A Valentine Card
Affection is the pearl of greatest price.
Value it above material wealth.
A chance for closeness may not happen twice.
Loving truly can improve one’s health.
Ease of conquest should not be the goal;
Nesting instincts point to more than that.
Trust and Loyal Caring make us whole.
Involvement and Commitment long have sat
Nobly ruling high on Virtue’s throne.
Eros from morality detached
Crudely goads into a trap well-known ––
Amour becomes a mere Itch .to be Scratched.
Redemption from the loneliness of Lust
Demands we work to earn our Lover’s Trust.
~ FreeThinke
Nice sonnet for this day.
ReplyDeleteThis morning, I found this quotation for Valentine's Day:
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones, Engineer
It is hard to believe you are stupid enough to not see falsely accusing a Jew of endorsing genocide as an anti Semitic attack, so it must be your judgement is impaired by your own bigotry.
DeleteLove Is Sweeping
ReplyDelete__ the Country __
Why do people say
All the night and day
Feeling as they never felt before
What is the thing
That makes them sing?
Rich man, poor man, thief
Doctor, lawyer, chief
Feel a feeling that they can`t ignore
It plays a part in every heart
And every heart is shouting, "Encore"
Love is sweeping the country,
Waves are hugging the shore,
All the sexes
From Maine to Texas
Have never known such love before!
See them billing and cooing
Like the birdies above
Each girl and boy alike
Sharing joy alike
Feels that passion` ll
Soon be national!
Love is sweeping the country
There never was so much love
See them billing and cooing
Like the birdies above
Each girl and boy alike
Sharing joy alike
Feels that passion` ll
Soon be national!
Love is sweeping the country
There never was so much love.
~ George and Ira Gershwin
_______ FIRST LOVE _______
ReplyDeleteWhy do all the arts of words
_____ and gestures fail ––
__________In Thy fair sight?
Intellect and education ––
_____ all the things to recommend me ––
__________ vanish before a new and far more brilliant light
As moths about a candle die of Fascination
_____ consumed by by Indifferent Flame?
_____ Must it be so with me
__________ who surely have the mind to see
_______________ that no one by myself could be to blame?
For harm to come to me from Thee seems so absurd
_____ it is thy gentle sweetness
__________ that causes need for Thy caress
And yet a word, that shows Thy slightest displeasure
_____ may cut me in twain.
Oh! How a Thy innocent hands have I suffered
_____ the agonies of exquisite pain!
My very need would seem to cut me off
___ from the supply
_____ of that which could restore my reason
__________ and make my will comply
_______________ with all the unreasonable demands
____________________ of every day.
What is this sin for which I must
___ so heavily pay?
Is it that of loving you
_____ or being born?
~ A.B. Arbiti
_____ TOO SOON OLD & TOO LATE SMART _____
ReplyDeleteBefore committing Marriage
___ Gay People should take pause
And consider the implications of
___ Community Property Laws.
Lust may achieve satiety
With or without propriety,
So why become a martyr
To receive the imprimatur
Of a dull Bourgeois society
Whose strictures you flee gleefully?
Intimate relationships
___ of each and every kind
Are blithely entered into
___ by mad persons love made blind.
The stress and strain of living
___ close together every day
Demands incessant giving
___ causing tempers soon to fray.
The quest to reach Equality
___ considers not, of course,
The Agony –– and vast Expense ––
___that comes with a Divorce!
~ FreeThinke
___________ CODA ____________
ReplyDelete“There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this living , this living
was never a project of mine.
"Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
the gain of the one at the top
for art is a form of catharsis
and love is a permanent flop
"and work is the province of cattle
and rest's for a clam in a shell
so I'm thinking of throwing the battle
would you kindly direct me to hell?”
~ Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
The Real Story of St. Valentine.
ReplyDeleteValenitne was a Roman Priest at a time when there was an emperor called Claudias who persecuted the church at that particular time," Father O'Gara explains. " He also had an edict that prohibited the marriage of young people. This was based on the hypothesis that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers because married soldiers might be afraid of what might happen to them or their wives or families if they died."
Valentine ignored the edict and married couples anyway. He was then rounded up, tortured, and murdered.
Yes, that is essentially true. I once wrote an article about it for The Sandpiper. Very few have come saints without first being martyred. St. Valentine was no exception.
DeleteNice poem and wise words!
ReplyDeleteGive All to Love
ReplyDeleteGive all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good-fame,
Plans, credit and the Muse,—
Nothing refuse.
’Tis a brave master;
Let it have scope:
Follow it utterly,
Hope beyond hope:
High and more high
It dives into noon,
With wing unspent,
Untold intent:
But it is a god,
Knows its own path
And the outlets of the sky.
It was never for the mean;
It requireth courage stout.
Souls above doubt,
Valor unbending,
It will reward,—
They shall return
More than they were,
And ever ascending.
Leave all for love;
Yet, hear me, yet,
One word more thy heart behoved,
One pulse more of firm endeavor,—
Keep thee today,
Tomorrow, forever,
Free as an Arab
Of thy beloved.
Cling with life to the maid;
But when the surprise,
First vague shadow of surmise
Flits across her bosom young,
Of a joy apart from thee,
Free be she, fancy-free;
Nor thou detain her vesture’s hem,
Nor the palest rose she flung
From her summer diadem.
Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Though her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive;
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)