“Each Day is Valentine’s Day…”

  

 

 

Dear Readers,

 

Valentine’s Day is the first year anniversary of this blog. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, my loyal readers,  and so I celebrate you with a shift from my usual story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A sonnet for you on Valentine’s Day: 

 

  

To have arrived here – takes me back to time alone

in youth;  Those lovely hours dark and late at night,

Huddle’d in bed, reading book or fantastical poem,

My mother’s vain urging to turn out the secretive light

fell on deaf ears as longing and fantasy reigned free.

Intrigue and romance drew  me far from  my childhood room,

“A moment!” I called, though sleep I would not soon seek,

Still gone, away from the dark of reality’s seeming gloom.

 

Those journeys of heart were solace and peace to my mind

without which my shy and aching spirit could not engage

those days perceiv’d as fearful; in words I sought to find

adventure and freedom, expression on beauteous page.

 

My friends, your loyal attention here doth prove

again, that mind creates world; with thanks, my love.

 

 

Happy Valentine’s Day! 

 

Deliciously yours in the Gratitude  of it All,  Linda

 

 

“But don’t change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little Valentine stay

Each day is Valentine’s Day”

  ….”My Funny Valentine,” by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart

 

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