February 14

Valentine's Day

What Does That Mean?

Valentine's Day

Is a wonderful way

To make "I love you"

Easy to say.

Valentine's for Lovers and for Friends

Valentine's for lovers and for friends.

All my love goes out to you this day!

Love is something different from desire:

Even, silent, peaceful as the sky.

Nor is love interested in means or ends.

There are no selfish needs that it must weigh.

Instead, love's plenitude itself inspires,

Needing neither cause nor reason why.

Each day my thoughts enchanted with you lie.

Valentine's for Mothers, Too

Valentine's for mothers, too --

A time to celebrate

Love in all its symphony,

Each gift of fertile fate.

No pasture is more rich in grass;

The sea is not so full;

In heaven all the stars are not

Near so plentiful,

Each mother's heart to fill.

Although Our Love Is Over, It Remains

Although our love is over, it remains

An unfrequented garden in my heart,

Its beauty quite inseparable from pain,

A wilderness where once was willful art.

I hope a little piece of you is still

Reserved for me, a place you may not go,

But where my room, untenanted, can fill

A moment with my music, sweet and slow.

There are no wishes like a former lover's

That from the dark, repentant night must shine.

And so though we have both moved on to others,

I send you from afar this Valentine.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY