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I'm Maggie Smith, and this is the slowdown.

Love poems are maybe the hardest poems to write.

I speak only for myself here,

but I have a feeling plenty of poets agree with me.

Don't get me wrong.

It's challenging to write any poem,

and there are lots of different kinds of love poems. You can write a love poem to your child,

to your pet, to your sister. You can write a love poem that remembers someone you lost. I mean,

isn't an elegy a kind of love poem? I think so.

Grief is love.

Anytime we're memorializing someone or something,

we're doing so out of love and respect.

You can even write a love poem to an object, a season, a concept. Oads,

poems that praise or celebrate someone or something, have been popular since ancient times,

and isn't a praise poem a kind of love poem too?

I say yes.

I've written love poems about the world, the landscape, my children, my parents, my grandparents.

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