13 Steamy Erotic Poems
The most sexual poetry about sex is intimate and vulnerable in addition to being seductive. These are our top poems, however, this list is by no means comprehensive.
It’s pleasant to read poems that depict sex in its most natural state in a world where erotica is frequently controlled by Hollywood clichés.
These thirteen sex-related erotic poems provide an honest and personal look at what makes us wild about one another while also appreciating our unique desires.
These poetry narratives will change the way you think about your next sexual encounter with a particular someone, whether you’re seeking something romantic or explicit.
1. Sea Poppies By H.D.
your stalk has caught root
among wet pebbles
and drift flung by the sea
and grated shells
and split conch-shells.
2. Basket Of Figs By Ellen Bass
Bring me your pain, love. Spread
it out like fine rugs, silk sashes,
warm eggs, cinnamon
and cloves in burlap sacks. Show me
3. Hum for the Bolt by Jamaal May
It could of course be silk. Fifty yards or so
of the next closest thing to water to the touch,
or it could just as easily be a shaft of woodcrumpling a man struck between spaulder and helm.
But now, with the rain making a noisy erasure
of this town, it is the flash that arrivesand leaves at nearly the same moment. It’s what I want
to be in this moment, in this doorway,
because much as I’d love to be the silk-shimmeragainst the curve of anyone’s arm,
as brutal and impeccable as it’d be to soar
from a crossbow with a whistle and have a manswitch off upon my arrival, it is nothing
compared to that moment when I eat the dark,
draw shadows in quick strokes across walland start a tongue counting
down to thunder. That counting that says,
I am this far. I am this close.
4. To His Mistress Going To Bed By John Donne
Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy,
Until I labour, I in labour lie.
The foe oft-times having the foe in sight,
Is tir’d with standing though he never fight.
Off with that girdle, like heaven’s Zone glistering,
But a far fairer world encompassing.
5. Come Slowly- Eden! by Emily Dickinson
Come slowly – Eden!
Lips unused to Thee –
Bashful – sip thy Jessamines –
As the fainting Bee –Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums –
Counts his nectars –
Enters – and is lost in Balms.
6. He is more than a hero by Sappho
He is more than a hero
he is a god in my eyes–
the man who is allowed
to sit beside you — hewho listens intimately
to the sweet murmur of
your voice, the enticinglaughter that makes my own
heart beat fast. If I meet
you suddenly, I can’speak — my tongue is broken;
a thin flame runs under
my skin; seeing nothing,hearing only my own ears
drumming, I drip with sweat;
trembling shakes my bodyand I turn paler than
dry grass. At such times
death isn’t far from me
7. Recreation By Audre Lorde
Touching you I catch midnight
as moon fires set in my throat
I love you flesh into blossom
I made you
and take you made
into me.
8. Fill Me
Take me down
feed the flame
find me wanting
find my frown
turn it sideways
upside downTake me round
feed my need
find me craving
fill my hunger
fill my need
turn me outside
into inside
fill me gently
with your hungerTake me down
feel my need
fill me roughly
take me down
fill me roundly
Just…don’t make me
bleed…
9. Assurance By Emma Lazarus
Last night I slept, and when I woke her kiss
Still floated on my lips. For we had strayed
Together in my dream, through some dim glade,
Where the shy moonbeams scarce dared light our bliss.
10. Lust By Yusef Komunyakaa
Words, juicy as passionfruit
On her tongue. He’d do anything,
Would dance three days & nights
To make the most terrible gods
11. The Encounter By Louise Glück
You came to the side of the bed
and sat staring at me.
Then you kissed me—I felt
hot wax on my forehead.
I wanted it to leave a mark:
that’s how I knew I loved you.
12. Love Sonnet Xi By Pablo Neruda
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
13. Play with me…
Give me your fire
make me burn
turn me to ash
let us turn
wood to coals
fire
to ashGive me you
like I do too
fill me hotter
build the bonfire
shower sparks
let us shine
as we igniteGive me heat
give me flames
give me lust
give me pain
feed me need
feel this drenched
drowning desireFind the way
fill the need
feed the hunger
come here
and let’s play…
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