Tag: valentine-poem
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Scarred Body Valentine
Scarred Body Valentine emerged from the aftermath of a surgical trauma that reshaped both my body and my marriage. I wanted to write a poem that refused sentimentality and instead honored the raw, procedural reality of healing—where love is not a balm but a shared endurance. The poem is structured as a medical descent into…
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A Late Valentine’s Day Poem
(After Ella Wheeler Wlcox)Love speaks:in the youthful flush of the first true kiss in the shy averting eye that hesitates to take this beautiful moment inwithout fainting.Love speaksIn the silent reserve of the heart’s tremblethe still and ache of hidden emotionsLove speaksin the ghosting of nearnessthe unshed tears that fears the expressing of joythat the…