SOME B Y : BRIAN LOVE ECK LUND POEMS SOME LOVE POEMS written by: BRIAN ECKLUND 2014 Copyright © 2014 by Brian Ecklund All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Printed in the United States of America First Printing, 2014 Cover, Photography, & Book Design by: Brian Ecklund dedicated to: everyone i’ve ever loved, everyone i will love, and anyone who’s ever loved me. contents INTRODUCTION 11 10 short love poems 15 13 unlucky love poems 25 10 hot sex poems 43 06 haikus of love 57 01 satanic love poem 666 06 lost love poems 67 03 funny love poems 77 08 poems of abstracted love 83 02 odes of love 93 04 poems like loving you 99 06 traveling love poems 107 ROMEO & JULIET 117 “EARTH DAY, FOR LOVERS” 119 DRAMATIC ENDING 129 intro duct tion 11 these are some love poems, please enjoy them. 13 10 short love poems 15 1. 3. this isn’t a poem about sex. wow 20 atom bombs just detonated in my heart, it’s poetry when we do it. 47 million flowers just blossomed in my mind, i’m so young in your arms. 1,457 tons of stress was just lifted, i’m like a young john keats in your bed. damn 256 waves of love just crashed over my body. making poems with you, together we are just 2 until i’m dead. but wow, we are like infinity. 2. 4. i’m floating on cloud 9. when i was younger i thought i knew what love was. it might be cloud 8, i can’t remember. i learned from the great romantics of the time: we’re high above the clouds in a plane usher, bill clinton, leonardo dicaprio. when we dream next to each other. i could still sing you every song from confessions. when we wake up i’m sorry if i mess up, i’m still only human. we’re on our own private island. please remember me fondly if i go before my time. i kiss you on a cotton beach every morning. 16 10 SHORT LOVE POEMS 17 #3 i could be your babe ruth. it’d be a warm summer night at the stadium, bases loaded. right before the pitch, i’d turn around and make eye contact with you from home plate. i’d point to you and nod & you’d know what it meant. “this one’s for you baby” i’d turn around and knock it out of the park, winning the championship game. it’d be one for the history books & you’d know i did it all for you. 10 SHORT LOVE POEMS 19 6. 8. in a post-apocalyptic world i would protect you. i used to be afraid of your dad. until the very end, i would be there for you. you told me he was very protective & if died i wouldn’t blame you of his only daughter. if you ate me to stay alive. you told me he had a gun. this has been the darkest love poem i’ve ever written. the first time we met he was relieved once he saw i was a golden retriever. he petted me and smiled. i’m so glad i can still live at your house. 7. at the peak of a giant mountain i will yell at the top of my lungs “i love you!” i will write a status, “feeling loved!” somewhere in the air, my love for you travels. 20 10 SHORT LOVE POEMS 21 9. i can barely hide the way i feel about you. look, i can barely hide these billions of stars and constellations when we are on top of them. i can barely hide the night sky because it is around us. we barely escape absolution. to you i confess, when i am with you, i want to be a part of everything that is around us. 10. i can, i will, for you, will i, can i? 10 SHORT LOVE POEMS 23 13 unlucky love poems 25 1. 2. it’s such a rainy day, it’s a real shame. we never talk about if only i dropped my umbrella how your husband died in the civil war. on the worn wooden floor, though i heard he was killed when a cannonball or complained to the young barista for went straight through his chest, and buried his heart. giving me an iced chai instead i’ve read on various historical websites that the over of the steaming hot cappuccino i ordered, 620,000 americans died fighting each other i would have heard the bell on the door jingle on american soil, including your husband. & you would have walked into my life. i read the words in your letters to your sister instead the cool rain & cold drink mix and they were beautiful. & chills kiss the ends of every limb. i couldn’t help but feel your sorrow. it’s a shame today i’ll never know i wish you were alive with me now, the heat of that warm drink, you could have connected with so many other women or maybe you next to me. going through the same things on internet forums and chatrooms. i want to know how your story ended, i couldn’t find any information from a verifiable source. i like to think you found love again with someone like me. 26 13 UNLUCKY LOVE POEMS 27 3. remember that hot afternoon last august when we were making out under the old birch near your house & a bird shit on our locked lips? we had a good laugh, unable to comprehend what had just happened to our hot, passionate moment. we both agreed it was good luck, though. we still had shit on our lips. i still laugh about it. 4. a lot of trees died because of our love. it’s kind of depressing to think about. i wrote you so many love letters that didn’t even get recycled. they’re still in those 3 black boxes under your bed. 13 UNLUCKY LOVE POEMS 29 5. 6. i was really surprised, when i saw you at the club when i was about 14 i should have made it rain. i found out that the monster under my bed now it’s 4am & rain falls on my sweaty head. was actually just a very beautiful woman. i could have shown you my moves, beautiful women are just as scary as monsters. i could have impressed you. it took me a few years to realize this. next time i see you at the club one night instead of scratching at my bed post, i’m going to meet you on the dance floor. she whispered to me anxiously, “i’m lonely” we could enjoy our 20’s, drink a lot of craft beer. she got in bed with me and bit my neck we could get married, settle down in the suburbs. but i wasn’t scared, i’d come home every night like monsters under your bed, from my accounting job in the city beautiful women usually aren’t actually there. until my 54th birthday, when we would retire to a paradise nightclub somewhere tropical. i’ll still make it rain for you. i will still kiss you in the rain when i’m 80. however, this really depends on if i see you at the club again. :-/ 30 13 UNLUCKY LOVE POEMS 31 7. 8. you have a natural beauty i am 22 years old. like every celebrity pre plastic surgery. when we’re together, i’d miss kissing your lips, under the moon i feel like i’m 45 years older pre botox. falling in love again. please stay the same as you were when i met you. i have so much energy again, young & vibrant, full of life. i’m jumping out of the lazy boy again. even as you become old with wrinkles and blemishes, and coincidentally, my back pain is gone! (yes) tired & frail, we’ll make all the young people uncomfortable i’d still see you the same way. when we slowly walk around town, now stuck with a forced smile, holding hands and smiling. melts in the sun. i’ll periodically stop to catch my breath & to kiss you on your wrinkled cheek. people will be unsure of how to approach our young, geriatric love. young couples will see us and laugh, turning to each other to say, “will you take care of me like that one day?” i reply with a smile. we laugh together. we kiss like old people. 32 13 UNLUCKY LOVE POEMS 33 9. just before the pepper spray hit my face, i saw you. standing there with your arms raised, you had a great sign, it read: “we WANT peace! we WANT it now!” wow i WANT you. such passion. i enjoy being with someone who is passionate about a cause. your image was burned into my mind, which made it easier to take the beatings from the police. when they finally stopped my hands were still over my face, tears pouring out of my stinging eyes. i hope that when i can open them again you will still be there. i’d like to take you out to my favorite coffee shop to discuss the various injustices against our personal freedoms.