"I heart u" poems

what to give a love
allergic to flowers
and chocolate
--Dot McLaughlin, NJ
from Connecting Our Houses,
Laster/ McLaughlin, 1997
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eating
Valentine chocolates
second week of Lent
PL - from seagull standing its ground, '16
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Valentine's Day
on their anniversary
he files for divorce
PL - February's Fallout, '03
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lacking the courage
to ask a widower out
on Valentine's
PL - from hearing puffs of snow, '06
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Valentine's Day
a bouquet of spirea
forced to bloom inside
add to it 5 daffodils,
a spring of japonica
PL - from drop by drop, '13
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after a walk
Valentine-candy breakfast
melting in my hand
PL - from winter's loose ends, '05
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The pink satin heart,
his first valentine to her,
now filled
with buttons and bits of fabric
from forty years of marriage.
D. McL - from the still green horizon, 'o6


HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY