Secret love is an intense and hidden feeling, expressed in whispers and furtive glances. These poems capture that hidden passion, burning silently.

Here are some beautiful and heartfelt love poems dedicated to secret affairs, those forbidden loves that can't be flaunted in front of others.

Thirty-one love poems go back to scenes in Florence in 1284 when he was 18: a young man vibrating in “the most secret room of the heart” since the age of 9.

Netflix's A Secret Love Uncovers a 70-Year Hidden Lesbian Romance: Read the Women's Emotional Poems Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel shared a love that endured decades and discrimination for over 70 ...

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Lessons from Pablo Neruda’s mind-bending verse. By Nicholas Casey My friend Ravi introduced me to the love poems of Pablo Neruda when we were teenagers. On the cover of the writer’s ...

The Netflix documentary "A Secret Love" recounts the 72-year relationship between Pat Henschel and Terry Donahue, who had to hide their true selves from the world.

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A landay is a traditional two-line Afghan verse form subversively appropriated by Afghan women to express themselves in ways prohibited by their society.