a spark is
in her smile
and a smile
is in her eye
she can look
right through
me and I know
she knows
a spark is
in her eye
that she uses
to light the day
I can see forever
when I look
into her eyes
The Way to a Man’s Heart…
You may have heard the saying, “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach!” This holds true with me. I am always enticed by great food, especially home made by my wife. This afternoon she made this beautiful cherry pie for me for Valentine’s Day. I can’t wait to dig into it, but I promised to wait until tomorrow! If I am lucky, maybe I will have a piece for breakfast! Nothing says love like a homemade cherry pie!
Winter Valentine
She baked a sweet cherry pie
I know she loves me
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Photo: Dwight L. Roth
Daily Quote
The origins of Valentine’s Day go back to Lupercalia, an ancient Roman fertility festival honoring a long-forgotten deity who protected herds from wolves. Then in the third century, Emperor Claudius II Gothicus martyred two Roman priests. They were both named Valentine. Legend says one Valentine sent a letter to his jailer’s daughter and signed the letter “from your Valentine”. Or perhaps Valentine performed weddings for soldiers, who were forbidden to marry. And this Valentine handed out paper hearts.
In medieval times, Chaucer helped popularize courtly love and the writing of love poems and songs. Later, even Shakespeare got into the act when Ophelia called herself “Hamlet’s Valentine”. February 14th became a great excuse to write verses filled with love and send them to your beloved.
Will you pen a poem to your Valentine today?
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Daily Quote
The origins of Valentine’s Day go back to Lupercalia, an ancient Roman fertility festival honoring a long-forgotten deity who protected herds from wolves. Then in the third century, Emperor Claudius II Gothicus martyred two Roman priests. They were both named Valentine. Legend says one Valentine sent a letter to his jailer’s daughter and signed the letter “from your Valentine”. Or perhaps Valentine performed weddings for soldiers, who were forbidden to marry. And this Valentine handed out paper hearts.
In medieval times, Chaucer helped popularize courtly love and the writing of love poems and songs. Later, even Shakespeare got into the act when Ophelia called herself “Hamlet’s Valentine”. February 14th became a great excuse to write verses filled with love and send them to your beloved.
Will you pen a poem to your Valentine today?
_________________________________________
Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
On Love
As love conquers you it blesses you in the knowing.
Make not a mockery of love
Serenade love and allow it to speak truth
Love surfaces from the depth of emotions
To mend you and this world to a better place.
As true love is eternal
Free as bird in flights of oblivion
Travelling in the abandon
Of the wilderness of the spirit
Yet bonded in the boundless infinity
Endless love a gift of grace
Acknowledge this treasure
Blending two souls in one
As a life loved is well lived… such a rare sight!
What a blessing it truly is….A love like that!
In realising the many miracles of life is knowing a love that can move the soul of our being. We can consider ourselves lucky to even have been touched by a love like that!
Savvy
Happy Valentine’s Day to all my friends and readers!!!
⚔️The Spirit Remains⚔️
I walk the line
Between dark and light
Many came before me
But I’m the last knight
The tip of the spear
The one evil fears
My last stand
On the final frontier
Soon I’ll be gone
Name set in stone
But know you’ll
Never walk alone
On the battlefield
Where you stand and fight
My spirit remains
For Im the last knight
Archangel White Wolf (Robbie) ©
Happy Valentine’s Day
embraces so sweet
blushing flowers awaken
loving another
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© 2018 Franci Eugenia Hoffman
About me –
I have held various positions in the insurance industry for over 20 years. I have been rewarded both professionally and personally due to results from taking responsibility and hard work. My fulfillment comes from the promotion of others.
I began writing for my own entertainment in 2015. My blogs-BrewNSpew (Coffee-break Scuttlebutt) and ThusNSuch (poems, autumn and so it goes)
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“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning, Poet
featured image – Pexels
Write
maybe if I write things down,
inking out a record of my existence,
I can counteract my disappearance,
my erasure
maybe it will make a mark on the world,
however small
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Unsavory Thoughts
Unsavory thoughts
tangled within veins
twisting my core
knotted lust
filling me
impatience surging
inside hallowed hall
where only you
are granted access
and only
with my permission
fists grab sheets
as this body burns
impure pulses
wracking all sanity
my voice
finally screaming your name
the key
to unlock me
and enter
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©MidwestFantasy
February 2019
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lighthouse
late at night
my soul searches for you
in the darkness
why my body lays
empty.
