Love’s Reckoning

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Love poems

Poems about wanting, staying and beginning again — each with a note from the author and a reading you can listen to.

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Cover art for the poem “Endurance Test for One”

Endurance Test for One

by Ella Tan · 30 August 2026

A poem about affection with a built-in emergency exit — devotion that endures a sentence that never becomes a future.

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Cover art for the poem “Withering Blooms”

Withering Blooms

by Ella Tan · 24 August 2026

April 8th, 2026 — the seventh poem, sent into the silence

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Cover art for the poem “Gentle Orbit”

Gentle Orbit

by Ella Tan · 24 August 2026

September 5th, 2025 — after London, before Yasmina's birthday. She asked him to give it a title. He never did.

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Cover art for the poem “Haiku I”

Haiku I

by Ella Tan · 24 August 2026

April 23rd, 2025 — five days after the first kiss

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