How to write a good ending to your love poems.
The most appealing poems are those that touch the heart. As a matter of fact, majority of the poems ever written revolve around one topic – Love. For the beginning writer, however, the problem with writing love poems is that it may appear to be too small a room for the large array of emotions that make up that feeling of love. Perhaps he/she feels that to compress the experience in the few lines of a poem would reduce the intensity of the emotions he/she wishes to convey. Consequently, he may never want to end it.
Here are some tips on how to write great endings to your love poems:
1. Make use of irony.
Using irony to end a poem allows you to provide incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. It gives your poem a little twist at the end, and gives room for the reader to think and reflect. For example:
“I saw the wounds weren’t real because
There never was a rose at all.”
-taken from The Rose (Read full poem)
2. Echo the first stanza.
If your poem is composed of stanzas and the first one gives a general summary or creates a very great impact on the overall piece, you may choose to repeat it at the end. If your poem is just one long stanza, however, you may choose to do this with the first few lines. This way, you are able to provide closure into the thoughts of the poem without actually having to end it. For example:
“I could sit here dying and you wouldn’t know it
What else is there to love but you?
Like rays of the sun scattered in the sea
I reach to embrace the red and the orange
Yet in my empty arms all is blue.”
– taken from I Could Sit Here Dying (Read full poem)
3. Shatter the heart.
If your poem is one that does not have a happy ending, the best thing to do would be for you to not only break the heart, but to shatter it to a million pieces. That’s what poetry is supposed to do – magnify your emotions. For example:
“It doesn’t matter if you stay,
Just let me walk away.”
-taken from Please Let Me Let You Go (Read full poem)
4. Revive the soul.
On the other hand, if your poem ends happily and you want the readers to feel the unequalled bliss that comes when you find true love, go with a line that reaches deep down to the very soul where that happiness lies. For example:
“What lyric can ever outline thy design
Or ever survive such sweet death in thy love
For in the brief time to pretend thou art mine
Such happiness swore to have come from above.”
– taken from What Lyric (Read full poem)
5. Perpetuate.
This here is what you would preferably use if you don’t feel like ever wanting to end your love poem. You may also perpetuate the piece if you are writing about a love story that hasn’t seen its ending yet, leaving you – and the reader – hanging. For example:
“And in silence i stay, nothing else i can do
But stare out my window, and keep waiting for you.”
-taken from Out My Window (Read full poem)
