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Valentine Love Poem
Love tapped at the door
Please let me in
No response
Love tapped again
As gently as before.
Only silence
Love waited then
Tapped again
Door opened
Would love go forward
Or wait a while
Silence
Love entered
Tip-toe tip-toe
Door closed
Cait Breathnach
Wicklow Writers
A VALENTINE’S DAY CARD
A Valentines Day Card was the highlight of a new year for us in the fifties. Looking back now to our innocence I am fascinated and intriqued by the little rhymes we exchanged. No big fancy cards just a plain sheet torn from the middle of our copies or a piece of cardboard from a cornflake packet. We covered the front page with big red X’s and hearts, wrote the well rehearsed verse on the inside. Ie
Roses are red , Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet And so are you.
Remember M Remember E Put them together Remember ME.
May your joy be as long as a rabbits ears, And your sorrows As short as his tail.
Waiting for an opportunity to sneak it into a boys schoolbag hoping he would recognize the handwriting, everyone vying for the same boy (the most handsome fellow in the class).
Long live the memories.
Nora Fleming.
Wicklow Writers
Luv
Put the kettle on luv
We’ll have a cuppa’
I’ve a bit of brack left
in the tin, will you have some?
Have you some for yourself so?
I have, we’ll have some together,
how was the meeting?
Fair to middlin’. A good turnout mind,
and plenty of shoutin’ from the usual voices
And did you learn anything by it?
I did – one way or another
it’s goin’ to cost us -
money we haven’t got.
But we’ll manage, somehow.
We will that luv, sure haven’t
we managed up to now and still here.
Indeed we have luv, indeed we have.
Martin Swords
Wicklow Writers
