Summer of Love

Chapter 22: A VALENTINE

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About This Book

A compact collection of lyrical poems that celebrates romantic devotion, natural imagery, and spiritual yearning, blending playful fairyland pieces, meditative prayers, and occasional urban portraits. The poet favors traditional verse forms such as villanelles and ballades and mixes classical and religious allusion with sensuous descriptions of gardens, moonlight, and birds. Short narrative ballads and elegiac tributes alternate with intimate love lyrics, producing a varied but unified mood of ardor, reverence, and pastoral charm.

A VALENTINE

My songs should be as lilies fair,

And roses made of crimson light,

To lie amid the fragrant hair

And on the breast of my delight.

Such glory is for them too high;

I’ll scatter them adown the street,

And when my love is passing by

They will rise up and kiss her feet.