Passion Poems

Popular Passion Poems

Green Chile

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

I prefer red chile over my eggs
and potatoes for breakfast.
Red chile ristras decorate my door,
dry on my roof, and hang from eaves.
They lend open-air vegetable stands
historical grandeur, and gently swing
with an air of festive welcome.
I can hear them talking in the wind,
haggard, yellowing, crisp, rasping
tongues of old men, licking the breeze.

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Auguries Of Innocence

by William Blake

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

A Robin Red breast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill'd with doves & Pigeons
Shudders Hell thro' all its regions.
A dog starv'd at his Master's Gate

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Last Ride Together, The

by Robert Browning

I.

I said---Then, dearest, since 'tis so,
Since now at length my fate I know,
Since nothing all my love avails,
Since all, my life seemed meant for, fails,
Since this was written and needs must be---
My whole heart rises up to bless
Your name in pride and thankfulness!
Take back the hope you gave,---I claim

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Duino Elegies: The First Elegy

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly
pressed me against his heart, I would perish
in the embrace of his stronger existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure and are awed
because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Each single angel is terrifying.
And so I force myself, swallow and hold back
the surging call of my dark sobbing.

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One's Self I Sing

by Walt Whitman

ONE'S-SELF I sing--a simple, separate Person;
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse.

Of Physiology from top to toe I sing;
Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the muse--I say
the Form complete is worthier far;
The Female equally with the male I sing.

Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful--for freest action form'd, under the laws divine,

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Recent Passion Poems

Door de passie aangeraakt 02

by Mario Odekerken

Jij,brandpunt van mijn zinderende gedachten,
ik draag je als een vlam in mijn binnenste mee.
Elke blik die je werpt,slaat vonken in mijn huid,
alsof je ogen weten waar mijn honger woont.

Mijn stem wil jouw naam roepen in de stilte,
niet zacht,maar rauw en zonder rem.
Ik wil geen afstand,geen ruimte
tussen adem en huid,
ik wil de storm zijn die je overrompelt.

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Door de passie aangeraakt 01

by Mario Odekerken

Jij leeft in de vlam van mijn verlangen,
elke blik van jou stookt het vuur op.
Mijn huid roept om je handen,
mijn hart om je aandacht,niet half,maar vol.

Ik smeek niet zacht,ik brand.
Niet uit hoop,maar uit noodzaak.
Laat me niet wachten in stilte-
raak me als je durft,
met alles wat je bent.

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