Looking for an inexpensive way to woo your loved one? Go back to the basics. Pen her a poem. Women are both wooed and wowed by words and what better way to do both than in rhyme and meter?

If you’re not confidant enough to simply sharpen your pencil and grab a rhyming dictionary you can fire up your keyboard, pull up your favorite search engine and check out any number of web sites which offer timeless tropes for all stages and ages of love written by word-masters such as William Shakespeare and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Writing your own verse is optimum, however. Be tender or tough,,silly or serious, be witty or wise but above all, be yourself. Shakespeare once penned the immortal line “And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks” and Andrew Marvell has a delightfully wicked poem entitled “To His Coy Mistress” which has to be read to be believed so there is no reason to shy away from sharing your most secret self.

You need not be a lit major to write verse. A little bit of courage and lot of love is all it takes.

Valentine's Poems