FOR tomorrow’s St Valentine’s Day, here are some rueful, but not too serious, reflections on romance from the female point of view. The dodgy word of the top poem is of course love itself!
DODGY WORD
From time to time it has occurred to me
That even in deepest intimacy
There is a word
We sedulously shun,
Four-letter, much repeated
No, not expletive deleted
But one bandied like confetti
By the emotionally incontinent and sweaty.
Would it spoil our sophisticated fun
If once in a while
We could uncoil
Enough to say it to each other
Or would it not be worth the bother?
Perhaps it would make you run!
SAD’S NOT BAD
Sad’s not bad
But “woebegone”
Seems better able
As a label
To encapsulate
My you-less state.
Besides, a
Consolation prize
Could then maybe
To exorcise
Your haunting
With brave taunting,
“Woe, be gone!”
THE KISS
Must this
Wanton
Want on
For what
She did
Not know
She missed
Until you
Kissed?
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