Romantic Poem
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The subject of this article was removed in patch 3.3.0 but remains in World of Warcraft: Classic.
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A Romantic Poem is a token gift item given out by Undercity non-guard NPCs during the Love is in the Air seasonal event. These are combined into [Book of Romantic Poems] packages which are in turn hierarchically combined with other pledge packages for buffs and rewards.
All of the Love is in the Air token gifts are non-functional as regards their name and picture. You cannot read a Romantic Poem item.
Source
Romantic Poem is the one and only token gift items that can be found inside a 
[Gift of Adoration: Undercity] or a 
[Gift of Friendship: Undercity], given by Undercity non-guards NPCs as part of the Love is in the Air event. (The Gift of Friendship contains only the token gift; the Gift of Adoration contains other functional gifts as well.)
You will need one free inventory slot or a current stack of less than 20 Romantic Poems in order to remove a Romantic Poem from its container. To remove the Romantic Poem from its container, right click the Gift of Adoration or Gift of Friendship to open it.
Ingredient
If you have five or more Romantic Poems in your inventory, right clicking on any of them will consume five and create a 
[Book of Romantic Poems].
Notes
Inventory space
The Gift of Adoration: Undercity and Gift of Friendship: Undercity container items do not stack. Opening your Gifts of Friendship: Undercity should save inventory space, since the Romantic Poem token gifts stack 20 high. It is generally useful to NOT autoloot a Gift of Adoration container - the Love is in the Air event items quickly consume any available inventory space. If you have autoloot turned on, you can hold down the shift key while right clicking the Gift of Adoration to not autoloot it. You can then remove only the items that you need at the moment.
Be careful when combining these into packages, the Romantic Poem token gift item stacks 20 high, but the Book of Romantic Poems package item does not stack at all.
Undercity non-guard NPCs
For the Love is in the Air gift items given by non-guard NPCs, the race of the NPC, not the location, determines which city's gift item you get. Forsaken NPCs give Undercity gifts regardless of which of the participating cities they are in.
The innkeepers, though they are non-guards and have hearts over their heads, do not give gifts.
Transferability
This is a conjured item. It cannot be sold at the Auction House, mailed nor put in a guild bank tab, but it can be given, sold, or traded with other player characters using the trade window. Unfortunately, that means you cannot pass these directly to an alt on the same account.
Duration
This item is primarily useful during Love is in the Air and the seven day duration of the item is longer than the event, so is not a handicap. It does prevent you from saving these for the following year.
Patch changes
Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Removed. 
Patch 1.9.3 (2006-02-07): Added.
See also
There is a plethora of individual items that are combined in this seasonal event to form successively larger collections. For details, see the main Love is in the Air article.