This is Kaos here for a review!
I see these types of poems that have a noun or adjective or something of that sort at the top and then the poem. If you're going to do this, then I find the most important part of the poem is capturing that feeling, especially since this is an emotion. Define it. Describe it. I'm not saying that you fail on this aspect, it just should be one that you focus on strongly. For example, your definition of love is not my definition of love, so define what you mean and describe what it's like. Is it soft as a lamp or is it strong like a bonfire that never goes out? The tiny things that you do and the small modifications with you make, how you describe it, makes all the difference.
Your name lives
On my tongue
Just as your words
Are burned in my mind
And my heart wishes that only
Your hands hold mine
The first image here is strong, but the rest of the stanza is weaker and more generic with what it's trying to get across. One thing that I thought of that would help if you expanded on the first two lines. If their name lives on the speaker's tongue, does their name live in the perfume they use or the pet names the speaker calls them? I think it would be beneficial to add into the poem, but it's your choice. The lines three and four aren't really what bothered me, but five and six are what really took a dip here. They're washed out. They've been done before, so spice it up.
Or that you could feel for me
The way I feel for you
I felt a hint of unrequited love here, but there isn't anything more than that. It only got what it needed to get across, and that made it feel lacking. There isn't anything here to make the reader care for the second stanza, no images attached to make the reader have something to go off of. They're throwaway lines that don't have anything else to them other than to serve a simple purpose or to try and get a single thing across.
Just as the sun
Does the moon
For it dies every nightfall
So that his love may breathe
Though he catches glimpses of her
While he’s drowning in the sea
This third and last stanza does better at creating an image, but I didn't really find it connecting too well to the rest of the poem and there isn't really a transition into it. I like the idea of the sun watching the moon while it goes down, but I'm not the biggest fan of assigning genders to the sun and moon or anything like that, maybe that's just me. Another thing is that the images feel vague to me, they aren't vivid. Give us more. Does the moon have craters in it? Does the reflection of the sun or moon appear on the water? I find the sun/moon comparison to be something that can easily get stale as it's been done before, so make it your own by describing them.
The thing is, by the end of the poem I didn't really feel what "limerence" was. Go into further depth about it than what you're doing now, create the definition in words of metaphors and imagery instead of just letting the definition at the top of the poem do it for you. I want to be able to know what limerence is without having to see the definition. That's what this poem should be able to do. On the things that you did well on, like the images that you had here, you did well on.
I hope this helped and have a great day!
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