Today is Valentine's Day, typically a day of chocolate, flowers, and "all things love." I would like to share with you the following poems to explore many/different kinds of love that cover a gamut of emotions:
valentine’s day --
a glimpse of the shop girl’s
red bra strap
Paul Hodder
as if seeing love
for the first time
you bring me
white peonies
wet with morning dew
Pamela A. Babusci
After Dusk
asleep
the firefly
is fueling
sparks
however small
light lovers
our bodies
listen
to light
Raymond Roseliep
evening
between her breasts
sugar to lick off
the cocktail glass
rim
ai li
on her skin he writes
invisible love letters
each word
a little warmer
than the next
Claudia Coutu Radmore
this winter night
you inside
all of my curves
Inside the Mirror, 2005
Karina Young
leaving my loneliness inside her
George Swede
I fight the urge
to ask them
how to make love last
old couple holding hands
where the waves break
Roberta Beary
To conclude today's Special Feature post, I would like to share with you the following Valentine's Day haiku:
those three words uttered ...
our bodies nestle, listening
to Valentine's starlight
Added:
my affair ends
with a tired face emoji
she used to say
the power of love begins
with the silence of words
