By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
It can be hard trying to find the words to tell a loved one how you feel – passionate, loved-up, longing for their touch, or just head-over-heels happy that they exist. In this post, we’ve compiled five of the best poems for boyfriends, but rather than seeing these narrowly as ‘boyfriend poems’ per se, it might be better to view them as universal love poems which might be especially suited to reading to a boyfriend or a beloved.