A crucial step in the beautiful journey of love is sending short marriage proposal love poems to your lover. Love is a beautiful journey and what is more beautiful is spending that journey with the one meant for you. A proposal that is filled with heartfelt preparations and bountiful promises.
Here are 23 marriage proposal poems you could give to your loved one on this special day. From proposals themed with everlasting promises, to the one of passionate love, these proposal poems encompass different types of love messages.
Short Marriage Proposal Love Poems for Her
1. I want you to stay with me
This proposal poem screams love at first sight and an eternal promise for it to remain that way. If this is your type of love story, then this proposal poem is for you.
A long time ago I set my eyes on you,
When our eyes locked, at that moment…
I knew you were the one for me.
Now years have passed, I now know,
That only you can complete me.
Despite thousands back and forth, a million bickering and a million disagreements.
Something is certain within me,
I want you to stay with me.
Liked fated mandarin ducks, I was meant for you and you, for me.
Fate brought us together and I want it to remain forever.
Darling, please stay with me.
2. Hold my hands
If your proposal is an everlasting promise, then this poem is for you. As its name suggests, “Hold my hands” is a poem that evokes the calm yet powerful promise of always being there for your loved one.
Darling, hold my hands,
Let us stare at the glistening sun till eternity
Let us transverse a thousand miles of friendship and love.
Let us visit the Louvre Museum
Let us fill in our eyes with the wonders of the Eiffel tower
Let us have our babies and indulge in familial belonging
People say love is a journey
So, baby hold my hands for this lifetime journey
And I will never let go.
3. I lay my heart out to you
This poem shows an assertion that the party proposing is grateful for the love they have both shared and he is willing to intertwine their lives together till death do them apart.
Wretched was I before knowing you.
Knowing you gives me peace.
Knowing you makes life worth living
Your love to me brings out the best in me
So, I lay out my heart to you
Take my heart and do as you choose
This heart you have revived
Take my heart and string it like a guitar
Make melodious music from it
Take my heart and mold it
Make a new creation from it
Take my heart and add it to yours
Let’s be two hearts beating as one
Let us be two beings intertwined as one entity.
I lay my heart to you (insert your lovers name)
And I bestow you the liberty to do as you choose.
4. Will you leave me in this chasm called life?
If your definition of proposal is to explore life chasm together with your loved one, then this poem is for you. This poem dwells on the sincere emotions between both parties. Although this poem poses a question, the party asking this question already knows the answer to this question. If your proposal is themed this way, then this poem is for you.
Will you leave me in this chasm called life?
I know you can’t bear to.
I also cannot bear to
We are two peas in a pod, destined to tread life together.
Though life tribulations may try to tear us apart,
Though foes may try to break our bond.
One thing still stands,
I won’t leave you in this chasm called life.
So, let us explore life together.
Let us dare to dream and dare to do,
Together, we will be forever.
So, take this ring my love and answer my question,
Will you leave me in this chasm called life?
5. I’m willing
This poem is centred around the persona professing love to his proposed one. He knows he is a finished man in love, yet he is excited. If you are one who does not care about what people say about your overwhelming love for your lover, then this poem is for you.
The gravity of love is holding me down.
My hands are tied; my legs shackled.
The first day our eyes locked,
I knew I was done for.
I have drowned in your sea of love.
I know I’m a finished man,
But I’m happy being so.
Your love completes me,
And makes me whole.
So why should I let go of a love so pristine?
I cannot even bear to let go of your love.
I’m willing to be shackled,
I’m willing to be bound,
I’m willing to go through a thousand flames,
For you, I’m willing to do anything.
6. Let’s have a thousand back and forth
If your love is a simple kind of love, if it is a calming type of love filled with the normal nuances of daily life: disagreements, going out to work together and other whatnots, then this poem is for you. Having a thousand back and forth really isn’t easy.
Just like a tug of war, let us pull and push,
Let us have countless disagreements,
Let us go out to work and come back together to our home,
Let us argue at the top of our lungs with the knowledge that we will always come back together.
I know I have professed my love countless times.
Though gifts, words and whatnots,
But this is different,
This to me, is a promise to you.
A Promise to grow old together.
A promise to build our home,
Filled with countless warmth,
The laughter of our children,
And the smoke and smiles from the kitchen.
This is a promise,
To have a thousand back and forth,
Till death do us apart.
7. Loving you is my greatest lifetime achievement
This poem explores the art of love. It explains love as the possible greatest lifetime achievement a man could ever possess.
Is loving you a momentary pleasure?
Is loving you a rush of adrenaline gathered from emotions?
Is loving you an honorary degree?
Is loving you full of thorns with a little reward?
No, loving you sees much more than that.
If so, is loving you an Art?
An art so full of twists and turns
An art so full of creativity
An art so full of appreciation and
An art that beats the test of time
Yes, loving you is my art
My greatest lifetime achievement
For some, their greatest achievement is a lofty position
For some it’s being wealthy, while some it’s reaching the pinnacle of their career
But for me, loving you is my greatest life achievement
An achievement none can surpass.
