Welcome to Poetry Verse
The poetry website where you'll find the most beautiful poems written by the best poets from all around the world.
Poems about love, poems about life... and poems about everything else.
Also, you can find short stories collected from all corners of the world, by many traditions, cultures, and religions.
Stories to inspire, stories to motivate, stories to make you think.
Most Popular Poems
the crunch
by Charles Bukowski
Too much
too little
or not enough.
Too fat
too thin
or nobody.
Laughter
or tears
or immaculate
non-concern.
Haters
lovers.
Armies running through streets of blood
waving wine bottles
bayoneting and fucking virgins.
Or an old guy
in a cheap room
with a photograph
of Marilyn Monroe.
Many old guys
in cheap rooms
without any photographs at all.
Many old women
rubbing rosaries
when they'd prefer
to be rubbing cocks.
There is a loneliness in this world
so gre
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every day you play
by Pablo Neruda
Every day you play with the light of the universe.
Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water,
you are more than this white head that I hold tightly
as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands.
You are like nobody since I love you.
Let me spread you out among yellow garlands.
Who writes your name in letters of smoke
among the stars of the south?
Oh, let me remember you as you were before you existed.
Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window.
The sky is
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i love you without knowing how
by Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how,
or when,
or from where.
I love you straightforwardly,
without comple
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