Valentine's night out
with eyes closed, I am open
to a stranger's touch
Chen-ou Liu
My Dear Readers:
Today is Valentine's Day, typically a day of chocolate, flowers, and "all things love," promoted by the advertising industry that constantly bombards consumers/us with a single, focused message: to stop the boring relationship routines and make special accommodation to make the "ones we love a priority for a few hours."
The following selected haiku are intended to explore many/different kinds of love that cover a gamut of emotions — delight, wonder, envy, longing, regret, frustration, loneliness, disappointment, grief, ...
Selected Haiku:
her only nipple
begins to harden
a new year
Edge of Light, 2003
vincent tripi
valentine’s day --
a glimpse of the shop girl’s
red bra strap
where the wind turns, 2009
Paul Hodder
beads of sweat
between my wife's breasts
yet this impulse ...
NeverEnding Story, January 14, 2020
Chen-ou Liu
leaving my loneliness inside her
micro haiku: three to nine syllables, 2014
George Swede
in the waves
no trace, where I swam
with a woman
Love Haiku, 2015
Seisha Yumaguchi
midnight subway
watching her apply lipstick
he licks his lips
Edge of Light, 2003
Brenda J. Gannam
drifting snow . . .
lips of the newborn
suckle in sleep
Tug of the Current, 2004
Kristen Deming
the bartender
bends to her story
winter night
where the wind turns, 2009
Glenn G. Coats
this winter night
you inside
all of my curves
Inside the Mirror, 2005
Karina Young
To conclude Today's Valentine's Day Special Feature, I would like to share with you the following two poems, one haiku sequence about sensually intimate couple activities to deepen one's connection/communication with one's beloved one, and one haiku about "love" like the weather.
After Dusk
asleep
the firefly
is fueling
sparks
however small
light lovers
our bodies
listen
to light
Listen to Light, 1980
Raymond Roseliep
a clipper zipping
through the eastern Prairies ...
she says, I'm not into you
Chen-ou Liu
FYI: An Alberta clipper, also known as an Alberta low, Alberta cyclone, Alberta lee cyclone, Canadian clipper, or simply clipper, is a fast-moving, quick-changing low-pressure system that originates in or near the Canadian province of Alberta
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