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If you're sick of sappy love songs, enamored of pet names for your snookums pookie or dying to try your hand at a line of verse, we invite you to share them with us. But try to keep it clean. Elizabeth Barrett Browning didn't write tasteless limericks, and neither should you.

The CNN Sing-a-long

There are love songs that make you swoon and those that make you wince. Help compile our list of classics. Feel free to include a choice lyric or two. We'll post the top picks by Valentine's Day. Here are some of our favorites, in no particular order, to get you started.

Soul serenades

"Embraceable You," Billie Holiday
"L-O-V-E," Nat King Cole
"I Fall to Pieces," Patsy Cline
"Let's Stay Together," Al Green
"Crazy Love," Van Morrison

Silly love songs

"Muskrat Love," Captain & Tennille
"The Pina Colada Song," Rupert Holmes
"Achy Breaky Heart," Billy Ray Cyrus
"Please Mister, Please," Olivia Newton John
"Looks Like We Made it," Barry Manilow

Beep.My favorite love songs:

She calls you what?

Whether it's doll face or snuggle bunny, pet names make us cringe, and yet, we use them. Share your best (or worst) pet names with us. Don't worry, we won't tell a soul ...

Beep.She calls me:

CNN's love poetry slam

Roses are red, violets are blue
If you think you're a poet,
Show us what you can do.