Share your Valentine's Day poems & prose here!

[Poll_Blind]

  On this day of days, we are most likely to have taken some time, sat down, and written a little something to the person we love. Sometimes they're cute and simple, other times longer or more complex. But these little snippets exist, equally, to let the person who we could not be without know that we love them!

  Now, I got this idea before I realized that my own poem to my Lady was a bit personal...but that's what Love is all about, isn't it? If you have a little something something that you would like to share that you either wrote or received on this Valentine's day I'd get a kick out of reading it and I'm sure others would too.

  Let's face it, there's just not enough love in this world so spread it around!

Here's mine to my Lady:

The greatest tide rose,
Pushed me back, swallowed me up,
washed me, buoyed me

Carried me back Home.
Your patience, strength are ever
My heart's salvation

  It can be one line, two lines, a dozen, serious, funny, silly, a poem or prose...I don't care! No judgment. It doesn't have to be original, just whatever you chose to send or whatever you received. The one above that I wrote only barely pushed aside another about how much I love hearing her snore in the morning, cause that's how I know I'm Home. :toast:

PB
p.s. I don't have a star so if this gets moved to another forum I may not be able to reply. But I will still be reading! :-)

[LaPera]

1. Why on this day?

Who made this day up? FDS, Hallmark, Candy-grams, jewelry stores? Isn't it more thoughtful and romantic to write poems to someone any other day of the year, instead of this made up day as the day to recognize people you should care about and be kind to...Like the silly Father's Day or Mother's Day...One need a certain day to be told when to set aside a day to be kind and thoughtful to people they love?

Doesn't it mean more if its done NOT on the day they are told to do so?

It's a phony, programed, made up, corporate money making scam day.

[The Straight Story]

2. I write mine when the mood hits (see my link in sig)

But, people do expect you to do more on certain days, and better to put up then be put out in the dog house :)

For me I am making Scallops and Shrimp for the wife and bought her some of her trash talk magazines (entertainment news). Since she has not been well of late she ain't up to doing anything but laying in bed and watching hockey, and being she is losing weight the chocolates were out.

I do these things for her everyday actually, but in some ways it is nice to have a day of focus, just like we do months of focus on black history, women's history, etc. Sometimes, people just need a nudge :)

[JuniperLea]

5. I don't think it is all bad

Some people have a hard time expressing themselves. Today gives them an out. They can profess their love, or friendship, or deep abiding affection, under the guise of a special day when everyone does it.

So all you peeps who are a tad shy

:blush:

Or can't quite make up your mind

:dilemma:

Or haven't quite found the right moment to hit on that cute redhead in accounting...

:loveya:

Today is your day!


For me and the b/f, it will be pizza and a nice bottle of cabernet.

[Mojorabbit]

6. Here is where it came from

Mark Morford wrote it up
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/02/14/notes021403.DTL&nl=fix
It is a great article


Whip My Roman Sex Gods
You want the true Valentine's Day? Forget roses and candy, sweetheart, and kneel before the Lupercalia
Here is a bit of the article
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, February 14, 2003



Hot pagan sex and lustful gods and ancient wolf goddesses and potential marriage and more sex and more than a little crazed giddy divine animal blood sacrifice.

All followed by some nice light whippings administered by nearly naked grinning boy-men, casual flagellations by goat-skin, some joyful thrashing in the name of fertility and purity and, you know, sex. Ahh, Valentine's Day.

The original, that is. Before it was called Valentine's Day, back when it was called Lupercalia, a big Roman festival in honor of the fertility god Lupercus, before the ever-scowlin' church got a hold of this ancient and rather odd and blood-pumped Roman lust-fest, co-opted it and de-sexed it stripped it of its more salacious and admittedly libertine joys, as the church is so tragically wont to do.

Because as everyone knows, the church is nothing if not all about rigid joyless dogma and romantic abstinence and mountains of little chalky candy hearts. Mmm, sanctimoniousness.

Tried to convert it into a mildly consecrated (read: bland, not naked) day, the church did, "Christianize" that naughty pagan fest, and failing that because no way are you gonna trump ancient sex and lust with uptight chastity and faux-purity, they tossed in Saint Valentine to the mix, invented some nice legend, tried to turn this most funky of pagan holidays into an homage to saccharine romantic love and cherry nougat chocolates and Hallmark schmalz. Did they succeed? Sort of.

[Poll_Blind]

8. 500 year-old tradition, I guess. Valentine's day is not an artificial...

...holiday created by American greeting card companies to boost sales like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was by Montgomery Ward for advertising purposes. The earliest Valentine found is about 500 years old, though because of fertility festivals carried out around the same time by the ancient Greeks it's likely that that particular period of the year held romantic significance before the holiday as we know it.

  And if you're interested in a sample of DUers' romantic writing, this would seem to be the best day of the year to start the thread. ;-)

PB

[AndyA]

3. A Poem.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Bush is an asshole
Cheney is too

[LaPera]

4. I like that...it's fitting for everyday of the year!

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. Roses are red, Violets are bland....

My ex-girlfriend told me
to go and pound sand.

Daisies are purchased
at a place on a map
I hope her new boyfriend
gives her the clap.


sorry.

[halobeam]

9. this second part.. is for you.

My ex-girlfriend told me
to go and pound sand.

Daisies are purchased
at a place on a map
I hope her new boyfriend
gives her the clap.


I took her advice
and pounded the sand
up came the crabs
hope they travel that map....

to the where the daisies
were purchased.

sorry too.

[jedicord]

10. Here's to you...

and here's to me.

Here's to love and laughter.

I'll be true
as long as you.

But not a single second after.:*

[TechBear_Seattle]

11. Haiku for you

I touch his shoulder;
His hand gently covers mine.
Two bodies, one heart