Chris and I Went Out Awhile Back
• Do Not Doubt How Much I Love You
• Do Not Doubt I Love You
• Do You Want Me? What's the Matter?
• Eighty-Six Must Be Our Secret Number
• Even Though We Fight a Lot, I Love You
• First Love Is like Playing with Fire
• For You the Earth Must Be a Greener Green
• He Cares Only that I'm Happy
• How Can I Have a Fight with My Best Friend
• How Can I Know So Surely that I 'll Love You
• I Am Afraid to Love, and yet I Love You
• I Am of the Desert, You of Cultivation
• I Don't Know How We Get into These Fights
• I Know You Now So Many Ways
• I Look at You and Think: I Cannot Live
• I Love Them Both, Can't Have Them Both
• I Love You & Etc.
• I Love You with All I Am
• I Love Your Cool Green Eyes and Light Brown Hair
• I Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with You
• I Never Wanted to Invade
• I Promise You My Innocence
• I Thought I Must Give Up on Life
• I Used to Doubt You Cared for Me
• I Want to Help You Fly
• I Want to Make You Smile as You Make Me
• I Wish I Were a Cliff
• I'm Not Your Parent, nor Are You My Slave
• I'm Sorry for the Way I Say I Love You
• If You Loved Me, You'd Be There for Me
• In Mourning, Seafog
• It's as if We Were Riding in a Sealed Railroad Car
• Jeremy
• Jim Has Blue Eyes Flecked with Gold
• Just as Though the Sea Stopped Needing Rainbows
• Just Loving You Has Been a Revelation
• Katie and Brant Have a Middle-School Crush
• Last March I Planted Bushes Round My Yard
• Last Night, Today, Tonight I've Thought of You
• Later On, in the Languor of the Married
• Let Me Be the Bandage for Your Bleeding
• Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long
• Let Me Steal You from the One You Love
• Little Do You Know How Much You Love Me
• Love Is a Wind That Drives the Will
• Love Is like an Iceberg
• Love Is Patient with a Life
• Love Me in the Circle of Your Evening
• Love Returns on Saturdays
• Lovers Aren't Always Best of Friends
• Loving You Is Something That Comes Easy
• Marriage, as a Choice, Requires Choices
• May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring
• My Anger Stands Between Us like a Wall
• My Husband Cheats. I Look the Other Way
• My Love for You Is like the Surging Sea
• My Love for You Is Simple, Deep, and Strong
• My Love for You Is Something I'm Afraid of
• My Love Is Something Separate
• My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light
• Never Do the Clouds Convey the Weather
• Never Think that I Don't Love You
• No Matter What Our Troubles, I Still Love You
• No Place to Put My Paramour
• Our Love Has Slowly Gone Downhill
• Pascal Meunier
• Passion Spills
• Please Don't Mind if I Make Love to You
• Rest Here, My Love, and I Will Bring You Peace
• She Harbored No Illusions
• Simple Things About You Catch My Heart
• Sing Me a Love Song for My Irish Boy
• So I Have Found My Melody
• Sometimes a Sacrifice or Two Comes Easy
• Sometimes Time Cracks Open like a Nut
• Supplication
• Take It as a Given that I Love You
• Talk to Me as Lovers Do
• Tell Me More, My Love, How Much You Love Me
• Thank You for Being the Heart of My Life
• Thank You for Being the Love of My Life
• Thank You for Staying in My Life
• The Chance of Happiness Equals the Risk of Pain
• The Past Is like a Sculpture
• The Time for Love Is Now Fast Disappearing
• The Vows I Take Will Be Forever
• The Words That Are Simplest
• There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You
• There Are Some Pleasures I Would Try with You
• There Aren't Many Things I've Gotten Right
• There Has to Be a Way Across These Mountains
• There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown
• There Is a Dark and Gloomy Place
• There Is a Mountain Somewhere Near
• There Is No Way
• There's a Certain Joy That Enters Me
• There's No Hurricane
• This Is the Third Time We Have Tried This Love
• This Isn't Love, Not Quite, Though We Will See
• This Will Not Work if You Don't Want to Try
• To Say You Are My World Means
• Value Me for What I Give You
• We Drive a Tractor/Trailer Unit
• We First Met at a Party
• We Separated Many Years Ago
• We Started Out as Friends and Now It's Love
• We Went Too Far Too Fast, and Yet
• We've Been Dating Now More than a Year
• We've Traveled Several Rocky Roads Together
• What Makes Stars Romantic
• When Love Is an Affliction
• When We First Met, You Seemed a Timid Doe
• When We Say I Love You
• When You Sleep You Are Not with Me
• Will You Be My Valentine
• You Are Everything I Ever Wanted
• You Are My Rock, My Anchor, and My Sea
• You Have an Angel's Face, a Loving Heart
• You Taught Me How to Laugh Again
• You Wrote Your Name upon Her Thigh
• You're like Music Playing in My Head
• You're My Romeo
• You're the Atlas Who Holds Up My World
• Young and Lovely, Strong and Sane
• Your Hazel Green Eyes
• Your Heart Is Just as Lovely as Your Face
• Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

