How to express love in Ukrainian through poetic phrases

Here are poetic phrases to express love in Ukrainian with a poetic and metaphorical tone:

• Глибока щира прихильність — a phrase meaning “deep heartfelt affection” used poetically to express love. ³
• Кохання — the core noun for love, often avoided directly in poetry for metaphorical descriptions. ³
• Я бачу тебе в квітах весни — “I see you in the flowers of spring,” a metaphor linking love with nature’s beauty.
• Ти — моє сонце серед хмар — “You are my sun amid the clouds,” mixing imagery of light and hope. ¹⁰
• Душа моя співає, коли ти поруч — “My soul sings when you are near,” a lyrical way to express joy in love. ¹⁰
• Твоя любов — мов пісня вітру — “Your love is like the song of the wind,” imbuing love with elemental beauty. ³
• Кохати — це тримати серце в долонях — “To love is to hold the heart in one’s palms,” a metaphor for tenderness. ³
• Ти — моя ясна зірка в темряві — “You are my bright star in the darkness,” a poetic compliment. ¹⁰

Ukrainian love poetry frequently uses nature, light, and heartfelt metaphors to craft expressive and deep declarations of love, often avoiding banal or direct terms for love and favoring rich imagery and metaphor. ^{10, 3}

These examples show a poetic way to express love in Ukrainian using metaphors and vivid imagery, which align well with the tradition of Ukrainian lyrical and romantic poetry.

Глибока щира прихильність
Кохання
Я бачу тебе в квітах весни
Ти — моє сонце серед хмар
Душа моя співає, коли ти поруч
Твоя любов — мов пісня вітру
Кохати — це тримати серце в долонях
Ти — моя ясна зірка в темряві

These phrases can be adapted or combined for personal poetic expressions of love in Ukrainian.

If you would like, there are also famous Ukrainian poets like Lina Kostenko and Lesia Ukrainka whose works provide beautiful love lines to inspire you. ^{17, 10}

References

• OBJECTIVATION OF THE “PATRIOTISM” CONCEPT IN UKRAINIAN POETIC WORKS OF THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY

• Comprehension of specifics of lyricism in Ukrainian and French songs as a component of work with the students-vocalists of Popular Music and Jazz specialization

• Лінгвальний простір концепту ‘кохання’ в українських сучасних піснях

• Word and memory of Ivan Drobnyi

• Peculiarities of landscape lyrics by Yar Slavutych (based on the cycle «Kherson sonnets»)

• Samuel Barber’s chamber and vocal lyrics in the mirror of performance interpretation (on the example of «Three songs», op. 10 to the words by J. Joyce)

• [Re-semantization of A. Pushkin’s poetry in the creative work of V. Kosenko (on the example of “The Five Romances”, op. 20)][7]

• Genre and style features of creative heritage by Mark Karminskyi: educational and methodological aspects

• Лінгвокультурні індикатори цінностей у контенті сучасного жіночого журналу

• “MY LOVE, I’M IN FRONT OF YOU…” (VERBAL IMAGE OF “LOVE” IN LINA KOSTENKO’S POETRY)

• BETWEEN “I DREAM” AND “I BELIEVE”: THE ARTISTIC WORLD OF VOLODYMYR LYPKAN’S POETRY

• “When There Is Harmony in the Family…”: From Hryhorii Skovoroda to Epigraphic Embroidery

• Eastern Romance borrowings in Ukrainian dialects (Indo-European retrospective)

• The poetry of the rain and snow: оeuvre of Yevheniya Uhrynchuk

• SYMBOLISM OF COLOUR EPITHETS IN MARYNA BRATSYLO’S COLLECTION “FOUR SEASONS OF LOVE”

• Concept Of Love In The Lyrics Of Ashyk Umer

• “Oh, My Thoughts, My Thoughts…”: Olena Pchilka’s and Lesia Ukrainka’s Contributions to Epigraphic Embroidery

• Ethnographisms as means of colloquality stylization in the modern belletristic narration

• LANGUAGE MANIPULATION MEANS IN ENGLISH LOVE DISCOURSE AND ITS TRANSLATION INTO UKRAINIAN

• “PYSMONAVTYKA” BY TETIANA STUS AS A COURSE OF LITERARY CREATIVITY FOR CHILDREN

[7]: https://intermusic.kh.ua/vypusk50/07_Ван Дуангуй_50_89-102.pdf