Does anyone

have a poem about love that they like? I am trying to find a poem for my friend for her 1st anniversary... but I am at a loss.... anyone ? I am not saying I wrote the poem just wnat to include it in her card...1st year = paper so I figured a poem about their love...

We used this in our ceremony:

Love Is Like A Friendship
Caught On Fire
by Bruce Lee

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame,
Very pretty, often hot and fierce
But still and only light and flickering.

As love grows older, our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.

we used a portion of this Christopher Marlowe poem on our wedding invitations:

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of th purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love,

Love this one, and i was when they made it so corny in that 'In her Shoes' movie:

I Carry Your Heart with Me
~ e.e. cummings

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;
which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

And here's one that's more of a 'quote' not a poem:
Khalil Gibran
And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.

And here's a little excerpt (K. Gibran again) from a longer poem, called 'Love blossoming in the springtime' -- I like this sentiment to a friend:

Give your hearts,

But not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together,

Yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress

grow not in each other's shadow.

BB I gave this to Scott-1st time around

The Bargain
Sir Philip Sidney

My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
But just exchange one for another given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true love hath my heart, and I have his.

His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:
He loves my heart, for once it was his own,
I cherish his because in me it bides:
My true love hath my heart, and I have his.