8. Love is only sweet with you
This poem explores the sweetness of love with only one person: the one being proposed to. The persona has explored love from various persons, and he is making a claim that love is only sweet with one person: his destined one. This proposal poem thus gives off a hint of a special kind of love.
Some people say love is bitter like kola
Some say love is sour like lime
Some exclaim, love is bland like crackers
But to me, love is sweet like peaches
And love is only sweet with you.
Many would ask, why not explore?
Why not love severally and pick the best?
But me I know for a fact,
That love is only sweet with you.
I have experienced a bitter love,
So have I experienced a sour love.
I’ve also experienced a bland love,
But only your love to me is sweet.
Only your love to me is like peaches.
9. Be the bane of my existence
This poem succinctly explores passionate love. To the persona, he is willing to perish for love, he is willing to do anything and everything for love. Love to him is far more important than his existence. So, if your kind of love is passionate, then this proposal poem is for you.
Be the bane of my existence.
Enthral me till I die
Possess me like a witch
Let your seductive eyes bewitch me till eternity
For you, I’m willing to take a thousand arrows
For you, I’m willing to kill
For you, I’m willing to brave through a storm of bullets.
I’m willing to do anything for you.
I can be your slave and you my mistress
I can be your prey and you my hunter
I can be your warrior and you my Queen
I can be your sacrifice and you my Priestess
But I only need one thing from you
I want you to love me
I want you to be the bane of my existence.
10. I can’t do without you
To the persona, love is essential even more than the core five needs of life. He can end himself in any situation, but he simply cannot survive without his loved one. If your kind of love is a burning and essential one, then this poem is very ideal for your proposal.
I can thirst till eternity
And do without food for a decade
I can be a prisoner to my enemy
And be a prey to the most dreaded hunter.
I can lick the shoes of my foes
And throw me to a lion
I can give my hard earned works out for free
And slave out the rest of my life
But I can’t do without you
I can’t do without your smile
I can’t do without your boisterous laughter
I can’t do without your kindness
I can’t do without you
I can’t do without your constant love
I can’t do without your everlasting affection
I can’t do without your existence
I really cannot do without you.
Wedding Proposal Love Poems
11. Please, Please, Please
This poem details the “request” aspect of a proposal. A proposal does not only centre around making promises but pleading with your loved one.
Come marry me, please
Come be my second half, please
Come be my missing rib, please
Come under my protection, please
You can take all I have
But please, please, please don’t refuse to marry me
I will be your support system
I will be your shoulder to lean on
I will be your protector
Only if you take this ring and marry me
I can stand in your shadows
I can lurk in the dark if you want me to
I can be a puppet if you want me to be
So please, please, please, come marry me.
12. I’m holding my hands out to you
This poem dwells on not only promises which is the essential part of a proposal but also the declaration of love because what is a proposal without a love declaration?
My hands are outstretched with a bouquet of roses
In it, I have kept a thousand promises
Of everlasting joy,
Of boundless possibilities,
Of unprecedented sweetness,
And a calming peace.
I’m holding my hands out to you,
In it is the love you have always longer for
The calming, yet passionate love you have always desired for.
I’m holding my hands out to you
In my outstretched hands lies the ring,
To seal our promises,
Of love,
Of staying together during afflictions
And of understanding.
13. Only you
In this poem, the persona professes a one-of-a-kind type of love. To him, he can only love his lover. He makes professions of love stating his lover as the only person his heart burns for.
My eyes can see only you
My nose can sniff only you
My heart can love only you
Only you can be the one for me
The Medicine for my love sickness
Only you,
Only you can make me abandon my principles
Yet, my principles surround only you
I burn for only you
I thirst for only you
Only you can make me love
Only you, my love
Only you will I desire to be one with
Yes, only you
You can choose to deal with me as you please
Yet, I will keep coming back
Only you has such advantage over me
I wish to make babies with only you
Wife only you
And create a home full of love with only you
Yes, only you.
14. Never letting go
In this poem, the poet persona exalts his love. To him, love is peaceful, beautiful and kind. If this is your ideal kind of love, then this is a perfect proposal poem for your loved one
I have experienced how love feels with you
I have gone through a million storms and
Indulged in a billion peace
So, I am never letting go.
Why should I let go of a love so calm?
Why should I let go of a love so pristine?
Others love is mundane
But ours is celestial
So, I’m never letting go
While some toil in life
Seeking love, yet not getting it
I, the blessed one has gotten your love
The highest love I could ever get
And I’m never letting go.
Your love is kind
Your love is beautiful
So, I’m never letting go.
15. Always by your side
The persona of this poem has made perhaps the greatest promise of all time to accompany his beloved through all tribulations. He seeks to accompany his loved one through life.
I will always be by your side
Even if the world crumbles
Even if hell is let loose
I will always be by your side.
I will never let you experience pain
I will fill you with joy and unprecedented happiness
I will grant you all your heart desires
Bless you with gems; Sapphire, Jade, Emerald to mention a few
16. I will take you to Bahamas
Give you a daily dose of your favourite gelato
Together, we’ll travel to see the wonders of the world.
