Deciding to confess your love isn't easy. There's fear, uncertainty, or maybe a bit of embarrassment. But if you've made up your mind to tell that special someone how you feel, do it through a poem.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Unrequited love can sting, but you can pour your heart out through poems, sharing all those feelings and emotions you've been holding inside.