Anniversary

• After Five Months of Unabated Love
• Despite the Doubts and Troubles That You've Gone Through
• Elisha and Timmy Have Been Five Years Together
• Every Sky's a Brand New Sky
• For a Year Now We've Been Living Together
• For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain
• Happiness Has Been Your Gift to Me
• How Can I Say What Is Too Much for Words
• How Can I Tell You More than I Can Know
• How Can Love Hold On So Many Years (25th)
• How Wonderful to Have You in My Life
• However Sweet the Air or Green the Sea
• Is One Month an Anniversary?
• One Half Year Together Is Now Over
• These Seven Months that We Have Been Together
• This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best
• Until We Met I Didn't Know (1st)
• You've Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

Apology

• Forgive Me for What Cannot Be Forgiven
• I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain
• I'm Sorry that I Disappointed You
• Sorry for Being a Jealous Cow
• Though I Broke My Promise and Your Trust

Separation

• After Love and Fear, There's Pride
• After You Leave, I Will Become a Tree
• Although We Have to Be Apart
• Every Day I Think of You and Miss You
• Goodbye, My Lover and My Friend
• How Often when Two People Fall in Love
• I Live Behind Forbidding Walls
• I Miss You Though I Have You Here Beside Me
• I Miss You, Though I'm Not Quite Sure I Love You
• I Wish that I Could Be with You
• If I Had Married You Instead of Her
• In Daylight You're a Haunting Melody
• In Many Ways, It's as if I Last Saw You
• It Sometimes Seems So Foolish to Persist
• More Love Is in My Heart than Any Heaven
• Our Love Is Torn by Miles, Not by Choice
• Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You
• Simple Things Remind Me of Our Love
• The More I Am Away from You
• The Summer Is a Desert Between Mountains
• The Telephone's the Tongue
• There Are No Bars to Our Embrace
• Time and Space Are Dark Grey Clouds
• To Our Loved One Far Away
• We Choose to Stay Together
• We've Just Been Friends, and Now You're Going
• Welcome Home, My Dear, Sweet Lover-Boy
• When at the Same Time One Feels Joy and Sorrow
• When We're Together Times Are Good

Unrequited Love

• Although You Are with Someone Else
• Eventually, You'll Understand I Love You
• Every Time I See You I Remember
• Everything I've Done, I've Done
• I Find My Happiness in Loving You
• I Know that You Don't Feel for Me
• I Love You as a Valley Loves
• I Love You, but I'm Not in Love with You
• I Love You Even Though I Know
• I Want to Say I Love You on Your Birthday
• I Wish This Poem Were Pixie Dust
• Love Me the Way I've Long Loved You
• You Don't Love Me, But Ah! Do I Love You!

