Valentine’s Day Poems
What do you consider of when it comes to Valentine’s Day poems and the day itself? Is it all the feel good poetry of being in love? Is it that roll in the hay that’s forthcoming after an expensive meal in a four-star restaurant?
If it is, unprejudiced, if only for a few seconds, remember the romantically disenfranchised who see Valentine’s Day as something quite different: a day when the “screws” of Fate dish out a few extra lashes on February 14 to their prison sentence of life. The convicts of lovelorns’ penitentiary are everywhere, you know. Some huddle from the frosty wintry chill under badly maintained bridges, while others wither away in the cubicles of capitalism. And calm others watch futilely the ceaseless drips from an IV in the confines of a Veteran’s Hospital. Assume about that as you chomp victoriously down on that T-bone steak in the company of your lovey-dovey…
Valentine’s Day Poems Number 1…
“The Crush” of First Love
As much as I loved you
Your Valentine to me was the smallest one
from the box of store-boughts
The End
Valentine’s Day Poems Number 2…
The Sweets of Wrath
That box of chocolate…
while sugary and succulent to the loved,
is partaken of by the broken-hearted
(ambivalently)
The centers, when bitten, burst out in sour wrath
For the sweet taste only comes out of a box
rather than…from a soul
The End
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