6 poems

Poems for Long-Distance Relationships

Original poems for couples living apart, shaped by time zones, travel, screens, waiting and durable everyday intimacy.

Distance has its own objects: charging cables, departure boards, delayed messages and two versions of the same day. A useful poem about it should understand both longing and logistics.

These six pieces move between tenderness, frustration, humour and the practical ways two people remain present.

quiet·message

Two Midnights

Your midnight reaches me at six.
I am buttering toast
while you turn off the hall light.

We meet in the narrow hour
where your day closes
and mine has not decided what it is.

tender·message

Airport Ritual

Shoes in the tray. Laptop out.
The bottle I forgot was full.

Love becomes a sequence of instructions
spoken under fluorescent light.

At the gate, your message:
I changed the sheets. Come home.

playful·message

Bad Connection

Your face freezes mid-laugh,
beautiful and slightly alarming.

I tell the pixelated you
that distance has poor manners.

When the sound returns
you are still laughing,
and the room feels less rented.

hopeful·card

The Calendar

We cross off days in different inks.
Yours blue, mine whatever works.

The squares do not grow smaller,
but our marks advance toward each other—
two patient lines
learning how to meet.

strong·reflection

What Distance Cannot Carry

Distance carries trains, time zones,
weather from one coast to another.

It cannot carry the way you say fine
when you are anything but fine.

That knowledge stays with me,
heavier than a suitcase,
useful as a key.

warm·reading

Arrivals

At arrivals everyone becomes obvious:
flowers, signs, hands raised too soon.

Then you step through without ceremony,
creased from travel, searching the crowd.

I have imagined this embrace for months.
The real one is warmer and badly balanced.