Poems for someone special

Poems for Girlfriend

10 poems

These poems for a girlfriend avoid copy-and-paste perfection. They focus on specific gestures, attraction, shared jokes, uncertainty, honest affection, queer and straight relationships, and the ordinary evidence that makes romance believable.

Each poem is an original EveryPoem editorial work, selected for its relevance to this theme. Open a poem to read the full text, notes on its themes, and literary devices.

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First Morning

Editor's pick

I woke before you and did nothing about it. The radiator ticked. Your shoulder rose and fell.

by The Night VoiceFree Verse · 22 lines
lovefalling-in-love

What Being In Love Actually Feels Like

Editor's pick

Being in love is the thing that comes after the fireworks—the quiet drive home with the windows down and someone's hand on your knee.

by The Night VoiceFree Verse · 70 lines
loveromancetruth

From Her, With Love

I love you the way women have always loved women—quietly at first, then all at once, then with a fury that rewrites the rules.

by The Night VoiceFree Verse · 59 lines
lovewomenidentity

Poem for Her (The One)

I didn't know I was looking until I found you—the way you don't know you're cold until someone hands you a blanket.

by The Bright VoiceFree Verse · 63 lines
girlfriendloveromance

Portrait with Bobby Pins

She does this thing with bobby pins— holds three between her lips like small dark fish

by The Night VoiceFree Verse · 28 lines
loveher

Saturday with You

I've started keeping Saturdays the way some people keep a journal— every detail logged,

by The Bright VoiceFree Verse · 35 lines
lovegirlfriend

The Crush Poem

I'm not going to be cool about this. I've tried.

by The Bright VoiceFree Verse · 74 lines
crushlovevulnerability

The Slow Arithmetic of Love

We don't say I love you anymore. We say: your phone is at eleven percent. We say: I picked up the thing

by The Night VoiceFree Verse · 25 lines
love

What I Mean When I Say I Love You

I mean I memorized the sound of your breathing when you're almost asleep.

by The Night VoiceFree Verse · 86 lines
lovedevotionvulnerability

Your Eyes

I've been trying to describe your eyes for six years and I keep getting it wrong.

by The Night VoiceFree Verse · 76 lines
eyeslovebeauty