“There is a childlike quality to her expectant eyes”
J.P. Donleavy – The Ginger Man.
Dear Valentine
You did not sign
but yet I know just who you are
from all the other cards
you've sent. Long letters
making school days better
and those novels of Donleavy
kept me feeling free.
And in the several years there after
your Irish eyes filled us with laughter
but always on the side-lines there
you witnessed heartbreaks, gave such care
your love was constant, quiet, kind
but I was always of one mind
that we could never ever be
joined in love eternally
for wild and wayward
was my nature.
And yet you never strayed away
until my very wedding day.
Dear Valentine I pray you met
a livelong love - but ever yet
did not forget
your young coquette.
For Sanaa’s poetics prompt: From Your Valentine she gives us 3 options and I took the opportunity to write a poem as love letter
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