Hearts + Verses: poems and prompts to explore the many facets of love.

Tending to the magic of love, however love finds you… radiant, frustrated, solo, polyculed, full or tired of it all.

Heart-Verse Centric Poems

• go ahead, flash your badges, Aleks Zywicki

• Octopus, Sally Blumis

• Ode To His Blue Flannel Shirt, Chelsea Wagenaar

• When Your Lover Leaves You, Angie Estes

• An Orange Unpeeled, Essine Kilpatrick

• Clockwork, Elise Cope

• SHINE, NOT BURN, Sarah Anne Stinnett

• If I had Three Lives, Jen Persici,

• OLD LOVE LETTERS, Tony Hoagland

• Separation, Ramón García

• Stonesuck, Mark Everett Wittmer

• PERSPECTIVE, and DAY SEX ODE, Kathy Fagan

• A Poem Recommendation for Every Stage of Relationship

To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. ~ Heidi Priebe

Writing Prompts

• Anti-love: Write an anti-love poem renouncing love, lust, entanglements, and relational burdens.

• Unspoken love: Explore the words you’ve never shared—what you wish you could say but never did.

• Love letters to things or places: Pen a love letter to a favorite place, memory, or object.

• Healing: Write about mending heartbreak or finding closure with yourself or others.

• Self-love: Explorations of love and gratitude—a love poem to yourself.

“Love of the self is to reach out and take our own hand.”

― Sarah Blondin, Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love