April is National Poetry Month, which means that children across the nation will be forced to pen odes to the color grey, or to their pet, or to some other assuredly G-rated subject. Here at EMandLO.com, we prefer to steam up the windows a bit during National Poetry Month. Sure, poetry can rhyme, it can be couplet-ed, it can be beautiful, it can be impressive, it can be obtuse. But it can also get you hot under the collar, it can make you swoon, it can make you want to march for a cause, and it can make you long for something, or someone. Here is some of our favorite poetry we’ve published on our site:

• 8 Short Poems Hot Enough to Sext Tonight
• A Love Poem That Will Make You Want to Reach Out and Kiss Someone
• The World’s Guide to Beginning: A Kinky Poem to Help You Get Your Inner Ana/Christian On
• Christina Rossetti: Getting Sensual (and Sexual) with the Classics
• Romeo + Juliet Poem: Let’s Shut Up and Grind and Get Sore
• My Rose-Wet Cave: The Great Love Lines of Adrienne Rich
• No Girls in the Porn Store: A Poem that Wants to Use Revelation 3:16 as an Epigraph
• R.I.P. Maggie Estep, Hilarious, Gritty, Feminist Slam Poet Extraordinaire
• Virgin Mary-Inspired Poetry: The Madonna Comix
• Truly Mortifying: Overwrought Teenage Anti-Choice Poetry
• Unintentional Spam Poetry: Hurt of Condom

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