Valentine’s Day love letters: poems to celebrate the love of your life
Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop, through the loneliness of separation, to end with an image that is intimate, sexy and very funny. It still makes me smile every time I read it.
Eight of the most romantic poems to read to your love this Valentine’s Day
Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the torture of yearning. The Greek poet Sappho knew this even 2,600 years ago. Women are the objects of desire in her erotic poetry.
Many legends claim to explain the origins of Valentine’s Day, but as is the case with legends, they leave many questions ...
The week of Valentine’s Day ... love’s changing seasons consciously, experiencing what an alive, evolving, hazardous and soul-satisfying thing love is. Years ago my wife memorized a poem ...
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