Breaking Up

• After You're Gone
• Goodbye, My Love, the Object of My Fury
• Hold Me to Your Willing Heart
• How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes
• I Didn't Get a Chance to Say I Love You
• I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold
• I Feel as Though a Dam Within Me's Burst
• I Feel as Though My Heart Lay Bleeding
• I Guess You Just Don't Know How Much It Hurts
• I Know I Didn't Do So Well
• I Must Accept But Can't What Cannot Be
• I Want You Back Now that You're Gone
• In Leaving You, I Turned Away from Passion
• It All Went Far Too Quickly
• Love Undoes Its Heritage Quite Slowly
• Love Was Not Enough for Us
• My Pride Is like a Castle in the Sand
• Night Comes for Me Throughout the Day
• Our Love's a Place Where I No Longer Live
• Sometimes Dreams Are Better Off Not Real
• Thank You for the Happiness We Shared
• The Apartment Is Dark
• There Is No Mountain Higher than the Wall
• When We Broke Up, You Said You'd Always Love Me
• Why Did He Stop Loving Me
• You Had Me for a Night, Then Turned Away
• You Left Me, but You Cannot Leave My Heart
• You Say You Want to Be Just Friends
• You Used to Make Me Swear Never to Leave You

Interracial Love

• Beneath the Canopy of Moon and Stars
• Love Has Obstacles Enough, They Say
• Love Is Far More Various than Race
• Love's a Stream that Knows No Borders
• To Me Your Blackness Is a Hymn to Night

Cyberlove

• Beware the Intimate Internet
• How Can I Fall in Love with Only Words
• I Never Dreamed that Such a Man Existed
• I Never Felt Such Emptiness
• Just as the Whole Wide World Has Been Connected
• Love's Not Easy on the Internet
• We Met as Merely Words upon a Screen
• We Met upon the Internet

Poems About Love

• A Girlfriend's Neither Gotten nor Forgotten
• Blessings Are the Things We Take for Granted
• Dreams Do Come True
• Each Truth Is Just a Scrim Across the Darkness
• Eventually, We Learn that Love Is as Seasonal as Potatoes
• Fate Is Oft the Filament of Passion
• Flowers Symbolize Unbridled Passion
• Gifts Are Not Always Free
• Gifts Given Freely, Out of Joy and Love
• Happiness Is Not a Tended Rose
• Heaven Isn't Known for Being Easy
• Hope Is a Breeze Across an Open Field
• How Often Are Things Simply Clear and Right
• I Didn't Know He Had His Way
• I Have a Friend with Benefits
• In Love You Let the Heart Do All the Thinking
• Jewels Are Cut from More than Precious Stone
• Life Sings with an Extraordinary Passion
• Love Comes Through the Eyes That See
• Love Comes to Those Who Love
• Love Finds Little Latitude
• Love Is like a Large White Cat
• Love Is Never Easy
• Love Is Never Vague or General
• Love Is Not a Simple Yes or No
• Love Lingers in the Alleyways
• Love Means More When Life Is Hard
• Love Redeems the Passions of the Moment
• Lovers Sometimes Rub
• Movement Comes Most Often Without Motion
• Open Doors and Windows, Books and Flowers
• Passion May Remain a Gift
• Passion's a Preliminary Pleasure
• Perhaps an Angel Told You Once of Love
• Please Tell Me: Is There Some Reward for Loving
• Proverbs of Justice and Love
• Proverbs of Love
• Regarding Marriage: Whose Idea Was This?
• Roses Symbolize Unbridled Passion
• Simple Things Must Have the Brightest Glow
• So Who Said It Was Easy
• Sometimes I Wish I Were a Wall
• Sometimes When You're Married
• Supine but Unyielding
• The Day of Love Requires a Companion
• The Difference Between Love and Lust
• The First True Sign of Love Is Anger
• The Greatest Gifts Are Those That Cost Us Least
• The Greatest Satisfaction Comes
• There Is a Point to Living Vertically
• There Is No Life Without Its Share of Pain
• To Be an Angel, One Need Not Have Wings
• Truth Is Rarely an Expression of Love
• Truth Lies Just the Other Side of Anger
• Vic and Jennifer Are Deep in Love
• What Happens when the Girl You've Always Wanted
• What Is the Sign of Love That Tells Me When
• Words Are Good for Things, like Cars and Trees
• Your Fear Is Not Surprising