In some other world

the broken heart on my chest

shows a gaping hole:

thru my ribs watch hair blowing,

see the abandoned loveseat.

SL: Broken Hearted Valentine

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     by PF Anderson (another link in the VD chain)

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the red-bud
saving its heart-shaped leaves
till March

JS Absher (another poem in the series)

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burning pain and tears
overwhelm the endorphines:
chilli chocolate heart

loopy (another link in the VD chain)

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Snow wet against my forehead—
Valentine’s Day walk.

morningporch (another link)

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chirrup of mobile
from an African mountain
short valentine service

loopy (next link in the chain)

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Heavy white cardstock:
valentine from a reader
of my online verse.

morningporch (the next link in the chain)

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the morning post brings
lone parent welfare factsheet
sealed, without a kiss

loopy (in response to JS Absher)

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Sighs, tears. Lies, flowers.
Chocolate, boxed. All the wry et
cetera of love.

JS Absher

(inspired by Sherod Santos’s translation of Philetas, “Relics for Aphrodite’s Temple,” in Greek Lyric Poetry (NY: Norton, 2005), page 97)

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