Endurance Test for One
A poem about affection with a built-in emergency exit — devotion that endures a sentence that never becomes a future.
30 August 2026 · love
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Love poetry blog
New love poetry, published regularly — poems about devotion, longing and the ordinary rooms love happens in, each with a short note on where it came from. Written by Ella Tan for Love’s Reckoning.
Latest love poems
A Quiet Ordinary
Ella Tan
24 August 2026 · love
Haiku I
April 23rd, 2025 — five days after the first kiss
24 August 2026 · love
Haiku II
April 23rd, 2025
24 August 2026 · love
Kisses in the Kitchen
For Gijs — May 2025
24 August 2026 · love
Peachy Plans
May–June 2025
24 August 2026 · love
Gaudí and Mondrian
A portrait of us
24 August 2026 · love
The Warmth of Mr G
During the renovation of Lavenderstraat
24 August 2026 · love
Zo Blijft het Warm
(Thus It Stays Warm)
24 August 2026 · love
Our Home
Winter 2025–2026
24 August 2026 · love
Gentle Orbit
September 5th, 2025 — after London, before Yasmina's birthday. She asked him to give it a title. He never did.
24 August 2026 · love
What He Could Not Give Equally
July 2025 — the first great wound
24 August 2026 · love
Writing about love poetry
LOOK AT HER: BEFORE THE PLAY
The Rule Was Simple: Don't Look Back
29 August 2026
On Love's Reckoning
A record of a love that was real — and the poems written in its light and its silence.
24 August 2026
The Emotional Geography of a Life
Love, Loss, Longing, Desire, Family, Memory, Identity, Reckoning and Hope — different doors into the same house. An essay on the emotional geography behind Love’s Reckoning.
30 August 2026
Why I Write in the Dark
On the discipline of paying attention when attention costs you something.
24 August 2026
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