Monday, February 14, 2011

You Are My Happy Valentine by Okee Igboegbunam


You Are My Happy Valentine!

I’ve searched for a different way to say
I love you on a Valentine's Day


Not with a poem gracefully wild
Or essays tame and rhyme-filled
Or petals glowing with golden pubescence
But a heart that rings out in silence
Saying I'm yours till the end of time.

I’m not with a rose that wilts at the day's end
Or a card with dog-eared edges that can bend
I come neither with a flower buds-full with emotions
Nor a song to celebrate Love’s effusions
But a special way to just make you feel fine

Looking everywhere, finding nothing special
For you my Dearly-Sweet Unusual
Baring the one thing you already know
The Word alive in the Love that I show
So these words are special to this Time

My heart says I’ll live to make you fine
I Love You My Sweet Valentine!
·  Okee-Eras-Eretz-Igbos



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4 comments:

  1. Gold6:37 PM, February 14, 2011

    Definitely the best composition I've read this Val. Super flow, nice dictum. Happy Valentine's Day!

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  2. Marvies1:10 PM, February 18, 2011

    Very outstanding, this poem is in a mode of John Milton's 'Le Allegro" or P.B. Shelly's 'Ode to a Nightingale.' You should publish a compilation.

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  3. Jane Shaline1:13 PM, February 20, 2011

    Very enticing and self-winding. What comes in or out is one desired and it's LOVE, "I love you my sweet valentine"

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  4. Nduli11:26 AM, April 16, 2011

    Poignant! Reminds me of your "Ode To My Valentine." keep it on

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