Happy Valentine's Day

I stopped in the library last week and brought home an armload of poetry books. One of the books in my stack is Valentine Poems selected by Myra Cohn Livingston, a sweet little collection that features delightful poems and whimsical illustrations by Patience Brewster.



"My Love is Like a Cabbage" is a traditional English verse.

My love is like a cabbage
     Divided into two,
The leaves I give to others
     but the heart I give to you.

One of my favorite poems from the collection is this one by Emanuel Di Pasquale.


Valentine Thoughts for Mari

I'd like to bunch your lips
into a goldfish pout,
let fly your chestnut hair,
smooth the strands out of your eyes,
stroke your sparrow hand
and say, "Let's go where
               the small brook frets.
               Let's join
               it's silvery play."

                --Emanuel di Pasquale

Read more of Pasquale's work at Contemporary Italian American Writing.

Join Linda at TeacherDance for a love-filled round up of poetry today.