Valentine's Day Poem

What would Valentine's Day be without love-struck goofballs like me writing corny poems for their Valentines? Probably just a day to make chocolatiers, florists, and card-makers rich. Here's my strike against the commercialization of everything sacred!


No, really, it's just my corny little poem from my Valentine, Meegan. I proposed to her last Valentine's Day. So there was no way I could top that.


I love you, baby!



Forever My Valentine

What filled this year -
this arrow stretched between two Valentine's Days?
What treasures to share -
memories only we can know?

Joy
and more joy.
Days that close with smile-aches
and tummies tired from laughter.
Love
and more love.
Kisses so tender the earth quakes
and trembles with the sighs that come after.

Through your ears I whispered
my love to your soul.
Through your eyes you answered
you love to mine.
Promise me, my love
that you are forever my Valentine.






(© 2007 SPH. All Rights Reserved.)

Shipwrecked

I wrote this poem for Meegan during our second honeymoon. We loved Cancun so much that we returned just three months after our honeymoon. We can't wait to go back. I am tempted to blather on about how much more in love with Meegan every day, but that's what the poems are for. So, for my true love, here is a little poem.





Shipwrecked

She blossoms in sunlight
vibrant
her toes curled into the sand
her hair swaying in the ocean breeze.
My hands caress her dunes.
My eyes inhale her landscape -
wet with sweat and shimmering
like a sensual, golden El Dorado.

An artist
with the wind for hands
and waves for fingers
sculpted her curves into a beach
upon which my shipwrecked heart has crashed.

I smile as my burning ship
floats past the horizon.
I toss the torch into the waves
and turn to watch her
blossom in the sunlight.




(© 2007 SPH. All Rights Reserved.)