Black Love Poetry is mainly from African-American poets.

Here are five more examples of modern black love poetry:

GOODBYE

by Vanessa M. Coleman

THE TRUST IS GONE

THE WARMTH IS GONE

THE LOVE IS GONE

GONE WITH THE LIES

GONE WITH THE BETRAYAL

GONE WITH THE FACT THAT ONE HAS

OUT GROWN THE OTHER

THE FIGHTS, THE SILENCE, THE

EMPTINESS

WE HOPE, WE TRY

WE WONDER, WE GIVE UP

THE UNBALANCED SCALE HAS LEFT ONE

FULL TO IT'S CAPACITY

GOODBYE TO SHALLOWNESS

GOODBYE TO SELF CENTEREDNESS

GOODBYE TO THE RELATIONSHIP

GOODBYE MY LOVE

Love

by Dawn Robinson

Love. I met him one day

Then he drifted away

He came back another day

And decided to stay

If you love, let it go

And it will come back some say

I tried and it worked

Now it is here always

The next poem 'Underside Undecided' is a fine example of modern black love poetry:

Underside Undecided

by Choclit_ma

To see you

Is to strain brown eyes

Though thick

To clear cut though

A field a field of weeds

To find a tulip

Destined to embrace cacti

Retaining its water in all hopes

To survive

Greedy for power

Energy

Yet weakened by the boar

Stinging

Thorns especially mature

She is not yet strong

Her youth is persistent

Tainting as if it were the Sun

Grilling her childhood emotions

Forcing her to evolve

A lifetime of devotion

So she sucks at every nipple of lust

Desperate for the liquid fluidity of passion

Though yearning for more

She settles

Dissatisfied with the product of her everlasting

Pressure

She

Secretly undernourished

She whispers a wailing scream for more.

Yet terrified to attract pattern

Undecided

Sunken by the responsibilities of love and life

She kneels and swallows

Flowing to her toes yet dissolving her mind

The succession begins

She disintegrates with time

Dry and empty

Lost in barren land

Her disoriented mind and body are rescued by

The sweet moisture of a well-placed puddle

She drinks

Unsure

Distrusting

Non-Stop

He fills her

Everlasting

All knowing, and understands

Her thirst

His water

Will satisfy

"to be in love" by Lynette Jefferies and the intriguing "A JuJu Of My Own" by Alyce (aka) BlkPoette bring this page on black love poetry to a close:

"to be in love"

by Lynette Jefferies

woman is...

to treat him

like a man

man is...

to let her be woman

limit his stress

stimulate him

mentally and physically

fulfill her emotionally

have his back

when the world is on his

be understanding to her

even when he doesn't understand

encourage and build him up

when others are tearing him down

continue to compliment her beauty

hold him up

before he can fall

hold her

for no reason at all

the two together

shall continue

to grow

and only

then will

he, she know

what it is

to be in love

"A JuJu Of My Own"

Alyce (aka) BlkPoette

I come for you every moonrise

with passions simmering in my

pot of clay ~

you sleep the sleep of the great

gods and I do not wake you

I come for the fine black and silver

hair of your mochan temples,

I come for the essence of your breath

from your strong, wide nostrils

I come for a clip of your nail from

your long finger...

I come for the sweet sweat of

smooth flesh beneath your loin cloth...

I come for the moisture of stolen kisses

while you sleep

I chant my love for the life in you,

the king you be...

I speak in tongues of Wolof griots

and whisper cries into the darkness

and fashion, from the soul of you,

a juju of my own

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