Valentine poem by Dyfed Lloyd Evans
Valentine
My counterpoint. The mirrored half
That makes my future whole.
Any money donated goes to help keeping this site running, so that I can pay the monthly fees and maintain regular updates, as well as making old texts available through the one million people initiative. Select poems from this iste are available in my eBook of poetry, Memories of Myth and Man and a $5 donation gets you a copy of this eBook. If you would like to donate more then a $10 donation gets you a copy of my 300+ page eBook on Spices and Cooking with Spices or my Recipes of Africa eBook containing recipes from each and every African country. > A blossom to be grafted on
my lineage’s wildwood stock.
Strength and grace entwined;
become eternal lover’s knot
that’s nourished from a common root
of shared experience.
Divergent melodies, a writhing serpent dance
that melds to form a symphony —
a partnership
The truth, a share —
A personal and species stake
in mingling genes.
But do we care?
Lost as we are in love...
Come, share in divine lunacy
and partake of the cup of love;
its mead a heady brew
that makes of reason but a mocking jest
A punchline only two can fully share
Star-crossed in the unlikelihood
our congruence of confluence
So, dispel all your cares and blithely step with me,
To be my Valentine.
This poem was specifically written for Valentine's day 2006 and is an attempt at capturing what love means both at the individual and at the species level.
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Any money donated goes to help keeping this site running, so that I can pay the monthly fees and maintain regular updates, as well as making old texts available through the one million people initiative. Select poems from this iste are available in my eBook of poetry, Memories of Myth and Man and a $5 donation gets you a copy of this eBook. If you would like to donate more then a $10 donation gets you a copy of my 300+ page eBook on Spices and Cooking with Spices or my Recipes of Africa eBook containing recipes from each and every African country.
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