A Love Poem for your Beloved

Writing a love poem for your beloved is the easiest and the surest way to win her affections. For that you do not need to be a Browning or a Keats, nor do you have to like sonnets like Dante and Shakespeare. Few simple phrases, a few delicate words, subtlety and your honest expressions, this is all that is needed to woo your beloved. Give this to her on Valentine’s Day and see the smile light up her face. It will be something that she will cherish for a lifetime.

• Avoid Exaggerations: But the tricky part of writing a poem is that it should not be artificial in tone. It is fact that the great poets of the past have been known to praise the blue eyes of their beloved, which had the depth of the ocean, when in case their beloved’s eyes were brown!! Fascinating, charming and flattering though it may sound, it is best to avoid such superfluous expressions. Keep them black, if they are black for your mistress, at the most you could say that they are like the dark starry night! Exaggerations should be avoided by all means.
• No Ornamentations: Another mistake which most of us tend to make is to fill up the poem with so much of ornamented words that the real emotions gets lost in translation. Imagine your beloved trying to figure out the meaning of your well-chosen long, archaic words and by the time she reaches the end, she praises you for sure, but for your sheer literary talent and not for the effort you put in to impress her. The trick is to choose simple words, but make them sound artistic instead of prosaic, by the use of rhyme and rhythm.
• Verse and Rhyme: If you are not very good at creating a rhyme scheme, then you can choose open or blank verse. This kind of verse has its own advantages and disadvantages. While the advantage is that you do not have to constantly hunt for words rhyming with the last word of the previous line and choose any phrase you feel is appropriate, on the flip side, the poem tends to become a bit prosaic if you do not where to round off the first line and continue to the next. In fact this is an art very hard to perfect, and rhyme schemes are indeed much easier, not to mention the musical rhythm it produces which is very appropriate for a love poem.

Although these are the technical aspects of writing a poem, the crux is to convey your deepest feelings and emotions, and that more than anything else will matter more to your object of affection. Only the love you show her and not any variation in rhyme scheme or meter will be able to make her love you back in return.