I will be your guardian angel,
Never leaving you
I will always be by your side.
16. Be my crown
The persona of this poem is a female. Adapting the famous adage, she praises her lover while making a proposal of love. So, if you are a woman seeking to propose, then this poem is the perfect fit for you.
Our elders often say, “A husband is a woman’s crown”,
And since childhood, I have often wondered, “who will be my crown?”
Who will dare to be the crown completing me?
Who will dare to be the crown that gives my life meaning?
Will he be as daring as a lion?
Will he be as chivalrous as a horse?
Or as noble as a cheetah?
Will he swoop me like a knight in shining armour?
Will he charmingly possess me like a rake?
Or turn my life around like Cinderella’s prince?
When I met you, my crown,
I knew you were the one
My own crown
Now, I’m asking you
This life changing question
Will you complete me?
Will you be my crown?
My crown?
17. Be my missing rib.
If you want your proposal filled with loads of sincere promises, then this poem is for you. The persona promises to contain all his lover could ever ask for and what he is asking for in return is for his lover to accept his promises and be his missing rib.
Today, I kneel before you
With a bouquet of roses in one hand
And a hand full of promises in another
A promise to always stand by you
A promise to always be there for you
A promise to always be your safe haven in this tumultuous life.
A promise to only have babies coming from your womb
A promise to only have you as my sole companion
All then I ask from you is for you to be my missing rib
For you to complete me
For you to be my soul mate
For you to make a home together with me
So, accept my promises and be my missing rib.
18. Make me whole
To some, love is exciting but to this persona, love completes him, only his lover can make him whole.
Something is missing from me
I can feel it deep within my bones
I can’t do without what is missing
It’s an integral part of me.
So, I went up to ask the sages
What can it be?
What could be so missing to render me incomplete?
The sages replied to me “In time, you will know what is missing”
Month after months, I searched
Years after years, I searched
Decades passed, yet I was still incomplete
Until the day I set my eyes on you,
Then the sage word began to make sense
Because I knew what was making me incomplete
I knew you were my missing piece
So please love to make me complete
Nourish my soul with your love and make me whole
Accept me and fill in the empty blanks in my life
Make me complete, make me whole
19. I will die if you say No
This proposal poem is making a bunch of promises. However, there is a downside. The persona is also promising to die if his proposal is rejected. To him, there is no essence of remaining alive without his lover accepting his proposal.
Together, let us explore the world
Let us travel to Egypt to see the ancient pyramid
Travel to Arab to see their architectures
Visit Barbados to see your favourite city
And make a trip to Ibiza to experience their nightlife
Say Yes to my proposition
Say Yes to my loads of promises
Say Yes to spending the rest of your life with me
Say Yes to bearing my surname
Please, Say Yes to bearing my kids
Please say Yes to my offer of solemnisation
I promise to give you the grandest wedding
Please say Yes to my proposal
Because I will die if you say NO
Yes, I will die if you say No
20. Shall we?
This proposal poem delves into the uncertainty of love. Although the persona is unsure of what love may bring, he is still asking the question to enjoy life’s moment; both mundane and exciting.
Shall we transverse the world together?
Exclaim at every little thing
Smile at every silly thing
And laugh at every ridiculous moment
Shall we my armor?
Shall we revel in all that life has to offer together?
Make little splitting images of ourselves
And make a beautiful couple
Shall we?
Shall we revel in the beauty of love together?
And enjoy every moment left of our existence together?
From me, I say Yes together we shall do all of these
So my lady, shall we?
21. Oh dear
In this poem, the persona worships his lover and wants to stay with her till eternity.
I am offering my heart to you
Laying it before you like a pious believer
I want you to enthral me
Oh, my dear.
I am making a promise
To wed you and stay with you till death do us part.
Accept my promise, oh dear
I will fulfil all your needs and desires
Put you as my priority in life
If only you will accept my promise, oh dear
This promise of everlasting love,
This promise of never-ending affection.
This promise of eternal pious worship of you
If only you will accept me, oh dear
22. Let’s make mini me’s
This poem explores one of the end results of marriage which is procreation. The persona is making an offer for him and his lover to create offspring that look exactly like them.
Let’s make mini me’s
Or do you want mini you’s
Or rather a mixture of both?
We won’t really know
Until we try it out
So, to make our mini me’s or mini you’s,
We have to come together
You need to accept my offer
Of love,
Of boundless happiness
Accept my offer
To make mini me’s and mini you’s
23. You’re my red rose
This poem exalts the intoxicating side of love. Not only does the persona appreciate his love, he also makes promises and compares his love to other types of love which further highlights the supremacy.
You are so fair and sweet, my red rose.
I am giving you all my love and my possessions
I thank the creator for aligning our paths
For some, fate plays a cruel joke on love
But you, are my source of laughter till eternity
You deserve all my love.
My red rose, succulent and inviting,
Let me shower my love on you
With me, you will blossom,
With me, you will unfurl graciously
In spring, In summer, In autumn and Winter
Just like red wine, our love will enrich with time
You are a walking piece of art
My beautifully stunning red rose