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Happy Valentine's Day
All You Need is Love
It’s that special day, again, when I wish the wonderful women of Mt. Hope (especially the ones who love me so much—and you know who you are) a Happy Valentine’s Day. My wife and I treat every day like it's Valentine’s Day. (;>)
It’s a day of wooing and romance, kisses and candlelit dinners: but beware the Ides of March, wrote Shakespeare: can there still be some winter left in romance?
Garden Gargoyle in Love
Our Poem of the Week for Valentine’s week comes from William Shakespeare and demonstrates the lasting power of poetry and the way it can bend to the age and lend itself to interpretations far beyond the writer’s imagination.
LXIV
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
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William Shakespeare
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Post 911, post tsunami, post Katrina, given the state of our democracy and the direction our government is taking, read this sonnet with thoughtfulness and insight.
John Twomey
Posted at February 14, 2006 02:01 PM