Valentine

(20 Line Couplet Sonnet)
 

 
Each year this Valentine is born anew
blood-blue these words perpetuate the due:

Perhaps this day with Cupid I should plot
to write you Valentine.. or write you Not! 
Another rose, a million petals spent
a sacred symbol, love's pure sacrament…
Oh YES! he loves me..NO! he loves me not!
For Heaven sake it's I that Cupid shot!
Why must you torture me, capricious brat!
how dare you pierce my tender heart like that!
Another world, a million miles apart
a somber symbol, love's true lonely heart…
Oh YES! he loves me..NO! he loves me not!
For Mercy sake, another petal's shot!
Why must you torture me, reveal my fate
oh, this undying love I think I Hate!
Another wish, a million tears to cry
a sainted symbol love's one hope awry…
Oh YES! he loves me ..NO! he loves me not
Pray tell which final petal have I got?

 

 

 

*this makes the third year for this Valentine now....It has become tradition to rewrite it each year in a new form.  Last year it had a contemporary flare to it.  The year before it was in tetrameter in 5 line stanzas.  Who knows what it will be next year but it will be something even if it turns into a 3 line Senryu...humm not sure how well that would work ...haha