Friday, February 14, 2025

Special Feature: Selected Poems for Valentine's Day

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

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