Because I'm a corny sod, today's theme is 'love'. Let the gooey, V Day sympathy or antipathy flow!
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red heart bleed grow sing love grin cry win rose love circle fizz roll dance love feather link far steam love blaze pass envy bloom laugh wail holler cycle thorn love water shine throb lick love chocolate question jump kiss love power belong glisten love touch wait arrive fret love play edge elbow friend love zeal vault dark love meaning kite soar love tingle jazz fire love loll bridge love tank mark love joined love magnificent love jester love hurt love protect love cower love hold love consume love adore love endure love
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Daily Spark Word: Love
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Chemistry
Babe
all my
serotonin
testosterone
norepinephrine
oxytocin and
vasopressin
levels are
through the
roof.
Fancy an injection?
My favourite valentine poem remain's Carol Ann Duffy's:
Valentine
Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love.
Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.
I am trying to be truthful.
Not a cute card or kissogram.
I give you an onion.
Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,
possessive and faithful
as we are,
for as long as we are.
Take it.
Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring,
if you like.
Lethal.
Its scent will cling to your fingers,
cling to your knife.
-- Carol Ann Duffy
I have a new challenge for you, Unskilled Poet. What about an elegy to an everyday object? Like a spoon or an orange? I love the way Duffy transformed an ordinary onion into something wondrous.
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