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Long distance love is sometimes seen as a modern phenomenon, in part caused by our increasing mobility, globalised working, and the rise of internet-driven relationships.
Today the traditional view of the long distance relationship (ldr) is one conducted almost exclusively over the web. Obviously this has its advantages and disadvantages. The immediacy of email and instant messaging, plus VOIP phone and video calls, can all bring our loved ones tantalisingly close. And that is the disadvantage - tantalisingly close and yet physically distant.
Long distance love poems can help separated lovers bridge that gap and articulate their feelings, not only to their distant partners, but also and equally importantly, to themselves.
However, for many people poetry is something they had to study at school and was probably some classical poet like Donne, or Byron, or of course Shakespeare. No doubt precisely because it was compulsory in the classroom, and also thanks to the often archaic language and obscure classical allusions, generations of people were put off poetry for life.
This is a real shame. Even some of those "stuffy old poets" of yesteryear wrote poems of real modernity, clarity and relevance to the 21st century. You have to hunt them out though. And even the more up-to-date looking ones may well need the occasional footnote of explanation to today's reader. It helps as well to understand how a poem achieves its effect on us. (As one poet said, poetry is "the best words in the best order".) Hopefully this will re-engage those people who never dreamed they would return to reading and enjoying poetry.
The easiest poems to start with are love poems. They talk to everyone, because everyone has at some stage in their life, whether consciously or not, felt love. Maybe not for another human being, (it might have been for example a pet), but nevertheless the feeling of love has been there.
And when we were young this love often came with the problem of separation: sometimes we were at different schools; in other towns or villages; perhaps our families kept us apart...! For whatever reason this idea of distance keeping them apart is a common theme for lovers - think back to your own first experiences. So 'long distance love' is not just a phenomenon of today's global and mobile society. It's always been there, and that's why some of the older long distance love poems communicate directly with us today.
So, for everyone in a long distance relationship there are two main benefits to finding, reading, understanding, and above all experiencing long distance love poems:
Firstly they can offer us comfort, solace and inspiration in our enforced separation, and secondly they can put in to words far more succinctly and eloquently than we ever could, our thoughts, feelings and sensations. The long distance love poems which speak to us will also speak to our distant loved one, and say more than a hundred emails.
The author is a big fan of poetry, both classical and modern, and is keen to promote a greater readership of poetry in general, especially love poems and in particular long distance love poems.
His blog Long Distance Love Poems is there for anyone to enjoy, and hopefully to post their own favourites.
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