For Valentine’s Day, 2014
Love in the margins
Filled with doodled daydream notes
Her skin, lips, hair, eyes
Love in the senses
Perfect recall, unbidden
Her shape, smell, taste, touch
Love in the wrinkles
A map of treasured decades
Stretched belly, etched hands
Love in the marrow
Unshakeable, imprinted
Forever memories
Written Valentine’s Day, 2013, keyed off the Google Doodle that day for George Ferris’ 154th birthday.
“What goes around” haiku
It’s Valentine’s Day
What better time to visit
Love’s amusement park?
Love disorients
It’s Tilt-a-Whirl, Loop the Loop
And Atomic Drop
Love distorts, deceives
It’s funhouse mirrors — and meals
Of cotton candy
Love tantalizes
When that Tunnel of Love kiss
Whispers “Forever”
Love shows us heights, depths,
Crushingly quick endings — it’s
A roller coaster
Our brains — and stomachs
Know we can’t live like this, yet
We keep going back
Heartache and heartbreak
We line up, punch that ticket
To know we’re alive
This Valentine’s Day
Google honors George Ferris
And his smoother ride
He died young but first
Fashioned his romantic dream
For the world to share
Civil engineer
Known for mastering railroads,
Bridges and tunnels
1893
Exhibition challenged to
Out-Eiffel Eiffel
Ferris offered wheel
264 feet
In diameter
46-plus tons
Of metal forged its axle
U.S. steel, writ large
Judges terrified
Rejected it as unsafe
Then reconsidered
Ferris made it real
And millions came to catch its
Unparalled view
Ferris died alone
But his wheels turn on and on
Like a love that lasts
And here’s a favorite wrencher, about when that wheel gets bent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Enc8KEzdYY
Happy Valentine’s Day. Last year it seemed as if lots of different people were singing to me. For some reason, this year it’s Van Morrison. Here are a couple of light ones.
“Crazy love,” I love
That craziest phrase in all
Its redundancy
Valentine, a saint
But not first guy, or last, who
Lost his head this day
I wrote a lot of verses last year, but for some reason this one got the most response. Hmmmm.
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Hug your sweetie; love your spouse
Just don’t let them meet
The whole 2011 bunch is here.
And here are the rest of this year’s, not so light.
Courageous, we love
Surrender our hearts, ourselves
Out beyond the fear
Courageous, we love
Losing those we hold most dear
Inevitably
No more to savor
Taste of salt, scent of flowers
Intoxicating
No more to drink in
Every line, curve, lash and lock
With forever’s thirst
But till then we dare
To love with all our senses
Out beyond all sense
Written for Valentine’s Day, 2011.
Feb. 14, 2011
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Time for love letters filled with
Gooey promises
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Play some romantic music
And join my chorus
It’s Valentine’s Day!
“Let’s do it; let’s fall in love,”
Louie Armstrong sings
It’s Valentine’s Day!
This very day I proposed
Twenty-two years back
It’s Valentine’s Day!
“I’m Still in Love With You,” sings
Righteous Rev. Al Green
It’s Valentine’s Day!
“Our Love Is Here to Stay,” sings
Billie Holiday
It’s Valentine’s Day!
“We’ll Be Together Again”
Sing lovers who part
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Nothing should compare with what
True lovers can share
It’s Valentine’s Day!
You don’t need Cupid’s arrow
I’m all aquiver
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Tell the doctor to go home
Ain’t no cure for love
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Try “Once” if you want to watch
A romantic film
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Watch “About a Boy” and see
How love defines life
It’s Valentine’s Day!
You don’t have to be “in love”;
Enjoy your friendships
Caution: Blue (or at least blues-man) lyrics ahead:
It’s Valentine’s Day!
And my heart is double parked
So baby let’s roll
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Don’t leave me stuck in neutral
When the light turns green
It’s Valentine’s Day!
My battery’s fully charged
Turn the ignition
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Trust me baby, it’s all good
What’s under my hood
With apologies to Rodney Dangerfield:
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Meet me after school — you know,
When you have no class
OK, the cynicism finally sets in:
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Will you be mine forever?
At least till morning?
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Still looking for Mr. Right?
Or Mr. Right Now?
It’s Valentine’s Day!
Hug your sweetie; love your spouse
Just don’t let them meet
It’s Valentine’s Day!
February’s half over
You gotta love that
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